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Vitalik Buterin
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I actually think the growth of app layer is exactly the time that good social philosophy is needed *most*. Analogy: imagine that C++ had been made by a totalitarian racist fascist. Would it be a worse language? Probably not. C++ is general purpose, there isn't much surface for bad social philosophy to wreck it (or good social philosophy to improve it). Ethereum L1 is not quite in that position: someone who doesn't believe in decentralization would not add light clients, or FOCIL, or (good forms of) account abstraction; someone who doesn't mind energy waste would not spend half a decade moving to PoS... But the EVM opcodes might have been roughly the same either way. So Ethereum is perhaps 50% general-purpose. Apps are ~80% special purpose. What apps you build depends heavily on what ideas you have of what ethereum apps (and ethereum as a whole) are there to do for the world. And so having good ideas on this topic out there becomes crucially important. https://x.com/owocki/status/1911160442728419681
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I’ve been building on ethereum since I firts landed onchain, 5 years ago. And even in the bad times where all the artist were moving their mints to Sol, Tez, or any other bs to follow the wave and pump their bags, i just confidently and relentlessly chose ETH. Because it always felt like the “cool kids” league for me, and i still perceive it like the most prestigious place to mint my art and build something around it. And this place pushed me so much out of my comfort zone that I even starte vibe coding apps, revolving around real art, with a real purpose and story to tell. bottom line is that I won’t be where I am rn if it wasn’t for ETH, and this chain is the place to be. Regardless of anything, because there will always be a bit of bad in the good, and bit of good in the bad.
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