Ask HN: Thoughts on Ethereum?
Has anyone used it or developed an app on it? What are your thoughts on the technology? What about on solidity as a contract language?
Next thing, the DAO hack.
Blockchains have a huge appeal to people who don't understand much about money, software, etc. We got as long as we did without them getting invented because any academic who invented a distributed systems protocol that would not handle an increased workload when you add more nodes would be laughed out of the room.