I think recent Eth surge has something to do with Buterin and the fact that he is growing up and realizing that he has to back-off and leave the coin to find its way more naturally instead of dictating ridiculous "roadmaps".
Unlike most people here, I think Constantinople hard fork besides its reward reduction and the consecutive cut in toke supply, most importantly turns off difficulty bomb which was a joke, a coin that is freezing its own blockchain!
Yes, Vitalik is growing up and is realizing that Eth is not his play ground, it is so encouraging. It appears to me that you are trying to say something interesting here, but I'm not sure I understand what it means. Do you mean that Buterin has started to work on Ethereum project with other devs since recently? Because I personally think that it was like that from the very beginning. IMO Ethereum was never made by Vitalik Buterin alone, there were other guys, like Mihai Alisie, Anthony Di Iorio and Charles Hoskinson, who were also working on the project, and that's why Vitalik is called
co-founder of Ethereum by reputable sources.
Cryptocurrency is inherently decentralized. The main result behind 2018 crash in bitcoin and most other coins was people realizing that the technology is vulnerable to governance issues and Ethereum was the worst case, it is why it crashed like 3 times more than bitcoin and the most problematic weakness of Ethereum is Vitalik Buterin.
He talks too much, He says weird things and doesn't stop ever. His ideas about PoS are absolutely wrong and fruitless, and he pushes for forks that are too dangerous and will put Ethereum in a compromised situation.
For an ordinary software project it is ok. Having a master mind, a genius teenager who invents and reinvents things over and over but for a store of value? I don't think so.
It is really insane. Eth enthusiasts suffer from a deep, deep paradox. They want Eth to have high value and at the same time they want it as an experimental project. Value, money, is not experimental, you can't play with the code that generates it and maintains it!
Unlike many people who have said crazy things in this topic about the recent surge in Eth price being a result of Constantinople hard fork, I believe that it is rather about Casper being postponed even more. Constantinople is just a signal of how conservative things still are and an evidence that proves Vitalik has given up with some of his crazy ideas and is improving his reckless attitude. I have even heard rumors about him planning to back-off and leave Ethereum forever which is really, really great news, imo.
Yes, I think the recent correction in eth price should be understood as market's reaction to Vitalik becoming more humble and Ethereum starting to become a more stable and reliable coin which is no longer treated like a toy by an ex-teenager and his foundation.