ApeCoin community approves $1M donation to Ethereum development

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Cardano’s Hoskinson lauds Polygon’s zkEVM launch despite previous criticism of Ethereum

Ad Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson congratulated the Polygon (MATIC) community for launching its zero-knowledge Ethereum (ETH) Virtual Machine (zkEVM) beta on March 27. Hoskinson said innovations like this are great for the crypto industry, quoting a tweet from Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal about Vitalik Buetrin’s landmark transaction on the network. Polygon’s zkEVM Polygon’s zkEVM…

Vitalik Buterin token dump sends unsolicited altcoins price down including CULT

Ad Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin dumped several unsolicited altcoins (sh*tcoins) during the early hours of March 7, leading to the value of these assets falling. On-chain analyst Lookonchain reported that Buterin sold 50 billion MOPS, 500 trillion SHIK, and 10 billion CULT tokens for 439.25 ETH. Blockchain security firm PeckShield corroborated this report and…

Vitalik Buterin says XRP is ‘completely centralized,’ Ripple CTO reacts

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin in a Dec. 19 interview with Bankless, said Ripple’s XRP “was still completely centralized.” According to Buterin, for a project to have itself as part of the crypto space, it needs to use cryptography and have “some kind of chain data structure somewhere.” He added that XRP hasn’t apologized for…

Buterin says crypto is a better bet than gold

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes that crypto is a better asset to hold than gold, adding that it already has more adoption than a physical asset. Gold is incredibly inconvenient. It’s difficult to use, particularly when transacting with untrusted parties. It doesn’t support safe storage options like multisig. At this point, gold has less…

Buterin advocates for censorship tolerance in special cases

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said solo validators should be tolerated if they censor blocks in special cases in an Oct. 17 tweet. I would say “be tolerated”. Slashing or leaking or socially coordinated anything should only be considered for massive reorging of other people’s blocks, not making wrong choices about what to put…

Ethereum developers, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson get into a Twitter feud

Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson got into a war of words with Ethereum (ETH) developers as he criticized them for ignoring Ouroboros. To discuss major differences in protocol design. I repeatedly pointed out that the core engineers of Ethereum completely ignored Ouroboros throughout the last five years. It’s a crime on that side of the…

Ripple’s community turns on Vitalik Buterin over XRP tweet

Ripple community members have turned on Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin for his tweet on XRP. XRP already lost their right to protection when they tried to throw us under the bus as “China-controlled” imo:https://t.co/t6cbMtjsEV — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) August 17, 2022 Buterin, while praising Ethereum community members, said XRP lost its right to protection after…

Bitcoin advocate claims Vitalik Buterin does not understand PoW

Swan Bitcoin founder Brandon Quittem said that Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin does not “deeply” understand the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism. 1/ I said “Vitalik never understood PoW deeply” I don’t know if I’m right or wrong, but here are some examples of @VitalikButerin misunderstanding PoW 🧵👇 https://t.co/Uo1oZolpVU — Brandon Quittem (@Bquittem) August 15, 2022…