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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions docs/ethereum-basics/ethereum-foundation.md
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“The Ethereum Foundation’s mission is to promote and support Ethereum platform and base layer research, development and education to bring decentralized protocols and tools to the world that empower developers to produce next generation decentralized applications (dapps).”

## People and Teams
[According to Vitalik Buterin](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/95h4io/how_many_people_work_for_ethereum_foundation/e3sv72e/) in August of 2018, the Ethereum foundation is “fairly ad-hoc distributed” and is made up 90 people across approximately 7 teams working on different areas. They are:
[According to Vitalik Buterin](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/95h4io/how_many_people_work_for_ethereum_foundation/e3sv72e/) in August of 2018, the Ethereum foundation is “fairly ad-hoc distributed” and is made up of 90 people across approximately 7 teams working on different areas. They are:

* Research (mainly Eth 2.0)
* Geth Client
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## Organizational Structure

Ethereum Foundation [incorporated](https://www.zefix.ch/en/search/entity/list/firm/1188682?name=ethereum) as Swiss non-proft Stiftung Ethereum at Zug, Switzerland. Miyaguchi Ayako([@mi_ayako](https://twitter.com/mi_ayako)) is the Executive Director of Stiftung Ethereum since [12.06.2018](https://zg.chregister.ch/cr-portal/auszug/auszug.xhtml;jsessionid=d7b0bdd517c1686815002cfec81c?uid=CHE-292.124.800#)
Ethereum Foundation [incorporated](https://www.zefix.ch/en/search/entity/list/firm/1188682?name=ethereum) as Swiss non-profit Stiftung Ethereum at Zug, Switzerland. Miyaguchi Ayako([@mi_ayako](https://twitter.com/mi_ayako)) is the Executive Director of Stiftung Ethereum since [12.06.2018](https://zg.chregister.ch/cr-portal/auszug/auszug.xhtml;jsessionid=d7b0bdd517c1686815002cfec81c?uid=CHE-292.124.800#)

Ethereum Foundation is the [owner of trademarks](https://trademarks.justia.com/owners/stiftung-ethereum-foundation-ethereum-3479392/): ETHEREUM, ETHER, ENTERPRISE ETHEREUM and ENTERPRISE ETHEREUM ALLIANCE.

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It is currently not known how much the Ethereum Foundation spends on its organization and grants every year.

## Resources
[Vitalik’s comments on internal teams](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/95h4io/how_many_people_work_for_ethereum_foundation/e3sv72e/)
[Vitalik’s comments on internal teams](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/95h4io/how_many_people_work_for_ethereum_foundation/e3sv72e/)
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* Block 7,280,000 to now: 2 Ether \(changed via [EIP-1234](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1234.md)\)

**Other Events**
Issuance rate is also impacted by the speed of blocks. There have been a few other events in Ethereum's history which has impacted the issuance rate. Some planned and some not planned.
Issuance rate is also impacted by the speed of blocks. There have been a few other events in Ethereum's history which have impacted the issuance rate. Some planned and some not planned.

* The Homestead fork in March 2016 saw a decrease in block times and therefore a temporary increase in issuance rate.
* In late 2016, the network was under DDoS attack. This increased the uncle rate, therefore causing a temporary rise in issuance rate.
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### Historical and Future Supply Forecast

There are two majors upcoming factors when it comes to Ethereum's issuance rate and supply curve. They are:
There are two major upcoming factors when it comes to Ethereum's issuance rate and supply curve. They are:

* [Eth2 Phase 0](https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/tree/dev/specs/phase0): Slight bump in issuance due to Beacon Chain launch.
* [Eth2 Phase 1.5](https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/tree/dev/specs/phase1): PoW rewards will be removed due to Eth1 PoW chain being [moved into a shard](https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-roadmap/ethereum-2.0/eth-1.0-to-2.0-migration/#new-proposal) on the Eth2 chain. This means that the only rewards on chain will be to PoS validators, using the chart above.
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It would currently cost an individual or group a large amount of money to successfully attack or take control of either the Bitcoin or Ethereum PoW blockchains

When Ethereum transitions to Proof of stake under Ethereum 2.0, it is expected that users will be able to stake 32 Ether per validator and receive rewards for their work in the form of additional Ether \(at a dynamic issuance rate , discussed later in this essay\).
When Ethereum transitions to Proof of stake under Ethereum 2.0, it is expected that users will be able to stake 32 Ether per validator and receive rewards for their work in the form of additional Ether \(at a dynamic issuance rate, discussed later in this essay\).

Under Proof of Stake, the cost of attacking Ethereum will be tied to the cost of Ether. Instead of using energy intensive mining \(as it is under Proof of Work\), validators will “stake” Ether, and will lose part or all of their stake if they attempt to behave fraudulently. The more validators with staked Ether securing the network, the more Ether an attacker would need to purchase in order to carry out an attack. Such an attack would likely rapidly increase the price of Ether and thus make it prohibitively more expensive for the attacker.

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