As I saw in the past lots of scam came and still come also from Russia.
It let me become very cautious when too many Russian names are in an ICO team.
I guess furthermore that they consider it as an easy way for money laundering as
was mentioned before.
Thanks to heaven, Europe is very slowly in regulating "Internet things", but it is of course
no easy task. I bet everyone, except the scammers, would wish to see just honest ICOs
but take a look at the stock exchanges. Even there's today lots of frauds that just taking
investors money. Where money is, fraud would never be far.

Very good overview.

But I see a "funny" problem:
If there appears a let's say, more intelligent scammer, he would first do his research and
will maybe find this post. Orienting on your descriptions the scammer could adapt his behavior
to avoid accusations and seems to be a trustworthy user.

But I think that is always a problem with detailed warnings: the bad guys can read them too and just adapt.

I talked with founders and inventors and none of them ever said
they feared their ideas could be stolen as the ones who would be really interested
in stealing are the ones who just want to make profit out of it but do not want to input
the work needed to generate the profit.

Karbon website is not reachable anymore!
It was indeed scam. 
What the f*** is wrong with these guys?!
I did not invest, but they made 500,000 $ with that.
Regulations are obviously needed, as any other who takes it serious and want to
realize great projects might become also suspicious.

100 million won't be so much if you take marketing costs into account.

But Publica, a more precise answer is up to you!

As an author of both self-published and published books, this project sounds very interesting to me.
One of the biggest issues will be to reach the mass market of readers.
Today the competition on the book market grows harder and harder,
meaning Publica should invest a certain effort in marketing as well (if not the main part of raised money).
And I cannot recognize how you took this into account.
How much you will spend for this?

I believe also in destiny. There might be things that do not even lay in the hands of God.
So even if you believe that God is almighty this includes that things can be and cannot be at the same time. So it can lay in his hands and cannot.
But whatsoever we should deal with it as best as we can.

So SSD is strictly recommended for blockchain download

Unbelievable!
Nexus is a good example how you do things right!

Bought a new SSD.
Download was done in a few hours. 

As we see today at exchanges the Chinese shock should be over  

I was also shocked from the first reports but kept on relaxing after some research
who is really concerned by this decision (Chinese investors are not the ones).

So it seems ETH will go ahead

Same question as for Karbon:

Why should people change?

How you want to attract the young (and trendsetting) generation?

I think the possibility that we could see another war on the Korean peninsula has increased significantly since
last weekend.
Let's hope that the super powers find a diplomatic way to solve this issue.

Hi,

I updatet my Ethereum Wallet short time ago.
Yesterday I wanted to change to the rinkeby testnet.
An error appeared and now I am not longer able to get access to my Ethereum Wallet.

This message appears:

No connection to software node possible.
Further information in the Log data.

Node type: geth
Network: rinkeby
Platform: win32 (Architecture x64)

...flag provided but not defined: -rinkeby


Any ideas?

Stopped it.
Try to download only the header now.

Congrats to successful ICO.
I am very excited about the applications coming for DAYs in the future!

151,000 blocks

Comparing the 90-day charts on coingecko.com it seems to me like I mentioned.
As in Gold/Silver, you see often a forerun or a run after of silver,
one can state the same behavior for ETH to BTC.

And yes it is impressive in percentages and % is the only count at the market

BTC rose about 300 %
ETH about 600 %

ETH seems like the clear outperformer (currently)

And yes ETH and BTC are completely different.
As Gold (currency)
and silver (industry metal) is.
Yes, the comparison might limp but I would of course never say they are an equal pair.

Just discussing and seeking for answers.

Well the question is also what might happen with ETH,
if there will appear stronger international regulations for ICOs.
In this scenario, the price might decrease if there won't be any real life applications for it,
that makes it a necessary good for exchange.
And this could also happen by next year as the SEC and other institutions are keenly seeking
for a way to regulate ICOs.

As Ethereum is traded as the "second important currency" in the market
it comes to my mind to compare the pair BTC/ETH with Gold/Silver.
As the behavior seems to bee similar.
When one rises the other follows and vice versa.
So I want to open this thread to discuss the future of the "second currency" Ethereum.

When you post a possible goal for Ethereum in an estimated timeframe,
I am also interested for what reasons yout think of this goal.

In my opinion the rise of ETH is as unbelievable as it appears in BTC till the beginning of this year,
remembering April 2017 when ETH stood at about 50 $.
So its increase in value is much more impressive as that of BTC.

Keeping this development in mind a course of 600 to 800 $ seems to be a realistic reach even in this year.

What to you think?

Sounds like a very interesting idea!
Will keep it on the watchlist!