Vitalik is not clever at all, he's a naive kid. He's just being exploited by a group of ruthless bankers who get to pump a wunder-kid 'back-story', while painting a $1.5 billion target on Vitalik's head ... and they can disappear when it collapses and Vitalik get's left dealing with the fallout, if he survives that long.
Exactamente!!!
We can't really know the exact details, but the above description is the gist of the ETH manipulation situation, and those bank and govt fucks will manipulate the ETH/Vitalik fall guy situation for as long as they can get away with such shenanigans to make money and to attempt to denigrate bitcoin with these stupid ass, implausible DAO etc etc stories... before it becomes apparent to everyone that the whole thing is as made up as star trek.. then at some point thereafter switch the story to attempt to break up the chaos.. ... but this manipulation is not all negative because there are ways that bitcoin and other cryptos can learn from this and no doubt that there continues to be some interesting ETH innovations that can be considered in the present and in the future.
lol you peeps sound like the guys that told me so much crap about btc in first few yrs, but actually u never knew or learnt anything because you were stuck in your old ways and assumed btc was a scam/ponzi