Vitalik reports PERSONALLY to Elon on Twitter

Have you seen what happened between Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin on Twitter yesterday?

Elon, the founder and CEO of Tesla - probably everyone knows him by now - had Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, report to him DIRECTLY VIA TWITTER.

First he simply put out a simple tweet "Ethereum". Nothing much more. Vitalik invited him over to the next DevCon.

Ethereum — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 30, 2019

First everyone thought it's a simple PR gag, because Elon kept silent for a while. But the 105 thousand likes and around 14 thousand comments might have cought his eye.

It seems like it spiked his interest. So Elon asked: "What should be developed on Ethereum?".

Now, the usual answer is "pretty much everything security or money related" isn't enough here. And Vitalik knows. So he went ahead and in 4 tweets he gave 13 GOOD reasons where Ethereum really shines.

Here they are:

A globally accessible financial system, including payments, store of value, also more advanced stuff like insurance http://hurricaneguard.io/

Identity: "sign in with Facebook" -> "sign in with an ethereum account, no intermediaries". Also web of trust...

All sorts of registries should publish on chain for security and easy verifiability, see my thread on this https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1072158957999771648 …

Experimenting with new forms of human organizational structure, eg. @MolochDAO

All sorts of micropayment use cases via payment channels..

Markets for personal data for privacy preserving machine learning (you pay me X, I let you homomorphically execute function Y on my data that's been attestated to by Z...)

Cryptoeconomics for spam prevention in social networks https://ethresear.ch/t/prediction-markets-for-content-curation-daos/1312

Cryptoeconomics / micropayment schemes to reward publishers of good content

Testing ground for new market designs, eg. frequent batch auctions, combinatorial auctions, automated market makers (eg. http://uniswap.exchange )

Stickers/badges https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/939489302869770240

p2p marketplace for internet connections / incentivized mesh networks

Identity, reputation and credit systems for those that currently have few resources (eg. refugees)

Decentralized DNS alternatives (eg. http://ens.domains/ )

Here are the raw Tweets:

My top picks (1):

  • A globally accessible financial system, including payments, store of value, also more advanced stuff like insurance https://t.co/AGoMt6r2wK
  • Identity: "sign in with Facebook" -> "sign in with an ethereum account, no intermediaries". Also web of trust... — Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) April 30, 2019

(2)

  • All sorts of registries should publish on chain for security and easy verifiability, see my thread on this https://t.co/70yV7kinVb
  • Experimenting with new forms of human organizational structure, eg. @MolochDAO
  • All sorts of micropayment use cases via payment channels... — Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) April 30, 2019

(3)

  • Markets for personal data for privacy preserving machine learning (you pay me X, I let you homomorphically execute function Y on my data that's been attestated to by Z...)
  • Cryptoeconomics for spam prevention in social networks https://t.co/06n0zGQYXP — Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) April 30, 2019

(4)

  • Cryptoeconomics / micropayment schemes to reward publishers of good content
  • Testing ground for new market designs, eg. frequent batch auctions, combinatorial auctions, automated market makers (eg. https://t.co/jaPhz1nQFr)
  • Stickers/badges https://t.co/reDBpbQ7uw — Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) April 30, 2019

(5)

  • p2p marketplace for internet connections / incentivized mesh networks
  • Identity, reputation and credit systems for those that currently have few resources (eg. refugees)
  • Decentralized DNS alternatives (eg. https://t.co/aTRxfTlXpC) — Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) April 30, 2019