{"id":24601,"date":"2022-08-01T08:33:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T08:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=24601"},"modified":"2022-08-01T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T08:33:47","slug":"vitalik-buterin-calls-microstrategys-michael-saylor-a-total-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=24601","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin calls MicroStrategy&#8217;s Michael Saylor a \u2018total clown\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin has taken a shot at MicroStrategy chief executive officer Michael Saylor, calling him a \u201ctotal clown\u201d after the latter called the world\u2019s second-largest cryptocurrency \u201cinherently unethical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See related article:<\/em><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/crypto-tear-vitalik-buterin-eth2-priced-in\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Crypto continues tear while Vitalik Buterin says Eth2 \u2018not priced in\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Fast facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhy do maximalists keep picking heroes that turn out to be total clowns?\u201d Buterin <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1553563862942633984\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote on Twitter<\/a> on Sunday as a reply to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DZack23\/status\/1553505779717754880\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">video clip<\/a> of Saylor saying that securities laws are based on the 10 commandments in the Bible and hence not antiquated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Saylor has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/btc-bull-michael-saylor-ethereum-is-obviously-a-security\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">previously<\/a> classified Ethereum as a security, citing its background of being issued through an initial coin offering (ICO), hard forks, having a management team and more.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Business intelligence and software company MicroStrategy is the<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/microstrategy-shares-fall-jefferies\/\" rel=\"noopener\"> largest corporate holder<\/a> of Bitcoin, according to estimates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cFor it to be a commodity there can\u2019t be an issuer, and the truth is you can\u2019t really make decisions. I mean one of the fundamental insights in the crypto industry is that the fact that you can change it, is what makes it a security,\u201d Saylor said in an interview with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JGvdMWvyRAA&amp;t=0s\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Altcoin Daily<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier this month at the Blockchain Economy Istanbul conference, the MicroStrategy CEO also questioned Ethereum\u2019s ethics \u2014 \u201c\u2019Ethically sound\u2019 means I need to know that nobody could change [the protocol], which includes Vitalik,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2022\/07\/27\/bitcoin-maximalist-michael-saylor-makes-the-case-against-ethereum\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Saylor said<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>See related article:<\/em><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/vitalik-buterin-defends-ethereum-security\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitalik Buterin defends Ethereum ahead of merge; \u2018not a security\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/vitalik-buterin-calls-microstrategys-michael-saylor-a-total-clown\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin has taken a shot at MicroStrategy chief executive officer Michael Saylor, calling him a \u201ctotal clown\u201d after the latter called the world\u2019s second-largest cryptocurrency \u201cinherently unethical.\u201d See related article: Crypto continues tear while Vitalik Buterin says Eth2 \u2018not priced in\u2019 Fast facts \u201cWhy do maximalists keep picking heroes that turn out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[39],"tags":[1522,376,10148,647,6966,1512,2419,1521],"class_list":["post-24601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ico","tag-buterin","tag-calls","tag-clown","tag-michael","tag-microstrategys","tag-saylor","tag-total","tag-vitalik"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/v.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24603,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions\/24603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}