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Vitalik Buterin Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“So I just misspelled the name of someone named Jason as "Json".”
— Vitalik Buterin
Tagged: Dev Jokes
“Heuristic #657: if someone says "X is all-or-nothing, you either have it or you don't", they are usually wrong.”
— Vitalik Buterin
Tagged: All Or Nothing
“Bitcoin and Ethereum are doing different things. Bitcoin is a digital currency, and the protocol is written to sustain this cryptocurrency. Clearly, Ethereum platform has ETH, it is also a digital currency, but it exists to sustain the protocol.”
— Vitalik Buterin, Interview with Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Bitcoin, ICO & More
Tagged: Cryptocurrency, Ethereum
“There is a lot of intermediaries that end up charging 20-30% and if the concept of decentralization takes off and does well than those are also going to decline to near zero.”
— Vitalik Buterin, What is Ethereum and How to Build a Decentralized Future
Tagged: Ethereum
“The one thing that’s made me feel optimistic over the last year is that there is a lot of interest, not just on the cryptocurrency side and buying ether and holding it, but actually using it to build applications.”
— Vitalik Buterin, Vitalik Buterin on Scaling Ethereum, Its Popularity in Asia and ICOs
Tagged: Ethereum
“We want to put an upper bound on the ratio between the amount of harm suffered by the victims of the attack and the cost to the attacker.”
— Vitalik Buterin, The Triangle of Harm
Tagged: Hacking
“Instead of the scripting language being simply a way of describing the terms of relations between two parties, contracts were themselves fully-fledged accounts, and had the ability to hold, send and receive assets, and even maintain a permanent storage.”
— Vitalik Buterin, A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol
Tagged: Block Chain, Cryptocurrency, Smart Contracts
“Ok, I am going to just stop commenting on bitcoin issues almost entirely and focus on ethereum tech.

I think the community needs to go through *a lot* of healing, and the firebrands on all sides that are *so sure* that their side is righteous and the other evil deeply worry me.”
— Vitalik Buterin
Tagged: Block Chain, Cryptocurrency
“We just broke over 500 hundred thousand transactions per day for the first time. Which in case you can't divide is something like 7 transactions a second.”
— Vitalik Buterin, A Modest Proposal for Ethereum 2.0
Tagged: Block Chain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum
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