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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin spoke out against President Nayib Bukele’s compulsory bitcoin usage for merchants and businesses, saying it was against cryptocurrency’s “ideals of freedom.” Buterin commented in response to a Reddit article titled “Unpopular opinion: El Salvador President Mr. Nayab (Nayib)  Bukele should not be praised by Crypto community.” The Ethereum co-founder did not fail to call out “Bitcoin Maximalists,” whom he believed praised the El Salvadoran...

Vitalik Buterin decided to run “a random Twitter experiment” yesterday in the form of an Ask Me Anything post. Twitter users, which the co-founder of Ethereum had either followed or mentioned, were permitted to comment with any question they had for the young Ethereum co-founder, on subjects personal, political, philosophical, economic, or simply trollish in nature. Though only a tiny fraction of Twitter was given a chance to speak with him (only his 300 followers), those who...

The success of DeFi (decentralized finance) blockchain apps has not escaped the notice of Square Payments (NYSE: SQ) CEO Jack Dorsey. The engineer, businessman, and BTC advocate recently announced that his blockchain project, TBD, will enter the space by creating a Bitcoin DEX. Vitalik Buterin “Skeptical” About Bitcoin DEX In a recent interview, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin told Bloomberg Technology he wasn’t very impressed with the new endeavor. Buterin thinks it...

It’s been two months since Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin shocked the entire crypto community with his $1 billion Shibu Inu (SHIB) donation to the COVID-Crypto Fund in India. However, cashing this in revealed to be troublesome, according to the fund’s creator. Only $20M Have Been Disbursed But to date, only an infinitesimal portion of the tokens have been distributed, according to Sandeep Nailwal, Polygon’s co-founder and the creator of the Fund that received the...

Ethereum (ETH) Co-founder Vitalik Buterin had some words for Elon Musk after posting on Twitter that Dogecoin could increase its block size by 900%. Vitalik had several counterarguments for Musk’s claims in a paper published on his personal blog. He emphasised that scalability and higher throughput can be achieved by simply increasing the network’s parameters. However, this could compromise the system to extreme centralisation and completely flip a blockchain’s original...

Vitalik Buterin, who was gifted half of Shiba Inu’s total supply, has burned 90% of his holdings worth nearly $7 billion. The Ethereum co-founder further said he would allocate the remaining 10% to charitable organizations while also praising the “dog token community” for its generosity. Buterin Burns $6.7B in Shiba Inu The Dogecoin rise to the top led to the creation of numerous copycats that garnered significant attention in the past several weeks. Perhaps none became more...

Earlier today, it was announced on Live Bitcoin News that the price of BTC had taken a drastic fall thanks, in part, to actions taken by Elon Musk, who announced that his company Tesla had decided not to accept bitcoin payments for goods and services. As it turns out, the price of BTC – along with several other leading altcoins – may have also fallen thanks to Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum. Vitalik Buterin Moved a Bunch of Money Buterin has donated more...

Bitcoin has recently swung into the $60,000 range, thereby spiking to a new all-time high. The currency is stronger than it’s ever been, and many people are now giving it the attention it’s deserved for so long, but that has left many other altcoins – such as Ethereum – out in the dark. Ethereum Is Coming Out Swinging Ethereum is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap after bitcoin, and as it’s primary competitor, the asset is consistently seeking to...

Ethereum’s scaling issues have been a hot topic for discussion for quite some time now. With the explosion of the DeFi space last summer, many investors found themselves shocked at how expensive it had become to use the network, making mundane and small transactions less than viable.The author of Ethereum’s whitepaper and one of its co-founders, Vitalik Buterin, addressed the issues recently on the Tim Ferris podcast.100X Scalability in the Next Few MonthsSpeaking to Naval Ravikant on the Tim...

Despite the bloodshed of this Monday, cryptocurrencies are still arousing the interest of the mainstream audience, and Vitalik Biterin, the creator of Ethereum, is aware of the great responsibility involved in developing a product that could revolutionize the world of finance… Especially if it comes with the responsibility of becoming your own bank.In a blog post dated January 11th, Vitalik spoke about the importance of developing methods that allow users to recover their wallets’ private...