It being by Stephen only lowers the credibility. This is the same guy who wrote up a big slide deck insulting all the cretin, moron programmers in his eyes who

It being by Stephen only lowers the credibility. This is the same guy who wrote up a big slide deck insulting all the cretin, moron programmers in his eyes who aren’t using functional programming, by saying we are in the “bloodletting and leeches” stage of software at this point of history. (And then he took down the slide deck after getting backlash.) Stephen is bombastic in all the worst ways, while insulting and looking down on other engineers. I’m willing to look past Stephen being the author and give the general story of Bitcoin power consumption a fair shake despite it (and a clear-minded assessment suggests it’s a total non-story), but Stephen being the author absolutely does not help with credibility.