Thanks for hosting the celebration and spreading the vision! It was great to talk to the new and OG locals.

0/ Ethereum turns 10 today! 🎉 There’s so much to celebrate—but for me, it’s about the becoming of something improbable. When it was born, I still remember a dev at my old job shrugging it off: “just another s***coin.” Back then, it felt like a wild dream—and yes, it hit some big bumps early on. 10 years later? Safe to say he was very wrong.

ethereum has been online ten years straight with zero pauses and zero maintenance windows. in that time: - facebook went down for 14 hours - aws kinesis froze for 17 - cloudflare dropped 19 datacenters - alt L1s…well, you know. every centralised giant blinks, they rely on on-call humans and scheduled downtime. but ethereum never stops, not through forks, crashes, bubbles, lawsuits, hacks, wars, and every kind of drama the internet can throw at it. and it’s not thanks to a CEO or a hotline. it’s not because someone saved it. it’s because we all did. devs, stakers, researchers, users, millions of us, scattered across the world, choosing to show up, block after block, year after year. while banks fail, clouds go dark and servers get patched, ethereum keeps going. we keep going. ten years online. forever to go.

Real change takes time—and believers. His work has embodied this, brick by brick, block by block. This is what will bear fruit in the next decade 🍏

1/ Returning to Bhutan 🇧🇹 a year after my first visit felt like a full-circle moment. It was an honor to reconnect with local builders and see the energy growing in this part of the Infinite Garden. 🌱

In a fireside chat, @VitalikButerin and @therealkartik reflected on how crypto’s culture is shifting. Developers are chasing hype over execution and institutions are circling. But for crypto to thrive, Vitalik urged a return to its roots: enabling decentralization that prioritizes user choice. He also touched on promising crypto-AI crossovers, emphasized keeping assets on L1 for security, and called out the growing need to think economically, not just technically.

Two days ago, I met @AyaMiyagotchi , President of the Ethereum Foundation, who was in Bhutan for the International Hackathon in Paro. Grateful for the exchange of ideas and the shared vision for digital innovation.

Day 2 at Bhutan’s first hackathon with international participants! 🇧🇹⛰️ Local hackers are building apps powered by their national digital ID — soon-to-be more decentralized — with mentorship magic from @austingriffith @ShivBhonde and @blockdeveth @hunterhchang together with local mentors ✨

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🎈 The @Ethereum Tour is landing in Bhutan 🇧🇹 🧑‍🏫 We're going to teach how to build on ETH! 🛠️ We'll run two hackathons and meet with local policy makers. 🗺️ We will be led by @AyaMiyagotchi!! 🪪 Bhutan's national identity system settles onchain and land registries are next!