[martindelemotte]

It is probably a mistake to summarise the ethereum project as a cryptocurrency, it aims to be a lot more than that. That said, the problem with this kind of fundraising is that an important part of the "investors" are not apt to judge the technical merits of the project as a distributed app plateform. I cannot either so I wont be investing, but I would enjoy some technical input on the matter. Autonomous corporations could be a world-changing innovation, possibly as important as the cryptocurrency concept itself.

As for the non-technical aspects of the project it seems to me that the ethereum team has tried to make the fundraising fair and non-speculative. There is a great amount of fear from people who have vested interest in some alternative cryptocurrencies in this thread. It is a shame that we cannot have rational discussions as it usually the case on HN. Greed is not always good.