Let's paint a picture:

On Nov 17th, Ethereum's William Mougayar said 20-plus banks are testing on Ethereum (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ethereums-william-mougayar-20-plus-banks-testing-blockchains-outside-consortium-model-1529080)

Just now (Nov 19th), Mike Hearn of R3 (25 bank blockchain consortium) said on /r/bitcoin that R3 is looking at using Ethereum and NOT Bitcoin! Specifically, he said:

• "It'd be a conflict of interest if there was any chance of banks adopting Bitcoin for the use cases they're looking at, things like moving fiat currencies around, managing post trade lifecycles, etc. But there is no such chance. The use cases they are looking at and requirements they have cannot be met with the Bitcoin protocol, it just doesn't have the things they need. They are actually spending a lot more time looking at Ethereum than Bitcoin, as it's more obvious how to apply it to their use cases.  But even if Bitcoin had all the features banks needed for what they want to do, their volumes are such that they wouldn't fit on a crippled 1mb-only block chain. Bitcoin can barely handle its existing user base without running out of capacity. Dropping existing inter-bank transactions onto it would simply not work."

When someone asked Mike Hearn to elaborate specifically on his statement that "They are actually spending a lot more time looking at Ethereum than Bitcoin," his response was:

• "This stuff isn't really a secret: https://twitter.com/annairrera/status/639065607338598400/photo/1
  
  As an example, try sketching out how to model a bond lifecycle with Bitcoin. I tried it in 2012 for the videod talk I gave in London. It requires absurd acrobatics for even a very simplified sort of bond and when you get into the real thing, forget it.  They are interested in Ethereum due to its more powerful scripting language (and, I suspect, its better reputation, as Ethereum has not yet been sullied by people using it for trading illegal things)."

     (Link to reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3tftas/mike_hearn_now_working_for_r3cv_blockchain/)

Conclusions:  
   1.  R3 / big banks are overlooking Bitcoin and instead opting for Ethereum.  
   2.  Ethereum + R3 partnership all but confirmed[?]
   3.  Buy more ETH

The GUI wallet called Mist is currently in beta stage. You have to be careful storing large amounts of Ether there now that the software it is beta. In the meantime, you can use the command line wallet called geth to store all your Ether as this is the one that it is being used right now because it is stable. Hope this helps.  

P.S. You could also make a ETH paper wallet  

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Let's paint a picture:

On Nov 17th, Ethereum's William Mougayar said 20-plus banks are testing on Ethereum (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ethereums-william-mougayar-20-plus-banks-testing-blockchains-outside-consortium-model-1529080)

Just now (Nov 19th), Mike Hearn of R3 (25 bank blockchain consortium) said on /r/bitcoin that R3 is looking at using Ethereum and NOT Bitcoin! Specifically, he said:

• "It'd be a conflict of interest if there was any chance of banks adopting Bitcoin for the use cases they're looking at, things like moving fiat currencies around, managing post trade lifecycles, etc. But there is no such chance. The use cases they are looking at and requirements they have cannot be met with the Bitcoin protocol, it just doesn't have the things they need. They are actually spending a lot more time looking at Ethereum than Bitcoin, as it's more obvious how to apply it to their use cases.  But even if Bitcoin had all the features banks needed for what they want to do, their volumes are such that they wouldn't fit on a crippled 1mb-only block chain. Bitcoin can barely handle its existing user base without running out of capacity. Dropping existing inter-bank transactions onto it would simply not work."

When someone asked Mike Hearn to elaborate specifically on his statement that "They are actually spending a lot more time looking at Ethereum than Bitcoin," his response was:

• "This stuff isn't really a secret: https://twitter.com/annairrera/status/639065607338598400/photo/1
  
  As an example, try sketching out how to model a bond lifecycle with Bitcoin. I tried it in 2012 for the videod talk I gave in London. It requires absurd acrobatics for even a very simplified sort of bond and when you get into the real thing, forget it.  They are interested in Ethereum due to its more powerful scripting language (and, I suspect, its better reputation, as Ethereum has not yet been sullied by people using it for trading illegal things)."

     (Link to reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3tftas/mike_hearn_now_working_for_r3cv_blockchain/)

Conclusions:  
   1.  R3 / big banks are overlooking Bitcoin and instead opting for Ethereum.  
   2.  Ethereum + R3 partnership all but confirmed[?]
   3.  Buy more ETH

Notice that nowhere in the CoinTelegraph article is there mentioned a 'partnership' between Ethereum and Blocknet. In fact, the article explicitly says that this is not a partnership in its current state. Also notice that George Hallam contributed to the content of the article as per the above quote from the CoinTelegraph article. There's nothing 'alleged' about this. It's happening.

Been following this project for awhile now.Exciting innovation indeed. 

From Synechist:

"Dan Metcalf (@atcsecure) will be hosting a Q&A here in Slack on Tuesday at 4pm GMT.
(That's 11am EST, May 12th)
Expect news and general excitement!"

Anyone interested in taking part in tomorrow's Q&A and seeing what all the "buzz" is about, join our Slack!: https://blocknet.herokuapp.com/

Dan is the official Boston point of contact for the Ethereum project?  

Wow... that is f'ing legit!  

I'll be watching!

Courtesy of myself (the user, not me)

Yup. But not soon. There are other layers that would need to come first.

The latest decentralised exchange code has been pushed to Github!


Alpha stage. Testing only. No order book yet.

https://github.com/atcsecure/xhub



Retweet this: https://twitter.com/The_Blocknet/status/588387622260645888

The dev of darkcoin is an instaminer and then a magician. I don't know how people are still buying that pump and dump scam.
I will never buy that coin even if someone tell me that I can win millions. In the long term, darkcoin have no future because it's based on a lie. How people can continue to trust this dishonest developer?

LOL hows holding my shadow cash bags? I dumped THOUSANDS at 40k 36k and 29k... you all will never see that again
Edit: BTW the guardian recommends our anonymity http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/tips-tricks-anonymous-privacy

Yes, I find this fascinating. Even if something could show a vulnerability, with the Darkcoin dev being here and working on it constantly, any vulnerabilities can turn into strengths, when things get fixed (if they need fixing).