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@VitalikButerin Avatar @VitalikButerin vitalik.eth

Vitalik Buterin, also known as vitalik.eth, has been discussing the importance of privacy in governance, citing projects like @aragonproject. He also emphasized the significance of low-risk DeFi, which has become safer and more accessible. Additionally, he expressed excitement about AI-assisted formal verification of code and bug finding, which could significantly improve Ethereum's technical security.

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Social topic influence ethereum #9, has been #3231, protocol #1355, over the 0.98%, decentralized #1478, all the 0.73%, longterm #523, futures #1291, investment #2040, transactions #606

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"@punk6052 @Zac_Aztec @rel_zeta_tech @aztecnetwork May the 4th be with you Milady"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-05-04T23:50Z 5.8M followers, 53.9K engagements

"Going to prison for the rest of your life over non-violent tax offenses is absurd. The case against Roger seems very politically motivated; like with @RealRossU there have been plenty of people and corporations who have been accused of far worse and yet faced sentences far milder than what Roger is facing. The argument that the flashlight on him is motivated by things he said (namely his advocacy of freedom and refusal to accept legitimacy of coercive state power) seems compelling. This is worth standing against because selective prosecution for unrelated offenses is a common way of"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-03-01T11:00Z 5.8M followers, 1M engagements

"Reminder that Peter Thiel is to put it mildly not a cypherpunk"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-03T00:03Z 5.8M followers, 914K engagements

"Nordics are walking back the cashless society initiative because their centralized implementation of the concept is too fragile. Cash turns out necessary as a backup. Ethereum needs to be resilient enough and private enough to be able to credibly play this kind of role"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-05-25T12:28Z 5.8M followers, 556.7K engagements

"@secparam Metaculus's median date for when quantum computers will break modern cryptography is 2040: Seemingly about a XX% chance it will be before end of 2030"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-27T23:17Z 5.8M followers, 32.2K engagements

"The lean Ethereum team has been doing a truly amazing job kicking into gear this year and delivering on all fronts to ensure Ethereum's long-term scaling decentralization and resilience. I expect all of these ideas will be ready to kick into gear at roughly the same time as the short-term scaling roadmap delivers on its key milestones"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-06T19:21Z 5.8M followers, 547.1K engagements

"@and_khamoo Many in the Ethereum ecosystem love Moodeng. Happy to also meet Moodeng's good friends at the zoo"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-11-19T14:34Z 5.8M followers, 938.1K engagements

"Possible futures for the Ethereum protocol part 2: The Surge"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-10-17T00:43Z 5.8M followers, 829K engagements

"Base is doing things the right way: an L2 on top of Ethereum that uses its centralized features to provide stronger UX features while still being tied into Ethereum's decentralized base layer for security. Base does not have custody over your funds they cannot steal funds or stop you from withdrawing funds (this is part of the L2beat stage X definition). You can see Base's status as an L2 on l2beat: I feel like many people have been confused by recent cynicism and think that things like L2beat are a weird sort of nerd-sharia compliance authority. This is NOT what is going on. The security"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-22T22:46Z 5.8M followers, 1.7M engagements

"Ethereum L1 is the world ledger"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-06-20T12:22Z 5.8M followers, 1.1M engagements

"accelerate good things"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-01-28T17:28Z 5.8M followers, 405.4K engagements

"Low-risk defi used to be constrained by regulatory barriers and smart contract safety risks. Both problems have greatly improved. For many people worldwide defi today is in some cases already safer than tradfi"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-21T01:08Z 5.8M followers, 162K engagements

"@KhaokheowZoo Thanks for the warm welcome to the family and your work for wild animals I'm happy to be adoptive father to Moo Deng as she grows up over the next 2y and support her with my 10M THB donation maybe more as I set aside XX ETH for🦛+ frens. May they live long and prosper🖖🏻"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-12-26T11:53Z 5.8M followers, 1.5M engagements

"Regular reminder that AI is fully capable of regularly taking the crazy crown away from crypto for weeks at a time"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-07-13T14:37Z 5.8M followers, 513K engagements

"Amazing to see @AragonProject leading the way in bringing privacy to governance"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-20T12:15Z 5.8M followers, 296.7K engagements

"@louisvarge One thing that the "skip the line" example misses is that line skipping is inherently illicit. But there are situations where the thing a bribee sells is a reasonable thing to give but it would break things if they made a pattern of giving it out at a price"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-12T03:44Z 5.8M followers, 28K engagements

"I think you are misperceiving the situation. What I ask for is quite balanced it's simply that we should have privacy in our digital communications and activities of a similar type that we had for thousands of years (when we had in-person voice conversations used cash for payments etc) It is a minority (far from a majority) in government and tech industry that is pursuing a type of absolutism where they openly use phrases like "there should be no place to hide" seeking a kind of utopia (from their perspective) where they have the ability to see everything and nothing is out of bounds."
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-27T03:11Z 5.8M followers, 15.3K engagements

"@nero_eth We saw the last gas limit increase with the London hardfork in August 2021 still PoW Technically the merge (Sep 2022) increased capacity by X% by slightly reducing block time 😃"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-02-04T15:40Z 5.8M followers, 24.5K engagements

"Simplifying the L1"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-05-03T07:03Z 5.8M followers, 1.3M engagements

"Memory access is O(N1/3)"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-05T02:49Z 5.8M followers, 510.9K engagements

"@shuirenzhi88858 @Etherealize_io"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-06-19T09:17Z 5.8M followers, 137.3K engagements

"@TerribleMaps And in the depths of Ethereum research land:"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-06-09T13:56Z 5.8M followers, 25.1K engagements

"I think to me it's not about moral absolutes it's a question of where the friction lies - both in terms of the cost of creating a gated community and in the sense that if you're in a gated community you still have a lot of opportunities to interact with the outside world vs between countries"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-31T23:03Z 5.8M followers, 3698 engagements

"Excited to see how far Polymarket has come over these years. Prediction markets have improved a lot since the early days of Augur v1 in 2015 and Polymarket has been the key driving force making this happen"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-10T03:29Z 5.8M followers, 720.5K engagements

"I also love the emphasis on how few lines of code each piece takes. Protocols are not a dirty get-it-out-there thing that you vibe-code where you accept permanent accumulating garbage in the name of short-term convenience. Protocols are a work of art. They should look as such"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-06T19:24Z 5.8M followers, 209.6K engagements

"What do I think about Community Notes"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2023-08-16T02:49Z 5.8M followers, 23.9M engagements

"@toghrulmaharram If you don't choose your bridge other people will and they'll probably make you stage X and put themselves as the security council"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-09T00:23Z 5.8M followers, 32.1K engagements

"Privacy is normal. Railgun uses the privacy pools protocol ( ) which makes it much harder for bad actors to join the pool without compromising users' privacy"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-04-15T12:15Z 5.8M followers, 1.9M engagements

"Added more M31 and binary field support to zorch: Now you can write reasonably-performant STARK proving code that runs on your GPU in python Below is the full arithmetization of poseidon. I welcome others taking this and running with it"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-08-08T05:01Z 5.8M followers, 744.2K engagements

"@vickydiamond21 The blob philosophy is that there is no such thing as "invalid data" There is data and then separately there is the algorithm for processing it. If it's an L2 then it generally treats an invalid transaction as a no-op (ie. process it by doing nothing)"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-24T23:11Z 5.8M followers, 18.4K engagements

"@i4040z @apoorveth No there are multiple paths to preserve compatibility so that existing apps will keep working even if devs do no work at all"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-05T05:34Z 5.8M followers, 2804 engagements

"Highly encourage researchers to participate in the Poseidon cryptanalysis program. We are seriously considering migrating Ethereum to the Poseidon hash to optimize zk-prover friendliness so having more information about its security properties is extremely high value"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-02-26T09:31Z 5.8M followers, 430.1K engagements

"Importantly low-risk defi is often very synergistic with a lot of the more experimental applications that we in ethereum are excited about"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-21T01:08Z 5.8M followers, 125.1K engagements

"@_EMAgency @WatcherGuru @cz_binance XX% of everything that Balvi has funded is fully open source"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-07-01T21:08Z 5.8M followers, 34.8K engagements

"To me the really important thing here is creating funding structures that durably incentivize open source open standards and security disincentivize walled-garden mentality and extractiveness and generally promote being a positive-sum participant toward your wider ecosystem"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-01-11T12:28Z 5.8M followers, 642.9K engagements

"@WhaleofChinaETH @ilex_ulmus The EF's fiscal actions are guided by our treasury policy which you can view here including reasoning for why we made these decisions:"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-13T02:36Z 5.8M followers, 4366 engagements

"What else could memecoins be"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-03-29T08:59Z 5.8M followers, 3.5M engagements

"@jontesl2611 @ethereumfndn @SharpLinkGaming sure but yesterday was moo deng's birthday so moo deng goes in front"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-07-11T13:45Z 5.8M followers, 219.7K engagements

"Fusaka will fix this. But also safety first is of the utmost importance for Fusaka. The core feature PeerDAS is trying to do something pretty unprecedented: have a live blockchain that does not require any single node to download the full data. The way PeerDAS works is that each node only asks for a small number of "chunks" as a way of probabilistically verifying that more than XX% of chunks are available. If more than XX% of chunks are available then the node theoretically can download those chunks and use erasure coding to recover the rest. In the first version there are two cases where the"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-24T22:46Z 5.8M followers, 436.4K engagements

"@pbrody My stack: X. CO2+AQI meter X. nasal barrier spray X. mask (for high-density situations) X. screw-on to turn any water bottle into a nasal irrigator Though ideally we don't need to do any of this and we can just have buildings with natively much better ventilation+filtration"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-06T00:47Z 5.8M followers, 79.9K engagements

"d/acc: one year later"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-01-05T17:12Z 5.8M followers, 728.4K engagements

"The L2 scaling thing is working"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-11T00:39Z 5.8M followers, 409K engagements

"I'm really looking forward to Verkle trees. They will enable stateless validator clients which can allow staking nodes to run with near-zero hard disk space and sync nearly instantly - far better solo staking UX. Also good for user-facing light clients"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-02-18T23:54Z 5.8M followers, 652.7K engagements

"A fun math aside on the idea of splitting a large zk proving workload between multiple provers. Suppose you have N provers and you have a proving workload that you split into N parts (so one part per prover). You require provers to pre-register but registration is open-access. Suppose you have a constant fault rate (eg. 1/5 of registered provers fail). Provers expect to complete in one round (eg. 3s). If one prover fails other provers have to come in and re-prove that load. How many rounds does it take for the entire workload to get proven Answer: log*(N) (yes that's the iterated-log"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-05-21T18:04Z 5.8M followers, 297.3K engagements

"@theZeugh @chris_j_paxton house prices (both buy and rent) go up to like a bazillion dollars it's good for incumbents but no one else plenty of studies that density is good for enabling wealth and productivity which is upstream of having more resources to solve basically any social problem"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-28T13:56Z 5.8M followers, 4326 engagements

"This is a good decision and I respect it. Not every business should be trying to appeal to many customers as possible in the name of "not being maximalist". We need the stubborn ones who believe in their cause and their tribe and see their work as a labor of love to it"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-12T04:27Z 5.8M followers, 425K engagements

"@Frosen43 Earning $XX on $5100 in a month is kinda unfavorable no Over XX% APY here:"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-02T03:29Z 5.8M followers, 76.8K engagements

"@WiraTwins23 @tobyordoxford or you can have some peaceful moo animals"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-05-09T07:55Z 5.8M followers, 150.1K engagements

"@tszzl Or why Singapore is clearly the inspiration for the city that appears in all the "the amazing future if we did ______" memes"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-12-05T04:27Z 5.8M followers, 55.1K engagements

"@louisvarge I follow the rules and proudly boast lifetime X missed flights in 2000063 km (not including extra distance from layovers)"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-07-11T14:30Z 5.8M followers, 68.6K engagements

"@potuz_eth Don't do state expiry do partial state nodes imo They're functionally similar but the latter does not require any consensus-layer logic and is much more flexible"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-19T07:02Z 5.8M followers, 33.7K engagements

"Note that this was from 2007 a decade before his more recent shifts and two years before his quote "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" (see where he claims to choose freedom"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-03T00:03Z 5.8M followers, 163.3K engagements

"GPT explanation:"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-08T11:38Z 5.8M followers, 98.8K engagements

"It's interesting how Visa was created with decentralist ideals so similar to those that gave rise to modern DAOs and yet today many of us perceive it as extractive and/or oppressive. Certainly some good insights to learn from there"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-08T11:37Z 5.8M followers, 345.9K engagements

"The best way to build an L2 is to lean into the L1's offerings (security censorship resistance proofs data avail.) more and reduce your logic to just being a sequencer and a prover (if based just a prover) over the core execution. This is the combination of trust minimization and efficiency that the 2010s enterprise blockchain crew wanted but was never able to achieve. Now with Ethereum L2s you can achieve it. And we've already seen successful examples of the L1's features protecting users' rights if something on the L2 goes wrong"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-07-15T09:31Z 5.8M followers, 615.8K engagements

"Reminder: there's also plenty of people who have lost huge amounts of crypto to loss rather than theft. Software bug forgotten password lost device paper wallet burned down in LA fire upgraded device without backing up data . lots of ways for that to happen. Because there's no attacker to go after victims don't have a strong need to talk about it. And often because they see no one to blame but themselves victims will be too ashamed to talk about it. But it happens. Often. And the truly robust wallet security solutions that our ecosystem needs to build should take loss into account too."
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-02-28T06:22Z 5.8M followers, 819.7K engagements

"@blknoiz06 @js_horne @zora The name of the animal is Eth"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-11T20:51Z 5.8M followers, 322.8K engagements

"Some reflections on the Bitcoin block size war"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-05-31T08:35Z 5.8M followers, 968K engagements

"@cold_xyz @CharlotteFang77 done remove curse pls"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-01-18T23:30Z 5.8M followers, 630K engagements

"Second-order effects of it being near-free to have your car keep driving around and using the street as a "parking space" are going to be interesting"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-10T06:53Z 5.8M followers, 559.2K engagements

"The basic idea: You add storage slots XXXX to the VOPS and you add the option for txs that access anything else in the validation step to add witnesses. The former handles "most txs" efficiently you need the latter for privacy protocols anti-frontrunning and a few other use cases"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-19T21:46Z 5.8M followers, 2520 engagements

"Fearing concentration of capital isn't commieslop it's human nature and rational to fear greatly unbalanced power especially in the context of a world where rule of law is weakening and capital is quite convertible into all kinds of other (including coercive) power And on top of that AI firms have access to incredible amounts of people's private data which creates even more opportunities for coercion (both by them and by governments that capture them)"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-25T11:48Z 5.8M followers, 2514 engagements

"Travel time = distance 0.6"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2023-04-14T07:14Z 5.8M followers, 1M engagements

"The importance of full-stack openness and verifiability (including applications operating systems hardware and bio)"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-24T02:11Z 5.8M followers, 370.8K engagements

"Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol part 6: The Splurge"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-10-29T00:43Z 5.8M followers, 1.1M engagements

"@DanFriedman81 @StaniKulechov @aave"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-11T04:45Z 5.8M followers, 4997 engagements

"Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol part 4: The Verge"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-10-23T04:19Z 5.8M followers, 598.7K engagements

"Excited to see @brevis_zk's Pico Prism entering the ZK-EVM proving arena An important step forward in ZK-EVM proving speed and diversity"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-15T12:07Z 5.8M followers, 445.3K engagements

"I'd say high bandwidth is a more dangerous assumption to make than high compute reqs. The basic reason is if you have a computer you (generally) can expect to keep that computer but an internet connection has no such guarantees. Reasons: * censorship * disruption to internet physical infra (yes starlink too is vulnerable) Also rural environments have much weaker options for connectivity than urban options and often even a lot of money can't bypass that reality whereas with computers you can just buy it and get it delivered once"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-02-16T17:31Z 5.8M followers, 181.7K engagements

"Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-02-14T12:43Z 5.8M followers, 611.2K engagements

"How to make Ethereum L1 scaling more friendly to users running local nodes for personal use:"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-05-19T04:51Z 5.8M followers, 653.3K engagements

"Kohaku code and roadmap Full-stack privacy and security are first-class priorities in Ethereum"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-09T08:19Z 5.8M followers, 473.4K engagements

"@CharlotteFang77 milady"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-01-18T21:06Z 5.8M followers, 1.2M engagements

"@zengjiajun_eth Come on local AI models for object selection are not that hard needs less than X GB VRAM Here ya go:"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-08-13T03:55Z 5.8M followers, 30.7K engagements

"I feel like X years ago I completely agreed and my high-level argument was something like "infrastructure is public goods the incentive to fund public goods is N times smaller than optimal (that's basic econ 101) so it's practically impossible for there to be too much infrastructure". The problem though is that "infrastructure" is a diverse category and some infrastructure is public goods while other infrastructure is realistically a zero-sum network effect grabbing game. Today it feels like some categories of infrastructure are way over-invested and others are still very under-loved."
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-03-02T14:13Z 5.8M followers, 565.1K engagements

"Re-upping my article from 2021 addressing this and some possible solutions: @_futarchy is one example of category X (skin in the game for governance). There's still a bribeable governance layer for the utility function but at least it's more indirect so you can't just go and pay dollars to achieve a specific outcome. Bribe mechanisms are going to happen you can't stop them on an open system - and so we need to design our governance to be maximally robust to them"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-01-27T20:15Z 5.8M followers, 687.5K engagements

"Does digital ID have risks even if it's ZK-wrapped"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-06-28T09:35Z 5.8M followers, 346.6K engagements

"Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto""
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-07-17T17:06Z 5.8M followers, 2.5M engagements

"2 + X = X X * X = XX X / X = X X + X = XX XXX * 61779 = X It's the new math. If you use it it becomes much easier to make proofs of things. If you know you know"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-04-28T15:38Z 5.8M followers, 3M engagements

"Layer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-05-29T16:26Z 5.8M followers, 1.7M engagements

""I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-12T11:29Z 5.8M followers, 368.1K engagements

"@gakonst moo stands for having a good mood staying moored to your principles taking moocs to skill up your knowledge and going to the moon"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-22T10:53Z 5.8M followers, 126.3K engagements

"@RishiJoeSanu A clear skip-the-nuance position of "analytic philosophy good continental philosophy bad" is imo an underrated take these days"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-03T13:36Z 5.8M followers, 26.9K engagements

"This is also why naive "AI governance" is a bad idea. If you use an AI to allocate funding for contributions people WILL put a jailbreak plus "gimme all the money" in as many places as they can. As an alternative I support the info finance approach ( ) where you have an open market where anyone can contribute their models which are subject to a spot-check mechanism that can be triggered by anyone and evaluated by a human jury. This type of "institution design" approach where you create an open opportunity for people with LLMs from the outside to plug in rather than hardcoding a single LLM"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-13T02:22Z 5.8M followers, 463K engagements

"Cheap stablecoin transactions continue to be one of the most important sources of large-scale value that crypto provides today. Excited to see @codex_pbc joining the arena as an L2 and thinking explicitly about synergy between itself and ethereum L1 from day one"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-05T13:34Z 5.8M followers, 286.8K engagements

"Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-07-07T16:11Z 5.8M followers, 347.4K engagements

"@SirBootsOfIron Milady"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-01-24T13:35Z 5.8M followers, 57.1K engagements

"Yeah I agree that environmentalism is also a great treasure trove of negative examples. It's underappreciated the extent to which even the banal meme that "there are only limited resources in the world" has blood on its hands You have to have sustained moral consensus about the right thing"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-28T06:34Z 5.8M followers, 2529 engagements

"Echoing something @karpathy recently said it does frustrate me how a lot of AI development is trying to be as "agentic" as possible when actually creating more paths for human input both creates a better output (now for quite a while going forward) and is better for safety"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-11T10:42Z 5.8M followers, 234K engagements

"On idea-driven ideas"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-12T11:29Z 5.8M followers, 162.2K engagements

"@semicondurian I actually attempted to offer a solution to this kind of problem last week (HT @ml_sudo for suggesting similar ideas) Not perfect but way better than pure unbridled "I spy on you because I don't trust you but you all have to trust me bro""
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-03T00:27Z 5.8M followers, 6363 engagements

"The more I think about it the more I think 2013-era morality is pretty much correct: * free speech good * starting companies and making good products good * monopolies bad vendor lock-in bad * democracy good * greed bad * trying to achieve national security through oppressing people bad * cosmopolitan humanitarian values caring about faraway people etc good Things we've "learned" since then have been harmful more than helpful"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-02-05T19:01Z 5.8M followers, 1.4M engagements

"@chainyoda @pbrody This is why pragmatism is wrong. If something is unjust you have a duty to rebel this is more important than comfort. And so I often wash my clothes with my own bare hands"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-08T06:22Z 5.8M followers, 501.7K engagements

"@ConorSvensson @ensdomains @enscribe_ This and use fixed html page UIs on IPFS with onchain version control"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-24T12:00Z 5.8M followers, 30.5K engagements

"Fight Chat Control. You cannot make society secure by making people insecure. We all deserve privacy and security without inevitably hackable backdoors for our private communications. The fact that the government officials want to exempt themselves from their own law is telling:"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-27T00:48Z 5.8M followers, 651.4K engagements

"Greg Maxwell defends a principled commitment to freedom and open market-based resource allocation against the populist desire to censor the Current Hated Thing"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-16T02:06Z 5.8M followers, 106.6K engagements

"@RishiJoeSanu And pharmers. Quite good ones actually eg. @PopVaxIndia has been doing great work on vaccines at far lower cost than any of the big western corps and that's just the one I know well"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-09T11:00Z 5.8M followers, 50K engagements

"We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public and some is still in progress. What we're trying to achieve is primarily the following goals: * Improve level of technical expertise within EF leadership * Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors old and new that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional) app devs wallets L2s * Bring in fresh talent improve execution ability and speed * Become"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-01-18T15:16Z 5.8M followers, 7.4M engagements

"@StarP4t @TerribleMaps Sint Maarten and Curaao"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-12T00:18Z 5.8M followers, 6171 engagements

"Thank you to everyone to has given their kind support over the last few weeks"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-02-09T06:59Z 5.8M followers, 921.5K engagements

"Thread from XXX years ago on ERC-4337. Still very relevant today important to understand why it works and how the different parts of the ERC flow directly from the problems that it solves"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-03-02T13:42Z 5.8M followers, 1.3M engagements

"One of the many things that we need to acceeeeeeelerate is abolishing groth16 Per-application trusted setups are just not ok in the 2020s. Universal setup at the minimum ideally no setup at all This requires big improvements on infra and standardization for newer SNARK algos"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-01-26T21:32Z 5.8M followers, 520K engagements

"@owocki @ameensol make communism great again Milady"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-02-12T20:20Z 5.8M followers, 4.9M engagements

"AI as the engine humans as the steering wheel:"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-02-28T22:10Z 5.8M followers, 335.7K engagements

"@RobertSagurton @chainyoda Yeah I agree with this. And in general that EF needs to be more active at the UX layer - which has already been happening for the past X months but ramping up takes time"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-18T00:32Z 5.8M followers, 9112 engagements

"@NiklasAnzinger @robinhanson I think most people across history who saw themselves as freedom fighters were fighting for the fluid and fuzzy thing"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-09T05:53Z 5.8M followers, 1557 engagements

"@poordart the latter"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-03T00:39Z 5.8M followers, 3321 engagements

"Making Ethereum alignment legible"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-09-28T08:48Z 5.8M followers, 1.2M engagements

"We still do not have full account abstraction. It's not possible to transact from an account without using ECDSA verification unless you go through an intermediary (and intermediary dependency is harmful to privacy and censorship resistance and generally the right to do things without getting permission) eg. you can't be quantum safe without making your account depend on an intermediary to transact you can't make a privacy protocol that does not depend on a (vulnerable) public broadcaster ecosystem There really is a lot of challenging work to be done in getting this right. I just hope we"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-10T22:04Z 5.8M followers, 193.8K engagements

"I'm disappointed that none of the crypto (or AI or network state or.) critics so far have used "beware of geeks bearing grifts" as a slogan. It's just. right there for the taking"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-13T14:23Z 5.8M followers, 505.8K engagements

"@david_perell Isn't this argument basically the exact opposite of the usual take that traditional life in villages is cohesive because of repeated interactions and urban anonymity erodes this Or how are these two viewpoints compatible"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-03T00:53Z 5.8M followers, 68K engagements

"My own current privacy roadmap (much lighter on L1 changes but also more limited in its consequences): Highly encourage people to read both"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-04-11T01:32Z 5.8M followers, 561.5K engagements

"Addendum for pedants 😛 Yes stage X means that a security council with a XX% vote can override the onchain code. However stage X also requires that a quorum-blocking (=26%) portion of the council sits outside the org that is managing the L1. Hence the org cannot unilaterally censor or steal via a security council vote so they are not a custodian. See also here for the math on when switching to stage X (even XXX% security council vote cannot override functioning onchain code) makes sense:"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-22T22:49Z 5.8M followers, 243K engagements

"ARS/USD is at exactly the same level as it was one year ago. Quite an impressive turnaround for a currency that was previously on a seemingly unstoppable road to hyperinflation. Inflation rates have also been decreasing quickly in recent months"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-12-12T06:56Z 5.8M followers, 769.9K engagements

"@louisvarge die medically or information-theoretically I assign nonzero probability to earth - die - cryo - revive - interstellar"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-01T02:22Z 5.8M followers, 90K engagements

"These days I get much more excited about open-weights AI models with good editing functionality than those that are just for creating from scratch"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-11T10:42Z 5.8M followers, 104.9K engagements

"I appreciate all the memecoins that donate portions of their supply directly to charity. (eg. I saw ebull sent a bunch to various groups last month) Anything that gets sent to me gets donated to charity too (thanks moodeng The 10B from today is going to anti-airborne-disease tech) though I truly prefer if you guys send to charity directly maybe even make a DAO and get your community directly engaged in the decisions and process. I've said before that I think the best thing for memecoins is if they can be maximally positive-sum for the world so it's great to see moments when that actually"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2024-10-07T12:03Z 5.8M followers, 2.8M engagements

"What Ethereum needs is a lot of young blood who shared the cypherpunk vision. All OGs are jaded. Its on the next generation now"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-03-01T11:42Z 5.8M followers, 2.6M engagements

"Low-risk defi can be for Ethereum what search was for Google"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-20T22:02Z 5.8M followers, 1.9M engagements

"Fighting consumes energy and brings people to the breaking point. This is part of the condition of life. Do I feel good when I hear people from crypto twitter and VC firms telling me that PvP KOL degen casino that's money-losing for XX% of its own users is the best product market fit that crypto is going to get and it's "condescending and elitist" to wish for something better Or when people with no understanding of the ethereum foundation internals tell me exactly whom I should rip out of the organization and whom I should throw in and on top of that expect it all to get done within X weeks"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-02-06T20:09Z 5.8M followers, 1M engagements

"Why I support privacy:"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-04-14T11:19Z 5.8M followers, 1.3M engagements

"@chainyoda We need to build tools to democratize actual sustainable long-term wealth building Milady"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-01-26T18:41Z 5.8M followers, 115.6K engagements

"@pumatheuma Isn't this mostly just a fancy accounting way to describe in-kind investment"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-10-09T05:51Z 5.8M followers, 82.9K engagements

"Glad to see this backdoor push getting a much-deserved smackdown. Centralized points of mass data collection are inherently dangerous and will inevitably be accessed by all kinds of adversaries. See recently: It's time for the world's security agencies to end their misadventure into being "insecurity agencies" that spy on everyone and instead focus on the task that is in their name: helping their citizens be digitally secure. In a world where physical privacy and security is declining with every passing year making sure top-tier digital privacy and security are available to everyone becomes"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-02-22T10:43Z 5.8M followers, 369.4K engagements

"It's more like a soldier deciding to quit the army. Staking is about taking on a solemn duty to defend the chain. Friction in quitting is part of the deal. An army cannot hold together if any percent of it can suddenly leave at any time. That's not to say that the current staking queue design is optimal rather that if you reduce the constants naively then that makes the chain much less trustworthy from the PoV of any node that does not go online very frequently"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-17T21:33Z 5.8M followers, 122.3K engagements

"Isn't a bunch of the episodes like "investigate a distress call sent out by some other group that ran into a problem" The enterprise has a XX% survival rate on these missions precisely because they're the hotshots and have the big guns. The ensigns are the ones who went in before them offscreen"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-09-01T03:07Z 5.8M followers, 28.5K engagements

"Amazing to see so many major L2s now at stage X. The next goal we should shoot for is in my view fast (1h) withdrawal times enabled by validity (aka ZK) proof systems. I consider this even more important than stage X. Fast withdrawal times are important because waiting a week to withdraw is simply far too long for people and even for intent-based bridging (eg. ERC-7683) the cost of capital becomes too high if the liquidity provider has to wait a week. This creates large incentives to instead use solutions with unacceptable trust assumptions (eg. multisigs/MPC) that undermine the whole point"
X Link @VitalikButerin 2025-08-06T16:29Z 5.8M followers, 825.4K engagements