No post here for 3 months... I thought may be it is time for an update about how the story is unfolding.
The coding of Ethereum is still going strong. Latest can be observed here:
http://github.com/ethereum As of right now they have released their proof-of-concept "PoC 8".
https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1864/ethereum-poc-8-releasedI, like many other developers, have been learning and experimenting smart contract development on Ethereum "testnets" for many months.
It works.
Will the genesis fail? Will the Ether economics hold? Will a fork of it (say from IBM) succeed better?
Who knows... but clearly Ethereum is already *real*.... and if somehow its first official blockchain fails, then it will be tweak and revived one way or another.