If you don't hold the market, step down. Upgrading the system keeps getting postponed. What is going on? It's not like we just asked him to upgrade yesterday and expect results tomorrow. This has been established for six months already. The delays are ridiculous. If you can't produce the results, just say so. Don't rush to get something out that ends up having vulnerabilities and gets attacked by hackers, causing the market to crash.

In this bull market, the performance of ETH has indeed been quite disappointing, not living up to expectations. I often criticize ETH, but at the end of the day, I've never blamed Vitalik.

In my eyes, he has always been the cleanest one. Compared to those founders who are shrewd to the core, he seems more like a big boy who accidentally stumbled into this game. At the Ethereum conference a few days ago, he wore a hippo shirt and a Milady mask on stage—just this kind of person, still quietly supporting the community he once believed in, in his own way.

I can be disappointed in ETH, but I won't project my emotions onto Vitalik. I've never criticized him, not even once.

What truly makes me sigh is those voices that once elevated him to a pedestal and then quickly pushed him down. He was never a god and never pretended to be one. He has never claimed to be a savior, nor promised anyone riches. He is merely a genius young man, smart and technically skilled, but he doesn't understand the complexities of human nature, nor does he need to pay for others' fantasies. He is just a coding genius, not good at expressing himself, not understanding the market, and certainly not grasping how complicated human emotions can be.

But it is precisely this kind of person who is burdened with too much hope and also carries too much disappointment.

I don't know where Ethereum will go, nor do I know how long he can hold on, but I know—Vitalik should not be the one to be blamed.