Also, in the youtube video you provided of Gavin's presentation, the question/answer part of the presentation which happened after his speech was cut out from this version. When I watched this some time ago, I found the Q and A part to be the most interesting and informative part of the speech. Do you have a link to the FULL version, unedited?
It's still very much up at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSMbBsdE45UI'll trace back your questions. I find it very difficult to deal with this thread between the 'satanic vitalik' comments and the 'scam' libel. It's not exactly super motivating to wake up to this, which I guess, is the whole point of trolling.
To be fair you're much better off jumping our forums at this point,
http://forum.ethereum.org.