The journalist is a former lawyer and Wall Street banker[0]:
> [Levine] has worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He spent a year clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and taught high school Latin. Levine has a bachelor's degree in classics from Harvard University and a law degree from Yale Law School. He lives in New York.
If you want to understand finance and law from the perspective of an expert in both who also takes an interest in tech, I would highly recommend going back and reading his articles[1]. He's a very prolific writer on Bloomberg View and has previously written several articles on Bitcoin, Ethereum, the blockchain, and related topics[2,3,4].
"eviscerated" seems a bit too strong, when two non-experts are arguing on the internet regarding any topic.