A fresh debate around Kaspa and its founder, Yonatan Sompolinsky, is drawing strong reactions from the project’s community.
X user MoralBalance published a lengthy defense of Sompolinsky, and argued that critics continue to spend significant time attacking both him and Kaspa even though Sompolinsky himself has largely stayed out of the public argument.
The post frames that silence as a strength, claiming that the louder critics become, the more attention they ultimately bring back to Kaspa.
MoralBalance accused unnamed critics of repeatedly questioning Sompolinsky’s importance and Kaspa’s technology, only to keep returning to the same subject.
The central argument is that people who consider Kaspa irrelevant would not spend so much time discussing it.
The post also contrasts online criticism with Sompolinsky’s academic work, arguing that scientific contributions carry more weight over time than social-media disputes.
The quieter Yonatan Sompolinsky remains, the louder the storm inside certain people becomes. The man says nothing, yet they go searching for him through Wikipedia pages. He doesn’t respond, so they invent their own questions, answer them themselves, and applaud their own brilliance. First, they accuse everyone else of ignorance. Then they prove incapable of tolerating even the slightest criticism directed at themselves. Always talking. Always belittling. Always desperate to be right. They crave applause, yet even those who applaud them are never intellectually qualified enough to satisfy them. Because what they seek isn’t appreciation. It’s unquestionable superiority. And do you know the most tragically hilarious part? They’ve placed someone they call insignificant at the very center of their minds. They dedicate their own precious time to a technology they claim is worthless. They keep orbiting Kaspa while desperately trying to convince the world that Kaspa doesn’t matter. There’s something almost poetic about someone responding to another person’s silence with so much noise. While Yonatan advances science, some mistake the echo of their own ego for intellectual debate. And history has a peculiar sense of irony: Some people leave a mark on history. Others spend their lives desperately trying to erase it. Their attacks on Kaspa may eventually be forgotten. But scientific contributions don’t disappear simply because someone’s ego refuses to acknowledge them. Sometimes silence is the most devastating response, especially when your opponent is already losing an argument with himself. #Kaspa kaspa:native #KaspaKii #YonatanSompolinsky #GHOSTDAG #BlockDAG #Cryptocurrency @hashdag @michaelsuttonil @Kaspa_HypeMan
— MoralBalance (@bysiyakat) October 12, 2026
Sompolinsky is not simply a public face attached to Kaspa. He is a computer scientist who co-developed the GHOST protocol with Aviv Zohar, work later cited in Ethereum’s whitepaper, and went on to develop the research behind GHOSTDAG and Kaspa. Kaspa’s own documentation identifies him as the project’s founder and credits his work as a major part of its technical foundation.
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Why Yonatan Sompolinsky Carries Weight in the Kaspa Debate
That background is one reason criticism around Sompolinsky tends to generate strong reactions from KAS supporters.
His reputation predates Kaspa itself.
The GHOST research dates back to 2013, and his later work focused on permissionless consensus, blockDAG systems and transaction ordering. He also conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard focused on transaction ordering protocols and MEV. Kaspa
That does not mean criticism of Kaspa should automatically be dismissed.
Technical projects should be challenged on adoption, decentralization, developer activity, security and whether their technology translates into real usage.
But criticism of Kaspa is more useful when it addresses those points directly rather than turning into arguments about personalities.
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