Cointelegraph recently sat down for an interview with Ethereum (ETH) co-founder and Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson. During the interview, he discussed his criticism of the development of the Ethereum platform.

"His first project"

Hoskinson believes that 1 of the main reasons why Ethereum'southward evolution has struggled is that too much hinges on Vitalik Buterin personally:

"So, basically Ethereum moves at the speed of Vitalik. So if he knows how to do something very well and he's get very competent in something, they have a handle on information technology. But when you lot're talking about enquiry, when y'all're talking most actually delivering a product to market, these are things that require experience."

According to Hoskinson, information technology shows that Ethereum is Vitalik'due south starting time major project:

"He's never done any of this before. This is his first company, his start project. He was never a researcher, was never a CEO."

Managing expectations

Another major criticism that Cardano founder has for Ethereum is the fact that their project development roadmaps are besides optimistic, which leads to unrealistic expectations:

"I think that the marketing of Ethereum, I call back that the culture of Ethereum was not so good at managing expectations and things that are going to take 5, x, 20 years, whether they be decentralizing the Web, creating a new token economy, scalability of these things are very difficult and each and every i of them requires a lot of very hard work, both on the scientific side and on the technology side. And in that location's just this raw conventionalities that exists within the Ethereum community that somehow it's all going to work its way out and it's going to be washed in a matter of months or years as opposed to decades."

Why bother with PoW?

Hoskinson suggested that there may be some besides disingenuity involved in the way project is marketed:

"Why was there such a big fight well-nigh ProgPow? Why were they even trying to change the proof of work algorithm if they're switching to proof-of-stake? Why would you even bother? Because you lot're going to become rid of proof-of-work, correct?"

At the same time, Hoskinson emphasized that he has a lot of respect for Buterin personally:

"I think y'all're right that Vitalik is a good guy. I've never in one case questioned his ethics. I've never once questioned his integrity or his conventionalities in his production or his ecosystem."

Despite all the criticism, Hoskinson withal sees Ethereum as a major competitor:

"I recollect they're going to be around and I all the same retrieve they're going to be relevant and a strong competitor."

In the next article based on the Hoskinson's interview, we will reveal what early acquisition could have propelled Ethereum forrad.