[ANN] Ethereum: Welcome to the Beginning

[mightgetlucky]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdvfZibhuQLr4104vicHtJ4RMP8uCmHIuvcEnq3QL4U/edit?pli=1

[freedomno1]

When wil be relise on Frontier?
So, the second question, why when i mining with ethminer my hard was load 100%?

Same question actually (found answer), Frontier is in testing stages and the testnet is showing progress.
https://stats.ethdev.com

Blog post from the 15th
https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/06/15/another-ethereum-d%CE%BEv-update/

We continue our preparations for the Frontier release. While we’re still uncertain of the precise release date, we are becoming increasingly happy at the resilience of the Olympic testnet. As the Olympic testnet’s failure was ongoing, the adversity caused some reflection over how we might mitigate such problems in the future. The depth and duration of the consensus failure can, roughly speaking, be put down to two problems: firstly that there was a bug in the Go codebase causing it to accept invalid blocks (in this case, blocks with an invalid proof-of-work nonce); secondly that there was a huge problem with upgrading the network since miners continued to mine on the ‘bad’ chain and were slow to upgrade their nodes so that they mined on the correct chain. Essentially, the first was a forensic problem and the second an problem of organisation.

To make sure this is never so deep nor broad in the future, I designed two new protocols: the Bad Chain Canary and the Bad Block Reporting API. The bad chain canary is a simple contract. It is controlled by a single key (though there may be several of them) and sits quietly until poked by its owner. I will be one such owner, Vitalik and Jeff two others and there will likely be fourth, Christoph. When poked, it is given a blockhash and block number pair; this pair refers to a recent block on a bad chain. If they match the chain that the contract thinks it is sitting on, it puts itself in the “bad chain” state. This allows the Ethereum core devs to inform everyone who is running a client on a bad chain (i.e. one that does not conform to the Yellow Paper due to a bug) that it is such. The default in clients (easily overridden) is not to mine on such chains (since to do so would be a waste of energy), but rather to inform the user that they should upgrade at their earliest opportunity.

The Bad Block Reporting API is a simple JSON RPC that allows a number of our nodes to run in a ‘sentinel’ mode. In this mode, if they come across a bad block, they automatically compile a standardised report of what went wrong including expected transaction receipts, VM traces, proof-of-work and block error information. This report is then instantly sent to a ÐΞV server where it can trigger an early warning system and, should the release tzar (that’d be Taylor) deem it necessary, alert the core devs. Through standardisation and usage of a simple format, it’s designed so that we can easily code up a JSON-comparison engine to quickly diagnose where the consensus issue lies.

One future job is to combine the two so that the JSON-RPC can also manage the reporting of canary information – in this case, a user may set up a sentinel server to give them an email whenever the contract reports that mining has ceased and/or they should upgrade their node to continue mining.

[jubalix]

 I was just wondering, what has Vitalik Buterin actually programed an taken to market fruition to date or lead a team to do the same.

I understand he has made the Bitcoin Mag, but what else?

I kinda found this info hard to track down.

I am sort of wondering if he has a RDF like Steve Jobs. Not saying this is bad or great things can't be achieved.

[synechist]

Breaking news.

Click for info.
http://1drv.ms/1C9FfbK

(For those who might not know yet, The Blocknet is both Ethereum-powered and enables Ethereum-based Dapps to deliver services to nodes on any other chain.)

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

Mayorschain is something I'm very proud of. The idea came to me in a vision.

[hnin]

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[compmaster]

These new "cards", a.k.a. XCP tokens, look like the biggest scam ever! But still... I like them.

[compmaster]

Is Ethereum ever going to be built?

[mladen00]

first coin, then card

[vytasz7]

Is it possible to buy ether anywhere?

[Mickeyb]

Are there any fresh news on when will Etherium be released? Also, I guess we still can't trade it nowhere.
Thanks

[Investing123]

wallet?

[Matt Y]

https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/07/22/frontier-is-coming-what-to-expect-and-how-to-prepare/

[BitPappa]

is ethereum traded somewhere?

Just saw this new CoinTelegraph article:
http://cointelegraph.com/news/114939/ethercoin-price-skyrockets-as-ethereum-confirms-launch

And a google search based on that lead me to the referenced centralized ethercoin exchange (so there's some trust involved):
http://www.ethercoin.cc

[lootz]

I am sure it is mind boggling development, very excited to see so many decentral projects like ethereum

[WilderX]

Current price = ~14x the original ICO price. Massive dump INC  

a little trivia also you might want to know with the current 3$+ price = total market cap 300+Million dollars at launch of this coin.

So this means it's positioned #2 already far above ripple... Up or Down? What do you think?  

[lordoliver]

Breaking news.

Click for info.
http://1drv.ms/1C9FfbK

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVfzvhRhmgI

[btcbug]

Wow nice! Anyone  know when actual ETHER will be tradable/usable? 

[unusualfacts30]

I don't get it..looks like pnd to me. May be there is use of Ether for some people but price looks too high. Who is going to pay $5/Ether? or even $1?

I can't find any info regarding the market value of ether. Biggest wallet has only 11,357 on trex and total supply is one million. What happens when people start transferring their coins to trex to dump...right now it's at 15x above ICO price.

I c dump soon.

[superresistant]

Current price = ~14x the original ICO price. Massive dump INC 
a little trivia also you might want to know with the current 3$+ price = total market cap 300+Million dollars at launch of this coin.
So this means it's positioned #2 already far above ripple... Up or Down? What do you think? 

I don't get it..looks like pnd to me. May be there is use of Ether for some people but price looks too high. Who is going to pay $5/Ether?
I can't find any info regarding the market value of ether. Biggest wallet has only 11,357 on trex and total supply is one million. What happens when people start transferring their coins to trex to dump...right now it's at 15x above ICO price.
I c dump soon.

Not only this is an obvious pump and dump from insiders (whales and bitcoin press) but Ether coins have actually no value other that be used as fees for some businesses or services that doesn't exist (yet).

Wake up people, the value will come from businesses using the technology, not the token price. Drop them while you can and focus on doing something real : business and service.

Pump and dump is for kid, enjoy while you can : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oe6UzVs7_Y