Published 19:07 IST, January 14th 2022

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin asks for 'most unhinged' criticisms of him; netizens react

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Friday took to Twitter to ask netizens "the craziest and most unhinged criticisms" of him on social media platforms.

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Ereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Friday took to Twitter to ask netizens " craziest and most unhinged criticisms" of him on social media platforms. Buterin's request was me in a ligharted tweet, in which he shared some of his own favourite criticisms, exhibiting his lighter side. "What are craziest and most unhinged criticisms of me you've seen on Twitter or elsewhere? Here are a few good ones, I wonder what else people have seen that I haven't! [sic]," he wrote on microblogging site. Buterin also posted screenshots of four criticisms he received on Twitter. 

According to Cointelegraph, Buterin's Friday tweet gared quick reactions from Twitterverse. Within first 15 minutes of sharing post, almost 500 people reacted and majority of m were in favour of Ereum's co-founder. As of now, his tweet has accumulated more than 2300 comments. Reacting to post, one of users wrote, "I defend you as a founder that stayed working, building free and open-source software and donating millions to medical research to save lives, even haters' [sic]." "Not a criticism, but a peculiar fact about yourself that you may have heard before: Your speech pattern, monotone, and seemingly algorithmic style thought process makes you sound like a text-to-speech robot. I effin love it, sir. You’re a treasure [sic]," wrote anor. "You're heing a cabal with miners purposefully keeping gas limits as low as possible to extort maximum possible fees from users [sic]," expressed a third. 

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Ereum co-founder donated over $1 billion in crypto to India's COVID Relief Fund

It should be mentioned here that Ereum was one of first Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) in crypto space, and it has gone on to become one of most successful, with gains of over 778,000% since 2015, as per Cointelegraph. Last year in month of May, Buterin donated over $1 billion in crypto to India's COVID Relief Fund along with a range of or charities, reported Forbes. As per report, he donated amount by offloing massive amounts of dog-med meme tokens that he was gifted by creators of Shiba Inu coin (SHIB), Dogelon (ELON) and Akita Inu (AKITA). Buterin reportedly transferred 50 trillion SHIB tokens in a single donation worth $1.2 billion to India COVID Relief Fund. 

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19:07 IST, January 14th 2022