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Curious to know what future plans there are with this. The mention of DAOs seem interesting?

It's done by taking the amount of Ether it has already raised * the current price of Ether. See it transparently on the Ethereum blockchain: http://etherscan.io/token/TheDAO

It's all completely transparent on the Ethereum blockchain. No other middlemen holding any funds, except the code. http://etherscan.io/token/TheDAO

How is it a pyramid scheme? Investors pool funds and proportionally vote on what to invest in. There's no requirement to recruit new investors.

Who are the initial investors? There's no privileged position.

I don't understand that. Can you elaborate?

There are several things Ethereum does currently that's better for scaling. 1) It produces blocks every 17 seconds. It can do this without neglecting security, because orphan block…

> Give me any ethereum use-case & I'll tell you how to do it with bitcoin. A dapp reaching into the state of another dapp.

To be honest, we were frustrated that it slipped through. As in exactly as you say: it's sloppy and should've really not let this happen. Completely our fault.

Thanks for the feedback! We appreciate it.

We realise this is a problem and plan to add functionality for both Bitcoin & credit cards in the future.

This was not intentional. We had a very short time to get a prototype out the door & couldn't optimise the best we can.

The name is most likely a reference to Leah McGrath Goodman (who, if you don't know, wrote the piece on Dorian Nakamoto in Newsweek).

One thing I need to clarify (similar with Ripple). If in the future, there are enough trust hops between nodes, then the currency won't even be required, right? Because the currenc…

Fantastic feedback. Thank you so much!

Co-founder here. To add. We also have to look at a future where an artist like Justin Bieber could put up a BTC address on his Twitter profile. Taking a cut means the artist has a …

VRCoin. It's a blockchain that simultaneously doubles as storage for items a decentralized virtual space. You require the coin to store/remove items from the space [namecoin for co…

VRCoin. It's a blockchain that simultaneously doubles as storage for items a decentralized virtual space. You require the coin to store/remove items from the space [namecoin for co…

Yep. http://twimemachine.com . Easily read old tweets. 700k Twitter users have used it. 31k uniques/month. Used by Paulo Coelho, NBA & ESPN. Stats here: http://simondlr.com/post/63…

Please tell me he is going to work on VR coding! This can't come soon enough. Multiple screens (more than the usual 2), more visualizations. Epic.