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Launch · Jul 22, 2014
Ether crowdsale
The Ethereum presale opens and later raises about 31,000 BTC.
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Ethereum's public crowdsale opened on July 22, 2014 and ran for 42 days. Buyers paid in bitcoin and received ether at about 2,000 ETH per BTC early on. It raised roughly 31,500 BTC, then worth around 18 million dollars, to fund development through the Ethereum Foundation.
Ether was not yet trading, so there is no market price for this date.
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