Necessary discover: any data from this submit relating to the ether sale is extremely outdated and possibly inaccurate. Please solely seek the advice of the most recent weblog posts and official supplies at ethereum.org for data on the sale
Ethereum acquired an unimaginable response on the Miami Bitcoin Convention. We traveled there anticipating many technical questions in addition to a philosophical dialogue in regards to the function of Ethereum; nonetheless, the overwhelming quantity of curiosity and enthusiasm for the challenge was a lot bigger than we had anticipated. Vitalik’s presentation was met with each a standing ovation and a query queue that took hours to handle.
As a result of we intend on offering an equal alternative to all those that wish to be concerned, and are reviewing the related logistical and regulatory points for a token sale of this scale, we have now determined to postpone the Feb 1 launch of the sale. We’ll make the announcement of the brand new sale launch date on our official web site: Ethereum.org.
The Ethereum challenge can also be excited to announce the alpha launch of the open supply testnet shopper to the group at first of February. This may give individuals a possibility to become involved with the challenge and experiment with Ethereum scripts and contracts, and acquire a greater understanding of the technical properties of the Ethereum platform. Launching the testnet at this date will give these within the fundraiser an opportunity to raised perceive what the Ethereum challenge is about earlier than taking part.
The testnet will embrace full assist for sending and receiving transactions, the preliminary model of the scripting language as described in our whitepaper, and will or could not embrace mining. This may even be the primary main cryptocurrency challenge to have two official shoppers launched on the similar time, with one written in C++ and the opposite in Go; a Python shopper can also be within the works. A compiler from the Ethereum CLL to Ethereum script might be launched very quickly.
A notice on safety
The ether sale will NOT be launching on February 1st and any try to gather funds right now needs to be thought-about a rip-off. There have been some scams within the boards thus please use warning and solely take into account data posted on Ethereum.org to be legit. It is very important reinforce to all that solely data launched and posted at Ethereum.org needs to be trusted as many are more likely to impersonate us.
