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Jack Dorsey and Vitalik Buterin have been squabbling for months over whether bitcoin or ethereum is better. Here's how their head-butting began.
Jack Dorsey and Vitalik Buterin have been squabbling for months over whether bitcoin or ethereum is better. Here's how their head-butting began.
Katie CanalesAug 23, 2022, 23:11 IST
Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images; MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images; Insider
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and bitcoin believer Jack Dorsey don't always see eye to eye.
They've publicly denounced each other's favorite decentralized finance protocol for months.
Jack Dorsey and Vitalik Buterin are two of the crypto world's most prominent champions.
But that doesn't mean they see eye to eye.
The Twitter cofounder has regularly voiced ideas online that clash with Buterin, the 28-year-old cofounder of the Ethereum blockchain and its native coin, ether.
Dorsey, a longtime bitcoin maximalist who has a Bitcoin clock lying around his house, believes the digital asset is the one and only crypto to save the world. Buterin, on the other hand, believes his blockchain will unlock the decentralized finance sphere for the masses, giving new tokens and apps a launch pad.
Conflict was always bound to ensue.
Here's how their online head-butting began.
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Buterin thinks bitcoin could get left behind
Buterin.Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images
And it's bitcoin or nothing for Dorsey
Dorsey in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021.Marco Bello/Getty Images
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Buterin critiqued Dorsey's plans in August 2021.
Vitalik Buterin."775040520SB00199_TechCrunch" by TechCrunch is licensed under CC BY 2.0
He subtly dubbed bitcoin more 'resilient' in December 2021
Jack Dorsey in 2017.Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty Images
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Dorsey made another remark against ethereum in April.