... exactly.

An attempt to create the "Matrix" but leave the really thorny questions of the crypto-world unresolved - the blockchain size infinity and txn fees derived out of fanciful anti-economics.

Literally the most ridiculous thing I've read on Bitcointalk. Trying to force your own will onto others is exactly what you did with that statement. Are we not free to choose?

                                                                After 1 year        After 5 years
Currency units                                           1.9X                        3.5X
Fundraiser participants                                   52.6%                28.6%
Fiduciary members and early contributors           11.8%                6.42%
Additional pre-launch allocations                   2.63%                1.42%
Reserve                                                   11.8%                6.42%
Miners                                                   21.1%                57.1%

So... who's going to want to mine this?
How is fiduciary members at 11.8%? It says in the first post you will take X from the fundraiser and multiply by .5 for the fiduciary members premine, or does that include the reserve and "pre-launch allocations"?
The amounts seem quite... lavish <- doesn't quite fit, maybe gluttonously greedy.

Hi All,

Bit of a newbie here and I'm not inclined to post much but I really wanted to chip in with my 2 cents worth. Unfortunately that will be all I will be chipping in.

I cannot overstate how disappointed I have been with this launch. I had heard great things about the team and the idea behind this project and after reading the white paper I've been really excited about the IPO and what Ethereum is planning to offer.

I had planned to invest on day 1.

I have read this entire thread from beginning to end and obviously, lots of questions, criticisms and concerns have been raised here. Some of them legitimate and some of them I'm sure not so. I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the devs and have been looking forward to hearing their rebuttal of the criticism.

I think it is absolutely unforgivable that not one member of the (large) team has been on here to offer any sort of answers to the many questions of potential investors who have legitimate concerns over the use of their hard earned. It is three days before the launch and I would have thought that they would be doing everything in their power to be putting people at their ease. I realise that they may have been busy over the weekend but there is simply no excuse for not getting on here and answering some questions. IMHO it smacks of arrogance.

Despite this I have not lost all interest in the project and will be following the launch closely. I for one however, will not be putting one mBTC on the line before getting some serious answers.

If anyone from the team actually reads this then please put us straight... Some serious PR needed now methinks...

Cheers mate. This was my favourite quote from the white paper:

"the idea behind birthday-based proofs of work is simple: find values xn,i,j such that i < k, j < k and |H(data+xn+i) - H(data+xn+j)| < 2^256 d^2."

Unfortunately this is about as simple as investing in Ethereum has become. 

Economy works another way.

Too many red flags for me, dont want to be fanboy to any coin and investing to this IPO seems to require that. Few days to IPO and only ones here clarifying things to potential investors are other potential investors which is ridiculous and even they seem skeptical minus few fanboys of course. I dont mean to insult anyone but i dont know what else to call people who think doing IPO like this is just great and see no problems in the way this has been handled.

Given the lack of member participation on this thread it's apparent that they do not believe they need the broader community to support this.  While the potential for the science is amazing - I don't have much trust in the leadership here.
Nor do I plan on mining, which is what I do.  Makes no financial sense at this point with an ever increasing inventory of coins.

Looks like a lot of people are going to invest their Ethereums into Dollars, because the inflation seems a bit better there.