One of Vitalik Buterin’s biggest mistakes in developing Ethereum was choosing eight people as co-founders. He said so during an AMA session on Twitter.
The whole «8 cofounders» thing (and choosing them so quickly and nondiscriminately).
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) September 2, 2021
One user asked Buterin what he regrets most in the context of working on Ethereum.
“This whole ‘eight cofounders’ story (chosen quickly and indiscriminately),” he replied.
These “co-founders” are poker coach Mihai Alisie, Canadian entrepreneur Anthony Di Iorio, programmer Jeffrey Wilcke, one of the creators of the Colored Coins concept Amir Chetrit, ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, and Gavin Wood, the architect of Polkadot.
“Coordinating people in small groups turned out to be harder than I expected. You can’t just get everyone to sit in a circle, be kind to one another, and get along, especially when incentives are clearly in conflict,” he added.
The Ethereum cofounder also said making the EVM 256-bit was a mistake. In his words, the “computer” should have been “64-bit with an arbitrary-size BigInt of arbitrary size,” because such a system would have run faster.
Making it 256 bit was bad; it should have been 64 bit with an arbitrary-size bigint feature. Also more purity-friendly, somehow.
I would say the devex in general turned out quite good; eg. see https://t.co/8HyOIfZDK0 for «what could have been» (I remember EOS was like that too)
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) September 2, 2021
“Personally, I hope that Dogecoin can soon switch to PoS, perhaps using the Ethereum code. I also hope they won’t abandon the $5 billion per year PoW issuance, and instead put this duty in a Proof-of-Stake that would fund goals for the public good. This aligns well with Dogecoin’s ethical principles,” wrote Buterin.
Earlier, the Ethereum cofounder joined the advisory board of the nonprofit Dogecoin Foundation, which is developing the meme-cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Earlier, his DOGE investments earned more than $4 million.
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