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Vitalik's role is dependent on consensus of most of the community - he's not a dictator. He won ETH vs. ETC because the majority of the community thought he was
by fossuser 5y ago
Vitalik's role is dependent on consensus of most of the community - he's not a dictator. He won ETH vs. ETC because the majority of the community thought he was right.
If that changes then he'll lose his influence (imo), but from listening to him I think he's a pretty earnest guy and I've been impressed [0].
[0]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intellectual-honesty-cryptocurrency-more-vitalik-buterin/id351953012?i=1000511637460 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intellectual-honesty-c...
- xiphias2 5y agoDoes he have the will power and training to go against CIA, NSA, the Chinese government and Putin when they want to add a form of KYC (or crypto primitives that NSA provide to him)? To tell you the truth, I can't keep up with zero knowledge cryptography that ETH uses / intends to use, and Ethereum implementations are usually buggy. I can understand Schnorr signatures and Taproot, but even the Musig/Musig2 multi-signature aggregation schemes are too hard for me, so I won't use them for significant amount of money. Bitcoin codebase is still readable, even though it's getting somewhat more complex over time.