Ethereum has no "play" here, it isn't a platform made for token sales (aka "icos"), it's a generalistic platform that happens to have projects that do this sort of token sales.
If I were them, I'd create a regulatory company and take a cut for "Ethereum-approved ICOs."
Btw, Given is the number of Ethereum founders is small, you're probably referring to some of many devs working for the foundation as contractors.
Sorry but ethereum has no use case, nor is technically ethereum's architecture makes distributed computation possible or even is decentralised. There is not one single dapp that is decentralised and working.
Sure there is. ENS, for one example. Plenty of gambling apps for another (I don't find them particularly _compelling_, but they are there and they do work)
Also, it can be used to resolve any resource you want - although you're shifting the goalposts, since that wasn't originally a requirement.
Also this is worse than the current system we have in the world because it wastes more energy in doing so!
It claims it is a decentralised naming system, though looking deeper you will find it is just clever marketing and underneath is it is only ethereum-platform based naming for anything like your address etc. will only work in eth browsers, not all etc. which I have already mentioned in my OP.
The "etc" is important here, because it refers to richer resources such as content hashes. With this, you could load the entire "frontend" for a website from a decentralized datasource, e.g. Swarm. Meanwhile, the backend could be the Ethereum blockchain/smart contract methods.
If the root multisig was deleted, would it be 'decentralised' in your book?
> It claims it is a decentralised naming system, though looking deeper you will find it is just clever marketing and underneath is it is only ethereum-platform based naming for anything like your address etc. will only work in eth browsers, not all etc. which I have already mentioned in my OP.
It doesn't claim to be DNS. DNS is not the only naming system.