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.
And
why do you ask, do investors love this "clarity" concept that the bitcoin community cannot seem to grasp?
Why does Wall St demand quarterly reports from
every company CEO?
Well, in the words of the worlds richest coward, "if you don't understand by now, then ur obviously too stoopid"
You will not receive a dime of Wall Street money without a company CEO.
but for those admittedly too stupid who still ask why, here's the only answer:
TRUST
You should be able to evaluate a cryptosystem on its properties alone and determine if the system delivers what it states or not without having to trust that any parties are acting in good or bad faith--this type of evaluation assumes that all parties are acting in bad faith and attempts to keep the outcome within a statistical model of acceptable and unacceptable risk. In short: