Vitalik Buterin has taken a stand against maximalism within the Ethereum community
During his most recent appearance on the “Bankless” podcast, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin opined that maximalism is “very unhealthy.”
He doesn’t think anything outside of the Ethereum ecosystem is “boring and illegitimate,” claiming he’s interested in Zcash and Tezos.
I think there’s real fun and interesting stuff happening in Zcash lands. There’s real interesting stuff happening in Tezos.
The developers at Zcash have announced that the project will move to the Proof of Stake consensus algorithm, in line with Ethereum’s roadmap.
In his October blog post called “Crypto Cities,” Buterin mentioned Nevada mayor Hillary Schieve using the Tezos ecosystem for her blockchain experiments.
Buterin believes there are reputable crypto communities whose interests extend beyond quick money.
He also encouraged people who have become disillusioned with Ethereum to “move their bags to something else.”
The Canadian-Russian programmer stressed that decentralization is “extremely important”:
Ultimately, decentralized is what this space is about.
At the same time, Buterin said many communities are paying “lip service” to decentralization, but they actually don’t care.
He points to the fact that many projects don’t even have multiple clients.
In his article titled “Endgame”, Buterin described several steps that a blockchain with centralized block production can take in order to make it more decentralized by giving individuals the ability to verify the powers of centralized parties.
As reported by U.Today, the Ethereum co-founder recently backtracked on his support for Bitcoin Cash, claiming that the largest Bitcoin fork ended up being a failure. He also took a look at some of his earlier takes, taking pride in predicting the rise of decentralized exchanges of the likes of Uniswap.
