Welcome to the New BeginningWhen the grand experiment that is bitcoin began, the anonymous wizard desired to test two parameters- a trustless, decentralized database enjoying security enforced by the austere relentlessness of cryptography and a robust transaction system capable of sending value across the world without intermediaries. Yet the past five years years have painfully demonstrated a third missing feature: a sufficiently powerful Turing-complete scripting language. Up until this point, most innovation in advanced applications such as domain and identity registration, user-issued currencies, smart property, smart contracts, and decentralized exchange has been highly fragmented, and implementing any of these technologies has required creating an entire meta-protocol layer or even a specialized blockchain. Theoretically, however, each and every one of these innovations and more can potentially be made hundreds of times easier to implement, and easier to scale, if only there was a stronger foundational layer with a powerful scripting language for all of these protocols to build upon. And this need is what we seek to satisfy.
Ethereum is a modular, Turing-complete contract scripting system married to a blockchain and developed with a philosophy of simplicity, universality and non-discrimination. Our goal is to provide a platform for decentralized applications - an android of the cryptocurrency world, where all efforts can share a common set of APIs, trustless interactions and no compromises. We ask for the community to join us as volunteers, developers, investors and evangelists seeking to enable a fundamentally different paradigm for the internet and the relationships it provides.
Who is Behind Ethereum?Our fiduciary team contains 4 members:
- Vitalik Buterin → Inventor of Ethereum, Partner at KryptoKit and Cofounder of Bitcoin Magazine
- Anthony Di Iorio → Founder and Executive Director of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada, Bitcoin Decentral, KryptoKit
- Charles Hoskinson → Former CEO of Invictus Innovations and Director of the Bitcoin Education Project
- Mihai Alisie → Founder of Bitcoin Magazine and Egora
We also enjoy a deep bench of developers, marketers, entrepreneurs, evangelists and partners including:
- Dr. Gavin Wood: Core C++ Developer
- Geff Obscura: Core Go Developer
- Dr. Emanuele Costa: Quantitative Analyst; SCRUM Master
- Joseph Lubin: Software Engineering, Quantitative Analyst
- Eric Lombrozo: Software Architect
- Max Kaye: Developer
- Jonathan Mohan: Media, Marketing and Evangelism (BitcoinNYC)
- Wendell Davis: Strategic Partner and Branding (Hive Wallet)
- Anthony Donofrio: Logos, branding, Web Development (Hive Wallet)
- Taylor Gerring: Web Development
- Paul Snow: Language Development, Software Development
- Chris Odom: Strategic Partner, Developer (Open Transactions)
- Jerry Liu and Bin Lu: Chinese strategy and translations (http://www.8btc.com/ethereum)
- Hai Nguyen: Accounting
- Amir Shetrit: Business Development (Colored Coins)
- Steve Dakh: Developer (KryptoKit)
- Kyle Kurbegovich: Media (Cointalk)
We will switch our PoW from Dagger to a hybrid PoW/PoS system to be developed via a bountied competition conducted by our university partners and open to the general community for participation. The terms will be announced in late february including judges, specifications and the university partners.
We have partnered with Hive and Kryptokit to assist us in conducting the fundraiser and at time of launch there will be four options to participate in the exodus swap: Kryptokit, Hive, a dedicated python client and directly through the fundraiser website. We will have the testnet operational on Februrary 1st, 2014 at
http://fund.ethereum.org. We will also post videos on our official youtube channel explaining how one can use each of the methods.
We recommend all those who participate in the fundraiser provide an active email address to receive a cryptographically signed receipt from the exodus address of their swap as a secondary proof of stake in Ethereums blockchain. The primary proof of stake will be transactions stored by the bitcoin blockchain. You will also be enrolled in our monthly newsletter to help you stay informed about the project and major events.
The Next Step: Some LinksWelcome to the Ethereum Ecosystem:
Contact Us:
General Queries
info@ethereum.orgMedia Inquiries
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I have the Windows Ethereum v0.0.1 Client up and running....
Currently no GUI and mining ism't possible....
Will be checking for updates regurarily....
