Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, recently, flung his Twitter windows open to his 274 followings on Twitter, for a flock of questions about his personal life and Ethereum. Buterin gave a surprising answer to a few good questions. Take a look at some of them.<\/p>\n
VB: \u201cThe whole ‘8 cofounders’ thing (and choosing them so quickly and non discriminately),\u201d<\/p>\n
Apparently, Vitalik, who was then 19, had pulled together a team of 8 persons \u2014 with the other seven consisting of Cardano CEO, Charles Hoskinson; Joseph Lubin, Polkadot’s Gavin Wood, Anthony Di Lorio, Mihai Alisie, Amir Chetrit, and Jeffrey Wilcke\u00a0 \u2014 to figure out the headway for Ethereum. <\/p>\n
In hindsight, he now regrets this decision as all founders have grown to respectable heights in the space making the process of decision-making hard and tedious for the blockchain. Vitalik remarked:<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are harder to tightly coordinate in small groups than I expected. You can’t just get everyone to sit around in a circle, see each other’s inherent goodness and get along, especially when huge incentive conflicts are at play,\u201d<\/p>\n
VB: \u201cNFT\u201d<\/p>\n
With over $2.5 billion in sales from the last three months of 2021 alone, NFTs are making a strong and unbelievable comeback from post-pandemic market crashes, and most of the action is all happening on the ethereum blockchain network. <\/p>\n
Little wonder Vitalik is much surprised.<\/p>\n
VB: \u201cEthereum will move to proof of stake in 1-2 years\u201d<\/p>\n
Investors in Ethereuem also shared Vitalik\u2019s confidence in the possibility of an introduction to proof of stake (PoS) at the announcement of the just-initiated London hard fork upgrade.<\/p>\n
But with the SEC breathing down on PoS networks and a barrage of early test issues springing up, Ethereum will have to hold on a little longer to sight a clear coast before switching.<\/p>\n