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, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.There is no shortage of myths about creating wealth in the blockchain industry. People in this market are keen to "create" gods and at the same time "destroy" gods.Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin (referred to as V God) and EOS founder Daniel Larimer (screen name ByteMaster, referred to as BM) are long-term top players in the industry.These two pioneers who stand at the top of the industry are often compared: they have similarities in professional background, technical ability, belief in digital currency, etc., but they continue to open up new paths on the way forward. different philosophy.The indistinguishable outcome between them has been persisted by the encryption community at home and abroad for several years.After the news fermented, even though BM explained his departure, the community's trust in BM has been greatly reduced.
Some people say that he has already stepped down from the altar.
After Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin was just born, many encryption scholars and computer geeks from all over the world questioned it, but they became the first holders of Bitcoin one after another.BM and V God are one of them.
BM has appeared in the same discussion post with Satoshi Nakamoto three times, and the first time it became a confrontation between him and Satoshi Nakamoto.In that post from 2010, BM directly questioned the limitations of Bitcoin development and transaction confirmation time. Satoshi Nakamoto explained this, and left the famous quote in the post: "If you don't believe me or don't understand, I don't have time to convince you."In the other two posts of BM, the prototype of a payment system based on Bitcoin and faster transaction speed has been expressed. In 2014, this idea became the first project BitShares (Bit Shares) created by BM, and shouted the slogan "Beyone Bitcoin (Beyond Bitcoin)".With the popularity of BitShares soaring, the community found out the old post of his conversation with Satoshi Nakamoto four years ago, so BM was enshrined in the altar.Also in 2014, V God was placed in the same position. Vitalik Buterin came into contact with Bitcoin and conducted research at the age of 17, and later wrote for "Bitcoin Weekly". With his unique understanding of blockchain technology, he united nearly 20 blockchain researchers and officially launched Ethereum in 2014. Ethereum raised 31,000 bitcoins in its fundraising plan that year, successfully completing its debut in the entire industry.One is described as a genius programmer who advocates free market solutions, and the other is described as a Russian "little monster" who became famous at a young age. The head-to-head confrontation between the two so-called "Gods" was also in 2014.According to the descriptions of many overseas media at the time, BM was portrayed as an "idealist with a dogmatic temper." At that time, almost none of the well-known projects in the encryption community escaped BM's "comments", and so did Ethereum.Vitalik did not answer BM's question directly, but told BM how to integrate other decentralized applications into Ethereum.BM bluntly said that he was not satisfied with this reply.
The years of the public chain battleIn November 2015, during the BTS project period, BM proposed an additional issuance proposal that was not approved, which became the trigger for him to abandon BTS. This incident represented that BM at that time had lost the right to speak in BTS. Perhaps out of anger or limited ideals, BM chose to leave the BitShares community.The issue of additional proposals left people with the impression of "willful" and "authoritarian" on BM.The second project brought by BM is the blockchain social platform Steem. The vote and other modes that appeared in Steem were relatively advanced concepts at that time. To some extent, this mode also affected the concept of the community of EOS later.According to foreign media reports, during the operation of Steem, BM and the CEO of the project still had a constant war of words. In Steem users, there is also a phenomenon of disregarding the content itself and only earning incentives, which seems to have deviated from BM's ideas to some extent. Later, BM and the project partners "peacefully broke up" after reaching an amicable agreement with the project partners, and BM left Steem in March 2017.This time node is just before the public chain blossoms.His mission is written in his personal Git: "My goal in life is to find free market solutions that can ensure the safety of everyone's life, liberty, and property."After leaving Steem, BM quickly returned with EOS, known as the "Ethereum Killer", and stood opposite V God.In May 2017, BM officially announced the EOS concept at the New York Consensus Conference, and advocated a new public chain ecological management model of "super node". More rational voices believe that this is a "weak centralization" approach to pursue high A way of efficiency. However, this approach is quite different from V God, who advocates the concepts of "decentralization" and "security".In the first few years before and after the first year of the public chain, BM and V God had frequent conflicts on their social accounts.ETH represented by Vitalik and EOS represented by BM are very different in terms of design concept, consensus mechanism and economic model. The core of their controversy revolves around the two consensus mechanisms, PoW and DPoS, involving comparisons in decentralization, governance capabilities, resource costs, prevention of DoS attacks, and consensus cycles.At the most intense time, in addition to the on-site and online debates, they also had "distance" debates. In July 2017, V God questioned EOS during his speech in Shenzhen. BM specially took out the video, listed his views one by one and fought back.This is a game between a genius and another genius. Some people in the community describe these mutual confrontations as "fairy fights". The relationship between the two is not good from the outside world, but it is pushing the community forward amidst the controversy.From the perspective of the public chain, both EOS and ETH have had historical vulnerabilities.After the The DAO incident that shocked the entire industry in Ethereum, V God broke the original intention and principle of the immutability of the blockchain and insisted on hard forks. Although this has to some extent shaken the most valued beliefs and consensus in the community, this method prevents investors from losing Ethereum.For EOS, in addition to a series of high-risk security vulnerabilities that have been exposed, the vulnerabilities that are more difficult to fix may be the consensus of the community. Some analysts pointed out that for a certain period of time, EOS node candidates had a complicated relationship. On the other hand, another founder of EOS made great affirmations for the Chinese community during the sale, but downplayed the publicity after the sale ended, causing the EOS community and public opinion to be defeated.At the same time, the governance mechanism of the blockchain has been updated and iterated for several years.V God has long shared his views on community voting, game theory attacks, centralization, and the balance of multiple mechanisms by writing detailed articles.The contest between the two has continued until the current "DeFi era". In April 2020, BM firmly expressed the view that EOS is the most suitable for DeFi, and believes that Ethereum's DeFi has failed.By the end of September of the same year, BM's views were rarely softened. In response to V God's previous remarks that he hoped to end the high Gas fee as soon as possible. BM proposes that this problem can be solved by deploying an Ethereum emulator in the EOS network.
The end of the era of pan-public chain competitionInterestingly, in a community exchange in the first half of 2018, someone asked BM: If EOS really exceeds ETH, what do you want to say to Vitalik? ——The reply given by BM is "Join me".BM said that he can actually understand the goal of God V, and there is a project that can help him accomplish better, but the premise is that he has to leave ETH.This vignette shows their complementary sides in a way.V God has clearly seen the biggest problem restricting Ethereum very early on, so he proposed various ways to improve efficiency along the way. Including Sharding (sharding), Capser (Casper algorithm), Plasma (scalable self-service smart contract) and so on.During a long period of market downturn, although V God has publicly expressed the view that "Ethereum can survive without me". But for several years, he has been at the forefront of Ethereum, and even the center of the consensus of the ETH community.Ethereum has become the main battlefield of the DeFi explosion this year, allowing all public chains to see the power of ecology again. Looking back at Ethereum at this point in time, after V God has continuously proposed improvement plans, the problem of low TPS has been criticized for many years, and various layer0, layer1, and layer2 solutions have emerged.
With the development of public chains over the past few years, the accumulation of various ecological quantities and the changes in quality, the story of Ethereum has become difficult to replicate.When the market is rising day by day in 2020, the public chain dispute will be put on the bright side again, and eventually it will evolve into a currency price competition among public chains. However, the performance of EOS in the currency price has obviously fallen too much.
(Data source: coinmarketcap)As the community's dissatisfaction with EOS gradually accumulated, some people revisited the EOS financing agreement of the year.Chen Weixing, the founder of Fancheng Investment, commented on this financing agreement as early as 2018: "BM's fundraising documents clearly indicate that all the money raised belongs to them privately, and they are not responsible for anything related to EOS, including the suspension of development, Failure to release, not undertaking operations, etc., also states that EOS is not any securities, commodities, or any valuable exchange based on securities and commodities.”EOS initially raised around $4 billion. However, the project parties have greatly increased their value by investing in assets such as BTC.Leaving EOS this time, BM explained that he "does not want innovation to be restricted by regulation." At the same time, BM also revealed the idea of preparing for the next new project in the community.However, compared to investigating the reasons and understanding new projects, more people in the market have a deep impression of BM on labels such as "partner who broke up three times" and "founder who started chaotically and finally abandoned". The remaining EOS "left-behinds" can't even interpret whether BM's departure is bad or good. In the end, they can only sigh in the community: "The million TPS in the early publicity, BM, have you finished?"In fact, through two different consensus mechanisms, the consensus of V God and BM on the direction of "minimizing social corruption and maximizing social democracy" is unified, but at the very beginning, the basic assumptions of the two are already different up.
