IMO Zhou and Mr Seale are pretty awesome. Did the bitcoin consultancy do anything other than get hacked? What did they add to this that was productive?
Thanks.
They did an intensive code review and dig out a Nginx vulnerability that someone notified me earlier but I forgot to address. (This was really my fault! Luckily no one exploited it.)
Patrick is a good guy and I believe in his security expertise. It's just that none of the new team has prior experience with Ruby on Rails.
Donald, however, is a non-technical CEO. The vastly different value judgement (between a technical entrepreneur and a non-technical one) resulted in the mass debate earlier today. He has never communicated with me before the hack, so I'm not sure about his job.
The whole thing is, I didn't realize soon enough that I no longer had any control over Bitcoinica, while everyone still assumed me to be the owner.
Again, I don't blame them for being hacked. If I have done my job better such things wouldn't happen either. In security world any problem is everyone's problem. I was just angry about the "misrepresentation" claims that don't actually mean anything.