According to a recent interview on the Bankless Podcast, Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, has expressed his reluctance to stake a significant portion of his ETH holdings.
Vitalik Buterin’s ETH staking is addressed
This is due to the current infrastructure surrounding the service, which he believes poses security risks.
“Probably the biggest reason why I personally am not just staking all of my ETH, that I’m instead staking a fairly small portion, is because if you stake your ETH, it has to be all out, like the keys that access it have to be public on some system that’s online, and for safety it has to be a multi-sig, and multi-sigs for staking are still fairly difficult to set up, and it gets complicated in a bunch of ways.”
Charles Hoskinson, the creator of Cardano (ADA) and former collaborator with Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin, expressed his disbelief on Twitter regarding Buterin’s recent remarks on staking.
“I had to listen to this a few times. I’m just at a loss for words. All of our ADA is staked. Guess what that’s how it’s supposed to be for a properly designed proof-of-stake protocol.”
Buterin also made headlines this week when he was asked on Twitter about his opinions on the US regulatory approach to crypto.
It has been reported that the price of Ethereum could see a massive explosion if the digital asset continues to follow the path of Bitcoin.
According to a well-known crypto analyst, being pessimistic about Ethereum (ETH) would be a challenging task at the moment.
Inmortal, the trader who prefers anonymity, shared with his 194,900 Twitter followers that Ethereum’s current price of $2,000 is equivalent to Bitcoin’s price of $6,000 in 2019. Furthermore, he pointed out that ETH has been establishing higher lows in the macro since the summer of 2022.
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