Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency
I am probably in the minority here on HN but I don't completely grok bitcoin (granted I have not put in much effort to understand it). I have asked many of my techie friends and none of them understand it either - I follow the Einstein (?) principle. If you cannot explain it, you probably don't understand it.On top of this, there is now Ethereum and DAO which are also completely incomprehensible to me. But the reason for this comment is that I totally blown away that there are people out there who understand it and are willing to fund this to record levels.The context for this comment is that I ask myself this question about products and startups all the time. Who uses them? Why are they gaining traction and nobody I know even knows about them let alone use them... To conclude, I find all this bitcoin talk very motivational - not everybody needs to understand what you are building. You just need a passionate following of people who do.