Week in Blockchain Tech News: 20180112

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Blockchains

• NetEase launches CryptoKitties clone
• BTC wallets also buggy
  • Electrum devs don't know how to computer
• China Moves to Ban Bitcoin Mining
  • Bloomberg has some relevant data
• OFFICIAL: No Cryptocurrency Trading Ban in South Korea, Government Says
• Building for the Blockchain
• CryptoZombies
  • interactive smart contract tutorial
• Our Process for Evaluating New Tokens
• Skin-in-the-Game Coins
• Eth performance
  • The Challenges of Building Ethereum Infrastructure
  • Roadmap for Turbo-Geth

InfoSec

• I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
• Good Spectre/Meltdown overview
• spectre and the end of langsec
• Attack of the Week: Group Messaging in WhatsApp and Signal
• good thread on the history of side-channel attacks

Distributed Systems

• Why you should use formal methods

Programming

• Epic Games has some graphs showing the performance impact of initial Spectre/Meltdown patches
• What a difference a JVM makes?
  • good read if you're programming JVMs
• Introduction to reverse engineering and Assembly

Papers

• Quantitative Analysis of Smart Contracts
  • promising foray into static analysis of smart contracts