[woodandsteel]

You're right, ethereum has not fallen, it has gotten stronger. However, the content of the article does not reflect the title. In fact, your comment just reinforces the point of the article.

This is that trust can never really be fully automated, it is ultimately a human phenomenon. And that is just what happened, the Ethereum community decided, on the basis of the sorts of reasons that human beings normally use, that the whole project and the people running it are trustworthy, and so has charged ahead.