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Author: Macauley Peterson, Blockworks; Compilation: Baishui, Bitchain Vision
The continued debate over the future of Ethereum has reached a sensation under the Trump Meme craze this weekend.Public discussion highlights the differences between various parts of the community and the Ethereum Foundation (EF).The debate involves governance, a roadmap for network scalability and a long-term vision.
A key area of debate is the governance of EF.Critics argue that the internal structure of EF may not be suitable for the current era.Although the Foundation’s mission is to decentralize, its current centralized decisions have sparked criticism of its responsiveness to competitive threats and evolving narratives.
Ironically, much of the sharp criticism of current executive director Aya Miyaguchi stems from misinterpretations of comments she made in a Japanese interview, which led to a lot of misunderstandings and distortions of her views.
Vitalik Buterin himself and other community members have called for attention, highlighting the difference between the original Japanese article and the version posted on Crypto Twitter, which falsely claims that what Miyaguchi calls “competition and victory” is with EthereumThe values that go against the curve of culture.(This is not the case.)
The mistranslation is so obvious that it is hard to imagine that it was not intentional.These translation errors have fueled cyberbullying, which continues despite clarifications.
Some comments have become vicious enough to frighten the core developer, Potuz, a developer named Prysm, commented on the broader sentiment: “Reading Twitter in recent days has made me feel like either I should log out and continue coding,Or leave this field altogether.”
How to best express the core mission of Ethereum is another pain point.On the one hand, those who emphasize Ethereum as the settlement layer believe that a strong currency premium is crucial to cybersecurity.On the other hand, voices like Martin Koeppelmann advocate positioning Ethereum as a “world computer” with a focus on transaction capacity and total expenses as the main indicators of success.These voices see ETH as a secondary “money.”
Ethereum’s scalability plan through aggregation continues to be questioned.We see a new round of calls for a more ambitious strategy to expand the Ethereum mainnet—this time from within EF.
“If Ethereum wants to win, we need to be ambitious,” Dankrad Feist wrote on X on Monday.
He believes that achieving the bandwidth target by 2026 is crucial.“We need to reach our current goal of 1 megabyte per second in 1-2 years (rather than 5 years) and then move on.”
Maintaining the status quo does not seem to work, which seems to be an emerging consensus.
