Ethereum Cloning: Ethereum Comments, Counterparty Responds
In reply to yesterday's announcement of Ethereum cloning by Counterparty, Ethereum's co-founder Joseph Lubin commented on a Reddit discussion. He said: "Ethereum will ultimately (March 2015 release scheduled) be more general, elegant and powerful. Ethereum, when released, will be 100% feature-free. Instead of providing a handful of hard-coded features, Ethereum is a decentralized application programming, deployment and utilization platform which will enable developers to build any 'features' they can conceive of." Lubin quoted Ethereum CCO, Stephan Tual, who said: "It went from 'ethereum....
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