“CryptoKitties has become so popular that it's taking up a significant amount of available space for transactions on the Ethereum platform.”— Garrick Hileman, bbc.com
“Bitcoin and Ethereum are doing different things. Bitcoin is a digital currency, and the protocol is written to sustain this cryptocurrency. Clearly, Ethereum platform has ETH, it is also a digital currency, but it exists to sustain the protocol.”— Vitalik Buterin, cointelegraph.com
“There is a lot of intermediaries that end up charging 20-30% and if the concept of decentralization takes off and does well than those are also going to decline to near zero.”— Vitalik Buterin, futurethinkers.org
“The one thing that’s made me feel optimistic over the last year is that there is a lot of interest, not just on the cryptocurrency side and buying ether and holding it, but actually using it to build applications.”— Vitalik Buterin, bitcoinmagazine.com
“We just broke over 500 hundred thousand transactions per day for the first time. Which in case you can't divide is something like 7 transactions a second.”— Vitalik Buterin, youtu.be
“In essence, Ethereum 2.0 will advance the core model of the protocol through sharding, which, to paraphrase his words, sharding is like creating a blockchain with a hundred different universes with different account spaces in each universe.”— COBINHOOD, medium.com