An attack of generosity: Vitaly Buterin listed three startups of 1000 ETH

Prysmatic Labs, ChainSafe Systems and Sigma Prime blockchain startups received unexpected donations of 1,000 ETH each (in total about $ 300,000) from the creator of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin. Thus, he supported the developers of the updated version of the Ethereum 2.0 ecosystem, complaining about the lack of funding, CoinDesk writes.

On the problems of startups Buterin learned from the Twitter thread. In particular, the co-founder of Prysmatic Labs, Preston Van Loon, who works on the scalability of the Ethereum network, said that he was not able to pay developers a full rate.

The Biggest a distraction Our @prylabs is That <br> we are to still working full time for jobs User OTHER. It has been said that even with recent grants, we’re needing it.

– Preston Van Loon (@preston_vanloon) December 18, 2018

In response to this tweet, Vitalik Buterin wrote: “I have just sent 1,000 ethers. We only live once. ”

Just sent 1000 eth. Yolo https://t.co/s1q8K5Wlhs

– Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) December 19, 2018

Also, thousands of esters were received by Sigma Prime and ChainSafe, which are engaged in developing clients for Ethereum 2.0. So, co-founder of Sigma Prime, Paul Houner, attracted Buterin’s attention with a tweet about the refusal of “several grants.”

Done! https://t.co/I0ZqR5Ivcq

OK, I'm * really * done for the day. / me goes to sleep

– Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) December 19, 2018

At the same time, the head of ChainSafe just had enough of the phrase that he “would fall through the ground if he received 100 thousand dollars at ETH!”.

If you’ve gotten more than $ 100k in ETH.

– Mikerah (@badcryptobitch) December 19, 2018

“Waiting for results!”, Buterin signed his donation.

https://t.co/c2lyXzXdmC

I expect results! ???

– Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) December 19, 2018

Recall that in October, the project Prysmatic Labs has already received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation in the amount of $ 500,000 , and in March attracted $ 10,000 to solve the problem of scalability.

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