https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7umljb/vitalik_buterin_tried_to_develop_ethereum_on_top/dtlgi35/nullc -229 points 6 hours ago
/u/vbuterin this is an outright lie; which you are presumably making to wave away your motivations for a premine now valued in billions of dollars.
If it were true, you'd be able to point to specifically public communication where you attempted any such thing. You cannot because you simply didn't do it-- not that it would have made any sense in any case.
You can run your little scam however you like, but if you tell lies like this you will get called out.
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vbuterinVitalik Buterin - Bitcoin & Ethereum Dev 308 points 5 hours ago*x3
I recommend not reading sensationalist headlines and clicking through to my actual words:
The very earliest versions of ETH protocol were a counterparty-style metacoin on top of primecoin. Not Bitcoin because the OP_RETURN wars were happening at the time and given what certain core developers were saying at the time, I was scared that protocol rules would change under me (eg. by banning certain ways to encode data in txs) to make it harder, and I did not want to build on a base protocol whose development team would be at war with me, said Buterin.
Go on VB bro, keeping it real as always
