Doge nevel claimed to have any real technical advantage. Ethereum essentially does... But heard behavious is a valid arguement, agree... Just dont know if it applies here as people will ask those questions if it is a technical venture.
What technical advantage ? All I'm hearing is the equivalent of Much Turing Many Complete. Can someone explain to me how in hell one would create a DAC/O/X
without a Turing-complete language? I'm having a very hard time imagining a large DAC like bitcoin running on just a single Turing-Complete language.
When I hear people talk about Ethereum, including the previous I3 CEO himself, I get the distinct impression they've only recently learned of the term and have only now discovered the power of programming languages and the sales pitch seems to spin it to make people believe that only Ethereum is capable of using Turing-complete languages. To me it sounds they want to corner the entire alt-coin and bitcoin2.0-market and force everyone to use their single scripting language.
Also some of the BS Hoskinson is spewing in his interviews (especially the almost direct quotes from Steve Ballmer cum suis) makes me believe he either has no previous knowledge of open-source business models or he hates being late to the monopoly pie.
I did not know they were focusing on hardware licenses, if so they are essentially trying to become a patent-troll and this has all the makings of another big monopolistic scam. If that's the case people should be warned about Ethereum and what they are being pulled into, money grubbers will still like it, but I feel bad about trying to abuse peoples idealistic views to scam them out of their money and getting them to fund something that is diametrically opposed to their ideals.
One of the most disgusting refutes to aleviate the fear of Ethereum being a scam, is the BS story of the community being able to "fire the founders/investors" and how that is supposed to be a powerful notion. Yeah right, you try copying and improving Apple or Microsoft's business models and see how long you can compete honestly. This sound like all we want is massive funding, manpower, lawyers and now I hear licenses, but the community is "free" to orchestrate a hard fork. Yeah that really sounds free, especially if there are things on top of the thing needing a hard fork, yeah no problems there, nope, it really sounds like freedom to me.