# The end of my childhood

<https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/31/end.html>

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- Saved: February 1, 2024 (2024-02-01T14:11:24Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

Vitalek Buterin reflecting on his own role in the crypto ecosystem, and how crypto itself is evolving and maturing.

> Is the original "story" of crypto falling further and further behind the times?
> 
> There are two sensible responses to this conundrum, and I believe that our ecosystem would benefit from embracing both of them:
> 
> 1. Remind people that money and finance still do matter, and do a good job of serving the world's underserved in that niche.
> 2. Extend beyond finance, and use our technology to build a more holistic vision of an alternative, more free and open and democratic tech stack, and how that could build toward either a broadly better society, or at least tools to help those who are excluded from mainstream digital infrastructure today.

I enjoyed reading this and Vitalek's personality comes through in the writing. Amongst many other things, Vitalek is a great blogger.

I also liked Vitalik's references to several new and established decentralized services: [ENS](https://ens.domains/), [Skiff](https://skiff.com/), [Status](https://status.app/), [Fleek](https://app.fleek.co/), [Lens](https://www.lens.xyz/), [Farcaster](https://www.farcaster.xyz/), and of course [POAP](https://poap.xyz).

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT275: Weekly Thing 275 / Vision, Sense, Magic](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/275/), Featured

## Mentions

- [Farcaster — Decentralized social network built on Ethereum](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/369d8c12c058/) (farcaster.xyz, February 5, 2024)

## Same host

- [My techno-optimism](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6218f20fd803/) (vitalik.eth.limo, December 4, 2023)
- [Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/efb932060beb/) (vitalik.eth.limo, January 4, 2024)
- [Ask security questions](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e739b5da6ab8/) (vitalik.eth.limo, February 12, 2024)
- [Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a079fc9cd39a/) (vitalik.eth.limo, April 2, 2024)
- [How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f988c373afaf/) (vitalik.eth.limo, May 23, 2024)

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/31/end.html