Well said, Marcelus.

As long as the people who are buying Ethers are doing so in a spirit of assisting in the launch of what can be a truly revolutionary idea and not just speculating on the price, then that is sufficient justification for the effort.

The advent of BTC makes it easy for funds to flow quickly and in an unimpeded way from many individuals to a common entity.

The $6m or so is really very small in this context compared with what the Ethereum team are setting out to achieve.

Do not forget that they plan to open-source their code so that the crypto-community worldwide will stand to benefit from their work.