people like vitalik are very careful what they are saying.
It looks to me like Vitalik has come out with loads of stupid shit over the years. However he is with it enough to know that talking endlessly about price achieves nothing and enlightens no one. The few times he has talked about price it seemed to largely be dissing its absurdity.
He came out with the outrageously ingenious and evil idea of allowing scammers to sell ideas without doing any cryptogrophy work at all. It took off like crazy and made a few people really rich. It also imo made the 2017 pump much bigger than it should have been.
Now that governments are watching, what's the next bag of tricks to fuel the next pump?