Desperate attempt of Ethereum administration to generate more money and to attract some actual projects to fund
They figured nobody is using Ether(eum) other than for Pump and Dump hence they figured let's do a Pump and Dump 2.0
Honestly this is so stupid and so fucking obvious that I'm speechless.
I'm not even gonna mention the clone DAOs cause this is a provocation on another dimension.
For someone that is speechless, you certainly have a lot to day about it. With Coinbase adding Ethereum and the BTCrelay, use cases will start to change. Look at the history of Bitcoin, it takes awhile.
It all depend of how the contractors (For now there are only two: Slock.it and Mobotiq) are good to deliver a good product as promises. Hopefully more good contractors will join