Haha, “Vitalik’s project immediately before Ethereum is that he was collecting investments from people to fund building a computer program to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time, supposedly by simulating a quantum computer."
"solid track record" meaning cloning bitcoin and giving yourself and friends a bunch of free tokens worth $7,764,000,000:
"12 Million Ether were created to the development fund, most of it going to early contributors and developers"
Can you name one thing he built/invented that does anything? Beyond collecting bitcoin.
The concept of memory-hardness is not really novel either, see: bcrypt/scrypt.
You've got everything that looks essential to me: add/sub, mul/div, logical and/or, bitwise, string, crypto, etc.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script#Opcodes
No disagreement that the Bitcoin development process is broken as fuck though.