Vitalik Buterin

just as technology has motivated creation and entrepreneurship, it has also been used as a vehicle for tax evasion, money laundering, and scams.

I happily pay $4 for a coffee if it means I don’t have to talk to anyone.

The world would be a better place if more people thought like programmers.

Cryptocurrency is like a high school science project that got way out of hand.

I sometimes worry that Ethereum is becoming a religion.

If you’re not weird, you’re doing it wrong.

I just hate this question. you know where's that where's the killer app and I'm thinking chill. out man this is an astounding intellectual achievement what is that wrong yeah.

The funny thing is that bitcoiners (who tend to be the most pro-PoW) should understand this well, as the Bitcoin civil wars in 2017 demonstrated really well that miners are quite powerless in the governance process.

I think we’re at the stage where the only way for cryptocurrency to become something that is not a toy is if it burns the toy bridge.

The Ethereum ecosystem should absolutely not be proud of itself for creating a system that rewards people with $300k salaries for making diagrams and writing blog posts.

The worst part of the crypto space is the people who treat it like gambling and those who are just in it for the money.