anyone can release a version of ethereum N.0 for N>1 by making their own additions and giving 0.26x minus mining fees since N-1.0 to their own communities as they deem fit, and if the community deems any implementation technically bad or unfair they can reject it and keep building on the previous instead kinda like a blockchain".
Welcome Vitalik!
Would you mind to expand on this and say it in more simple words?
Pretty sure he is saying ethereum could be forked or cloned at some point when there is a divergence in community consensus over something like this.
It will be open source, so the success of ethereum (and any fork/clone) can attempt to exist on its own. I giess this is very similar to what the sharedrop principle provides for altcoins...where
Altcoins build their own "DACs" to and honor their holders' stakes in their coin as a means of competing with bitcoin. They are all clones of bitcoin essentially and thus must distinguish themselves from the "main" project. Pretty sure if vitalik built a version of ethereum with the cost aavi gs of DPOS (or something like it), he'd get a large portion of the community's backing.