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Vitalik is both a genius and a class act. That’s why I sold a portion of my BTC for Ethereum in addition to lots of Bitcoin Cash.

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Nov 12, 2017

Congrats on this. Seriously. @rogerkver @JihanWu @deadalnix

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I also heard that ETH idea should have be done on top of Bitcoin. Some arrogant people drive him out. Is that true?

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The very earliest versions of ETH protocol were a counterparty-style metacoin on top of primecoin. Not Bitcoin because the OP_RETURN wars were happening at the time and...

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...given what certain core devs were saying at the time, I was scared that protocol rules would change under me (eg. by banning certain ways to encode data in txs) to make it harder, and I did not want to build on a base protocol whose dev team would be at war with me.

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And OP_RETURN *did* end up getting censored down to 40 bytes. So I think it's fair to say that this willingness to compromise protocol immutability to achieve a desired outcome in a particular application (hmm, sound familiar?) made ETH on BTC even then a nonstarter.

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That said, perhaps they did a service. Back then I never would have imagined that fees would ever be allowed to rise above $0.20.

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He is a cool boy

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I like his head so much that after his death i will donate that to museum

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Interested in the uptodate Ethereum price check it out ethereumprice.tech

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After what happened with projects like parity you can guess why...

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smart. and look what has happened. you revolutionized crypto. wu and ver are just riding coattails trying to be relevant without providing anything of value to community.