Essential discover: any info from this publish relating to the ether sale is very outdated and possibly inaccurate. Please solely seek the advice of the newest weblog posts and official supplies at ethereum.org for info on the sale
Ethereum acquired an unbelievable 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; nevertheless, 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 deal with.
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 now have 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 be excited to announce the alpha launch of the open supply testnet consumer to the neighborhood at the start of February. This may give folks a chance to get entangled with the challenge and experiment with Ethereum scripts and contracts, and achieve 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 help for sending and receiving transactions, the preliminary model of the scripting language as described in our whitepaper, and will or might 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 consumer can be within the works. A compiler from the Ethereum CLL to Ethereum script will likely 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 ought to be thought of a rip-off. There have been some scams within the boards thus please use warning and solely take into account info posted on Ethereum.org to be professional. You will need to reinforce to all that solely info launched and posted at Ethereum.org ought to be trusted as many are prone to impersonate us.