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Not at all.

When I discovered ethereum a couple of years ago I thought it was a good idea. Partly because I was turning similar ideas in my head at the time.

But what I read now sounds like amateurs designed & implemented it. Sorry.

And if masters had invented it, no one would be using it.

Sure, ephemerum works in the same manner as Windows 98, Adobe Flash and sendmail.

So hugely popular beyond anything you or anyone you know has ever made?

Sure, Herbalife is also more popular than most things that diligent and intelligent persons have made.

Honestly, I was in awe by r/bitcoin's reaction to this whole DAO debacle. I thought that the whole Mt Gox "incident" has taught them some empathy to people losing money but I was very wrong.

Empathy? Bitcoiners? A large chunk of them are anarcho-capitalists who measure a person's right to survive by how much money they can make, and most of the rest are in it to make themselves rich. There's a fair few who are mostly in it just because it's cool tech, but they avoid Bitcoin forums now due to the former two groups.

Note that this covers most other cryptocurrencies as well.