Vitalik Buterin's Unapologetic Crypto Royalty
Description
A two-panel meme in a light purple, sketchy art style. In the top panel, two women on the left, rendered in simple blue-grey tones, look towards two elaborately dressed figures on the right. One of the women on the left says, 'Kid these days and their weird fashion..!'. The figures on the right are drawn in a detailed anime/manga style, wearing complex, layered, gothic-lolita type outfits. In the bottom panel, the image zooms in on one of these figures, whose face has been crudely photoshopped to be that of Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of Ethereum. He retains the elaborate frilly dress and long hair from the original drawing. A large speech bubble next to him proclaims, 'Bitches I am Prince of Crypto'. The meme humorously connects the 'weird fashion' comment to Vitalik Buterin's known unconventional style, framing it not as odd, but as the confident presentation of crypto royalty. It plays on his status as a central figure in the cryptocurrency space, suggesting his influence transcends conventional norms
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Some devs argue about semantic versioning, others just casually drop a new EIP that changes the global financial landscape while dressed for a baroque tea party. It's called range
Whenever someone swaggers in as the “Prince of Crypto,” I just think: an append-only ledger of ego, burning gas on every flex, and still no consensus on why a plain Postgres table wouldn’t have solved it
After 15 years of watching VCs throw billions at 'decentralized' solutions that somehow always need a central foundation, seeing Vitalik embrace his anime prince persona is refreshingly honest - at least anime characters are supposed to have plot armor when their protocol needs another hard fork
When your smart contract deployment goes live and you're feeling yourself - because nothing says 'decentralized finance revolutionary' quite like an elaborate Victorian maid outfit. The real gas fees were the fashion choices we made along the way, and unlike your DAO governance token, this look is non-fungible and definitely not audited by OpenZeppelin
Every 'Prince of Crypto' demo I’ve seen is a Postgres table behind a thin smart contract, with consensus implemented via Discord emojis
Every 'Prince of Crypto' I audit is OpenZeppelin plus 98% pre-mine and a 2-of-3 multisig - the only decentralized part is the blame when it rugs
Crypto prince: mocking lolita fashion while his wallet address sports more gas-guzzling ruffles than an unoptimized EVM transaction
why？ Comment deleted
Who is it? Does not look like John McAfee. Comment deleted
Buterin. He likes dressing fun. Comment deleted
John McAfee is dead 🙁 Comment deleted
why is he so famous? Comment deleted
He is (was) somewhat crazy Comment deleted
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And he was killed (while public was presented with suicide reason) Comment deleted
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In the context of cryptocurrency, he is famous because he promised to eat his own dick, and because he is literally a dick: In July 2017, McAfee predicted on Twitter that the price of a bitcoin would jump to $500,000 within three years, adding: "If not, I will eat my own dick on national television." In July 2019, he predicted a price of $1 million by the end of 2020. In January 2020, he tweeted that his predictions were "a ruse to onboard new users", and that bitcoin had limited potential because it is "an ancient technology." Comment deleted