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I call your DLOL and take you further down the Flemish Rabbit Hole.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=229315.msg2412906#msg2412906After reviewing the comments, thread and discussing the notion of a p2p exchange with many in this community alongside the recent events with Liberty Reserve and MtGox, it is clear a P2P exchange needs to be developed to ensure the long term survival of all cryptocurrencies. There seems to be a great deal of innovation and different approaches to building a P2P exchange thus I think it is prudent to aggregate those actively working on an exchange into a single project for the purposes of collaborative innovation, funding, brainstorming and also reducing needless replication.
I call this Project Invictus. Over the coming weeks, I'll develop a website and forum for it as well as a mailing list. Until then, I'd love for anyone interested in joining to express their desire here and PM me their contact information. I'm also open to ideas about how the project should be structured and the specific set of goals we should have. Here is my crude first attempt:
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A screenshot of that post reveals the author to be a bitcointalk hero member called charleshoskinson. He claims to be Director of the Bitcoin Education Project.

His profile at the link below shows he was active a few days ago, and that he has stated his age is 27 and his location is Boulder, Colorado..
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=102392He also says he founded the ethereum project with vitalik buterin, and created bitshares with dan larimer.
I founded the ethereum project with vitalik buterin and was it's ceo for some time. Also created bitshares with dan larimer. prior to that I was a theoretical mathematician studying analytic number theory and some topics in cryptography.