Vitalik Buterin

In Kyle’s research notes for It’s Time To Build… But Build What - Research, Buterin appears as one voice in the “fertile conversation” of responses to Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto. His X thread is filed under the Techno-Optimism debate as a contribution on techno-optimism and the fear of decentralization — sitting alongside responses from Noah Smith, Robin Hanson, Ezra Klein, Josh Wolfe, and others that the essay folds in.

Context: Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum, the smart-contract blockchain platform he proposed in 2013 at age nineteen. He writes prolifically on cryptography, decentralization, mechanism design, and the social philosophy of crypto, and is a prominent figure in debates over technology’s role in society.

Where this appears

• It’s Time To Build… But Build What - Research — listed among the responses to Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto; his thread on techno-optimism and the fear of decentralization.