Vitalik Buterin Uses Questionable Historical Comparison to Explain Crypto Tribalism
Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted that TRON (TRX) sympathizers within the Bitcoin (BTC) community are a “perfect example” of German Nazis aligning with Japan during the Second World War. “I feel like this weird half-joking tron stanning in the BTC community might be a perfect example of this from @slatestarcodex” He also attached a number of screenshots from a 2014 article that was originally posted on Slate Star Codex — a now-deleted blog created by a San Francisco psychiatrist known by his partial name, Scott Alexander.
When asked why he chose to invoke that reference, Vitalik told Cointelegraph that there was “definitely no intent to make any comparison to genocidalness”. Unfortunately those paragraphs of Scott's are so good that nothing else I can find illustrates his broader point as well as he can :(“ Vitalik additionally argued that “from any serious point of view, any flaw that ETH has from the perspective of BTC community values, Tron has 10x more”.
