-Vitalik is not a piece of shit, actually still works hard daily on it -As do a large number of independent researchers and developers -clients and development distributed enough to minimize “bus factor” -decentralized consensus -only sovereign state resistant ledger -main asset issuance ledger for both L1 and L2s -main home of stablecoins, the number one use case of blockchain -only sovereign asset on Ethereum -deflationary tokenomics/better supply than Bitcoin -ever growing TVL -largest crypto asset besides Bitcoin -people use Ethereum and its l2s daily, it has the largest app ecosystem that’s constantly improving