I definitely don't think Vitalik is a scammer, but I find it not-so-ethical to take large amounts of money off the table before you've created value. Vitalik's

I definitely don't think Vitalik is a scammer, but I find it not-so-ethical to take large amounts of money off the table before you've created value. Vitalik's wealth comes from hype, not from value in the world. He's not centrally responsible for generating the hype, and he's even spoken against it, but then he takes a ton of hype money off the table...