{"id":67715,"date":"2022-09-27T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T06:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=67715"},"modified":"2025-09-07T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:09:07","slug":"charles-hoskinson-clashes-with-ethereum-developers-over-the-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/charles-hoskinson-clashes-with-ethereum-developers-over-the-merge\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Hoskinson clashes with Ethereum developers over The Merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum network&#8217;s transition to the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm has been delayed, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You should have just implemented snow white with Elaine\u2019s help. It would have saved you a heck of a lot of pain and effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IOHK_Charles\/status\/1573939360151621632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hoskinson reacted to statements by Ethereum developer Evan Van Ness, who stated, as he put it, an unpopular opinion that the merge could have happened earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder Vitalik Buterin agreed with him, noting that the team could have implemented what was planned based on<a href=\"https:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nxt\"> NXT<\/a> as early as 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hoskinson, the network should have implemented the Snow White protocol, which was among the first to provide comprehensive formal security proofs for PoS algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, in an interview with<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/charles-hoskinson-ethereum-would-be-better-if-buterin-used-snow-white\"> Cointelegraph<\/a>, the Cardano founder said that his ideas for technical updates to the Ethereum network since 2014 were better than what developers had implemented at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the remark, Evan Van Ness reminded Hoskinson that the Cardano founder had been fired from the Ethereum Foundation after six months due to his poor conduct and lack of any significant technical contribution.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Charles got fired from Ethereum in less than 6 months because no one liked him and he did nothing useful technically.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan Van Ness \ud83e\udd87\ud83d\udd0a (@evan_van_ness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evan_van_ness\/status\/1574118271938437121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shortly before the dispute, Hoskinson accused Ethereum developers of ignoring Ouroboros \u2014 Cardano&#8217;s variation of the PoS blockchain \u2014 over the past five years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To discuss major differences in protocol design. I repeatedly pointed out that the core engineers of Ethereum completely ignored Ouroboros throughout the last five years. It\u2019s a crime on that side of the fence to even mention Cardano. If you don\u2019t believe me, then send (2\/9)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IOHK_Charles\/status\/1574251563412992000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In response, former Ethereum Foundation employee Hudson Jameson reminded Hoskinson that Vitalik Buterin had weighed in on Ouroboros. The team declined to work with him because of \u201chis attitude and actions as the face of the Cardano project\u201d, as well as past conflicts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vitalik and Charles discussing Ouroboros: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OBvVTT0S7s\">https:\/\/t.co\/OBvVTT0S7s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hudsonjameson\/status\/1574259062958604291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On September 23, the Input Output Global (IOG) team successfully<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cardano-network-activates-vasil-hard-fork\"> activated the Vasil upgrade<\/a> on the Cardano mainnet.<\/p>\n<p> Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\u201d\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum network&#8217;s transition to the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm has been delayed, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[471,46],"class_list":["post-67715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-charles-hoskinson","tag-ethereum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67717,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67715\/revisions\/67717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}