Vitalik Calls Microstrategy CEO a ‘Clown’

The co-founder of Ethereum blockchain responded against Microstrategy CEO Micheal Saylor, in response to his past statement on suggested regulatory steps by the US Securities body on the crypto industry.

Microstrategy is a business intelligence firm. In August 2020, Microstrategy company started to accumulate Bitcoin to add to its reserves balance sheet, thanks to the better leadership quality of its CEO Micheal Saylor. To this date, Microstrategy holds around 129,699 bitcoins at an average price of $30,664 per bitcoin.

In the second week of this month, Michael Saylor appeared in an interview on the YouTube series “Not Investment Advice”. Through the interview, Michael appreciated the role of Bitcoin as the best option & tried to criticize other crypto assets as useless.

“simple thing to do is just use Bitcoin as your token and then build on top of that monetary protocol and on top of that monetary asset, but if you’re not going to do that, you have to think long and hard about the economic, ethical, and technical implications of what you’re doing,” Saylor said.

Through the statements, Michael also labeled all the cryptocurrencies (except Bitcoin) as securities and suggested Securities regulatory bodies to act on the crypto industry under the security asset category associated laws.

Probably these things forced Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum blockchain, to talk on this matter. Vitalik quoted a tweet and indirectly called Micheal Saylor a clown of the Bitcoin community.

They pick the heroes that represent them the most

— sassal.eth (@sassal0x) July 31, 2022

This response tweet against Saylor hints that the Ethereum co-founder is somewhat disappointed with the Microstrategy CEO because of his statements against cryptocurrencies, while he loves Bitcoin.

Recently Saylor also talked about the ongoing development work on the Ethereum blockchain, called merge. Saylor said that we can’t look at Ethereum blockchain because it may take 5 to 10 years more to become stable & complete.

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