[erikpukinskis]

Web site is totally useless.

Testnet instructions are here: http://doc.tzalpha.net/introduction/alphanet.html

Best I can tell: smart contracts like Ethereum, except the protocol has means for amending the protocol itself? So, meta-Ethereum?

This article (Linda Xie) is pretty good: https://medium.com/@linda.xie/a-beginners-guide-to-tezos-c96...

Apparently they also already have proof of stake?

[ethbro]

Thank god. Because the one thing Ethereum was missing was more complexity.

[dr_teh]

At least it uses OCAML and functional code instead of the EVM, for which even the Eth founders themselves can't write secure code.

[wycs]

And a much better language. Though it is hard to do worse than solidity. The consensus algorithm is pretty terrible though, but subject to amendment I suppose.