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The ethereum foundation was given a sizeable endowment of ether currency to help advance development, as part of the launch. It will take 3-4 days before we'll have any idea of the market price of ether, and I won't speculate, but this will be a critical data point to answer your question.

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Thanks!

My gut feeling is that the technology is sound, but it remains to be seen whether or not enough of a community grows to sustain things like the headcount behind the glitzy PR campaign.

I wish the Ethereum team great success in this endeavor; if nothing else it is uncharted territory!

We really do hope that there will be mass adoption, and that we can continue to build out Metropolis (a web-browser that extends the security of the block chain right the way through rich user apps) and Serenity (parallel supercomputer performance from blockchains.)

But only the people can decide.

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