In a fireside chat on Thursday, the founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, completely ignored a question asking whether he cared about the prospect of approval for ETH exchange-traded funds (ETFs). In the USA. But he responded to a secondary question about privacy, specifically in relation to the recent conviction of an Ethereum protocol developer. said the fact that Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was sentenced to 64 months in prison was “truly regrettable” and continued to support privacy-centric crypto tools, encouraging people to develop “next-generation” solutions.