It would be seriously great if someone could go through all the relevant threads
and gather up some kind of FAQ
and gather up some kind of FAQ
Collect donations and pay me, then I will do it. Or have someone else do it.
Ethereum could hire me to solve their problem perhaps. I wouldn't charge $18 million. 
I take this as a good sign since even if a problem exists, it can be fixed.
The point is after wasting $15 million, Ethereum is no closer to a solution than when they started. And they are moving further in the wrong direction away from any decentralized solution.
(they are moving towards a centralized result and obscuring that it is centralized in technobabble, yet they are also adding so much complexity that I think it might diverge/disintegrate/malfunction as well as being a failure due to being centralized ... and they may not even fully comprehend this which is indicative of the mess... )
And Nick Szabo is discussed in this thread, click "All" then use Ctrl+F on your browser to search for "Szabo".
Read also enet's last post (which he apparently deleted, but he had pointed out that he knows code and there were only 13 issues ever opened on the development of libethereum at Github, which seems to indicate very little actual testing and usage).
Read also my last reply to monsterer regarding the fact that scripting on block chains is inherently insecure and can't be fixed (except maybe with some super complex zk-snarks thing that no one is thinking about).
Read also hv_'s post about PoS and smart contracts.
Etc... (far too much to summarize easily, I would need to be paid to redo all that into a very well organized summary).