Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer

Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer by crazydoggers on Friday February 26, 2016 @11:17AM (#11182160)

I'm not sure what you're arguing? Ethereum is fully decentralized and open source. There happens to be a well funded non-profit that the community funded in order to speed up development (EthDEV). Ethereum and EthDEV are not one in the same thing. If EthDEV disappeared, ethereum would continue. That's a little different than some Amazon owned and operated "AWScoin".

Bitcoin also has the "Bitcoin Foundation" which employs lead developer Gavin Andresen, so it's very similar.

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Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer by Anonobread on Friday February 26, 2016 @12:46PM (#11182755)

Gavin is no longer lead developer and hasn't been for years now.

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Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer by crazydoggers on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:13PM (#11183347)

Yes, he is no longer "the lead" developer, but he's still a core contributor, and is Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation, so the point stands.

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Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer by droffel on Friday February 26, 2016 @03:07PM (#11183839)

He is not a Core contributor anymore. He's been effectively frozen out.

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Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer by crazydoggers on Friday February 26, 2016 @06:33PM (#11185108)

I meant lowercase core, not uppercase Core. His most recent contribution is to the "Bitcoin Classic" fork rather than the "Core" fork. He's still a key developer in the Bitcoin community. I wasn't trying to wade into the Bitcoin political issues. It's all "Bitcoin"

Whats relevant to first post is that Bitcoin Foundation is a non profit aimed at bettering the Bitcoin ecosystem, similar to EthDEV, not some corporate owner of Ethereum IP, and they help move forward development of "Bitcoin"

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