[geocon]

I mean, I think crypto is pretty stupid and scammy myself (and if you know Lars he is suspicious of most blockchain stuff as well) but Vitalik seems like one of the more legitimate people working in that field. You may disagree with his assessment of how useful cryptocurrencies will be but he's not running scams.

[colesantiago]

After the DAO hack I think Ethereum pretty much failed at being an immutable blockchain, which proves it doesn't work at all, and I think Vitalik is kidding himself with this.

'The Merge' is just smoke and mirrors really and doesn't solve anything like the gas fees which is an overdue problem in Ethereum.

[solveit]

I don't know why you think gas fees (paid by users of Ethereum) are a bigger problem than energy usage externalities(paid by everyone on the planet).