Ethereum founder threatens to leave if the crypto community doesn't grow up

I interpret this as -- he's thinking about cashing out, but doesn't want it to look like that. So now his "morals" are kicking in. They weren't kicking in through all these whitepaper-only ICOs were they?

It is a breath of fresh air seeing someone, after earning some success and wealth, still remembers the values he started out with.

Going a step further and being a good leader would I suppose be to steer the technology towards a tool that can create the values he desires e.g. advocate for proof of work that folds proteins.

I feel like making threats on Twitter is not really "grown up". Especially since I doubt his departure would seriously affect the progress of the technology, which makes them fairly empty threats.

I think when something like this happens the founder has already lost control; There was a mistake made a long time ago with respect to disalignment of the vision he saw and the product he built, and by now it is no longer recoverable. He acknowledges the problem, which is why he wants to issue the complaint, but he doesn't really know how to solve it, which is why it seems so desperate.

He has an interest in the success of Daps because without Daps becoming widely adopted Eth is just another alt coin, it clears faster than bitcoin but that's not much differentiation if you don't start to see a major pickup in the use of Daps to solve real world problems.

There’s been good progress in foodbank tech despite it being a fork. http://m.wfp.org/news/news-release/blockchain-against-hunger... Good luck Vitalik