Another strong indicator: "Bo Shen cofounded Invictus Innovations Incorporated, the team behind BitShares."
Also Dan posted this about a year ago:
Let me take a moment to share my credentials on the subject of DAOs. The first two words of DAO, Decentralized Autonomous, entered the crypto-currency lexicon after a discussion between my father and I back in 2013. I introduced the concept that a blockchain can be viewed as a DAC. It was because of these articles that Vitalik Buterin, one of the founders of The DAO, started exploring the concepts in a three part series .
https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@dan/is-the-dao-going-to-be-doa
Vitalik in Bitcoin magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-i-1379644274/
Thank you for your inputs !
I got some more information on the ecosystem thanks to you !
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