Ethereum struck me as having been designed by somebody who didn't really know quite what they wanted it for. Finance not being my thing either, I didn't think o

Ethereum struck me as having been designed by somebody who didn't really know quite what they wanted it for. Finance not being my thing either, I didn't think of the HP-12C. That might not be too damning an accusation. This is ver 1; it's a platform, not an app; nobody quite knows what the outcome will be anyway; and the terminology, while suggestive, is not prescriptive. However the lack of any kind of inbuilt datatype for managing an amount of money still did strike me as an odd omission... (Maybe that would be too limiting? But I didn't like the way you had to send money and adjust balance(s) as separate operations. And, yes, of course, this was the cause of The DAO hack - but I don't want to sound too prescient here. It seemed to me an annoyance, no more.)