[ANN] Ethereum: Welcome to the Beginning

[mymenace]

in its Forbes paper, Laura Shin says:

-bitcoin is a public blockchain, it is the internet ;
-ethereum is a private blockchain, something like an intranet.

do you agree ?

another analogy maybe

bitcoin is decentralized

ethereum is centralized

is that right

[markusyeti]

When downloading blocks when starting MIST, does it use a lot of data? Me has limited internet-data so that would suck really bad.

[Couldbe]

CAUTION Advised

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but everyone should read this CoinTelegraph article:

http://cointelegraph.com/news/dao-episode-2-risks-ahead-or-can-the-experiment-fail

Lots of "considerable risks" including the fact that Ethereum will drop in price due to the DAO. $100s of millions of ETH have been invested in creating DAO tokens. These tokens will be used to fund projects. To fund projects the DAO tokens will be cashed into fiat $ via ETH. This flood of ETH sells will most likely make the ETH price plummet.

In summary the article concludes:
"It’s a steep mountain to climb with considerable risks and failure more likely than success."

[Etherite]

Hi all fellow Ethereum buddies,

Just letting you all know https://etherite.com is now open for you mining needs, so come along and check us out!

Discussion on Ethereum forums here

Just a quick update all,

0% Fees have now started for the next week, it may be extended further depending on uptake of new miners.

So come along and check us out, let us know any feedback you have!

[cardiganss]

How many of you holding eth from day one without trading?

[Mrpumperitis]

In summary the article concludes:
"It’s a steep mountain to climb with considerable risks and failure more likely than success."

Dude i heard all this when i first got into BTC. When it was under $20 nobody cared. Then once it became worth something, the warnings come out...just like yours above.
Crypto is risky, be it BTC, ETH or THE DAO, your fiat will go up and down alot.
Most investors are aware of this before investing.
So thanks for heads up and gd luck with your own investment choices.  

[Couldbe]

In summary the article concludes:
"It’s a steep mountain to climb with considerable risks and failure more likely than success."

Dude i heard all this when i first got into BTC. When it was under $20 nobody cared. Then once it became worth something, the warnings come out...just like yours above.
Crypto is risky, be it BTC, ETH or THE DAO, your fiat will go up and down alot.
Most investors are aware of this before investing.
So thanks for heads up and gd luck with your own investment choices. 

In summary the article concludes:
"It’s a steep mountain to climb with considerable risks and failure more likely than success."

Dude i heard all this when i first got into BTC. When it was under $20 nobody cared. Then once it became worth something, the warnings come out...just like yours above.
Crypto is risky, be it BTC, ETH or THE DAO, your fiat will go up and down alot.
Most investors are aware of this before investing.
So thanks for heads up and gd luck with your own investment choices.  

You imbecile. I was being objective in quoting an article that raised concerns. Don't just pick on part of my post to obscure it in a meaningless fog to hide the implications from most investors, of which I am one. Here it is in full:

CAUTION Advised

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but everyone should read this CoinTelegraph article:

http://cointelegraph.com/news/dao-episode-2-risks-ahead-or-can-the-experiment-fail

Lots of "considerable risks" including the fact that Ethereum will drop in price due to the DAO. $100s of millions of ETH have been invested in creating DAO tokens. These tokens will be used to fund projects. To fund projects the DAO tokens will be cashed into fiat $ via ETH. This flood of ETH sells will most likely make the ETH price plummet.

In summary the article concludes:
"It’s a steep mountain to climb with considerable risks and failure more likely than success."

[Couldbe]

@ Mr Pumperitis

You assume too much. Your name tells where you are coming from - Mr Pumperitis, pumping the price without concern for those whom you might mislead. I was advising caution due to a highly respected article in CoinTelegraph. I believe I was being objective in invititing others to read it - in relation to other posts here. Are you intimidated by that?

I notice that this is a fresh page, so for the convenience of other investors, of which I am one, here is my original post:

CAUTION Advised

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but everyone should read this CoinTelegraph article:

http://cointelegraph.com/news/dao-episode-2-risks-ahead-or-can-the-experiment-fail

Lots of "considerable risks" including the fact that Ethereum will drop in price due to the DAO. $100s of millions of ETH have been invested in creating DAO tokens. These tokens will be used to fund projects. To fund projects the DAO tokens will be cashed into fiat $ via ETH. This flood of ETH sells will most likely make the ETH price plummet.

In summary the article concludes:
"It’s a steep mountain to climb with considerable risks and failure more likely than success."

Now exercise your power in banning me you self-interested jerk - although I now see that you have deleted your previous threatening post.

[Mrpumperitis]

smart contracts....
Published on 6 Apr 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXCOfTteQAo
The CEO of Global Financial Assets Inc. ( Nick Szabo ) spoke at the International Conference on Contract Simplification at the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue.
http://cgd.swissre.com/events/contract_simplification.html#tab_1
http://reports.swissre.com/2015/financial-report.html#section-business-units-at-a-glance  



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWuN2R2DC6c
Published on 7 Apr 2016
To discuss the future of society Lykke starts a series of open education seminars on Future of the World Economy featuring innovative industry practitioners and forward-looking academics.
The first seminar on Blockchains and Smart Contracts was led by Nick Szabo, a pioneer of Bitcoin.
Brilliant 

[DStefanov]

I'm trying to transfer a small amount of ETH to Poloniex but my wallet wants password! I never enter your password and do not have one! What to do and what's the password?
Thanks!

[MaGNeT]

I'm trying to transfer a small amount of ETH to Poloniex but my wallet wants password! I never enter your password and do not have one! What to do and what's the password?
Thanks!

I'm pretty sure I had to enter a password when the wallet was created so try to remember it.
Maybe caps-lock was enabled when you typed it?

[DStefanov]

I'm trying to transfer a small amount of ETH to Poloniex but my wallet wants password! I never enter your password and do not have one! What to do and what's the password?
Thanks!

I'm pretty sure I had to enter a password when the wallet was created so try to remember it.
Maybe caps-lock was enabled when you typed it?

I really have no recollection at installation asks me for a password! If I did not do account Could this be the reason for not giving me a transfer.
That is my main view wallet:

[malekbaba]

I have sold my ETHs to convert into DAO tokens. I hope I will not have any bad experience with it.

[Sm00kew]

I'm trying to transfer a small amount of ETH to Poloniex but my wallet wants password! I never enter your password and do not have one! What to do and what's the password?
Thanks!

I'm pretty sure I had to enter a password when the wallet was created so try to remember it.
Maybe caps-lock was enabled when you typed it?

I really have no recollection at installation asks me for a password! If I did not do account Could this be the reason for not giving me a transfer.
That is my main view wallet:

Without password your account is locked. Did you make this account in mist? If you did, you had to type password for encryption.

[Couldbe]

I have sold my ETHs to convert into DAO tokens. I hope I will not have any bad experience with it.

I have the same feeling. I exchanged a part of my ETH holding for DAO tokens. In the process of exchanging them I was beset by one warning after another about the significant risks. Also one disclaimer after another.

I then decided to do more research and came across this article in the CoinTelegraph:
http://cointelegraph.com/news/dao-episode-2-risks-ahead-or-can-the-experiment-fail

I posted a link to the article here a few hours ago, and advised caution, but it it has been smothered by other posts.

[TwinWinNerD]

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[MinermanNC]

Odd circumstance here,,, any ideas?

Just installed 3- R9 290's in a rig previously occupied by 3 - 7950's.

Went ahead and updated drivers etc. All 3 cards are recognized by system. started hashing, all 3 cards show work and all seems fine. However I am not seeing any hash on the assigned worker in supernova pool.

All other rigs/workers hashing fine as normal and showing hash on pool.... ok, at wits end here... I have always mined with 280x's and 7970's and 7950's.. is there anything different here with 290's I am missing?

Any suggestions appreciated

THX

[vapourminer]

is the mist wallet ever going to release something that works? 7.4 here, win7pro x64, i5 3570k, 16 gigs ram, everything on samsung 840 pro ssd.

70% of the time it just locks up on start. the other 25% it locks up as soon as you click something. maybe 5% it may actually do something.

xfered some eth to the dao, shows as a good transaction 6 hours ago. but the eth are still in the account and dao value hasnt changed.

now i cant copy addresses out. highlight, ctrl c (or edit->copy) it helpfully flashes COPIED TO CLIPBOARD twice (twice??) and then nothing is in the clipboard.

this is absolute junk. how on earth are we supposed to vote, write contracts etc when it doesn't even load  or when it does load, work??

guess ill be HODLing, since I cant actually MOVE them if I tried.

[thedreamer]

Odd circumstance here,,, any ideas?

Just installed 3- R9 290's in a rig previously occupied by 3 - 7950's.

Went ahead and updated drivers etc. All 3 cards are recognized by system. started hashing, all 3 cards show work and all seems fine. However I am not seeing any hash on the assigned worker in supernova pool.

All other rigs/workers hashing fine as normal and showing hash on pool.... ok, at wits end here... I have always mined with 280x's and 7970's and 7950's.. is there anything different here with 290's I am missing?

Any suggestions appreciated

THX

Easy. Stop mining on crappy pools like supernova. Its one of THE WORST out there.