Vitalik Buterin

I'm not a fan of centralized power structures.

I think the future of the internet is going to be very different from what we imagine.

I'm more interested in building the tools for others to build things than building things myself.

I think the world needs more experimentation.

I'm not a fan of tribalism.

I think the biggest problem is that people don't think enough about first principles.

I'm very optimistic about the long-term future, but pessimistic about the short-term.

I think the world needs more public goods.

I'm not a guru. I'm just a guy who thinks about stuff.

My main critique in both cases was 'respect public legitimacy more'. (Sam's sin was the fraud plus the 'woke shibboleths' thing, the OpenAI board's sin was making a sudden huge decision and feeling entitled to not explain itself to the public)

Achievement unlocked: have been compared to Hitler by 2 different Reddit trolls!

What are the craziest and most unhinged criticisms of me you've seen on Twitter or elsewhere? Here are a few good ones, I wonder what else people have seen that I haven't!

make communism great again

I didn't even know who Tom Brady is, had to ask people around me. My best guess was that he was the actor from Mission Impossible.

The banhammer is controlled by one group today, it will be controlled by another group tomorrow.

It's not sweet. Ninety percent chocolate. When I say chocolate, I always mean chocolate, I don't mean sugar with a little bit of chocolate.

I'm hearing through the grapevine that something major is about to happen.

If it [crypto] does happen, We'll Sacrifice Lot of Potential Crypto Has To Offer.

There are a lot of things you can say on the sourceforge site that I can't say on my own site … Even so, I'm uncomfortable with explicitly saying 'consider it an investment'. That's a dangerous thing to say and you should delete that bullet point. It's OK if [Bitcoin users] come to that conclusion on their own, but we can't pitch it as that.

The cryptocurrency space has a long history of using unsubstantiated rumors to induce certain price movements.