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Vitalik Buterin
Co-founded Ethereum as a young programmer and writes about decentralized technology, funding for public goods and defensive approaches to accelerating progress.
Vitalik Buterin sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly free market and strongly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly tech-optimist on technology, strongly libertarian on liberty and authority and strongly globalist on nation.
Where Vitalik Buterin sits on ten dimensions
Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.
💰EconomySlightly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist
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Political views closest to Vitalik Buterin
Pirate politicsChampions digital rights, transparency, privacy and copyright reform.99%CypherpunkUses cryptography and open software to protect privacy and to weaken state and corporate…98%Techno-libertarianismBelieves that digital technology, encryption and open markets can shrink the state and…96%TranshumanismWants to use technology to extend human abilities and lifespans, with strong freedom…96%
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