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He writes: "It was because of these articles that Vitalik Buterin, one of the founders of The DAO, started exploring the concepts in a three part series."

Vitalik is in no way a founder of The DAO. He's a "curator" which only means he can whitelist wallet addresses that can receive funds. He had no hand in it's creation or in the white paper that inspired it.

Getting such a basic fact wrong makes me doubt his understanding in general.

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I wouldn't be so quick to judge. Most of this Ethereum stuff even confuses me half the time and I've been following BTC closely for a long time now. I'm not surprised the journo mixed up him being a co-founder of Ethereum, which underpins the tech behind DAO, and being a co-founder of The DAO.

Off-topic: This type of nerd superiority complex comes up in every article written for a non-technical audience on a tech subject. Can't we ever just point out the error and move on, without turning it into an attack? It'd do a lot to improve the civility around here.

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