Community Trust ScoreVerified
Vitalik.eth expressed: “Doing a random twitter experiment just on this day. Only the 268 people I follow can reply to this tweet. Feel free to ask things, and I’ll talk about anything crypto or non-crypto related.”
What are some promising ideas for Ethereum / Doge cooperation? What was it about Doge that got you interested in the project? Personally, I hope that doge can switch to PoS soon, perhaps using ethereum code. I also hope they don’t cancel the 5b/year annual PoW issuance; instead, they put it in some kind of DAO that funds global public goods. It would fit well with Dogecoin’s non-greedy wholesome ethos.
What’s the hardest lesson you learned through the Ethereum experience? People are harder to tightly coordinate in small groups than I expected. You can’t just get everyone to sit around in a circle, see each other’s inherent goodness and get along, especially when huge incentive conflicts are at play.
What is love? X AE A-12 don’t hurt me.
What’s something you had an insane amount of confidence in, only to have it turn out you were dead wrong? “Ethereum will move to proof of stake within 1-2 years.”
What’s the most recent thing you’ve changed your mind about / updated a lot about? 10y ago, I thought that the market of resources, property rights, trade, etc. are the most important processes in the world. Today I think much more about the ecosystem of discussion and spread of memes/culture/ideas. The latter follows quite different laws from the former!
What privacy-preserving technology do you think will be the most widely adopted (consciously or unconsciously!) by the majority of Netizens in 2050? I expect ZK-SNARKs to be a significant revolution as they permeate the mainstream world over the next 10-20 years.
What is crypto’s ontology? On the one hand, it is about definitive truth. On the other hand, it seems virtual, disconnected from material reality—creation out of nothing. So… Does it rely on a metaphysics of truth and reality or move beyond them? I think the loot project philosophy has it right: pretty much anything that anyone creates “exists”; what matters is to what extent other people build upon it.
How do you define the metaverse? As far as I can tell, people use it to refer to either the internet + super-immersive virtual reality, or the internet + shared state (so objects that can be moved between platforms). In the latter case, ethereum is, of course, amazingly positioned to be a central part.
Biggest regrets in your Ethereum journey? (Non-technical) The whole “8 co-founders” thing (and choosing them so quickly and non-discriminately).
And more on Vitalik’s Twitter page for those who want to know more.
