Political Coins Represent ‘Vehicles for Unlimited Bribery,’ Warns Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum (ETH) founder Vitalik Buterin is concerned about the rise of “political coins,” memecoins such as MELANIA and TRUMP. Buterin says the crypto sector has spent the past year entering “a new order” where people cheer on the idea of creating a token for anything at any scale. “And so now is the time to talk about the difference between sugar-high short-term fun that is unwise to recommend to newbies, and long-term fulfillment and wealth-building. It is not about ‘fun is bad’, it is about the equivalent of modern hyperaddictive cellphone games, versus chess or World of Warcraft. Now is the time to talk about the fact that large-scale political coins cross a further line: they are not just sources of fun, whose harm is at most contained to mistakes made by voluntary participants, they are vehicles for unlimited political bribery, including from foreign nation-states.” US President Donald Trump and First Lady Mela...