Vitalik Buterin curbs Elon Musk’s scaling fantasies

Vitalik Buterin takes a stand on the growing influence of Elon Musk’s tweet antics on the crypto market and, at the same time, rejects his view of the scaling of Dogecoin.In many places, the great influence that Elon Musk’s Twitter activities had on the Bitcoin price causes a lack of understanding. In this regard, Ethereum mastermind Vitalik Buterin has now spoken out. He told CNN that the crypto market would no longer be dependent on tweets from Tesla CEO Elon Musk.Not only Bitcoin but also Ether was marked by heavy price losses. On Wednesday morning, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization plunged below $ 1,900, losing around 40 percent from the previous day. While Ether bounced back, it is still far from the record high of $ 4.384 on May 11.Buterin explained that the crypto market currently seems to be at the mercy of Musk’s tweet antics but “will build up an immune system over time.” The problem lies less in an in-depth analysis of the coins than in the gullibility of the investors who simply gave too much faith or interpreted too much into the tweets of the Tesla ruler.Buterin recalls that on February 4th of this year, a Dogecoin tweet from Musk resulted in a 40 percent price increase within half an hour. However, Buterin doesn’t think Musk is deliberately trying to mislead investors.I don’t think Elon has any malicious intent in any way.Elsewhere, however, Buterin criticizes Musk’s claims more clearly. The Ethereum co-founder has published an extensive analysis of the limits of the scalability of the blockchain. The article, posted on Buterin’s personal blog on May 23, highlights the conflict between decentralization and scalability in the architecture of blockchain networks. The article is in response to Elon Musk’s May 15 tweet. In it, he claims that Dogecoin…