33 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 1 Apr 2022 \ on: Vitalik Buterin's best work yet: "In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism" bitcoin
This is so interesting ...
There are several things that he says that he has to agree with, that obviously aren't satire. I think @And1 is right that the release on today is likely just to give him plausible deniability for showing support of another asset, which he would get skewered for ... it'd kind of be like Tim Cook admitting he occasionally uses an Android phone.
I personally feel that Vitalik is both thoughtful and well intended (even if I don't agree with everything he ends up being associated with) so this can't all be satire, right?
I recommend reading his other posts too... there are often interesting and solid points that helped me understand some topic.
I especially liked the one on the classes of decentralization ("Trust Models")
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This might be an example of poe’s law and we are all just too “in it”
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Theory: he saw the Terra/Luna buying Bitcoin news and had an existential crisis. The great thing about Ethereum is that it's always got to fight like 100x harder to keep that #2 slot, NFTs have lost their novelty. What's next? More Crowdfunding (ICOs, IEOs, whatever), Privacy, stablecoins? Anyway, better to take the pressure directly off of the already busy af Bitcoin devs. Unpopular opinion: Eth is good for Bitcoin.
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I feel obligated to add that I feel like his incentives (social as well as financial) have the effect of making him hard to distinguish from someone un-well-intended given the results ... even if I think he intends to not do harm.
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