PANews reported on May 3 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published an article titled "Simplifying the L1", in which he pointed out that one of the biggest advantages of Bitcoin is that its protocol is very simple. Historically, Ethereum has often failed to do this (sometimes due to personal considerations), resulting in excessive development spending, various security risks, and an isolated R&D culture. Vitalik hopes that Ethereum will become as simple as Bitcoin in five years, including: simplifying the consensus layer, simplifying the execution layer, backward compatibility strategy for VM transition, and simplification through shared protocol components.
Vitalik concluded that simplicity is similar to decentralization in many ways, both are upstream of resilience goals, and their benefits will become more and more obvious over time - Bitcoin itself is a good example. Vitalik suggested setting a clear maximum code line number goal for Ethereum's long-term specifications, so that Ethereum consensus-critical code is close to the simplicity of Bitcoin.
