is Vitalik an order of magnitude smarter than Satoshi?
no, but his balls are an order of magnitude bigger
when you are thinking about dropping a million dollars of your hard earned cash into a crypto community, knowing that the lead developer has the huevos to show himself in public and stand behind his creation instead of hiding like a coward or criminal offers the potential investor a certain level of clarity that is devilishly absent from the bitcoin community.
I suppose that also makes Mark Twain a coward and like a criminal then.