{"id":678337,"date":"2025-07-03T00:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T21:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-should-be-about-freeing-people-not-esoteric-tech-vitalik-buterin\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T00:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T21:20:19","slug":"crypto-should-be-about-freeing-people-not-esoteric-tech-vitalik-buterin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-should-be-about-freeing-people-not-esoteric-tech-vitalik-buterin\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto should be about freeing people, not esoteric tech \u2014 Vitalik Buterin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjQtMTEvMDE5MzEwZmQtNzVhZS03ZDM2LTk3YjEtNjZkYzg1N2YwNWVl.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Vitalik Buterin&#8217;s presentation at the EthCC event comes amid an inflection point for the crypto industry as it attempts to reconcile growth and the Cypherpunk ethos.<\/p>\n<p><p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin delivered a keynote speech at EthCC on Wednesday, asking blockchain developers to focus on freeing humanity through their inventions rather than building more technically advanced tools.<\/p>\n<p>Buterin compared the individual liberty ethos of the early internet in the 1990s to the current ethos in blockchain, noting that the free and open internet <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/cyberspace-independence\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"null\">championed<\/a> by early digital rights advocate John Perry Barlow was lost in the Web2 era.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethereum co-founder characterized Web2 as a collection of &#8220;walled gardens,&#8221; warning the audience that many of the Web2 founders, which have since become known for censorship policies, framed themselves as freedom advocates in the early days. Buterin <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zo72TWXrc3Y\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"null\">cautioned<\/a> Web3 founders not to fall into the same trap:<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin delivered a keynote speech at EthCC on Wednesday, asking blockchain developers to focus on freeing humanity through their inventions rather than building more technically advanced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2024-11\/019310fd-75ae-7d36-97b1-66dc857f05ee","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,74983,74891,154920,75995,93542,155338,74355,76558,48],"class_list":["post-678337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-decentralization","tag-ethereum","tag-liberty","tag-vitalik-buterin","tag-web3","tag-web3-decentralization-initiatives","tag-adoption","tag-freedom","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}