Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer
by kang on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:44AM
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Vitalik became famous cause of his journalism. Then the sale gave ether founders loads of money. Now it is being used to market cleverly. One example around me here in India is BlockchainU. Blockchain university has taught in almost all prime Indian IT companies pumping ethereum & thus atleast most, if not all, corporate devs are working on ethereum here, whereas there is no central advertising foundation for bitcoin.
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Are you suggesting that Consensys, Microsoft, R3CEV and Red Hat are only developing on Ethereum because of clever marketing? There isn't some technical merit to the platform that means they are doing this?
Why didn't these companies develop their products on Bitcoin? Are they incapable of due diligence in this space?
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/ethereum-blockchain-a...
To be fair, only Consensys and R3CEV are "developing on ethereum"... Microsoft and Red Hat are merely offering machine images with ethereum software pre-installed for their users, as they do for many other software tools- Though I'm happy to be corrected, if you can point me to a Microsoft and/or Redhat-authored smart contract.
The news for ethereum is positive enough right now, no need to exaggerate the facts.
Sorry, I got excited and imprecise. I suppose I mean "developing on and around".
I'm just trying to counter the idea that the excitement around ethereum is somehow manufactured by 'clever marketing'.