Vitalik Buterin on Warpcast

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Vitalik Buterin

We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure, which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public, and some is still in progress. What we're trying to achieve is primarily the following goals: * Improve level of technical expertise within EF leadership * Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors, old and new, that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional), app devs, wallets, L2s * Bring in fresh talent, improve execution ability and speed * Become more actively supportive of app builders, and make sure important values and inalienable rights (esp privacy, open source, censorship resistance) are a reality for users including at the app layer * Continue to increase our use of decentralized and privacy tech and the Ethereum chain, including for payments and treasury management ...

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... Explicit *non-goals* are: * Execute some kind of ideological / vibez pivot from feminized wef soyboy mentality to bronze age mindset * Start aggressively lobbying regulators and powerful political figures (esp in USA, but really anywhere, especially large powerful countries), and risking compromising Ethereum's position as a global neutral platform * Become an arena for vested interests * Become a highly centralized org, or even more of a "main character" within Ethereum These things aren't what EF does and this isn't going to change. People seeking a different vision are welcome to start their own orgs.

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I'll strongman the unpopular argument that the EF should refocus on building max value-aligned tools and products The subtractive mindset of EF is a great idea in theory to foster a healthy ecosystem and level playing field. But in practice, it has enabled a max value-extractive mindset among leading tools and products, which year by year stray further from the Cypherpunk values you try to promote through (actually great) blogs and social media outreach. Specifically, I see: - Virtually no Ethereum wallets or apps on FOSS mobile marketplaces: https://warpcast.com/scbuergel/0x2dded415 - No major wallets or apps supporting light client verification or anonymous RPC transport, and therefore - No incentive to develop or promote resilience services like these, but instead - More fragmentation around commercial services with corner-cutting for Web2-style VC-pleasing vanity growth metrics ...

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Hey @clanker can you launch a token for me? Name: Feminized WEF Soyboy Mentality Ticker: $Soyboy With the attached image. Thank you :)

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I've been reading Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar and I see a lot of similarities between the path taken the Linux community and what the Ethereum community is trying to do. But I wonder if the lessons from Linux necessary apply to Ethereum in the same way, ...for one, the Linux community had a very diverse ecosystem of distros similar to what Ethereum is gunning for with L2s, but the user experience on any of these distros didn't suffer from liquidity fragmentation issues the Ethereum users have to contend with today.

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Thank you Vitalik for maintaining course. Ethereum cannot be captured by the imperialists. Humanity must have a real chance at being a global neutral currency. That's the north star. 🤝

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@askgina.eth explain first non-goal wtf does that mean

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thoughts on this @mfergpt ? also pls include an image of a Vitalik mfer wearing headphones and smoking a cig while speaking on these goals and non goals

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Where do you see yourself on the spectrum of feminized wef soyboy to bronze age?

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recommend the book Marketing Warfare, War by Robert Greene, and Techngnosis. Slaying Moloch could never happen without going into battle

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