The Ethereum Foundation won’t disclose Vitalik Buterin’s voting power
A prominent historian who wrote the book about Ethereum’s creation cannot find an answer to a simple question. No matter how many times she’s asked — as recently as yesterday — no one will tell her how many votes Vitalik Buterin controls over the Ethereum Foundation and its $400 million treasury. It’s a question that impacts millions of ETH tokenholders around the world, including hundreds of thousands of wallets that transact on any given day. Laura Shin, author of the book The Cryptopians about the formation and early years of Ethereum, has asked one question for years. Does Vitalik Buterin have three supervotes, or do the four board members vote equally? There are four current directors on the board of the Ethereum Foundation: Vitalik Buterin, Aya Miyaguchi, Hsiao-Wei Wang, and Patrick Storchenegger. With many changes in leadership over time, Buterin is a founding member and widely recognized as the project’s leader. However, the foundation r...