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Vitalik Buterin is indeed a smart guy with his heart in the right place, but every time he opens his mouth the nerd in me winces and prepares for impact. Even when cryptocurrency interested me, I found his talks to be weirdly insufferable and content-adverse. It's interesting to see more people share the opinion that his musings aren't really hard-hitting.

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Do you have specific examples, preferably of something within the past 5 years? I think his writing and speeches are very well thought out and insightful. Often the criticisms people make of him are superficial and because he approaches topics from a very different perspective than what is traditional, but I'd be very happy if you can link to a specific blog or talk that you recall being insufferable.

Rather than being content-adverse, his writing and talks are actually very dense and informative.

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