vitalik never was a smart person, his ethereum was just luck. smart contracts is invented/created by nick szabo and code into what is today ethereum by gavin wood

ah, but bitcoin already figured it out and supported by the majority, don't you think?
you also need to know what is blockchain/cryptocurrency and bank/card, and the reason blockchain/cryptocurrency exist or ethereum exist. again do your own dd and understand it before you reply to my post.

oh, i'm all over the places/threads, not just this one. people like vitalik and mcafee are just no one in my book, really. the secret, i just don't like them!

Last night I accidentally found this live streaming on YouTube, that streaming was showing about Vitalik past interview at Ethereal and at the same time they were running a giveaway.
In order to participate, you need to contribute Minimum 2 ETH to their address.
So far they have collected 79 ETH from their victim, you can check it here: https://etherscan.io/address/0x0132946103eFFfa43337128CF65F0B3531378e87
If you ever see something like this on YouTube, please report it and do not send anything to them.
You can check their channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6sOZNpJ0VoTjwpBHULcMQ, it is still active until now.

Be careful everyone!

It is likely a new hot trend from scammer. Youtube does not fastly response to scam reports from community but this is the username of that scam channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thehotgeek
You can search with the keyword: thehotgeek.

If you check, you will see 12/14 videos on that channel are non-crypto things, only two of them relate to crypto and for scam purpose.

I don't know that Youtube does not care about scam reports at all or they just lately response and handle scam reports. Let's see how long it takes till the Youtube takes action about that channel. In the meantime, don't send your ETH to that fake address.

How many coins do you recommend I buy for good staking for next year?

That should be more than 32 ethereum but there will be no limitation about how much ethereum you wanna buy that because more ethereum and more reward you will be received it in your wallet. If you have million dollars and just use some million to buy it but I'm not sure if you will.  

It's better to start with the minimum amount to be a validator just like 32 ethereum and if you are thinking that's worth and just put more money for that.
I thought this must be the best decision.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

It seems strange that anybody would actually believe the scammers but if they collected that much ETH then it means they are having an impact.

Hopefully by highlighting this at least some people will realise it is a scam and will not send any ETH to their scam address.

It happened again, I am truly lost for words right now. Even though they were not able to collect that much of ETH yesterday, but still someone falls for it again.
Here is their latest streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxcpR9VUOpg

From the address mentioned on the stream, they were getting approximately around 6 ETH in total.
Please report them, so YouTube can block their channel.

It's pretty stupid to use the whole theoretically available block size. This way they take their own space for maneuver when scaling.
Linking sidechains with contracts is quite expensive in terms of resources, and linking with cross chains later will be problematic because only wide channels will pull such a network.
I would not use more than 30% of the available block size, not to mention the fact that optimizations of this kind do not have priority over time. They have to deal with global scaling issues as a basic scheme, structure logic and differentials, finally start and run, and already in the process network scaling analyze available block size.

I'm out of merit but you deserve some for this policing. Very much appreciated.