Vitalik was surprised by their comments. Why couldn’t they get that what he was saying is so much better, Vitalik thought. He considered working on a specific feature maybe for half a second but immediately discarded the idea. That approach was just wrong. The more he looked at these Bitcoin 2.0 projects, the more they felt like a Swiss Army knife. All these people spending so much time making the nail file, the corkscrew, the tiny scissors . . . but what if nobody wants to use any of those things right now, and they just want a knife, or something else entirely different? Why not build the
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