Necessary discover: any info from this submit concerning the ether sale is very outdated and doubtless inaccurate. Please solely seek the advice of the newest weblog posts and official supplies at ethereum.org for info on the sale
Ethereum acquired an unimaginable response on the Miami Bitcoin Convention. We traveled there anticipating many technical questions in addition to a philosophical dialogue concerning the objective of Ethereum; nevertheless, the overwhelming quantity of curiosity and enthusiasm for the mission was a lot bigger than we had anticipated. Vitalik’s presentation was met with each a standing ovation and a query queue that took hours to deal with.
As a result of we intend on offering an equal alternative to all those that wish to be concerned, and are reviewing the related logistical and regulatory points for a token sale of this scale, now we have determined to postpone the Feb 1 launch of the sale. We are going to make the announcement of the brand new sale launch date on our official web site: Ethereum.org.
The Ethereum mission can be excited to announce the alpha launch of the open supply testnet consumer to the neighborhood in the beginning of February. It will give folks a possibility to get entangled with the mission and experiment with Ethereum scripts and contracts, and achieve a greater understanding of the technical properties of the Ethereum platform. Launching the testnet at this date will give these within the fundraiser an opportunity to raised perceive what the Ethereum mission is about earlier than collaborating.
The testnet will embody full assist for sending and receiving transactions, the preliminary model of the scripting language as described in our whitepaper, and will or might not embody mining. This can even be the primary main cryptocurrency mission to have two official shoppers launched on the identical time, with one written in C++ and the opposite in Go; a Python consumer can be within the works. A compiler from the Ethereum CLL to Ethereum script can be launched very quickly.
A notice on safety
The ether sale will NOT be launching on February 1st and any try to gather funds right now must be thought-about a rip-off. There have been some scams within the boards thus please use warning and solely contemplate info posted on Ethereum.org to be respectable. You will need to reinforce to all that solely info launched and posted at Ethereum.org must be trusted as many are prone to impersonate us.
