Ethereum’s 10-Year Triumph: Critics Cry Foul in Hilarious Hubbub! 🚀😂

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Oh, what larks! As Ethereum (ETH) waddles towards its tenth anniversary, the jolly old community is piping up with tales of its indomitable spirit, like a stiff-upper-lip Englishman facing a spot of rain. 😎

Ethereum kicked off the countdown to its big 1-0 bash just over a week ago, unfurling an NFT torch that first graced the digital hands of co-founder Joseph Lubin, probably with a cup of tea in the other hand. 🍵

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BeInCrypto dished out the scoop that the countdown started with Ethereum launching an NFT Torch, which gets passed around like a hot potato every 24 hours—keeps things exciting, what? 🎉

“0/ The Ethereum Torch is now lit. It’s an NFT tipping its hat to the folks and fancies that molded Ethereum’s first decade and will jolly well forge its future. It’ll be handed off from wallet to wallet in the 10 days up to the big anniversary shindig.” — Ethereum (@ethereum) July 20, 2025 😂

As the excitement mounts, with merely two days to go, community types are banging on about the network’s steadfastness over a full decade—resilient as a bulldog, they say. 🐶

Enter Binji Pande, that wag from the Ethereum Foundation and Optimism (OP), who waxed lyrical about the network’s spotless record: ten years without so much as a coffee break or a scheduled snooze. “In that time,” he quipped, “Facebook threw a 14-hour tantrum, AWS had a chilly freeze for 17 hours, Cloudflare lost 19 data centers like misplaced socks, and as for those alt L1s… well, let’s just say they’re about as reliable as a chocolate teapot. Every centralized behemoth nods off eventually, relying on poor sods on call and planned downtime.” 😏

“…But Ethereum? Never stops, not through forks that could split atoms, crashes that make you spill your tea, bubbles that burst with a pop, lawsuits that drag on like bad weather, hacks that send shivers down your spine, wars that rattle the windows, and all sorts of internet drivel. It’s the Energizer bunny of blockchains!” the contributor added, with a wink. 😉

According to Binji, this unflappable nature is all down to the merry band of developers, stakers, researchers, and users— a ragtag army holding the fort. “The resiliency’s naught without the chaos it weathers,” he mused. “Cheers to you lot for building on Ethereum and building it up. Oh, and I’ll be popping over to London soon, so do say hello, Stani—fancy a pint?” 🍻

“The resiliency is nothing without the things it needs to be resilient for. Thank you for both building on Ethereum and for building Ethereum itself. Also, I’ll be in London soon so hope to catch you then, Stani!” — binji (@binji_x) July 27, 2025, with a dash of that old British charm. 😄

Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, couldn’t resist retweeting the jolly nonsense, adding his nod of approval. But hold onto your hats, not everyone’s swallowing this hogwash about Ethereum being an eternal engine. 🚫

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Ah, here’s where the fun begins! Analyst Marty Party, ever the party pooper, pooh-poohed the whole affair, jabbering on about Ethereum’s sluggish speed and its Layer-2 (L2) setups. He reckons the uptime brag is a bit of a fib, labeling L2s as centralized cronies locked in escrow prisons. “Quit with the sweet talk,” he barked. “It’s slower than a snail on a leisurely stroll at 13 transactions per second. L2s aren’t proper blockchains; they’re just centralized sequencers bundling fake ‘transactions,’ zipping them up, and chucking them onto Ethereum with a seven-day hold-your-breath window. Pathetic!” 😠

“And let’s not forget, most assets are unregistered securities, especially on outfits like Hyperliquid. I’d steer clear until those new US crypto laws sort out the mess—like waiting for the rain to stop before a picnic. Caution, my friends, or you might get soaked!” he cautioned, with all the drama of a Shakespearean soliloquy. 🎭

Mind you, Hyperliquid does have a nifty bridge to Ethereum and plays nice with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), but Marty’s not buying it. “Hang fire until the Market Structure Act and Clarity Act lay down the law before tossing large wads into Ethereum L2s,” he warned, probably while clutching his pearls. 💼

Nevertheless, the countdown trudges on to Ethereum’s tenth birthday bash, with whispers that Alex Bornyakov, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, is currently clutching the NFT Torch like it’s the Olympic flame. Quite the honor, one supposes. 🏆

Past torchbearers include Joseph Lubin, who started the charade, and Michael Egorov of Curve Finance— a rotating gallery of crypto glitterati holding the digital baton for a day. The next one’s up in a tick after this write-up. ⏳

— Alex Bornyakov (@abornyakov) July 27, 2025, doubtless grinning like the cat that got the cream. 🐱

As we speak, Ethereum’s trading at a sprightly $3,848, up over 2.3% in the last day, fueled by institutional buzz that’s got everyone from Wall Street to the local pub chatting. What a circus! 🎪

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2025-07-28 02:02