Yes I saw this and originally I assumed it was a fake photo however it seems to be genuine. What he said in the article is what he actually has been saying for years. I remember back in 2017 during that crazy bull run I think he said that he would quit ETH if people’s only main reason is to get rich off them.
This bull run with NFTs and Defi is no different. Most people are about the profits and not what coins like Bitcoin or Ethereum can do for the world in terms of money. Cryptos were created basically to bank the unbanked and many have lost sight of that when they are predicting of ETH going to $10K or BTC going to $100K.
Indeed. I share Vitalik's frustration when what's supposed to be "the launchpad for all sorts of sociopolitical experimentation: fairer voting systems, urban planning, universal basic income, public-works projects" becomes merely a platform for many, if not most, developers to create projects in order to make money. I can sense Vitalik's disappointment when what was supposed to be a technology for all kinds of good things ends up with "these $3 million monkeys."
I really admire Vitalik's simplicity. He must be a billionaire and yet he is only wearing clothes that are mostly donations and gifts. He doesn't even have a bodyguard with him.