Feel free to join in. It'd be good to get some thoughts and discussion going on the idea of funding cryptocurrency dev work. Especially now that tacotime is going to move into that role if it can work.

No, you don't have to keep it open. Next time you open it up it'll sync and you'll get the messages sent to your BM address. Note that this only applies to the computer that has keys.dat and messages.dat in your PyBitmessage config folder (~/.config/PyBitmessage by default on Linux). It takes a while to sync.

I don't normally get involved in cloned coins, but I've got one this to say to whoever developed and launched this:

Even though he seemed to have just mentioned it in passing in the video, I'm happy he did. Can you imagine if people discovered someone worked for Goldman Sachs after the project got up and running and completed a fundraiser? I think the Internet would have exploded. They've been honest, and it's stupid for us to crucify them for their past actions. They left Goldman Sachs, didn't they?

They have plenty ready to go. It's very alpha, but it's all open and free for you to play with: https://github.com/ethereum. As I post this, their lead Go dev updated the Go repository just a few minutes go.

If you look at the facts, this already beats out 99% of the projects on here that end up taking your money with nothing to show (I'm looking at you Mastercoin!). They're showing you things and haven't taken a dime for it.

You should know that I asked about Goldman Sachs (jokingly) in the first question on here. I hoped that people would see it and use it as a reference instead of asking about it over and over. Check out their responses below. If you believe them to be truthful, then that's good. If you don't believe it, then that's good too. But there is only so much they can do. They're giving you direct information, directly from the man who said it.

Has there been any thought about equitable mining opportunity? Some people live in areas where electricity is extremely expensive relative to others, which obviously makes distributed mining among interested parties difficult. Part of the appeal of a CPU-friendly mining algorithm is that cloud mining becomes possible for people who are limited in this way. I'm wondering whether Ethereum envisions building partnerships with mining providers that can provide people with mining services in areas where electricity is inexpensive (in the event that a GPU mining algorithm becomes more preferable, thus ruling out traditional cloud mining)?

Let me do the honours: Is Goldman Sachs involved in this venture?

I do not. This is just my personal opinion. It becomes impossible to determine who steals what, so we end up blocking far more users than the isolated few who own botnets when we give into fears over mining centralisation (when in fact the opposite ends up happening).

Plenty of people rely on cloud hashing because electricity is too expensive where they live.

A word of advice to the organisers of this project. I know it's not easy to keep everyone happy, but you can't allow a fear to regulate last minute decisions. You've made your decisions in good faith and reason, and you've communicated those outcomes to your audience, now you need to stick to your guns, come hell or high water.

There is no real substantial evidence that the fears of botnet mining are real. In fact, in the past, botnet operators have been honest about mining. Botnet operators have as much place in the cryptocurrency community as anyone, because they, just like anyone else who mines do the network a service by securing it. The network does not discriminate in this way, and neither should it. Any botnet operator will participate in the cryptocurrency economy if it is worthwhile.

The fact of the matter is this: CPU mining is the only true decentralised way we know of to distribute a coin as fairly as possible because anyone with a CPU can mine, and almost everyone has access to a CPU, whereas not everyone has access to a GPU. Don't screw the people who supported you up to this point and then end up locking them out of participating because of botnet fears (you'll just trade the fear of CPU centralisation for the reality of GPU centralisation). Where have we seen that kind of logic before?

Just my 2¢. No hate required.

Do you have qtbase5-dev and qt5-default installed?

Might be easier to run the GUI client if you're just getting into it. It's called "alephzero".

I'm happy that I had to search for that to find out what it means. I have not slipped that far... I'm still okay.

This was literally posted a few posts up. There's also the "Investment FAQ" you can look at.

Out, ye Nxt demons! Cast them from this place, td services! Seal the portal while there is still time!

Mastercoin is amateur hour compared to what these folks have planned.

You can't make a contribution. The fundraiser has been postponed and no new date has been announced yet. Sign up for their mailing list and look on here for when we'll all go crazy when it's announced!

Do you know where? Don't how I missed it. xD

Where did you get the 2-4 weeks number? I don't believe there's been any talk about a specific timeline.