[eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7]

> It’s odd to accuse the Ethereum Foundation of not delivering and it would be hard to back that claim.

It's actually quite easy: I opened the websites of all the 24 wallets they list and checked the imprint of each. None says it was developed by the foundation.

> Developing yet another Ethereum wallet when there are so many on the market would be a waste.

> It’s better for the foundation to provide a list of high quality wallets that already exist.

What would you think of me if I raised $18M to build a non-profit children's hospital and then used it to instead build a website which lists children's hospitals which were built by other people, most of which being for-profit companies, some even proclaiming themselves as registered in shady tax-haven countries, and most not even clearly showing where their company is registered?

[Sargos]

The Ethereum Foundation's purpose is to fund and coordinate the building of the protocol and infrastructure surrounding it. That does include funding of wallet developers which it has done in the past but it's better for the ecosystem and decentralization if there are lots of high quality wallets instead of one default wallet everyone uses.

[brian_cloutier]

A better analogy would be, it's a fully-functioning hospital but they don't provide their own shuttle service, you have to arrange transportation to the hospital yourself.

[DennisP]

They delivered ETH1 on July 30 2015, with several clients including Geth which is still popular today. That covered their promise to presale investors. They also made the Mist wallet/GUI, which was ultimately abandoned because competitors were better.

Now they've delivered the first part of ETH2 today.