Buterin is both the golden child of crypto and the recipient of some of the most profound criticism. For a little fun, he decided today was the day he wanted to dig up some notable tidbits and share them with his Twitter followers.
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has requested and received numerous examples of “the wildest and most insensitive criticism” of him on Twitter and elsewhere.
Buterin’s cheerful request arrives on January 14 tweet in it he shared some of his own favorite criticisms and revealed the softer side of Ethereum (ETH) creators. More than 500 people responded in the first fifteen minutes, though most were supportive of Buterin. At the time of writing his tweet had over 1,200 comments.
Among the four criticisms Buterin posted, was one from one user who said he “Looks like an alien.”
What are the craziest and most unenthusiastic criticisms of me you’ve seen on twitter or elsewhere? Here are some good ones, I wonder what else people see that I haven’t seen! pic.twitter.com/2qvwgNkHyM
– importantik.eth (@VitalikButerin) January 13, 2022
Vitalik’s father Dmitry recalls a rather simple conspiracy theory that he actually a Russian agent and Russian President Vladimir Putin are the people behind the creation of Ethereum.
Vitalik himself came up with how “2 different Reddit trolls!” compared him to Hitler in 2017 and shared a screenshot of the comparison in one tweet.
Ethereum is an early example of an initial coin offering (ICO) in the crypto space and is one of the most successful with a gain of more than 778,000% since 2015. But to this day, it is. criticized for being a “centralized cryptocurrency”. One user cited an unappreciated act often seen during the ICO craze of 2017 Shows “Vitalik ponzi spider” and describes Vitalik as the spider in charge of the Ethereum ponzi network.
Not everything is a criticism, some users have taken the opportunity to share their favorite memes, including this joke that relies heavily on puns.
Other users have removed the classics, including this meme shared in a comment showing an old Buterin with a headline from a hypothetical news show that read “Breaking News: Ethereum 2. Finally Ships”. Given how old the meme is, it’s hard to say that there were no facts to criticize around the time Eth2 was shipped.
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While the Twitter thread talked about all the frenzied criticism Buterin had received over the years, most of the users who responded did so in glee. And ConsenSys alumni John Lilic pointed out that despite all the criticisms of Buterin, both real and comedic, he’s been “working to make the space better since near zero.” .
