Vitalik TAKO AMA: ETH Positioning, Sequencer Centralization, L1 vs L2, Governance, and Success Metrics
On the evening of February 19th at 12 PM UTC and lasting until 12 PM UTC on February 20th, Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, was invited to participate in a flash text interview on Tako (a client based on Farcaster) with Mable Jiang, the Chief Revenue Officer of FSL. WuBlockchain has polished, translated, and organized the interview content as follows: Question 1 In your mind, is Ethereum today closer to the nature of Bitcoin or that of a world computer? You previously mentioned in a Twitter post that many people with negative views on ETH are actually short — term speculators, and their frustrated emotions hardly bring any constructive help to the ETH community. However, within the OG ETH — Maxi camp, many people have been promoting the concept of “ETH is money” (for example, Bankless, the largest media advocating for ETH — Maxi). They draw comparisons between ETH and BTC, considering it as another competitive form of digital currency (and perhaps an even better one). What is ...