@Rune, Just out of curiosity, why have you moved your efforts to Ethereum?
He gets bored quickly and has big ideas. If Ethereum takes an eternity, we may see him back here again.
Pretty much. Also Ethereum is so easy to develop on that even I can do it, which is wonderful for someone who has never tried coding or developing apps ever before.
Regarding ethereum ever coming out, if anyone here has money stuck in the presale, i can confirm that its finally coming very soon, probably like a week. There is evidence that more than 20 exchanges are looking into integrating it, but I dont necessarily believe in the long term value of ether since fees can be paid in any currency on ethereum, including dai, so ether has no inherent value beyond the numismatic (which could still turn out to be significant).
I still hold bts btw, and im waiting for 2.0 hoping itll be good so i still visit this forum often.
The main problem I see with ethereum now in having taken more time to learn about it over the past week, is that unless there is something integrated to protect development code, people will quickly learn that there is no point in developing on ethereum (outside of the fact that it is easy and you just love coding) because few will pay the smart contract fees when they can fork the project and run it for free and then the developer totally loses out. I'm not sure how many developers will be able to find a "centralized niche" worthy of paying the smart contract fees on top of the ether gas....such is the new decentralized world we are creating.
Decentralization also means the survival of the project can be sustained without a centralized party , which we're clearly lack of right now .
In fact , almost all of the unfinished 2.0 projects , BitShares , Eth , are not really decentralized enough if we want to use bitcoin as an example .
A project can not really be called decentralized if the survival of the projects lies in couple of people , and if those people go look for jobs the projects would be dead in the water , which is what we've been told many times .I started to convert part of my BTS holding to Bitcoin after threats like this happened the third time , which is a magical number in my mind . I think it is fears like this makes major investment in crypto also goes back to Bitcoin for long term holding , and invest in alt-coins as a venture investment .
(I remembered some people imagined 2.0 projects would take over bitcoin by the end of 2015 in the past year , but clearly , it's not going to happen . )
I would throw the word "decentralized" around maybe one year later , but not now .
It's nothing new though , in the stock market , there are always magical stocks like BTS ,Eth which has great potential , but the biggest market cap lies in those stocks with zero imagination just because people know ----- It's steady and big ....