Everyone is 100% allowed to and encouraged to change their mind, but it's no surprise that this is penned by Fred not Brian given Brian's quite firm stance on non-btc digital currencies ~ a year ago. I felt it was out of line at the time, although his comment (which mostly mentioned Ripple and altcoins) has turned out technically to be true, the idea that innovation in digital currencies was "done" and Bitcoin needed to be the focus was pretty crazy.
Ethereum is exciting - my dad, a lawyer who doesn't know you can use the internet at our house, is excited about it. It makes sense how you would use it. I hope it continues up and to the right!
I think people get excited because they see the word contract and they know what that word means. In the case of Ethereum it probably doesn't mean what they think since smart contracts in Ethereum are a programming language.
Ethereum is exciting - my dad, a lawyer who doesn't know you can use the internet at our house, is excited about it. It makes sense how you would use it. I hope it continues up and to the right!