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Vitalik's audience is primarily people who are deep into blockchains and Ethereum. Plenty of good content is out there for freshman level info, he's more for yo
by kalverra 3y ago
Vitalik's audience is primarily people who are deep into blockchains and Ethereum. Plenty of good content is out there for freshman level info, he's more for your senior year.
- dleeftink 3y agoThat's fair, but I wonder if it isn't precisely the figureheads spearheading these technologies that should communicate most clearly and concisely, especially to reach those 'less in the know'.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoAgreed. For all it's problems, ensuring that researchers are also teachers is something that academia got right.
- idiotsecant 3y agoHe does that all the time, but that's not what the audience of this particular article wants or needs. Technical discussions are ok and are important and assuming a level of competence for those discussions as table stakes to participate is necessary sometimes.
- dleeftink 3y agoOn an open web however, audiences are pluralistic, and even within technical circles there's a fine line between elucidation and obfuscation. As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm okay with jargon, but it can be difficult to get the dosage right.
- kalverra 3y agoHe does do that from time to time. Most of his stuff is pretty deep in the weeds and decision trees of specific Ethereum implementations (e.g. this article), but occasionally he'll have one that's more legible to a wider audience. I think his essay on blockchain voting is a great example. https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/05/25/voting2.html https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/05/25/voting2.html