Solana co-founder Yakovenko: ‘Ethereum embodies bourgeois digital tyranny’
Solana co -founder Anatoly Yakovenko called the Ethereum blockchain a “ digital carnival” with a bourgeois upheaval. Yakovenko believes that Ethereum (ETH) is not a system that will ensure true decentralization. In a response to an X user, he wrote: “In the grand theatre of economic transformation, Ethereum presents itself not as a harbinger of genuine revolution, but merely as a novel spectacle of bourgeois upheaval. As the petite bourgeoisie revel in this digital carnival, the visage of oppression subtly transforms, yet its essence remains inviolate, forever pressing upon the countenance of the toiling masses with a boot, albeit of a different style, yet no less ruthless and unrelenting.” Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana co-founder This represents a “boot” that presses on the face of the “working masses,” Yakovenko emphasized. In his opinion, utopia looks like a “stateless dominion” with decentralized networks of seamless communication and transactions. You mi...