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> Either Vitalik is extremely smart or he just doesn't know what he's talking about. Overall, his opinions are just confusing and distracting like the whole Eth
by jasonzemos 7y ago
> Either Vitalik is extremely smart or he just doesn't know what he's talking about. Overall, his opinions are just confusing and distracting like the whole Ethereum ecosystem.
Vitalik started out years ago with writings consisting entirely of self-citing the Ethereum echo-chamber. Judging by the citations here he's starting to understand the value in the works of the established institutions, tenured university professors, and career cryptographers -- people whom it's obvious in his circles are either loathed as some irrelevant elites or simply, wholly unknown.
Now that Vitalik has spent the last few years actually surveying the last decades of theoretical achievements in the literature, maybe it's time to build a secure distributed world-computer. Oh wait.
- dnprock 7y agoLOL. I can't stop. :) I'm not going down the path of personal attack. Vitalik is smart. He lacks self criticism and focus. I do hope he'll find success.
- Huycfhct 7y agoDepending on your goals. He raises millions with bad ideas. From his perspective he is wildly successful
- jasonzemos 7y agoWhat is he really supposed to represent? Skipping all the hard work, middle-fingering the system, and getting rich quick? That's worth at most 15 minutes of fame, and a long long time ago. Mr. Buterin isn't in jail simply because no government has the slightest fucking idea how to parse this massive exabyte jumble of cryptocoin hodgepodge over the last decade. Meanwhile, thousands of poor souls have been lost in the basements of universities doing real honest-to-god useful work which may never be understood and used by industry, or even see the light of day; they lack this disingenuous excessive hyper-promotion and the means to compete for media attention with our favorite cult heroes like Vitalik.
- The_Founder 7y agohuycfhct is a troll account pushing the, Adam Back invented Bitcoin narrative. There are A LOT of these accounts, Adam is well known for employing these guys like Greg Maxwell to social engineer their narrative into sites like this.
- bdcravens 7y ago> Vitalik started out years ago with writings consisting entirely of self-citing the Ethereum echo-chamber He was involved in crypto prior to Ethereum; he was a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine.
- stobie 7y agoHe is, that's what Ethereum 2.0 is which is being released over the next couple years. He's also worked with academics from outside the crypto space since the beginning.
- Huycfhct 7y agoAlways good to raise millions on a broken idea. Squandering it and then propose a nonsensical 2.0 version to solve all
- epx362 7y agoHow is Ethereum broken? It is working right now as we speak. ETH2 is just an upgrade of the network. Just because you percieve it as nonsensical doesn't mean it is and you provided no facts to back up your claims.
- ppf 7y agoIn what sense is it working? It's currently very expensive to use, almost all functional apps are essentially speculating, and the system is quickly outgrowing commodity hardware.
- The_Founder 7y agohuycfhct is a troll account pushing the, Adam Back invented Bitcoin narrative. There are A LOT of these accounts, Adam is well known for employing these guys like Greg Maxwell to social engineer their narrative into sites like this.