Fred Ehrsam on Ethereum

Ethereum was the first thing to me to come along [after Bitcoin] and create something with capabilities so new that it was worth adding [to Coinbase]. Allowing arbitrary programs is amazing, fiddling with block time/inflation rate is not.

[T]he future is thousands/millions of cryptoassets like we have millions of apps and websites but very few base networks. This mostly looks like assets being built on top of Ethereum at the moment.

Enter Ethereum. Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full-fledged computer. We now stand only nine months out from the beginning of the Ethereum network, and the level of app development is already faster than Bitcoin’s.