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I feel that vitalik created blockchain 2.0, which should be regarded as a milestone in the currency circle. In the world of blockchain, his contribution is second  after Satoshi Nakamoto.

I'm not sure whether Vitalik Buterin comes second after Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency and it is adopted much more than the rest of the coins in the market. On the other hand, Ethereum is actually at a better level in terms of development I think. Ethereum is still being improved a lot and Ethereum 2.0 will bring great things to the investors and users I believe.

Bitcoint is not really the first cryptocurrency but the first one that many people are now using. You can do some research that I am right and even some higher ranks in this forum are also discussing this one before. Vitalik created eth where many people did used it since it is faster to confirmed than bitcoin.

He is an amazing person who give big contribution for cryptocurrency world. I also tend to believe anything he says regarding cryptocurrency, it's help me a lot for taking decision for trading. There are so many people who trying to create the same company like him and some of them are already success, I think it proof that his ideas are very good. Now I holding ETH and other similar cryptocurrencies such as TRX and etc. I think the bullish market don't really starting yet but I can get 200% profit if I sell some of my cryptocurrency that I bought few weeks ago. I like how ETH company work so I also invest in similar companies too.

He's the total opposite of Satoshi as his identity is very known amongst the community not to mention that he created the 2nd largest crypto in the cryptospace which is Ethereum. But we need not glorify this people too much, it's not like they don't deserve it but it's not really good that we worship people because when they do something that we don't like or is against our morals, we will only get our image of them destroyed.

He did well. Only wish he didn't allow Ethereum to be centered around him or anyone else that it becomes difficult for him to realize that certain proposals and decisions they've taken could centralized Ethereum and make it difficult for anyone interested in it to easily run  and fully participate in the Network.
 I think he should also consider building Ethereum horizontally rather than vertically to avoid building Tower of Babel which would only work if it's centered around a king

His contribution isn't discredited at all. Eth had made cryptocurrency speed up its development that new investors in crypto knew more of Eth than Bitcoin.Some of them even prefer Ether alone as their investment.

Many comes after him like Dan Larimer or Sasha Ivanov or even Justin Sun they all contributed in the crypto industry.

You mean the Ethereum Blockchain 2.0, in fact vitalik did not make it, but vitalik is forced to these updates due to the many problems that the Ethereum network suffers from, the problem of congestion and high fees became unbearably annoying, yesterday I sent about 0.00118ETH and surprisingly the fees were 0.0012 ETH!! !! Can you believe this nonsense??!! The fees are more expensive than the transaction itself!!! This is like if you want to buy a pizza for  10$, for example, and then they tell you that the price for home delivery is  20$!! This is complete nonsense.
Therefore, I say updating to Ethereum 2.0 is not an option, but rather it has become a necessity to get rid of these problems.

I think he is a crypto legend that has shown his face and commitment to further improve on the blockchain. He has made etheruem very popular and that is an achievement to write his name in the anals of crypto history. It has given challenge to bitcoin and really preferred because of confirmation speed.

You probably don't know that ETH 2.0 is live and all the expected great things are there. But the problem of high fee is still there though ETH 2.0 wasn’t supposed to be fixing the issue. I was trying to send a token other day and I was surprised to see the fee is above $20 for a faster confirmation. This problem still exists and no good solution is proposed either; not at least to my known. Do you think people will adopt this with such ridiculous fees? I doubt.

Vitalik no doubt has contributed a lot to the crypto-verse and that also very early when no one was really into cryptocurrencies, but he definitely can't be said second to Satoshi, number 1 is number 1 because of the all-new technology that Satoshi brought in which was really impossible for anyone to think, others are just adding on their inputs on a technology that know is common, If we see that way even Ethereum has so many problems and coins like SOLANA are trying to solve that issue thus making a better blockchain so ideally, they should be on number 2, also other people who might not be active in blockchain development but have ensured the existence of this community can be said to be number 2 also.

No one is discounting or downplaying what Vitalik has created for the cryptospace. A lot of other fresh and cool ideas sprung from ETH's compatibility with a lot of things. Then again, most of the major decisions related to ETH have been influenced mostly by his views, and that, to me, feels like centralization is slowly creeping up on the said cryptocurrency. Also, the fees are still insanely high on some small transactions that it's becoming a nuisance when you need to use their blockchain in order to move funds around. ETH is a great creation but definitely still far from perfect IMO.

Definitely, there will always be flaws in the system and people will always have a say to every platform we encounter. But yes, ETH has contributed in revolutionizing the blockchain technology, where a lot of its competitors nowadays are basing from their technology. And up until now, ETH dev team are still innovating how to cater the community in a better way. Right now, the gas fees may still be unacceptable to many but I believe, sooner or later, they will address this issue as other networks are now competing with them, and the selling point is cheaper fees compared to eth network.

And you wonder why is this? Why does the congestion and high fees happen?
I admire the work Butterin Vitalik has been doing and continues to do but every now and then, following the liquidity on a product, there is bound to be problems, updates and more ideas about it. When I came into crypto, most projects where been hosted on ETH blockchain because, it was having less fee and everything seemed to be executed just right.  It was a shift and with increased validity and increased fee, the shift has turned towards Binance SmartChain and it would continue. So, I think the subject title is still in line.

Vitalik Buterin is Ethereum's inventor and his contribution to it is of course really big. Thanks to him, Ethereum has been developed to this level so far and it is still being improved more. We expected Ethereum 2.0 to bring good things to people. But we still witness high fees and slow transfers. In this case, Ethereum 2.0 doesn't mean too much thing to me as an investor. They should be able to solve these problems in the near future.

Having ethereum's issues about high gas fees and slow transactions are still the concerns of the users and yet, still unsolved up to the present. But  don't we think having ethereum alone and its smart contract that most of the projects have been using is already a great contribution of Vitalik? There are a lot of projects have been out in the market today and some have really potentials but i don't think they can be totally compared with ethereum's achievements. So i do agree on OP that Vitalik has made a great contribution and is now even more developing to its more advantage so that it will be more useful to its users. Understand that it has really its own back logs but i know it will be resolve in the near future.

I agree that he did important stuff, and placing him second after Bitcoin dev team (not Satoshi alone, but also people who worked on the network from the early days) is fair. Ethereum is not just a #2 cryptocurrency. It introduced smart contracts and the concept of a cryptocurrency that is also a platform for many other projects. Tons of ICOs were created based on Ethereum, and at least most NFTs are Ethereum-based. We can have different opinions on whether ICOs and NFTs were good or bad, but they were definitely a huge deal for the crypto industry during their hype times, and the market would not have been the same without Ethereum.

I don’t think anyone is discrediting Vitalik’s achievement in the crypto and blockchain industry. He has done a lot and we should applaud him for that. Before, we had Ethereum, there has been so many other cryptocurrencies that came before it, such as Litecoin, dogecoin, and the rest of them. But ethereum is the first smart contract we had in the crypto currency and blockchain industry.

Until now, it has remained as one of the top alternative coins in the market, and has steady maintained its number one position in altcoins market, and the 2nd biggest cryptocurrency in general. So, Vitalik did very well and no one is doubting that.

Vitalik has definitely contributed much in crypto because ethereum's smart network has been very useful and reliable to the different projects that have been rampant in the market. And yes, no one is doubting that. And because of the potentials of ethereum, aside from being a smart network, its also being used nowadays as a currency to those who accept ethereum payments.

Not just Satoshi Nakamoto but also Vitalik Buterin should be applauded because of their great contributions in crypto. Without bitcoin and ethereum, crypto space may not still be acknowledge this time.

As long it would really be beneficial and that really revolutionary then it would really be significant but still nothing can beat out on what that the first do able to achieve.
Yes, he could make that contribution but i dont think that it would really be having the same impression on what Satoshi had done because nothing can beat out the first
even though in terms of technical aspect then it might be something that ahead but support or the community will always look on whose first.

Undoubtedly, Buterin and his people made a great contribution into developing blockchain technology and crypto world by creating Ethereum platform that became mother for a huge amount of bounty campaigns. They have extended the idea of Satoshi and had renewed it. Now lots of traders like participating bounty campaigns as the possibility to earn tokens (no one forces them to do this). Thanks to ETH platform we have a lot of crypto-games, smart contracts, NFT. ETH platform is very dynamic in its evolution (always interesting to observe its development and even participate). So that’s really cool that Buterin and his people created ETH platform.

Vitalik should receive the same recognition with Satoshi because what he did was totally amazing and ethereum right now has become more reliable with the invention of ethereum 2.0 that made the whole projects in the crypto market to depend much on ethereum's smart network. And with the newly risen close competitor of ethereum right now which is SOL, i think Vitalik may come up with a new idea on how to make ethereum more developed and smart and i think when we talk of adoption, ethereum has an advantage over SOL and that would be enough reason wherein SOL cannot be outdated ethereum in the long run.

No matter how big Vitalik's contribution to the crypto world is, he still can't beat Satoshi. That is the reason why Ethereum is always become second
and Bitcoin will always be first. Because Satoshi's contribution has had a huge impact on human life, with the technology that Ethereum has which
may be better, but the support for Bitcoin is much greater. But I think the more people who make positive contributions to the crypto world is very good
for the future of cryptocurrencies. Like what Vitalik has done so far, we have to admit that his role is quite important. Likewise, Changpeng Zhao as
the founder of the Binance exchange also contributed greatly to the development of the crypto world.

Eth is his legacy in this world. no one will take it away from Vitalik just as no one will take Satoshis contribution. blockchain is the greatest invention so far that even governments are now struggling to take its power back to them so whoever contributes to make blockchain useful, they have their legacy.

I guess this belongs in Economics....?

Satoshi is the king of kings as far as cryptocurrencies go, and I'm not sure Vitalik would have achieved anywhere near what he did had bitcoin not been created first.  I mean, who knows what would have happened, but every innovation we've seen in the crypto space is basically improving on what bitcoin is.  And that's not to take anything away from Mr. Buterin, because I think there are so many things that can be done on ETH's blockchain, and he's the man as far as that goes but I'd say he'll always be remembered second when the history of crypto is written 50 to 100 years down the line.

He also looks like he could use a good, home-cooked meal or two.  The guy is skin and bones.

Blockchain is a chain/ledger and it's not the actual currency. So if you want to credit him for that then that should be for the crypto community then.

Maybe? I'm not sure about that. There are also people that have been working next to satoshi that have contributed a lot but they're not popular. But Vitalik's contributions sure really are a lot.

When someone says they created blockchain 2.0, banking 4.0, finance 3.0 and so on, it's a sure thing that they are scammers who just spew technobabble to lure clueless people into investing in their shitcoins. I'm not sure if Vitalik himself ever claimed that he created blockchain 2.0, but if he did, it's incredibly dishonest of him.

"blockchain 2.0" and altcoins are irrelevant, each day they move closer and closer to centralization, with Bitcoin being the only coin that is true to the original goals. Compared Vitalik to Satoshi is completely incorrect and insulting.

On this developments, I believed that ethereum would remain the strongest following cryptocurrency of bitcoin and despite of its transaction fee issues I guess people just ignored it due to the bigger potential that eth would be second possible future btc. The value it has right now was the path where btc also was seen raging over until such time it became established of current profitable value.

The presence of ethereum made crypto shine even more, before the presence of ethereum crypto looked dim because the volume of transactions and projects was very difficult to get money from the ICO, but after ethereum in 2013 crypto became more powerful and many ethereum-based projects managed to get money from the ICO and this became the beginning of crypto continues to prosper until now, even I would say the influence of ethereum is greater than bitcoin.

Vitalik gets most of the attention for Ethereum but its not like the concept of smart-contracts was anything new. What played for him was his presentation skills and the image of the impoverished 17-year old technology geek.

As far as smart-contracts are concerned, There are several "greats" like him, AVAX, SOL, Now even ADA is offering smart-contracts and people are actually using them because of the ridiculous fee on Ethereum. There is not one original thing that Vitalik accomplished. People started using Solidity and that is his biggest achievement. Apart from that, there are many like him.

Only a fool who cannot comprehend the difference between "Success" and "Greatness" will compare him to Satoshi.

Credits for him for trying to compete and it was rewarded pretty well.
I actually envy people who have great minds, the wise ones and he is one of them as far I know.
The contribution he made for cryptocurrencies will surely be written in history even if Bitcoin is on top.
I think that is also one of the reasons why I didn't even doubt buying his Ethereum. One part as support for him and another as my view for its future that will surely be innovative and of course, profitable.

In the first place though, who says that it's not? I mean he is the creator of Ethereum so it's not like he's just a nobody, and we are on a bitcoin forum so it's not every day we talk about other coin and their founders.

Vitalik is the one who integrated game theory into the blockchain and created smart contracts on ETH 2.0. At the time of launch, the projects held ICOs on Ethereum. This is a novelty and we must credit him. There have been a series of private smart contract development projects since then.
Blockchain 2.0 is a breakthrough and takes crypto beyond just payments.

I wouldn't see it that way. Satoshi has created a truly new "product" (of course there was some preliminary work, but Satoshi has assembled many individual elements into something new that did not exist before and solved an essential problem), while Vitalik has improved this product with some new features.

It's kind of like saying Satoshi invented the car and Vitalik added electronic power steering and a navigation system. One would say the invention of the car itself was a much greater invention. And that's how I see it with Bitcoin and Ethereum. Nevertheless, Vitalik has made a huge contribution to entire crypto space.

Vitalik Buterin is the mainstay for Ethereum. His contributions to the project have been very important so far. Thanks to his actions, Ethereum is at a much better level now. It is being developed more and more to reach upper levels. And the price is also effected in a good way. Ethereum has a bright future and it might even compete with Bitcoin in the future.

I understand that Vitalik can be seen, or heard, or talked to whereas none of that can be done for Satoshi, he hasn't been around for years now. All in all I would say that the most logical argument for Vitalik would be the fact that he can say his thoughts and we can know about it, unlike satoshi who we do not know even if he is alive or not. Plus, ethereum became big, and if it became this big then we have to accept the fact that Vitalik had something to do with it. You do not "manage" the progress of a currency and get it super high and ranked so high and stay so high for so long without ever getting some kudos from the community time to time.

It will compete with bitcoin in the future if not now, I mean the fact that there's a face for Ethereum is enough evidence to that although they're supply isn't as small as bitcoin, I think that they can compete regardless. Also, just because no one talks about Vitalik in this forum doesn't mean that he didn't made an impact.

Making this type of comparisons in this case is a funnel for the second place, if it is necessary to give hierarchical space, in fact there are characters related to bitcoin that may well become part of the great people who contributed to the development of the Bitcoin environment and consequently Blockchain without starting to give hierarchical positions of who is second or third, they are simply there and vitalik may not appear in that essential contribution.

The issue here does not try to detract from his contribution, that there is undeniable, but we must make things clear: not because you take anabolics or drugs can you hit 70 home runs in a season, you have to have talent and Vitalik Buterin has, but there is no doubt that the bitcoin's open source was the "legal" steroids that helped him.

I do not think so. If you are referring smart contract within blockchain as a new innovation then I guess such a feature was introduced before ethereum in this crypto world (please correct me if my memory is not serving me exact things). In my opinion, Vitalik was smart enough to convince most IPO devs to adopt ethereum even they were having multiple options for the same purposes. For example, waves also got options to provide smart contract things but for unknown reasons most devs are not bothering it for issuing tokens.

Anyway, I respect Vitalik at least for standing along with his project till date and making it 2nd most successful crypto unlike what dogecoin and litecoin devs did.

OP,I don't understand the point of your forum thread.
Is anybody denying the contribution of Vitalik Buretin to blockchain technology?
I'm not denying his contribution,but I think that he kinda opened "Pandora's box" with all the ICO tokens,DeFi,NFTs and all the scam shit that was created on top of the Ethereum blockchain.Some of those crypto projects had good intentions,but the vast majority were just exit scams.
After 6 years of existence,Ethereum had proven that it simply isn't better than Bitcoin Core and it will never replace Bitcoin Core as the biggest and best cryptocurrency in the world.

Ethereum is one of the important things in the crypto industry as well as bitcoin, with the contribution of Vitalik so that it has now triggered several movements that are able to bring crypto and blockchain to be adopted more quickly by the community, in contrast to bitcoin ethereum comes with a versatile computing system that allows it to run various applications through the blockchain network.

It must be admitted that the influence of ethereum is very large and makes the market skyrocket, it is evident that the largest transactions today (more than 70%) are ethereum-based, without ethereum the bitcoin price may still be under $100 because most ICOs and trading are always paired with ethereum/token undeer ethereum.

Nope , not because Ethereum popularity meaning Vitalik is already second to Satoshi Nakamoto . there are even more coins that is much better than Ethereum but does not have their chances yet.
when the adoption happens in the future you will see why I say this.
and besides Blockchain 2.0 does not coming yet so there is no confirmation totally for this.
But is this enough to called Vitalik next to Satoshi the Founder?

Without Ethereum building the blockchain that it has, and without the introduction to tokens, dapps, defis, nft and many other things that eth blockchain paved the way, crypto world would not be as big as it is right now. So, we have to give Vitalik his fair share that dude managed to make crypto even more famous. I am not saying without him none of this happens, it could have still happened, or crypto would be still available and big but just not as big as it is right now.

However, we have to accept that he has a bit of a play in what is going on right now and how he impacted it. Kudos to him for sticking to his guns whenever people went against him, if he listened everyone ETH would have been ETC of today.

To be fair, it must also be said that the features listed were not invented by Ethereum or Vitalik. These features existed in other projects before Ethereum existed. I remember Nxt, for example, where there were already colored coins and decentralized marketplaces in 2013/2014. Ethereum just made some things better and it became the largest holistic ecosystem in cryptospace.

Anyone making a transaction in your so called blockchain 2.0 will be cursing that they need to spend $30 and more per transaction :P. Satoshi created the blockchain and there is no taking that position and there is no blockchain 2.0 as per the real sense, if that was the case ETH would be transacting thousands of transaction per second without any increase in fees.