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9 stories by @evan_van_ness on X have been shared on Kiwi News since 9 March 2024, with 23 upvotes and 18 comments in total. The latest was shared on 23 October 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- @evan_van_ness: why I'm moving assets back to Ethereum mainnet from rollups
- Week in Ethereum has ended. Here is why...
- What should we do with r/ethereum?
Evan, a longtime moderator of r/ethereum, asks the community to decide whether the subreddit should remain a free-speech space focused on the technology and avoiding price talk, or become a moderated community like r/ethfinance that welcomes all price talk. He argues that r/ethereum is no longer the main gathering place of the Ethereum community and that Reddit's weak tools against brigading and vote manipulation mean its quality will never improve under current policies. He says that since 2018 he and a few others have handled most moderation, and that the subreddit has kept a free-speech stance toward critics such as AmericanScream despite calls for bans.
- @evan_van_ness: Rollups need marketing over technical differentiation
Evan Van Ness argues that rollup projects should prioritize marketing over technical differentiation, because their technology does not set them apart. He says none of the rollups are 10x better than competitors, only percentage differences, and that none are trustless yet. He also says Ethereum has no business development team, so its 42 rollup teams approach institutions and governments separately, muddle each other's messages, and fail to close sales, which sours some institutions on Ethereum. He adds that Vitalik is culpable for overrating technology rather than focusing on distribution.
- 5 facts that might make you view Peter's memo differently
Five points about Peter Szilagyi's memo argue that his pay and views are widely misread. They claim his reported 625k in ETH over his first six years coincides with a late, large raise, and that Geth held under 10% miner market share in Q3 2018 before its turnaround. EF leadership reportedly struggled from 2019 to 2021 to get Geth to submit raise budgets, and Avalanche reportedly offered Peter and/or Geth millions, which he turned down. The points also quote Peter's EthCluj talk saying it is better to fall to third or fourth place than to fear losing second, which they call a risk to Ethereum's existence.
- Subtraction is a failed comms strategy
The author argues that the Ethereum Foundation's "subtraction" communication strategy, which means not using Ethereum channels to amplify community voices, has failed by centralizing attention on Vitalik Buterin, so that outsiders perceive Ethereum as "Vitalik's thing." Citing Twitter follower counts, the piece says Vitalik's account has millions more followers than @Ethereum and that no other Ethereum leader has comparable reach. It also claims that Vitalik was largely absent from client diversity efforts, and it calls for the community to decentralize attention away from him.
- Brief bios of each of the members of the Silviculture Society
- Ethereum Roadmap explainer for the rest of us
This thread aims to explain Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum roadmap series in plain terms, starting with part 1 on "The Merge," which took place on September 15, 2022. The poster asks why a roadmap post covers an event from two years earlier and answers that Ethereum was the first truly decentralized proof-of-stake chain. The post also says it has far more stakers than any other chain and that the network's years in production have shown what can be improved.
- Deprecating Week in Ethereum News