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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has drastically increased his activity on X, posting more in the last month than the 18 months prior after criticism he had abandoned the platform.&nbsp;
Across all of August, Buterin posted or replied about Ether (<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/ethereum-price" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">ETH</a>), the&nbsp;<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/learn/defi-a-comprehensive-guide-to-decentralized-finance" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">Ethereum blockchain</a>, and other topics at least 158 times, as trader and conomist Alex Krüger pointed out in a Sept. 12 X <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://x.com/krugermacro/status/1834245182696329288" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="https://x.com/krugermacro/status/1834245182696329288">post</a>.
In comparison, from January to July, he posted 44 posts and posted just 13 times in all of 2023.
Buterin wrote in an Aug. 20 X post that he was told to "do less philosophizing and do more Ethereum bullposting.”
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Buterin was criticized and accused of abandoning X for the smaller Farcaster platform, with largely follower accounts, including by “Autism Capital,” who called for Buterin to return to X and push Ethereum. In a reply to Elon Musk, Autism Capital speculated that Buterin left X for Farcaster because it allowed him to engage with a smaller group of like-minded peers with less scrutiny.
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Buterin’s increased X activity has continued into September, with more than 30 posts or replies up to Sept. 13, with posts suggesting that the community should begin ramping up the pressure on L2s <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/learn/defi-a-comprehensive-guide-to-decentralized-finance" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">without adequate decentralization protocols</a>.
Related: <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-funding-rate-rise-could-see-parabolic-eth-price" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">Ethereum trader sentiment needs small bump for ETH to see ‘parabolic rise’</a>
In July, Solana <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bots-pushing-solana-over-ethereum-research" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">surpassed Ethereum in weekly </a>total fees for the first time, clocking approximately $25 million in revenue versus Ethereum’s $21 million.
At the same time, Buterin <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://etherscan.io/address/0xfeb016d0d14ac0fa6d69199608b0776d007203b2" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">transferred</a> about $10 million worth of his Ether holdings to wallets associated with crypto exchanges in August and Arkham Intelligence data <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/entity/vitalik-buterin" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">showed</a> Buterin’s address had outflows of around 422,000 ETH (worth $993 million) since 2015.
The transfers led to <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-10m-sales-eth-bulls" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">speculation that Buterin</a> has been selling his Ether holdings to realize profits, which he denied, saying he <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-defends-eth-sales-amid-allegations" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">has never sold</a> his Ether holdings for profit, only to support various projects that he thinks are valuable.&nbsp;
The price of Ether is currently sitting at $2,350 and has been <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/why-is-ethereum-eth-price-down-today" rel="" target="_self" text="null" title="https://cointelegraph.com/news/why-is-ethereum-eth-price-down-today">unable to close above </a>$2,500 since Sept. 2.&nbsp;
Magazine: <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/simple-change-save-ethereum-roadmap-to-hell/" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">Proposed change could save Ethereum from L2 ‘roadmap to hell’</a>

Vitalik Buterin ups X activity in August, posts more than last 18 months

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