Vitalik Buterin Says “I WILL” Leave Ethereum If Immaturity Continues

[Cordillerabit]

Buterin created Ethereum as a platform upon which developers could build a better future for the world in the coming years. But the 23-year-old Russian-Canadian programmer is growing increasingly frustrated with the pettiness he sees “sloshing around” the cryptocurrency ecosystem in general.

Buterin began airing out this frustration by retweeting a doomfully predictive tweet from early Bitcoin evangelist and software developer Amir Taaki, who called Bitcoin a “failed project.” Taaki wrote:

https://twitter.com/AmirPolyteknik/status/945693434500829184

Bitcoin is turning into a failed project. The seeds of its destruction among the debris of a community blinded by numerical price increases, and imminent divine reclamation. One day you will all understand my words but it will be too late, the ship would have sailed.

Adding to Taaki’s points, Buterin laid out his own:

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin

“*All* crypto communities, ethereum included, should heed these words of warning. Need to differentiate between getting hundreds of billions of dollars of digital paper wealth sloshing around and actually achieving something meaningful for society.”

He continued:

“If all that we accomplish is lambo memes and immature puns about ‘sharting’, then I WILL leave. Though I still have a lot of hope that the community can steer in the right direction.”

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/945988644661207040