On February 19th, according to Vitalik Buterin's response, the claim that he holds 3/5 of the seats on the board of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) is not accurate. He clarified that since 2017, he only has one seat on the three-person board. The response was in response to Ameen Soleimani's discussion on social media that Vitalik's role in the Ethereum ecosystem is closer to "king" or "prophet", with a majority of voters believing that he prefers the latter.
On February 14th, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, published the latest article "Reasons why the L1 gas limit needs to be raised even in the L2-dominated Ethereum". The article states that an important recent discussion in the Ethereum roadmap is the question of how to increase the L1 gas cap. Recently, the L1 gas cap was increased from 30 million to 36 million, with a 20% increase in capacity. Many support further significant increases in the near future...
On February 13, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, said in a social media post that the Railgun privacy pool mechanism allows Railgun to avoid processing criminal proceeds without any monitoring or backdoors. The operation is as follows: Anyone can make a deposit with Railgun. After making a deposit, there will be a 1-hour testing period, during which each...
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, wrote that he felt uncomfortable when crypto tweets and venture capital firms believed that "PvP-style gaming projects that make most users lose money" were the best form of product in the crypto space, and the pursuit of better products was accused of "condescending and elitism". Although these remarks sometimes make him back down, whenever this happens, he can take a cue from the world and remind himself that he is fighting for something of value.
On February 6, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, wrote in X that the values of the 2013 era were correct, including support for free speech, entrepreneurship and innovation, opposition to monopoly and supplier lock-in, support for democratic institutions, opposition to greed, and opposition to national security through oppression. In response to the suspicion that democratic institutions can lead to populism, Vitalik said that democratic institutions do not exist to create the best outcom...