Vitalik Buterin on ENS Great and PayPal, Venmo Integration Boosts Adoption

  • Vitalik Buterin defends the Ethereum Name Service as a valuable tool.

  • Brantly Millegan warns Buterin about backlash, leading to playful exchanges and debates on PoW vs. PoS.

  • The exchange involved comments on decentralization and online criticism within the crypto community.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Brantly Millegan, an advocate of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), engaged in an X conversation about the Ethereum network and decentralization. The discussion soon escalated into a broader discussion on Ethereum’s direction.

ENS, a decentralized naming system on the Ethereum blockchain, simplifies transactions by providing readable names for crypto addresses. Instead of sending tokens to complex, long addresses, users can register easy-to-remember names, such as “vitalik.eth,” for smoother cryptocurrency transfers.

ENS: More Than Just ‘Good’

Millegan kicked off the conversation by expressing his “unpopular opinion” that ENS is “good.” Buterin countered, stating that there’s “nothing unpopular” about this view and emphasizing that ENS is “great” and has the potential to become even better.

Nothing unpopular about this. ENS is great, and will…

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