One of the best things about Ethereum is how Vitalik focuses mostly on important technical solutions to difficult problems, notably scaling the network to millions/billions of tx/s - crucial to Ethereum's future success. He rises above the noise, it's really impressive given his young age.

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/931323377008046080

> idealists

> hard fork because people didn't want to honor smart contract

Does not compute.

Ethereum community is so cool, I envy you can join it with full time:)

Monero's cool too. Probably most projects that are reasonably young and successful, and have something new and different about them.