PANews reported on July 18 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published an article opposing making political voting choices based on "whether to support encryption or not". He said that in the past few years, cryptocurrency has become an increasingly important topic in political policy, and various jurisdictions are considering passing bills to regulate participants in blockchain activities. The cryptocurrency field is becoming more and more active in politics, and many people support them almost entirely based on whether parties and candidates are willing to be friendly to cryptocurrencies. Buterin opposes this trend and believes that making decisions in this way is highly risky and violates the values ​​that people originally entered the crypto field. He said that in the crypto field, people tend to pay too much attention to the centrality of money and the freedom to hold and spend money (which can also be tokens). Bitcoin is seen as an extension of the spirit of libertarianism in the field of Internet payments. Vitalik believes that freedom is important, and decentralized networks are good at protecting freedom. Money is an important area where such networks can be applied, but it is only one of several important areas. And being friendly to cryptocurrencies now does not mean that they will still be friendly to cryptocurrencies five years later. Supporting a politician should be because of their entire platform and views, not just because they support cryptocurrencies.