30 reasons to love Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin

30 – Vitalik is the leader cryptocurrencies will always need. With the departure of Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, someone had to maintain the spirit of decentralization, censorship resistance, and trusted neutrality. Buterin faces the task of stepping into the limelight, building technology that humiliates some of today’s most powerful institutions. As he wrote in his recent manifesto, he’s doing it because he thinks it’s right and because he thinks the goals of open source and open access technology will ultimately benefit the world. Going further up to the planets and stars is very good. Because I believe that humanity is very good.” Cryptocurrency is good in part because Vitalik is good.