The first update of June will be a short one. I’m currently working on getting bootstrap working in Pay.Via.Eth with the updated version of its codebase. The site has also reached a small milestone of visitors, and this most recent weekend has marked the first period where the site could be considered “Open.” You can view a demo of Pay.Via.Eth in our live store where you can purchase three products/services. I’m unsure when the next round of GitCoin will start, but I would like to have some actual code and fixes contributed before then.
Via.Eth Project Update #2
The second project update will be disappointing to read for some people. I found a job! Unfortunately, I need food and shelter to survive, so I’ve taken a 9-5 web-dev position. Development of PayViaEth and any other projects under the ViaEth banner, while slowed down, is not canceled or stopped. There are only so many hours in a day, and I will have to devote some of them to life.
Progress: I am still checking everything in the git repo and working through the list of items included in the reply from the wordpress.org plugin directory. There are also some website-related things I need to take care of and prepare for the next GitCoin round. Hopefully, my timeline isn’t too far off. So I’ll need to take a moment to update it.
If you have experience with WordPress plugins or PHP code, check out PayViaEth and submit a pull request!
Via.Eth Project Update #1
- What I’m currently working on.
I’m currently working on the alpha version of PayViaEth. I’m pushing ahead with some of the early bug fixes and plugin standards. I also want to get set up on wordpress.org to get the plugin listed in the plugin directory. In addition, I’m working on getting the website organized and ready for visitors and getting the formatting down for updates (Such as This) and other content. Finally, I’m still becoming familiar with the public Github tools and issue tracking.
- My Progress.
All of my progress is public at the moment. You can check out GitHub for more info. The plugin is still in the alpha stages, but I’m making headway on listing and fixing some of the bugs. I would follow the “Alpha Fixes” milestone on GitHub for development tracking. I’ve also started working on NFT solidity code, but that’s mostly research, so I can’t give you a clear picture of where that’s going. I’ve submitted the plugin to wordpress.org and received a list of issues preventing it from being posted. You can get more info about this on the project Github.
- Other Notes and Info.
For most of GR8 and some of GR9, I had to take a full-time position which is why I used a third-party programmer who worked with me to push out code pretty fast. You can find more info in the PayViaEth git repo hosted on GitHub.
I can not stress enough the need for shared scrutiny in the alpha stages. Please look at the code and open an issue for code lines that don’t fit into the world-class piece of Webware we are building.
I’ve also been going back and forth on handling version numbers. I want to keep it pretty simple and promote rapid development, so I’ll be using X.Y.Z with X being major (must update), Y being minor (feature updates), and Z being bug fixes. As I’m typing this, I realize I should somehow add this to the documentation.
Joseph Lubin
A Canadian-American entrepreneur. He has founded and co-founded several companies, including the Swiss-based EthSuisse, contributing heavily to Ethereum, the decentralized cryptocurrency platform. In addition, Lubin is the founder of ConsenSys, a Brooklyn-based software-production studio. In February 2018, Forbes estimated Lubin’s net worth in cryptocurrency to be between one and five billion dollars.
In early 2014, Lubin was Chief Operating Officer of Ethereum Switzerland GmbH (EthSuisse), a company working to extend the capabilities of blockchains first popularized by Bitcoin.
Lubin was also involved in creating the Ethereum Foundation, a Toronto-based non-profit organization to be a “nonpartisan industry body, made up of [a cross-section of] industry players. It [is intended to] make sure the Ethereum infrastructure works fairly and independently … like ICANN for the Internet.”
He subsequently founded ConsenSys in 2015, a decentralized blockchain production studio. It develops software for Ethereum and also provides decentralized software services to companies. They also do enterprise and government consulting. The European Union has picked ConsenSys to be one of the primary companies to help spread blockchain across Europe. In addition, Lubin is involved in cross-industry groups attempting to advance solutions to governance issues in the blockchain industry.
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Gavin Wood
Gavin Wood is a British computer programmer who co-founded Ethereum. He invented Solidity, wrote the Yellow Paper specifying the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and served as the Ethereum Foundation’s first chief technology officer. After leaving in 2016, he co-founded Parity Technologies, which develops core infrastructure for Ethereum, Bitcoin, and other blockchain technologies.
Before developing Ethereum, Wood worked as a research scientist at Microsoft. He co-founded Ethereum, which he has described as “one computer for the entire planet,” with Vitalik Buterin and others from 2013 to 2014. Wood wrote Ethereum’s coding language, Solidity, and released the Yellow Paper defining the Ethereum Virtual Machine, the runtime system for Smart contracts in Ethereum, in 2014. He also served as the Ethereum Foundation’s first chief technology officer. Wood left Ethereum in 2016. Instead, wood founded Parity Technologies, which independently developed a client for the Ethereum network and creates software for companies using blockchain technology. The company released the Parity Ethereum software client, written in Rust, in early 2016. He serves as Parity’s CWO as of 2018.
He founded the Web3 Foundation, a nonprofit organization focusing on decentralized internet infrastructure and technology.
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Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer primarily known as a co-founder of Ethereum and a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine.
Buterin is a co-founder and inventor of Ethereum, described as a “decentralized mining network and software development platform rolled into one” that facilitates the creation of new cryptocurrencies and programs that share a single blockchain (a cryptographic transaction ledger). Buterin first described Ethereum in a white paper in late 2013. Buterin argued that bitcoin needed a scripting language for application development. But when he failed to gain agreement, he proposed the development of a new platform with a more general scripting language.
About the Ethereum Project, Buterin has said: “I am truly grateful to have the opportunity to work in such an interesting and interdisciplinary area of industry, where I have the chance to interact with cryptographers, mathematicians, and economists prominent in their fields, to help build software and tools that already affect tens of thousands of people around the world, and to work on advanced problems in computer science, economics and philosophy every week.” However, in a 2018 New Yorker article, his father suggests that Buterin is trying to avoid the focus on him as the philosopher king of the blockchain world. “He is trying to focus his time on research,” Dmitry [Buterin’s father] said. “He’s not too excited that the community assigns so much importance to him. He wants the community to be more resilient
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