David Gerard presents himself differently in his book than how he acts in real life. In the words of Brendan Eich, David is a "real piece of work". For the rec

David Gerard presents himself differently in his book than how he acts in real life. In the words of Brendan Eich, David is a "real piece of work". For the record, we are taking about the guy who created the Bitcoin article on RationalWiki back in 2011. PROOF: https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin&oldid=819359 https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin&oldid=819... He's also an admin on Wikipedia and claims to be a "subject matter expert" on cryptocurrency which he uses to get around his obvious conflict of interest. Here's what he had to say about Ethereum: >I believe Ethereum's codebase is based on the Bitcoin codebase (though I don't have a cite), so it's a fork of that (as most altcoins are). Hypothetically you could do blockchain software that wasn't, but that's not relevant here. The actual blockchain generated from this is separate - David Gerard (talk) 12:10, 19 March 2016 (UTC) Yeah, a real subject matter expert who can't be bothered to do two minutes of research. Stay away from this clown.