I couldn't get Parity to load up which is really frustrating. I go to type in the node address and nothing loads, super annoying.
Regardless, I'm going to use myetherwallet unless I can figure out Parity in time. Not going to use a collective-buy smart contract, I'm sure it's legit but I'm not a developer and don't want to use someone's code so am not going to go that route. Planning to throw a fairly significant amount of Ether at this, so good luck to everyone tomorrow who's buying hopefully we can get all in
The tutorials are here if anyone is stuck:
https://contribute.status.im/
Also, just a heads-up. For me (I'm CDN) I'm still in the process of speaking with an informed accountant, but I was told it'll likely be better in the end to do ICO's this way for tax purposes:
Wallet #1 (all my ether)
Wallet #1 x-fer to Wallet #2 (ether I'm going to use to buy in ICOs)
<buy and receive tokens in Wallet #2 and do not cross contaminate them with Wallet #1>
Specifically because if you do it all from Wallet #1, the adjusted tax basis supposably gets messed up. Honestly I took accounting and it didn't really make complete sense to me, so I'm not really sure how that works and he said he will do research on it (he wasn't a cryptocurrency guy and I'm getting someone in the firm to look into it) but all the less I thought I'd share that with anyone else in case they think it may be applicable as well. So something to think about
: Quarantine the ether you plan to trade/buy tokens with from your main stash for (potential/down the road) tax reasons