Ethereum was the result of war-gaming Bitcoin. I don’t necessarily mean Vitalik was in a war-game with US Gov operatives and they sent him out to destroy it but rather they would have deduced the best way to attack Bitcoin was to surround it with shitcoins, that are full of scams, lump it all together under “crypto” (which sounds shady to people who don’t know what cryptography is), obfuscate the zero to one invention amongst a sea of garbage and hope that it just becomes unpalatable for normies to look into.

They can’t kill it now, they just want it to remain ethereal.