> It's nice that Vitalik Buterin is a genius, but it shows that this guy is only 22 and dropped out of university because anyone with a degree in computer science knows about this stuff
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Hi Dang, my apologies, I can no longer edit the comment, please feel free to snip that paragraph out.
I guess I felt the need to accuse someone as I felt frustrated. News like this really smears not only cryptocurrencies but software engineering in general. A single typo cost these people $50M is what they claim, but the reality is that the whole system was recklessly engineered. I guess I'm also saddened that so much money was put behind something that was so clearly recklessly engineered.
Would it been a crazy idea just to invest a million or two of the $250M to pay a Formal Methods team at any university in the world to give the language a quick do-over?
FWIW I didn't interpret this as a personal attack, but as a critical contribution to this discussion: We can't have financial software built by 22-year old dropouts. A new social network? Sure. A game? Sure. A todo list app? Sure. Financial software? No.
If it was phrased as "person XYZ is an asshole!" then I would agree that it's a personal attack.
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