Vitalik's $43M ETH Exit: Leadership or Lifeboat?
The optics are brutal. Ethereum's co-founder has offloaded 17,000 ETH in February—right as the asset plunged 37%. When Vitalik Buterin announced in January that he was allocating 16,384 ETH (~$43 million) to fund privacy-preserving technologies, the community largely applauded. A founder putting capital where his