Vitalik Buterin Discusses the 'Immortality' of the Ethereum Protocol: 'Blockchain Is a Social System'
Vitalik Buterin, one of the creators of Ethereum, has discussed the next steps that this protocol will take and how the future decisions should be the result of a balance of complexity and functionality. Buterin notes that Ethereum started with a philosophy of striving for simplicity but blockchain is a "social system" and there are reasons to add functionality directly to the protocol.