You recognise a stupid person when they tell you that ethereum foundation, a non profit organisation made of 20 to 40 year old geeks is paying giants like Microsoft, intel, jpmorgan and hundreds more corporations to hype them.
R3 is not abandoning ethereum because it is not with ethereum in the first place as far as i know. In fact corporations are leaving R3 to join Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, like jpmorgan did. And jpmorgan actually develops stuff on ethereum, they even uploaded on github.
this ethereum smart contracts can be done with just simple java.
Tell that to Brendan Eich, the inventor of javascript. He will hold an ICO on ethereum to build his thing because it is best suited on a platform like ethereum.
I thought you woke up and wrote something constructive, so i unignored to see what you wrote, back to my ignore list, won't unignore again.
yes, non profit organization with these 20 to 40 year old geeks whose secretly paying another geeks working for giant corporations to take the etherum idea and work on it, instant ethereum transfer to geeks address working for big corporation without anyone knowing it. etheruem team is a well known bribery crooks, included bribe coindesk of hype articles. the rate of big corporations abandoned ethereum project is much much higher now than hype taking in.
this Ethereum Enterprise Alliance soon will be dissolved just like the state of R3 being dissolving right now.
i said java, not javascript, two different language. probably this Brendan Eich guy looking to be instant millionaire, the hype is on, free money for him for staying under basement for so long.