Topic: [ANN] Ethereum: Welcome to the Beginning - page 1234. (Read 2007125 times)

Hello everyone,

The ether sale has begun! It takes place exclusively on our website at https://www.ethereum.org/
Any other location claiming to be selling ether is very likely a scam.

To simply the dissemination of information, all documentation including development plan, updated whitepaper and intended use of revenue can be found on our website at https://www.ethereum.org/

A summary by Vitalik can be found at:
https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/22/launching-the-ether-sale/

All updates will be done via our blog on https://blog.ethereum.org and this FAQ

We understand many of you have questions. We'll be hosting a reddit AMA tomorrow. I'll do my best to answer what i can here, but bear with me as there's only one of me and plenty of questions I'm sure

All other offers to purchase Ether should be considered a scam and reported to administrators

So is there a chance of it "selling out" then or will the final number reflect the amount of btc raised?

I believe that the amount sold during the pre-sale will constitute 10% of the total number of ether (the coin/fuel of ethereum).  As such, the total number is dependent on a number that is not yet known.

At least that was my understanding when I was looking into ethereum several months ago.  Not sure if anything has changed.

what is the total number of Ethereum?

ok....I thnk nxt was putting a programing language interface as well...could be wrong though

I can't speak for NXT (or XCP, MSC etc), and we have good relationships with everyone in the field. Personally I see our future interactions as collaboration, not competition.

I think the vision we have for ethereum is unique, even 6 months after our original announcement. The core idea is to promote the development of dapps by making it very easy for people to leverage skills they already have: JS, HTML or QML for the frontend for example. The contract part also has a low barrier of entry, by using a VM and enabling several higher level languages (Currently GO-like, python-like and lisp-like).

As I was saying in previous post, I remember, being a developer myself, being quite frustrated it wasn't easier to build the cool dapps that have been envisaged in the last 18 months. I think making the build process near-trivial will accelerate innovation in the space quite dramatically. 

To paraphrase Joe Lubin's on our forums (https://forum.ethereum.org)

We are not conducting an IPO. We are not selling shares in anything. Ether (ETH), the product we are selling, has no voting or any other kind of rights and does not entitle anyone to dividends or any sort of future gains.

Ether is a necessary element -- a fuel -- for operating the computational platform we are building. Without the requirement of payment of ether for every computational step and storage operation of the system, we'd hit the halting problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem): infinite loops or excessive storage demands could bog down the system and effectively destroy it.

People can download the software platform and run it on their computers and it will do certain basic things like perhaps showing them a catalog of available apps. If they want more functionality, like running a DApp or uploading and testing DApps that they have written, they will have to feed fuel into the machine.

Under Swiss law, where Ethereum Switzerland GmbH is based, the product we are selling is classified as a software product. And we are conducting a pre-sale for this product since we are not yet able to manufacture it.

People who are interested in acquiring ether to build and distribute DApps, or to pay for their usage can do so in the pre-sale, for BTC. These sales will help us fund the continued construction of the software platform that requires ETH, tentatively due for release in Q4.

How to join the IPO, is there any guide?

The end!

the same question.

how?

Yes, it will be able to be regulated by US government.

Thank you! I think that would be a great thing!

will etherum be able to do anything that NXT can't do?

Back just one page: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7810129

*soon*

when will be held the IPO?

You forgot that 10 minute one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clw-qf1sUZg

We have plans for a 3 minutes one, technically minded, which will be animated. No ETA yet though.

1 Min (No Sense)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2phQbLp8vSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0P9dSQJPPc
1- 3 Min (Some Sense)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rm5KzhOXQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3gpfZ1IK4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rm5KzhOXQQ

Hmm I'll look around here is one for now

5 min (Good Sense)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urYau_Z4JX4

Think the 10 min video is the closest one I can find (Most Sense)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5FDvzj8YX4&feature=kp

From that I can say the 5 minute one is the best one for time balance but that's a survey of 1 someone might know a shorter more to the point video

I have been trying to grasp the concept of Ethereum for a while but I still don't get it, specially when I have barely any free time. Is there any short, to the point 2 minutes video that would explain it to newbies just like there is a similar video for Bitcoin?

Very cool stuff and thanks for that
I went away from this thread so just coming back now to see that list

I didn't see Gavins presentation so it really did come in useful thanks for sharing and keep up the good work on this project