ethereum/EIPs on Hacker News

…the bot that governed the Ethereum Improvement Proposals repo for a year with direct commit rights: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/3351 - deno lsp go-to-definition from 32s to 131ms, six defects found by counting directory opens…

comment by alita-moore · 2026-09-08 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

…would be the Ethereum Improvement Proposal repo (where people submit proposals to change the spec): https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs Or the go-ethereum execution client (the most popular execution client):…

comment by chrisco255 · 2024-03-20 · in Ethereum Foundation removes their canary

…was ERC-4337, which has been in the works for some time and was recently publicly announced. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-4337.m... Before the contrarians come in for the quick gotcha and say that it bring in…

comment by x-complexity · 2023-03-24 · in Sex worker-led payment platform shuts down after being cut off by processor

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NFT smart contract with on chain auction

story by minkowsky · 2022-04-19 · 1 comment

Read through EIPs: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs Not just accepted and popular ones, but also on proposals and rejected ones. It’ll give you a taste of what people are thinking about and what’s upcoming.

comment by ibash · 2022-04-11 · in Ask HN: What are some good places to get a jump start on the state of crypto dev

…ERC have improved on it. [0]: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/standards/tokens/erc... [1]: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/20

comment by simonebrunozzi · 2022-01-08 · in In Response to My first impressions of Web3

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Ethereum – Decrease transaction calldata gas cost

story by marcoslozada · 2021-11-30 · 0 comments

GitHub! It's all open source. EIPs are Ethereum Improvement Proposals. You can view them all here: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues Ethereum Foundation blog is a good read on technical detail with no price discussion:…

comment by eterpstra · 2021-11-19 · in Notes on Web3

…amount of other people's money and the community decided not to roll that particular mistake back: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-999.md

comment by brian_cloutier · 2021-10-18 · in I accidentally compromised my hot wallet

…it out, but it is running on the beacon chain and the consensus upgrade spec has now been merged: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/3675

comment by casi18 · 2021-08-05 · in Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules

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EIP-3675: Upgrade consensus to Proof-of-Stake

story by ubanholzer · 2021-07-29 · 0 comments

…definitely some limitations and it's not fully standardized yet. There's a tentative standard here https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/1538 and OpenZeppelin also has their own implementation. Although neither of these things will…

comment by ekir · 2021-06-28 · in SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon

…not core developers or not able to attend. 2. Another important medium has been GitHub issues (e.g. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/2315 ). Proposals are submitted as a PR and, earlier in the evolution of the governance process,…

comment by jamespitts · 2021-01-13 · in If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room

Fwiw there is a proposal to add a return stack to the EVM: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-2315.m... Your evm-assembler looks pretty interesting. It's crossed my mind before to write an evm Forth, just for fun, and…

comment by DennisP · 2020-12-01 · in Ethereum 2.0 launches

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A diamond is a set of Ethereum contracts that can share the same address

story by mudge · 2020-05-23 · 0 comments

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Diamond Standard for Upgradeable Contracts

story by mudge · 2020-02-27 · 0 comments

…the "bad" key when you can just switch the reference? Eth draft for enabling cold storage relay https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1077.m... Decentralized ID https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/ ^ both generally use the same…

comment by rodocite · 2020-01-02 · in Event Sourcing (2017)

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Ethereum Istanbul 1 Release Set for October 16th

story by psilocipher · 2019-10-14 · 0 comments

That’s proved a little more perilous with Ethereum compared to Bitcoin, heh https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-999.md

comment by thinkmassive · 2019-04-24 · in A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions

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EIP ERC: App Keys, application specific wallet accounts

story by doener · 2019-02-27 · 0 comments

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Clique proof-of-authority consensus protocol

story by wslh · 2019-02-11 · 0 comments

Here's the EIP (Ethereum improvement proposal) causing problems. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1283.m...

comment by lostctown · 2019-01-15 · in Ethereum Constantinople protocol upgrade postponed until further notice

…also decreases the likelihood of a miner driven chain split as Ethereum approaches proof-of-stake. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1234.m...

comment by jamespitts · 2018-12-22 · in Ethereum Constantinople Explained

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EIP 1337 – Subscriptions on the blockchain

story by jiximus · 2018-11-13 · 0 comments

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Request for Comments: Standard for Upgradeable, Transparent Contracts

story by mudge · 2018-11-02 · 0 comments

Looks like this a known issue : https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/763 although one of the proposed solutions involves having the contract maintain a list of owners. The list being maintained by ... the owner...<doh>:…

comment by dboreham · 2018-09-07 · in How smart contract upgrades fail in practice

…data structures are useful, but you are correct that the impact will be quite limited. [1]: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/225 [2]: https://wiki.parity.io/Aura.html

comment by xwvvvvwx · 2018-04-20 · in Get Started with Blockchain Using the New AWS Blockchain Templates

Yes, that is true: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/999

comment by ancorevard · 2018-04-18 · in Upgradeable smart contracts in Ethereum

Related PR https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/999

comment by geoah · 2018-04-15 · in Proposal to restore a destroyed Ethereum contract

There's currently an EIP discussion regarding subscription payments: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/948

comment by mattnguyen · 2018-04-03 · in Show HN: Etherglade – Accept Ethereum on your site in minutes

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Cap Ethereum Total Supply, Says Vitalik Buterin

story by slimshady94 · 2018-04-01 · 5 comments

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Yoichi Hirai resigns as Ethereum EIP Reviewer over conscientious objection

story by HaseebQ · 2018-02-15 · 0 comments

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ERC865: Pay transfers in tokens instead of gas, in one transaction

story by lgalabru · 2018-02-02 · 0 comments

…Dapps as possible and implement the latest enhancements to Web 3 API as quickly as possible. (e.g. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/712 - eth_signTypedData) I gotta say Status is a very cool project though (and really well-funded too…

comment by raingrove · 2018-01-03 · in Show HN: Cipher – Mobile Ethereum Web3 DApp Browser

…attempts to make NFTs (non-fungible tokens) as interoperable as ERC-20-compliant fungible tokens. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/721

comment by dete · 2017-12-04 · in People have spent over $1M buying virtual cats on the Ethereum blockchain

…good chance that the unspendable ether problem gets solved in the next one or two protocol upgrades https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/156

comment by joshschreuder · 2017-11-23 · in Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital Currencies Combined

…allow you to do this. I don't see the use-case though. Also, there are checksums for addresses: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-55.md I don't know anyone who would manually type an address though.

comment by remcob · 2017-11-23 · in Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital Currencies Combined

…in this case where there the "rightful owner" is clear (like the other cases mentioned in https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/156 ).

comment by pietjepuk88 · 2017-11-08 · in Parity Wallet security alert

…by others it's possible at some point (not any time soon) that this frozen ETH can be recovered ( https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/156 ) by adding rules to recover it in the next Ethereum hard fork. Not creating a specific hard fork…

comment by ve55 · 2017-11-07 · in Parity Wallet security alert

…as something that could happen, and there is work looking into how to solve it going back a ways: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/156 It looks like if this EIP is implemented in the future, the address that created the original…

comment by Cshelton · 2017-11-07 · in Parity Wallet security alert

…Where is the mailing list discussion? Where did community members have a chance to raise concerns? https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs https://github.com/ethereum/pm/tree/master/All%20Core%20Devs... These changes should be no surprise to…

comment by Cakez0r · 2017-10-12 · in Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement

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ERC20 Token Standard

story by tosh · 2017-09-21 · 0 comments

I think the reference is EIP 101: Crypto Abstraction which is planned for the Serenity release. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/28

comment by cslarson · 2017-09-05 · in Bitcoin Tumbles as PBOC Declares Initial Coin Offerings Illegal

…to be a fixed size. See these issues for background https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/issues/164 https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/211 Also, the longer-term proposal is to adopt WebAssembly for EVM 2.0:…

comment by cdetrio · 2017-07-24 · in Learn Ethereum smart contract programming

…hardfork that adds an EVM opcode for effectively "const" call that is enforced by the runtime: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/214/files There are also proposals out for a number of the issues you have mentioned. I believe that…

comment by MicahZoltu · 2017-07-21 · in 153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack

…transaction signatures in the segwit2x hard fork? Is there already some chain identity in it? [1] https://github.com/ethereum/eips/issues/155

comment by BenoitP · 2017-07-17 · in Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month

…(IIRC) the plan is to allow miners to accept whatever tokens they prefer for the gas payment. See https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/28 and https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/572v7t/eth_as_an_...

comment by gst · 2017-06-29 · in How can Ethereum systematically scale better?

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Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Pluggable PBFT Consensus on Go-Ethereum

story by yutelin · 2017-06-23 · 0 comments

…[7] http://raiden.network [8] https://github.com/vbuterin/scalability_paper/blob/master/sc... [9] https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/53 [10] https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/03/05/serenity-poc2/ ) from March [11]…

comment by lhl · 2016-09-02 · in Maybe Blockchain Really Does Have Magical Powers

…https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/12/24/understanding-serenity-... and the improvement proposal is: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/28 For #1, there are checksums now, but the more interesting question and challenge is how would a…

comment by jc123 · 2016-05-23 · in A Current List of Use Cases for Ethereum