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> ETH needs its own Michael Saylor With all due respect to @sassal.eth and others who hold this view: I don’t think it does. The only reason BTC maxis love Saylor is because he holds the promise of pumping their bags. It’s a Faustian growth hack, though. If BTC moons, Saylor becomes its natural figurehead and spokesperson. If BTC dumps hard, $MSTR becomes a single point of cascading failure. Either outcome is terrible. It would be much more antifragile for BTC to achieve the same scarcity by being near-evenly spread across a large population. As for ETH, there’s only enough supply for every human on this planet to own 0.015 of it (~$50). Imagine a world with far fewer whales and much more krill — true abundance. To repeat: we don’t need a Saylor. Instead, we need to organically put ETH into as many hands as possible, which itself requires that we keep increasing its utility https://x.com/sassal0x/status/1870620451917209603
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I never said that Ethereum "needs" a Saylor-like figure so I don't know why you're putting words in my mouth?
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Apologies if I misread, but i interpreted: > “I still think there is an absolutely massive opportunity for someone to become Ethereum's Saylor-like figure” as wanting / welcoming this to happen. I also linked to your tweet so people could read it verbatim. My point is about whether Ethereum needs a Saylor-like figure, as in, it would be beneficial to ETH (and I don’t think it would)
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My real point is that there's an opportunity for someone to be the face of ETH and Ethereum to the outside "normie world" - that is something big that is missing from Ethereum right now imo. It would be directly conductive to getting more adoption of Ethereum across every vertical.
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Thank you for clarifying. I still think theres an asymmetrical risk to having a figurehead associated with the project in the public mind. All things considered, Ethereum has done exceedingly well in just ten short years without a “face” — @vitalik.eth notwithstanding since he does not actively shill nor directly steer the project. On the downside, a figurehead exposes the project to that person’s quirks and flaws, including initially-undetected egomania or toxicity, as we have seen with so many other chains. That’s partly why I value the philosophy of subtraction — removing ourselves from the res publica / common good project, even if it means foregoing some marketing-fueled growth along the way. On the other hand, I value having multiple educators who relentlessly explain the project to normies in their own channels — as you do with your podcast, as Paul Brody does to the business community, as @nixo and @remyroy.eth do for aspiring stakers, as the r/ethfinance team does on Reddit, etc.
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If we need a face, we should ask Vitalik „to come back“. We had a great leader, but there are reasons to not have one central figure. If the community changes that stance, we should be pushing people back to the frontline that we know are capable and aligned.
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