#  @VitalikButerin vitalik.eth
Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, has been actively discussing and promoting various topics, including the importance of open-source and verifiable self-driving cars, the need for a culture of distinguishing between pocket money and long-term savings, and the significance of full-stack openness and verifiability. He also emphasized Ethereum's key property of incorruptibility, which ensures that even a 51% attack cannot make an invalid block valid. Additionally, he expressed excitement about the growth of layer [--] solutions, such as Base, and their potential to provide faster withdrawal times and improved security.
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### Top Social Posts
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"Table of contents:"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2001368477203075419) 2025-12-17T19:06Z 5.9M followers, 19.3K engagements
"I agree with maybe 60% of this but one bit that is particularly important to highlight is the explicit separation between what the poster calls "the open web" (really the corposlop web) and "the sovereign web". This is a distinction I did not realize until recently and I must admit the bitcoin maximalists were far ahead: a big part of their resistance to ICOs tokens other than bitcoin arbitrary financial applications etc was precisely about keeping bitcoin "sovereign" and not "corposlop". The big error that many of them made was trying to achieve this goal with either government crackdowns or"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2009919975058735479) 2026-01-10T09:27Z 5.9M followers, 597K engagements
"We need more DAOs - but different and better DAOs. The original drive to build Ethereum was heavily inspired by decentralized autonomous organizations: systems of code and rules that lived on decentralized networks that could manage resources and direct activity more efficiently and more robustly than traditional governments and corporations could. Since then the concept of DAOs has migrated to essentially referring to a treasury controlled by token holder voting - a design which "works" hence why it got copied so much but a design which is inefficient vulnerable to capture and fails utterly"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2013145235447042067) 2026-01-19T07:03Z 5.9M followers, 382.6K engagements
"Can you explain why in more detail My high-level frame for viewing these questions is: the "preference-setting" organ of a governance system should not be financialized but it's okay for other parts to be if they are accountable to the preference-setting organ. And so I strongly oppose financial stake as a way to gain an identity to participate in governance but here we are not talking about that we are talking about stake that gets slashed in case of abuse in this specific case the abuse being eg. your query violates the ToS of an LLM provider. So the preference-setting organ is not"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2021950484722937985) 2026-02-12T14:12Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasma https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/14/neoplasma.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/14/neoplasma.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1724398504322216069) 2023-11-14T12:06Z 5.9M followers, 2.2M engagements
"You can just build on L1. Ethereum transaction fees are dirt cheap and have been for all of [----] Due to client optimizations and hard drives becoming cheaper the gas limit ("block size") will continue to go up and keep tx fees cheap Return To Mainnet https://t.co/hu3PPJl3xK Ethereum transaction fees are dirt cheap and have been for all of [----] Due to client optimizations and hard drives becoming cheaper the gas limit ("block size") will continue to go up and keep tx fees cheap Return To Mainnet https://t.co/hu3PPJl3xK"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1995209899182375024) 2025-11-30T19:14Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements
"I've been impressed by @fileverse (decentralized open-source encrypted docs ). Every month more bugs get fixed and recently it's finally at the point where I can comfortably send docs off for comment or collaboration and things reliably don't break. https://docs.fileverse.io/ https://docs.fileverse.io/"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1998820202054832639) 2025-12-10T18:20Z 5.9M followers, 324K engagements
"My latest views on popups network states coordi-nations zones and where all of these things could lead us. (Long poast) https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/17/societies.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/17/societies.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2001368474522878409) 2025-12-17T19:06Z 5.9M followers, 485.8K engagements
"We need better decentralized stablecoins. IMO three problems: [--]. Ideally figure out an index to track that's better than USD price [--]. Oracle design that's decentralized and is not capturable with a large pool of money [--]. Solve the problem that staking yield is competition Tracking USD is fine short term but imo part of the vision of nation state resilience should be independence even from that price ticker. On a [--] year timeline well what if it hyperinflates even moderately If you don't have (2) then you have to ensure cost of capture protocol token market cap which in turn implies protocol"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2010253778365055363) 2026-01-11T07:33Z 5.9M followers, 190.3K engagements
"In [----] I plan to be fully back to decentralized social. If we want a better society we need better mass communication tools. We need mass communication tools that surface the best information and arguments and help people find points of agreement. We need mass communication tools that serve the user's long-term interest not maximize short-term engagement. There is no simple trick that solves these problems. But there is one important place to start: more competition. Decentralization is the way to enable that: a shared data layer with anyone being able to build their own client on top. In"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2013884907659944205) 2026-01-21T08:02Z 5.9M followers, 601.9K engagements
"In these five years the Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of mild austerity in order to be able to simultaneously meet two goals: [--]. Deliver on an aggressive roadmap that ensures Ethereum's status as a performant and scalable world computer that does not compromise on robustness sustainability and decentralization. [--]. Ensures the Ethereum Foundation's own ability to sustain into the long term and protect Ethereum's core mission and goals including both the core blockchain layer as well as users' ability to access and use the chain with self-sovereignty security and privacy. To this end"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2017145595819933745) 2026-01-30T07:59Z 5.9M followers, 638.1K engagements
"@RyanSAdams ETH is a store of value and one of the most important apps on ethereum"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2019814868140933287) 2026-02-06T16:46Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Good speech by Cory Doctorow Let's repeal anti-circumvention laws. Nothing should be updateable without the user's permission nothing critical should be a black box. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=3C1Gnxhfok0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=3C1Gnxhfok0"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2021252864278970402) 2026-02-10T16:00Z 5.9M followers, 113.1K engagements
"Welcome Bastian Ethereum is for node runners UX and product builders community organizers forum crews lurkers and free software advocates cyberanarchists Landian accelerationists financepunks femboys and all others who do not fit into a [---] character limit. Milady I am stepping into the role of interim co-ED @ethereumfndn to continue the progress that Tomasz has made over the last year. Tomasz brought an energy and urgency that the EF needed at a critical time and I join the community in thanking him for his work on behalf of the I am stepping into the role of interim co-ED @ethereumfndn to"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2022319721274646579) 2026-02-13T14:39Z 5.9M followers, 138.7K engagements
"Recently I have been starting to worry about the state of prediction markets in their current form. They have achieved a certain level of success: market volume is high enough to make meaningful bets and have a full-time job as a trader and they often prove useful as a supplement to other forms of news media. But also they seem to be over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit: embracing short-term cryptocurrency price bets sports betting and other similar things that have dopamine value but not any kind of long-term fulfillment or societal information value. My guess is that teams"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2022656514633199791) 2026-02-14T12:57Z 5.9M followers, 117.6K engagements
"Crypto prices sports short-term events - this isnt a "corrupted version" of markets. Its a way to bring in people money and liquidity. Without these markets you just wont get proper depth tight spreads and the habit of participating. You cant start straight away with hedging and complex decision markets - nobody will show up. This isnt a bug its a growth stage I used to be more open to these kinds of arguments but more recently I am more inclined to think that they are usually galaxy brain self-justification For every product that has had this justification and successfully transitioned to"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2022665573537382539) 2026-02-14T13:33Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@basedguston "ETH" was mentioned twice in the above post. Maybe Ctrl+F before criticizing"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2022671802410111198) 2026-02-14T13:58Z 5.9M followers, 21.6K engagements
"We should put resources toward a proper (trustless serverless maximally Uniswap-like UX) ETH - BTC decentralized exchange. It's embarrassing that we still can't easily move between the two largest crypto ecosystems trustlessly"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1242553658195271681) 2020-03-24T20:47Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Congrats on the launch all"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1333744788823101440) 2020-12-01T12:08Z 5.9M followers, 19.4K engagements
"Why we need wide adoption of social recovery wallets: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1348394962103070720) 2021-01-10T22:23Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"I'm more pessimistic about this now especially because of the PoS switch. We will need oracles. And if we want to make stablecoins robust to USD collapse (by switching to their own native CPI if that happens) we'll need more active governance"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1477402806462164994) 2022-01-01T22:14Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Amazing resource by @liamihorne on EIP-4844 (aka. proto-danksharding): https://www.eip4844.com/ https://www.eip4844.com/"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1505180235662303235) 2022-03-19T13:51Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"My own EIP-4844 (aka. proto-danksharding) technical FAQ: https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/proto_danksharding_faq https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/proto_danksharding_faq"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1505180310773944324) 2022-03-19T13:52Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@NathanpmYoung @ESYudkowsky @slatestarcodex @eigenrobot @s8mb @robertwiblin @willmacaskill @moskov Good idea done"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1529107454776070145) 2022-05-24T14:30Z 5.9M followers, [--] engagements
"What do you disagree with me the most on (followees can reply anyone else can quote tweet I'll read both)"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1533281191943491584) 2022-06-05T02:54Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"My 40-liter backpack travel guide: https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/20/backpack.html https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/20/backpack.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1538900395707228160) 2022-06-20T15:03Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Agreeing with the proverb "those who most want to rule people are those least suited to do it" and supporting DAOs being run by transferable governance tokens is a contradiction. Transferable governance tokens are all about giving *more* power to "those who most want to rule""
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1552703630024867841) 2022-07-28T17:12Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@slipscreen Triple vaxxed last dose [---] months before getting covid"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1567918110329430017) 2022-09-08T16:49Z 5.9M followers, [--] engagements
"@AnthonyLeeZhang Put $7 into a 2-of-2 multisig and leave them having to negotiate taking it out"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1583584093786189825) 2022-10-21T22:20Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"I propose the term "alfalfa leak" for something that doesn't give you an easy path to short term profit but is still ultimately good for you"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1599780254616547331) 2022-12-05T14:58Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@donnoh_eth @dankrad @daddysether @l2beat To me for something to qualify as L2 at all it must have a security property that is meaningfully stronger than a multisig even if it's not a rollup-like total guarantee. Validiums satisfy this. Optimiums can but require rigorous analysis of what the exact security gain is"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1747762113681211777) 2024-01-17T23:25Z 5.9M followers, 30.2K engagements
"I'm feeling quite unhappy about with "this cycles celebrity experimentation" so far. "Financialization as a means toward an end" I can respect if the end is worthy (healthcare open source software art etc). Financialization *as the final product* 🤮 Ashton and Mila's Stoner Cats was vastly more honorable than anything we've seen from this [----] celebrity memecoin era - at least there was an actual show being funded. How do we push things in a better direction"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1798290424622113230) 2024-06-05T09:47Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto" https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/17/procrypto.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/17/procrypto.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1813621264017207581) 2024-07-17T17:06Z 5.9M followers, 2.6M engagements
"@EthereanVibin ETH bullposting is good"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1833721083326779701) 2024-09-11T04:15Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@not_qz @optimizoor People have mentioned it's on my queue to look into more deeply So far I'm still in my @fileverse arc I used it to write today's post https://radicle.xyz https://radicle.xyz"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1840049876610228229) 2024-09-28T15:24Z 5.9M followers, 23K engagements
"@BruestleJeremy Appreciate your work [--] MB of data in [--] second is 16k compression funcs per sec one more order of magnitude improvement and we're all set 😀"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1849233855976534337) 2024-10-23T23:38Z 5.9M followers, 36.4K engagements
"@RyanSAdams @odin_free"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1851860178377019856) 2024-10-31T05:34Z 5.9M followers, 177K engagements
"What I would love to see in a wallet: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/12/03/wallets.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/12/03/wallets.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1863901050819788912) 2024-12-03T11:00Z 5.9M followers, 1.6M 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](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1867101324766265432) 2024-12-12T06:56Z 5.9M followers, 771.2K engagements
"Left: the goal. Right: the means"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1875954528383914457) 2025-01-05T17:16Z 5.9M followers, 295.3K engagements
"We do need better cause prioritization in ethereum core dev. Like if I had to choose between (i) the blob target increase from [--] to [--] and (ii) literally everything else in Pectra I would choose (i). What's the equivalent for Fusaka and G* (Obviously a big part of the answer is: blobs and blobs though I think L1 EVM improvements are important too my favorites are EOF - full AA via [----] and SIMD+EVMMAX plus moderate gas limit increases) We're doing peerdas. Maybe explore more ambitious versions of peerdas eg. https://notes.ethereum.org/NgKvvYiAQ7WdxPECCVdGUQ"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1877007940760076511) 2025-01-08T15:02Z 5.9M followers, 653.1K engagements
"The @Soneium situation is a good live demonstration of how launching an ethereum L2 is great for businesses *and* users. Businesses can make very fine-grained choices around how much control they keep vs give to users. But whatever rules they choose that's what the rules are. Everything is onchain transparent and auditable by third parties. You can make a very closed system where there's no escape hatch and where the operator can edit the state root but then users will know exactly what they are getting into and @l2beat and armies of independent internet sleuths will help them. You can also"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1879560670150017068) 2025-01-15T16:05Z 5.9M followers, 914.1K engagements
"@FesCrypto In Texas even female cows are free to self-identify as bullish"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1879597949178802602) 2025-01-15T18:34Z 5.9M followers, 549.5K engagements
"@balajis Milady"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1883197304985035077) 2025-01-25T16:56Z 5.9M followers, 108.6K engagements
"@ehnveee Milady"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1884997953103728795) 2025-01-30T16:11Z 5.9M followers, 26.2K engagements
"L1 is scaling. A big shoutout to all the developers working on EIP-4444 (history expiry) statelessness (see the new binary tree EIP ) client efficiency upgrades and other features that will make higher L1 gas limits decentralization-friendly. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9257 Ethereum's gas limit is already up above [--] million. https://t.co/RODCBf4KFZ https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9257 Ethereum's gas limit is already up above [--] million. https://t.co/RODCBf4KFZ"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1886579901039337759) 2025-02-04T00:57Z 5.9M followers, 659.1K engagements
"@owocki @ameensol make communism great again Milady"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1889771554512200166) 2025-02-12T20:20Z 5.9M followers, 4.9M engagements
"@ethereumfndn @alex_pertsev Privacy is normal and writing code is not a crime. Milady"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1894704921997373844) 2025-02-26T11:03Z 5.9M followers, 124.4K engagements
"@lunar_mining but what if I like freedom and I also like the torch of reason"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1920779757681098983) 2025-05-09T09:55Z 5.9M followers, 33.7K 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](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1925251453805027380) 2025-05-21T18:04Z 5.9M followers, 298.2K 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](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1969569289691865416) 2025-09-21T01:08Z 5.9M followers, 132.3K 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. https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ https://gwern.net/doc/politics/2007-thiel.pdf https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ https://gwern.net/doc/politics/2007-thiel.pdf"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1973901686205993022) 2025-10-03T00:03Z 5.9M followers, 167K engagements
"Kohaku code and roadmap Full-stack privacy and security are first-class priorities in Ethereum. 8/ We aim to have a demo ready by @EFDevcon Our code is free for all to use worldwide. Find it at : https://t.co/ZoHX2Cetiq https://t.co/ApF86vcd80 https://t.co/cHIw1oEkj4 Roadmap at : https://t.co/R2dKD9vHPj 8/ We aim to have a demo ready by @EFDevcon Our code is free for all to use worldwide. Find it at : https://t.co/ZoHX2Cetiq https://t.co/ApF86vcd80 https://t.co/cHIw1oEkj4 Roadmap at : https://t.co/R2dKD9vHPj"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1976200898851504507) 2025-10-09T08:19Z 5.9M followers, 490.6K 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 [----] and Polymarket has been the key driving force making this happen. Markets on everything. Were proud to announce that $ICE the owner of @NYSE and the largest exchange company in the world is making a strategic investment of $2 billion into Polymarket valuing us at $9 billion post-money. Our partnership with ICE marks a major step in https://t.co/oShaglRx9p Markets on everything. Were proud to announce that $ICE the owner of @NYSE and the largest exchange"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1976490241704984717) 2025-10-10T03:29Z 5.9M followers, 758.5K engagements
"@DanFriedman81 @StaniKulechov @aave"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1976871742015782934) 2025-10-11T04:45Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@imdyingslowly @bryan_caplan me immortality and no AI risk are a pretty sweet deal though I'd be curious about the details of "no tech progress" eg. are we allowed to keep bugfixing the existing starship and eventually actually use it to do Mars colonies"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979400411409977812) 2025-10-18T04:13Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"I wish more ZK and FHE people would give their overhead as a ratio (time to compute in-cryptography vs time to compute raw) rather than just saying "we can do N ops per second" It's more hardware-independent and it gives a very informative number: how much efficiency am I sacrificing by making my app cryptographic instead of trust-dependent It's also often better for estimation because as a developer I *already know* how much time my computation takes to compute raw so I can just multiply. (Yes I know this is hard because the ops required are heterogeneous between executing and proving"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1979419398143390166) 2025-10-18T05:28Z 5.9M followers, 316K engagements
"@inversebrah @odin_free @sandeepnailwal @0xPolygon @Polymarket @VitalikButerin"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1980568632553009430) 2025-10-21T09:35Z 5.9M followers, 50.2K engagements
"@ittaia The key is that "breaking safety" is far from god power. You can revert finalized blocks (to some extent) but you can't eg. edit people's accounts and move their coins into your account"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1982615819201962039) 2025-10-27T01:10Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@Istvan_A_Seres General-purpose ZKPs are the transformers of crypto: one really powerful and really general technology that just washed away decades of application-specific hard work across dozens of domains. That and quantum which makes hash-based everything more appealing"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2001406242455961701) 2025-12-17T21:36Z 5.9M followers, 45K engagements
"I still have no idea how to get those tickets intentionally; in my case back then I went to the wrong train station ( instead of ) and I only noticed [--] min before departure so I was looking around visibly confused and a kid ran up and offered to help get me a new ticket in exchange for [---] usd; all the seats on the trains were taken so from what I could tell it took him significant negotiation to get the ticket I still feel very grateful to him more people should do that"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2006451425933513041) 2025-12-31T19:44Z 5.9M followers, 43.8K engagements
"@MazMHussain"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2006453691864461481) 2025-12-31T19:53Z 5.9M followers, 111.2K engagements
"@alpeh_v What's an example of a major political action of a major world government in the last five years that was motivated by rationalism (Either lesswrong-style or even more broadly)"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2017917589490413999) 2026-02-01T11:06Z 5.9M followers, 34.8K engagements
"I think there's a fundamental difference between "speculation backed by speculation" and "speculation backed by feedback from some high-quality signal (ideally reality itself) on reasonably short time periods". Ponzis are the former and if you make something that is the former then yeah it's a ponzi. If you make something that is the latter then to a first approximation you have some hope of instead getting the benefits of a stock market. What I'm advocating is more like "ISAs for creators" than it is like creator coins as they have been done so far. The ultimate buyer that backs the"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2017960050959007762) 2026-02-01T13:55Z 5.9M followers, 36.2K engagements
"@post_polar_ That sounds like a posh social club in downtown SF funded by tech venture capitalists that's desperately trying to astroturf alcohol into being an avant-garde countercultural cool thing and larps as a network state"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2020449651032265128) 2026-02-08T10:48Z 5.9M followers, 41.4K engagements
"# 1: : * . * / . . 90- 00- 10- . [----] . [--] ( ) [----] . * 1990- . . . * . New York Times. : (1992) (1994-2000) (2008) . . * 80% . (i) - (ii) [----] (iii) [----] 51% 80% . : [----] . [----] . . ( ): : [----] [--] . . : [----] . . . . . : . ; . ( ) [--] () . . - . "
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2021929762919506389) 2026-02-12T12:49Z 5.9M followers, 122.3K engagements
"# 2: . ( ) : ( ) . . . . - - . ( : ) . . [------] . . . . - : . : * . * . * ; ; 1000- . . . . [--] . ( ) ICE . . . : . 70% 30% . 70% 30% * 30%: . * 70%: . * ( ) : 70% * 70% . .. . . . ( : ). . ( ) . : ."
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2021929779080159244) 2026-02-12T12:49Z 5.9M followers, 74.6K engagements
"Not clear. Most such professions have de-jure or de-facto exemptions for working on yourself and so using AI may be classified as "working on yourself but using a different kind of new tool". Of course this depends on the tool/service distinction in practice such things are decided in part by relevant actors' interests etc; there's a stronger case for the argument if you're using open-weights local AI vs a proprietary model hosted only by the creator. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021960982881611914 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021960982881611914"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2021960982881611914) 2026-02-12T14:53Z 5.9M followers, 27.2K engagements
"Disappointed at people replying to this with "crypto is what it is it's your job to be super-careful and write down backup seeds in three places". We can and should create better wallet tech to make security easier. Eg. here's a social recovery ERC WIP: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/2429 I just lost all the #Bitcoin I have ever owned. My wallet got corrupted somehow and my password is no longer valid. So now not only is my Bitcoin intrinsically worthless; it has no market value either. I knew owning Bitcoin was a bad idea I just never realized it was this bad https://t.co/6SJvDJOZU6"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1219059083451326464) 2020-01-20T00:48Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@edsonayllon Three and four-letter ENS names: they're a fixed-supply asset *and* you can do things with them"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1291872461487607808) 2020-08-07T23:02Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Doing a random twitter experiment just on this day. Only the [---] people I follow can reply to this tweet. Feel free to ask things and I'll talk about anything crypto or non-crypto related"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1433195737907564545) 2021-09-01T22:31Z 5.9M followers, 30.4K engagements
"Getting some confirmations from a couple sources that it's legit. Deleting my warning for now. But continue to be vigilant and always be slow and careful when sending irreversible crypto transactions. @Ukraine To follow up on @VitalikButerin's tweet I've confirmed directly with Ukrainian Ambassador @olex_scherba that the addresses are correct and in the control of the Ukrainian govt. Give Defending free and open societies may be the best thing we ever do with our BTC and ETH. @Ukraine To follow up on @VitalikButerin's tweet I've confirmed directly with Ukrainian Ambassador @olex_scherba that"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1497608588822466563) 2022-02-26T16:24Z 5.9M followers, 20.5K engagements
"First priority is supporting Ukrainians. Second and also really important priority is supporting those Russians and Belarusians who refuse to let Putin's Z-ombie regime represent them and take action to oppose it. It would be an amazing gesture if a European University would openly welcome Russian students kicked out for protesting war in Russia signaling that Europe stands with those in Russia that oppose Putin and oppose the war. That not all Russians are treated as Putin&Co It would be an amazing gesture if a European University would openly welcome Russian students kicked out for"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1501569247641751555) 2022-03-09T14:43Z 5.9M followers, 16.4K engagements
"@0xstark EOS is Ethereum On Steroids. The name reflects the fact that the core team learned from Ethereum's amateurish naivety and idealism and built out a team of professional top-talent software developers that created a smart contract platform with much higher scalability and speed"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1541452416331268096) 2022-06-27T16:04Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"OK wow half of yall literally think that someone should be able to lock down every five-letter word in the Scrabble dictionary (which includes exotic stuff like "ZORIL") for a hundred years for less than the price of four lambos. What is a fair price that someone should have to pay to register and unconditionally guarantee ownership of a 5-letter .eth domain for [---] years What is a fair price that someone should have to pay to register and unconditionally guarantee ownership of a 5-letter .eth domain for [---] years"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1566785969717760003) 2022-09-05T13:50Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"The merge is still expected to happen around Sep 13-15. What's happening today is the Bellatrix hard fork which *prepares* the chain for the merge. Still important though - make sure to update your clients"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1566993505326710785) 2022-09-06T03:35Z 5.9M followers, 27.2K engagements
"This is really bad imo"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1603795060776132608) 2022-12-16T16:51Z 5.9M followers, 2.8M engagements
"@elonmusk ok I actually respect this"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1604621019951628288) 2022-12-18T23:33Z 5.9M followers, 3.1M engagements
"What do I think about biometric proof of personhood https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1683404462314999814) 2023-07-24T09:11Z 5.9M followers, 1.6M engagements
"2 + [--] = [--] [--] * [--] = [--] [--] / [--] = [--] [--] + [--] = [--] [---] * [-----] = [--] 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](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1784608223040790655) 2024-04-28T15:38Z 5.9M followers, 3M engagements
"@zengjiajun_eth @vatnshui Which way cryptographic man"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1788489148183019929) 2024-05-09T08:40Z 5.9M followers, 233.1K engagements
"A quick summary of features that a celebrity crypto project needs to have for me to be more willing to respect it: [--]. Have some kind of public-good goal that it's serving other than enriching the celebrity and early adopters. Realistically either an art project or the celebrity's favorite charity or both. [--]. Have some kind of fun mechanics that go beyond just trading a token. As much as I dislike token voting DAOs at least they give *something* for people to do and organize around. The DAO should not fully decide the agenda but it can have some influence. [--]. Make something that lasts 10+"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1798293391144366184) 2024-06-05T09:58Z 5.9M followers, 803.1K 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. https://github.com/vbuterin/zorch https://github.com/vbuterin/zorch"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1821411361941016913) 2024-08-08T05:01Z 5.9M followers, 745.1K engagements
"@balajis I've criticized Telegram before for not being serious with encryption. But (given the info available so far: the charge seems to be just being "unmoderated" and not giving up people's data) this looks very bad and worrying for the future of software and comms freedom in Europe"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1827602680388239582) 2024-08-25T07:03Z 5.9M followers, 734.3K engagements
"@DrewPavlou This is one of the best things about prediction markets. You can get a pretty decent APR by just repeatedly betting that the crazy thing won't happen"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1829413774412955775) 2024-08-30T07:00Z 5.9M followers, 165.7K engagements
"@AraBalaghi Quantum computing is the incentive if nothing else. EOAs will be dead in the long-term future whether we like it or not because quantum computing will eventually break ECDSA"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1847258820634189948) 2024-10-18T12:49Z 5.9M followers, 135K engagements
"@hasufl ". It's better to offend millions by standing aggressively for what you believe in than it is to try to keep everyone happy and end up standing for nothing. Be brave. Fight for your values. ." guess the source 😁"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1881069975529836716) 2025-01-19T20:03Z 5.9M followers, 102.7K engagements
"Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in [----] and beyond https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/23/l1l2future.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/23/l1l2future.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1882649065139384600) 2025-01-24T04:38Z 5.9M followers, 2.8M engagements
"AI as the engine humans as the steering wheel: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/02/28/aihumans.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/02/28/aihumans.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1895597394407866563) 2025-02-28T22:10Z 5.9M followers, 346.1K engagements
"Welcome back @dannyryan Im thrilled to announce that Im joining as a cofounder of @etherealize_io to help onboard the world to Ethereum Ill be at the helm of the ship alongside @vivekventures and the incredible team he is building Im thrilled to announce that Im joining as a cofounder of @etherealize_io to help onboard the world to Ethereum Ill be at the helm of the ship alongside @vivekventures and the incredible team he is building"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1895853578167931308) 2025-03-01T15:08Z 5.9M followers, 860.1K engagements
"Ethereum L1 is the world ledger. Ethereum Layer [--] will be the master ledger for the 🌎🌍🌏. Permissionless to inspect use and add data or functionality to. Credibly neutral. Censorship resistant. Tamper resistant and tamper evident (via slashing and transparency). Incessantly progressively decentralizing Ethereum Layer [--] will be the master ledger for the 🌎🌍🌏. Permissionless to inspect use and add data or functionality to. Credibly neutral. Censorship resistant. Tamper resistant and tamper evident (via slashing and transparency). Incessantly progressively decentralizing"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1936036966904308203) 2025-06-20T12:22Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@louisvarge I follow the rules and proudly boast lifetime [--] missed flights in [-------] km (not including extra distance from layovers)"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1943679417538003029) 2025-07-11T14:30Z 5.9M followers, 68.6K 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. Dee Hock on the founding of Visa in his work "Chaordic Organization". Visa was perhaps the first successful case of a permissionless platform with decentralized governance and ownership. Many lessons to be learned here half a century later for crypto networks. https://t.co/NQzSldlUaY Dee Hock on the founding of Visa in his work "Chaordic Organization". Visa was"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1953782711807541727) 2025-08-08T11:37Z 5.9M followers, 347.6K engagements
"On idea-driven ideas https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/08/12/ideas.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/08/12/ideas.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1955230245491183760) 2025-08-12T11:29Z 5.9M followers, 163.3K engagements
"why does it matter if there are no intermediate nodes you're still going up from storing 64*n bytes for the raw data (assuming 32-byte keys and values) to storing 96*n bytes Is it that the bottom layer is only 64*n now If so you can get the same benefit in a "regular" merkle tree by just storing adjacent pairs of leaf nodes together and recomputing the hash every time (only one extra hash computation per branch and you save half the data)"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1960706165546926310) 2025-08-27T14:09Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Complexity is a big cost and easy to underrate. And for most use cases to date the privacy property has not been needed. Though I expect this will change soon; at the very least quantum will require us to switch to STARK proving even for client-side privacy apps. Though even before the greater efficiency of STARKs has a lot of advantages"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1960838142795096565) 2025-08-27T22:53Z 5.9M followers, 35.2K engagements
"@secparam Metaculus's median date for when quantum computers will break modern cryptography is 2040: Seemingly about a 20% chance it will be before end of [----]. https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3684/when-will-a-quantum-computer-running-shors-algorithm-or-a-similar-one-be-used-to-factor-one-of-the-rsa-numbers-for-the-first-time/ https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3684/when-will-a-quantum-computer-running-shors-algorithm-or-a-similar-one-be-used-to-factor-one-of-the-rsa-numbers-for-the-first-time/"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1960844208790757894) 2025-08-27T23:17Z 5.9M followers, 34.9K engagements
"@chris_j_paxton western SF is great to stay in the problem is it's so hard to get to"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1961063537737965719) 2025-08-28T13:49Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"This is basically left-Balajism @balajis 😁 I think one of the better reasons why this stuff has often been considered right-coded so far (there are many bad reasons too) is that doing things like this requires a lot of sophistication and inconvenient personal choices eg. it's much easier to rally [----] people from across the internet than in one city and if you do the former people have to move to join the thing. This makes it only accessible to a limited demographic and not the people most in need of it. Though some overrate the extent to which that is a knockdown argument eg. many people"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1961552402437345418) 2025-08-29T22:11Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@ATabarrok Because the housing market is not about housing it's an obfuscated market for a sort of NFT that contains a weird bundle of various rights including a city residence permit"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1961898335955992609) 2025-08-30T21:06Z 5.9M followers, 49.7K engagements
"My off-the-cuff guess (low confidence) is that what El Salvador is doing is actually smarter than what CT thinks: * Used addresses are quantum-vulnerable because the ECDSA pubkey is leaked unused addresses are quantum-resistant because they're secured by hashes * The reason to split into *multiple* unused accounts is a UX convenience it lets you spend coins from one account without leaking the pubkey for the others * Yes the "correct" way to do this is to have a deterministic wallet and put change into a new address. But this is actually not so simple: to be able to pre-generate new addresses"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1962127538152415534) 2025-08-31T12:17Z 5.9M followers, 44.3K 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 99% 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](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1962351676364394611) 2025-09-01T03:07Z 5.9M followers, 29.3K engagements
"@roommatemusing https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1213789119358230528 There are many things in this world much much worse than virtue signaling. Vice signaling is one of them. https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1213789119358230528 There are many things in this world much much worse than virtue signaling. Vice signaling is one of them"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1987281459623964688) 2025-11-08T22:09Z 5.9M followers, 50.3K engagements
"I'm loving this arc of the pope engaging with 21st century themes and offering simple but correct and meaningful advice. The media cannot and must not separate itself from the destiny of truth. Transparency of sources and ownership accountability quality clarity and objectivity are the keys to truly opening citizens' rights for all peoples. The media cannot and must not separate itself from the destiny of truth. Transparency of sources and ownership accountability quality clarity and objectivity are the keys to truly opening citizens' rights for all peoples"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1987310988543095175) 2025-11-09T00:07Z 5.9M followers, 3M engagements
"For voting ZK does not offer coercion resistance you do need trusted party MPC FHE TEE for that. But what you *can* do is layer ZK and eg. FHE together so that even if the FHE breaks you still have every property except coercion resistance due to the ZK. I suspect a similar thing applies for almost every other usecase of crypto-other-than-ZK (you should stack it with ZK so that you get ZK-level guarantees for as many apps / as much data as possible)"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1987967285202743364) 2025-11-10T19:35Z 5.9M followers, 63.4K engagements
"Ethereum is not the world. Ethereum is an opinionated take on properties that we think should be available in the world for those who want or need them. We need to be okay with sticking hard to our principles and acknowledging the costs of that and yes sometimes being the unreasonable man fighting against the ways of the world. We are Linux not Google. The alternative is that we become inevitably dragged into being "only epsilon more decentralized than the big corps" in an endless quest to win the competition for top dog and we lose anyway because the corps have 100x more money than we do."
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2008194024012705947) 2026-01-05T15:09Z 5.9M followers, 101.7K engagements
"30 . . : (i) (ii) ( ZK ) . (i) ( ) . XIX . ( ). ( : ). ( ) ; . [--] . (ii) . . 70% [--] . : . . ( ) . . 13% . 13% . . : ( ) dont be evil cant be evil. 100% 25% . . . ( ) . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism https://www.youtube.com/watchv=-BB6bwJ9agM https://pol.is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021929795261804943) 2026-02-12T12:50Z 5.9M followers, 85.1K engagements
": . . . 70% 70% ... : . ( ) / . : . . USB- . : : . . . 2-4 - . . : ( ). . . https://pol.is https://pol.is"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021929810512241001) 2026-02-12T12:50Z 5.9M followers, 80.7K engagements
"RT @dannyryan: Thank you @tkstanczak 🙏 And welcome Bastian 🔥 Bastian is the single most thoughtful and wise person I have ever worked wit"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022318749261463799) 2026-02-13T14:35Z 5.9M followers, [--] engagements
"Have been following reactions to what I said about L2s about [---] days ago. One important thing that I believe is: "make yet another EVM chain and add an optimistic bridge to Ethereum with a [--] week delay" is to infra what forking Compound is to governance - something we've done far too much for far too long because we got comfortable and which has sapped our imagination and put us in a dead end. If you make an EVM chain *without* an optimistic bridge to Ethereum (aka an alt L1) that's even worse. We don't friggin need more copypasta EVM chains and we definitely don't need even more L1s. L1 is"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1095842636785688577) 2024-11-01T01:52Z 5.9M followers, 1M engagements
"$0xBTC on a tear up today Accumulation or perhaps this beauty being marbled on @marble_cards being an inspiration for purchase ;) Any 0xBTC fans out there Retweet this for more exposure and bigger gains. https://x.com/intocryptoast/status/1096849857279598593s=19 https://x.com/intocryptoast/status/1096849857279598593s=19"
[X Link](https://x.com/intocryptoast/status/1097234872664502273) 2019-02-17T20:42Z 21.7K followers, 565.2K engagements
"@zhusu Personally I hope that doge can switch to PoS soon perhaps using ethereum code. I also hope they don't cancel the 5b/year annual PoW issuance instead they put it in some kind of DAO that funds global public goods. Would fit well with dogecoin's non-greedy wholesome ethos"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1433236426921971714) 2021-09-02T01:12Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Speculative controversial take: we should legitimize price gouging by top stake pool providers. Like if a stake pool controls 15% it should be accepted and even *expected* for the pool to keep increasing its fee rate until it goes back below 15%. I wonder who will be the first staking provider to publicly commit to limiting themselves to not operating more than 22% of validators on the chain Who do you want to see step up to the plate and prioritize beacon chain health above profits I wonder who will be the first staking provider to publicly commit to limiting themselves to not operating more"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1525301234516652032) 2022-05-14T02:25Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Privacy in particular has value within DeFi apps not just for deposit/withdraw/send. Privacy can help protect against frontrunning liquidation sniping hacking and physical coercion. Remember: privacy is freedom privacy is order privacy is progress https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/04/14/privacy.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/04/14/privacy.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1930392481222295565) 2025-06-04T22:33Z 5.9M followers, 22.7K engagements
"My response to AI 2027: The AI [----] post is high quality I encourage people to read it at I argue a misaligned AI will not be able to win nearly as easily as the AI [----] scenario assumes because it greatly underrates our ability to protect ourselves especially given the (pretty magical) technologies that the authors admit will be available in [----] in their scenario. https://ai-2027.com/ https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/10/2027.html https://ai-2027.com/ https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/10/2027.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1943373965046747564) 2025-07-10T18:17Z 5.9M followers, 368.7K 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. Poll suspended. Our allegiance is with Bitcoiners. You have spoken. Who even allowed this I'm back at my desk. - Steaktoshi Poll suspended. Our allegiance is with Bitcoiners. You have spoken. Who even allowed this I'm back at my desk. - Steaktoshi"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1977229514477650163) 2025-10-12T04:27Z 5.9M followers, 438.2K engagements
"In general in this area people are way too overindexed on fancy stuff and underindexed on early detection testing (breathalyzer tests are now almost available) and cleaning the air (ventilation filters uvc). The goal isn't 100% effective per-person defense the goal is getting an order-of-magnitude reduction in R0. These things are pretty independent of the details of the actual virus (though of course you need the sequence to be able to make tests for it)"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1982642639171428628) 2025-10-27T02:56Z 5.9M followers, 57.9K engagements
"We need open source and verifiable self-driving cars"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1984986622908326338) 2025-11-02T14:11Z 5.9M followers, 674.7K engagements
"Ethereum is scaling. 🚨🥧 We just recorded a new Ethereum Ecosystem TPS record: [----] TPS today at 14:37 UTC https://t.co/J9XFDXjs4y 🚨🥧 We just recorded a new Ethereum Ecosystem TPS record: [----] TPS today at 14:37 UTC https://t.co/J9XFDXjs4y"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1985761780421845298) 2025-11-04T17:31Z 5.9M followers, 681.6K engagements
"TOP TRENDING MEMECOINS ON BNB CHAIN IN THE LAST 24H 🔸 $B @BUILDonBsc_AI 🔸 $CHEEMS @LordCheems_bsc 🔸 $BABYDOGE @BabyDoge 🔸 #BANANAS31 @BananaS31_bsc 🔸 $BURN @burnArmy 🔸 $GIGGLE @GiggleFundBSC 🔸 $MUBARAK @mubarak_cto 🔸 $BROCCOLI(714) @broccoli714bnb 🔸 $CAT @SimonsCatMeme 🔸 $CREPE @crepe_bsc 🔸 $DOGE @dogecoin 🔸 $WKC @wikicatcoin 🔸 $CAKE @PancakeSwap 🔸 $BOB @BOB_bnbbuilder 🔸# @hajimi_CTO_BNB 🔸 $KOMA @komabnb https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020337454494920876 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020337454494920876"
[X Link](https://x.com/BitcoinChina_/status/2020337454494920876) 2026-02-08T03:22Z 341.7K followers, 17.8K engagements
"Travel time = distance [---] https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/04/14/traveltime.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/04/14/traveltime.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1646773874065899520) 2023-04-14T07:14Z 5.9M followers, 1M engagements
"All L2s should be working on (trustless merkle-proof-based) CCIP resolvers so that we can have ENS subdomains registerable updateable and readable directly on L2s. ENS is super-important it needs to be affordable https://docs.ens.domains/dapp-developer-guide/ens-l2-offchain https://docs.ens.domains/dapp-developer-guide/ens-l2-offchain"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1742540651797823948) 2024-01-03T13:37Z 5.9M followers, 1.9M engagements
"The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/30/cryptoai.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/30/cryptoai.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1752291413503729751) 2024-01-30T11:23Z 5.9M followers, 3.7M engagements
"@Neiro_Dog Charity donation done covering all animal coins from the past year or so That said I appreciate it if coin holdings just get allocated to the charities directly😊 It's [----] we can start doing more sophisticated public goods fun-ding eg. see https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1824034740627800121) 2024-08-15T10:45Z 5.9M followers, 2.1M engagements
"the yield comes from borrowers trading fees etc Right so this worries me. Because it feels like an ouroboros: the value of crypto tokens is that you can use them to earn yield which is paid for by. people trading crypto tokens. Even if the answer is something clear like eg. people getting 8% APR on USD are paid by people paying 8% APR to leverage ETH at 2x it still means that the ongoing existence of the defi market is downstream of the existence of the ETH market which means that while defi may be great it's fundamentally capped and can't be _the_ thing that brings crypto to another 10-100x"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1827642283560144916) 2024-08-25T09:40Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M 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](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1843260976206082216) 2024-10-07T12:03Z 5.9M followers, 2.8M engagements
"@CharlotteFang77 milady"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1880723497393201460) 2025-01-18T21:06Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Argentina's Ethereum community is full of amazing builders who have already contributed some of the most important software in the Ethereum ecosystem. The energy and determination to build on Argentina's current momentum and use crypto and other new technologies to build a prosperous 21st century society is real. The recent news should be taken not as a reason to give up but rather as an example of why education is so important. I continue to be very optimistic about Argentina and Latam's contributions and role in the space. The main thing I can say after $LIBRA incident is that I believe"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1892598319752355970) 2025-02-20T15:32Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M 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](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1895791368548515978) 2025-03-01T11:00Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@dawangdege47536 @sapphycrypto @elidourado @ezraklein @DKThomp Here you go moo moo moo. Moo deng moo (cow) moonkin"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1915582277201121731) 2025-04-25T01:42Z 5.9M followers, 460.9K engagements
"Simplifying the L1 https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/05/03/simplel1.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/05/03/simplel1.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1918562016329162844) 2025-05-03T07:03Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M engagements
"How to make Ethereum L1 scaling more friendly to users running local nodes for personal use: https://ethresear.ch/t/a-local-node-favoring-delta-to-the-scaling-roadmap/22368 https://ethresear.ch/t/a-local-node-favoring-delta-to-the-scaling-roadmap/22368"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1924327024044253547) 2025-05-19T04:51Z 5.9M followers, 657.4K engagements
"Does digital ID have risks even if it's ZK-wrapped https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/06/28/zkid.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/06/28/zkid.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1938894130601504846) 2025-06-28T09:35Z 5.9M followers, 349K engagements
"Amazing to see @AragonProject leading the way in bringing privacy to governance. Privacy is normal. In elections. In boardrooms. In governance. But onchain Its been missing. For the first time private voting at scale is now possible fully onchain with @PrivacyEthereum the team building @zkMACI and Aragon. https://t.co/3UvuyOMowu Privacy is normal. In elections. In boardrooms. In governance. But onchain Its been missing. For the first time private voting at scale is now possible fully onchain with @PrivacyEthereum the team building @zkMACI and Aragon. https://t.co/3UvuyOMowu"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1958140875571143101) 2025-08-20T12:15Z 5.9M followers, 300K engagements
"Low-risk defi can be for Ethereum what search was for Google https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/21/low_risk_defi.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/21/low_risk_defi.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1969522612750672132) 2025-09-20T22:02Z 5.9M followers, 1.9M engagements
"The importance of full-stack openness and verifiability (including applications operating systems hardware and bio) https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/24/openness_and_verifiability.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/24/openness_and_verifiability.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1970672306520543721) 2025-09-24T02:11Z 5.9M followers, 377.3K engagements
"Incorruptibility is Ethereum's most important property. Ethereum is incorruptible home Ethereum is incorruptible home"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1984627662380278041) 2025-11-01T14:24Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Future generations will wonder how we were ever ok with this 110k will die of aging today 110k will die of aging today"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1988265235803770938) 2025-11-11T15:19Z 5.9M followers, 990.7K engagements
"@random_walker I also agree with [--] out of [--] of these. I've expected for a while that the tasks that AI will take the longest time to reach human level are precisely the ones that are most illegible and difficult to put into metrics"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1988685848163053716) 2025-11-12T19:10Z 5.9M followers, 39K engagements
"@trent_vanepps @CupOJoseph @BertKellerman If EIP-7825 did not exist then in the worst case (one tx filling the whole block) BALs would not enable parallel execution and so we would not be able to raise the gas limit as a result of BALs. So it's a necessary prerequisite of scaling"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1996599032072790322) 2025-12-04T15:14Z 5.9M followers, 86K engagements
"The attacks on Europe I've seen here the last couple of days including from people I've generally considered interesting and sophisticated have been getting unhinged. I get that EU has problems - GDPR clickthroughs are dumb Chat Control is awful they need to be less bureaucratic and supportive toward entrepreneurs its kindness toward Ukraine often doesn't extend well to Gaza or Sudan or other places people saying mean things about criminals getting longer sentences than the criminals is just crazy - but the apocalyptic attitude about the issues evoking imagery of barbarians pillaging Rome etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1998353131822870675) 2025-12-09T11:24Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"An important and underrated form of trustlessness is increasing the number of people who can actually understand the whole protocol from top to bottom. Ethereum needs to get better at this (by making the protocol simpler). wow @VitalikButerin proposed to follow the lead of @__tinygrad__ and establish goal of max lines of code for ethereum spec wow @VitalikButerin proposed to follow the lead of @__tinygrad__ and establish goal of max lines of code for ethereum spec"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2001333394614132884) 2025-12-17T16:47Z 5.9M followers, 235K engagements
"@zkDragon @scupytrooples yeah I would support us doing this over time CC @ncsgy @tkstanczak"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2002451372466458970) 2025-12-20T18:49Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"I have thought for a while that if anyone wants to spin up yet another "new AI lab because the existing ones are not good for humanity" they should have an explicit binding charter to focus on human-augmentation tools and not build anything with [--] min time horizon autonomy *Even if* all the arguments about safety end up wrong ASI companies pursuing Maximum Autonomy Now are a dime a dozen the human augmentation niche ("don't build skynet build mecha suits for the mind") is underserved. Also pls make it open source as much as possible. On your point about econ v. tech view of labor displacement"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2005637190907261371) 2025-12-29T13:49Z 5.9M followers, 196.9K engagements
"24 [--] . . . . . . . . [----] . . [--] (). . : [--]. [--]. : ... https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021929744380702912 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021929744380702912"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021929744380702912) 2026-02-12T12:49Z 5.9M followers, 542.2K engagements
"@killerstorm @ciscoguru @zooko Nah dude the real smart money is going all in on Ixcoin"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1063891822739513344) 2018-11-17T20:29Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@R_Tyler_Smith @RyanSAdams I think it originated on /r/buttcoin. As I remember the vocab there: bitcoin - buttcoin ETH - mETH (or "etherbutts" or "ethere-ho-hum") IOTA - IdIOTA ETC - classic mETH me - Vitalik Butterin (two t's)"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1270830091124109312) 2020-06-10T21:27Z 5.9M followers, [---] engagements
"8. Twitter banning @sci_hub is sad. You should definitely NOT click this link to SciHub's telegram bot and violate the publishing cartels' god-given right to massive profits. https://telegram.me/scihubot https://telegram.me/scihubot"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1348894473942568961) 2021-01-12T07:27Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Self-custody is important. And social recovery and multisig is a great way to do it. A quick reddit post on how I think about choosing guardians for social recovery and multisig wallets: https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/11tijiv/how_i_think_about_choosing_guardians_for_multisig/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/11tijiv/how_i_think_about_choosing_guardians_for_multisig/"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1636608740513263617) 2023-03-17T06:01Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"The one comment I'll make is that I feel bad that @solana and other projects are getting hit in this way. They don't deserve it and if ethereum ends up "winning" through all other blockchains getting kicked off exchanges that's not an honorable way to win and in the long term probably isn't even a victory. This is especially true since the real competition is not other chains it's the rapidly expanding centralized world that is imposing itself on us as we speak. I wish all honorable projects a fair outcome in this whole situation"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1674644137847451649) 2023-06-30T05:00Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M engagements
"@dcinvestor If I did not believe in ETH as SOV I would not hold 90% of my net worth in it"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1828448417585971661) 2024-08-27T15:04Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@weboftrees I think of Orbit as exposing the entire linear tradeoff space between Algorand-style (committee-based no economic finality) and Tendermint-style (instant full finality low node count). It feels obvious that the correct point on that spectrum is somewhere in the middle"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1840748068863725826) 2024-09-30T13:38Z 5.9M followers, 97.2K engagements
"From prediction markets to info finance: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1855063184039633378) 2024-11-09T01:41Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M 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 [--] ETH for🦛+ frens. May they live long and prosper🖖🏻"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1872249492218708250) 2024-12-26T11:53Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M 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](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1880635379771904423) 2025-01-18T15:16Z 5.9M followers, 7.4M engagements
"No. This is not how this game works. The person deciding the new EF leadership team is me. One of the goals of the ongoing reform is to give the EF a "proper board" but until that happens it's me. If you "keep the pressure on" then you are creating an environment that is actively toxic to top talent. Some of Ethereum's best devs have been messaging me recently expressing their disgust with the social media environment that people like you are creating. YOU ARE MAKING MY JOB HARDER. And you are decreasing the chance I have any interest whatsoever in doing "what you want". Milady."
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1881680518934384676) 2025-01-21T12:29Z 5.9M followers, 5.2M 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 99% 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 [--] weeks"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1887594511414796784) 2025-02-06T20:09Z 5.9M followers, 1M engagements
"Thank you to everyone to has given their kind support over the last few weeks"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1888482937504514380) 2025-02-09T06:59Z 5.9M followers, 924.4K 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. hearing so many eth ogs say they havent heard of me is sad but heres a short bio for them: Im a normal girl who likes having fun online with her internet friends yippie :) hearing so many eth ogs say they havent heard of me is sad but heres a short bio for them: Im a normal girl who likes having fun online with her internet friends yippie :)"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1895801873896259819) 2025-03-01T11:42Z 5.9M followers, 2.6M engagements
"A simple L2 security and finalization roadmap https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-simple-l2-security-and-finalization-roadmap/23309 https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-simple-l2-security-and-finalization-roadmap/23309"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1905733092662505586) 2025-03-28T21:25Z 5.9M followers, 662K engagements
"@WatcherGuru @cz_binance Also worth reiterating thanks for all the support from @sandeepnailwal @CryptoRelief_ who both funded important biomedical infra in India and returned a large portion of to Balvi to expand on its research and dev mission globally"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1940138431847203066) 2025-07-01T20:00Z 5.9M followers, 281.9K engagements
"Reminder that Peter Thiel is to put it mildly not a cypherpunk"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1973901684226265229) 2025-10-03T00:03Z 5.9M followers, 948.4K engagements
"Regular reminder: A key property of a blockchain is that even a 51% attack *cannot make an invalid block valid*. This means even 51% of validators colluding (or hit by a software bug) cannot steal your assets. However this property does not carry over if you start trusting your validator set to do other things that the chain does not have control over - at that point 51% of validators can collude and give a wrong answer and you don't have any recourse"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1982274694708691212) 2025-10-26T02:34Z 5.9M followers, 600.6K engagements
"ZKsync has been doing a lot of underrated and valuable work in the ethereum ecosystem. Excited to see this come from them https://t.co/mbanFBPMVe https://t.co/mbanFBPMVe"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1984523871803056592) 2025-11-01T07:32Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Galaxy brain resistance: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/11/07/galaxybrain.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/11/07/galaxybrain.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1986906940472238108) 2025-11-07T21:21Z 5.9M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Signed the trustless manifesto @thewizardofpos @yoavw https://trustlessness.eth.limo/general/2025/11/11/the-trustless-manifesto.html https://trustlessness.eth.limo/general/2025/11/11/the-trustless-manifesto.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1988764537034616903) 2025-11-13T00:23Z 5.9M followers, 750.1K engagements
"@alpeh_v Privacy is not a feature. Privacy is hygiene"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1992732552814305728) 2025-11-23T23:10Z 5.9M followers, 204.9K engagements
"I hope Zcash resists the dark hand of token voting. Token voting is bad in all kinds of ways (see ); I think it's worse than Zcash's status quo. Privacy is exactly the sort of thing that will erode over time if left to the median token holder. https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1995063062165135675) 2025-11-30T09:31Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"We need a good trustless onchain gas futures market. (Like a prediction market on the BASEFEE) I've heard people ask: "today fees are low but what about in [--] years You say they'll stay low because of increasing gaslimit from BAL + ePBS + later ZK-EVM but do I believe you" An onchain gas futures market would help solve this: people would get a clear signal of people's expectations of future gas fees and would even be able to hedge against future gas prices effectively prepaying for any specific quantity of gas in a specific time interval"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1997279838252531823) 2025-12-06T12:19Z 5.9M followers, 574.9K engagements
"Wonderland is a great team and has been very helpful in the Ethereum ecosystem including to the EF on interop and Kohaku and to many Ethereum projects. My startup @Wonderland is hiring [--] Senior Solidity developers. We work at the cutting edge of crypto. Theres no better place to get exposure to the coolest shit being built in this space. DM me you won't regret it RTs appreciated for reach. My startup @Wonderland is hiring [--] Senior Solidity developers. We work at the cutting edge of crypto. Theres no better place to get exposure to the coolest shit being built in this space. DM me you won't"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2001421862593585533) 2025-12-17T22:38Z 5.9M followers, 203.2K engagements
"Crypto is building toward human empowerment as it has been since the beginning "Empowerment" was the code of the philosophy of the Pirate Party before crypto even existed. Crypto is building towards human empowerment as it has been since the beginning. Never lose sight of the mission at hand. Crypto is building towards human empowerment as it has been since the beginning. Never lose sight of the mission at hand"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2002328755579076740) 2025-12-20T10:42Z 5.9M followers, 302.2K engagements
"Happy solstice"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2002889545705292283) 2025-12-21T23:50Z 5.9M followers, 326.3K engagements
"This is what I worry Europe will get negatively polarized into: an ideology taking pride in a neat sanitized online environment free of evil corporate and fascist pathogens. I hope European govs do not go this way and instead take a Pirate Party approach of user empowerment. First what's wrong with the tweet I'm quoting: The idea that there should be "no space" for something you dislike is fundamentally a totalitarian and anti-pluralistic impulse. It's incompatible with being in an environment that you do not fully control. This is especially true for categories that are subjective and"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2004575793750355971) 2025-12-26T15:31Z 5.9M followers, 632.6K engagements
"Balance of power https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/30/balance_of_power.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/30/balance_of_power.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2006182090694615084) 2025-12-31T01:54Z 5.9M followers, 440.6K engagements
"Welcome to [----] Milady is back. Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased blob count increased node software quality improved zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later) But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2006737662942871574) 2026-01-01T14:41Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum. These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network. To see why let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far: BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth highly decentralized no consensus Bitcoin (2009): highly decentralized consensus but low bandwidth - because its not distributed in the sense of work being"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2007559523528233041) 2026-01-03T21:07Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was created to set people free This was an important - and controversial - line from the Trustless Manifesto ( ) and it is worth revisiting it and better understanding what it means. efficient and convenient have the connotation of improving the average case in situations where its already pretty good. Efficiency is about telling the world's best engineers to put their souls into reducing latency from [---] ms to 368ms or increasing yields from 4.5% APY to 5.3% APY. Convenience is about people making one click instead of"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2008174642066845778) 2026-01-05T13:51Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"One metaphor for Ethereum is BitTorrent and how that p2p network combines decentralization and mass scale. Ethereum's goal is to do the same thing but with consensus. Another metaphor for Ethereum is Linux. * Linux is free and open source software and does not compromise on this * Linux is quietly depended on by billions of people and enterprises worldwide. Governments regularly use it. * There are many operating systems based on Linux that pursue mass adoption * There are Linux distributions (eg. Arch) that are highly purist minimalistic and technologically beautiful and focus on making the"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2009154666467074392) 2026-01-08T06:46Z 5.9M followers, 435.6K engagements
"Increasing bandwidth is safer than reducing latency With PeerDAS and ZKPs we know how to scale and potentially we can scale thousands of times compared to the status quo. The numbers become far more favorable than before (eg. see analysis here pre and post-sharding ). There is no law of physics that prevents combining extreme scale with decentralization. Reducing latency is not like this. We are fundamentally constrained by speed of light and on top of that we are also constrained by: * Need to support nodes (especially attesters) in rural environments worldwide and in home or commercial"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2009158272943599877) 2026-01-08T07:00Z 5.9M followers, 589.9K engagements
"@rstormsf Done. Re-posting the contents for public consumption:"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2009518473173512379) 2026-01-09T06:51Z 5.9M followers, 97.5K engagements
"Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test. Ethereum is meant to be a home for trustless and trust-minimized applications whether in finance governance or elsewhere. It must support applications that are more like tools - the hammer that once you buy it's yours - than like services that lose all functionality once the vendor loses interest in maintaining them (or worse gets hacked or becomes value-extractive). Even when applications do have functionality that depends on a vendor Ethereum can help reduce those dependencies as much as possible and protect the user as much as possible in those"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2010621884811845708) 2026-01-12T07:56Z 5.9M followers, 900.6K engagements
"@IfeTeddy0108 The new consensus layer (leanCL) is being designed fully with ZK in mind. For the execution layer RISC-V is one option to be more ZK-friendly and we're exploring alternatives too"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2010634866765799698) 2026-01-12T08:48Z 5.9M followers, 32.3K engagements
"In [----] there was a vision: you can have permissionless decentralized applications that could support finance social media ride sharing governing organizations crowdfunding potentially create an entire alternative web all on the backs of a suite of technologies. Ethereum: the blockchain. The world computer that could give any application its shared memory. Whisper: the data layer. Messages too expensive for a blockchain that do no need consensus. Swarm: the storage layer. Store files for long-term access. Over the last five years this core vision has at times become obscured with various"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2011325527567544393) 2026-01-14T06:32Z 5.9M followers, 498.6K engagements
"@aztecnetwork Privacy is freedom. Privacy is order. Privacy is progress. Milady"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2011539277969084755) 2026-01-14T20:41Z 5.9M followers, 95.4K engagements
"Sounds a lil bit anti-islam but hey Fuck statements like this. Similarly fuck claiming that standing up for Gazans' West Bankers Lebanese Syrian people's right to live in peace and not get encroaching settlements constant drone strikes and bombs is antisemitic. And fuck claiming that standing up for Ukrainian people's right to live in peace and not be invaded is Russophobic. And fuck not even noticing the needless and extreme manmade suffering in Sudan Myanmar North Korea and elsewhere. And fuck the possibility that in the future statements like this will have to include a line for Greenland."
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2011905469095284874) 2026-01-15T20:56Z 5.9M followers, 212.2K engagements
"2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness. Some of what this practically means: Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer. Helios: actually verify the data you're receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it. ORAM PIR: ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you're asking so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off to dozens of third parties all around the world. Social recovery wallets and timelocks:"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2012231445809435134) 2026-01-16T18:32Z 5.9M followers, 571K engagements
"An important and perenially underrated aspect of "trustlessness" "passing the walkaway test" and "self-sovereignty" is protocol simplicity. Even if a protocol is super decentralized with hundreds of thousands of nodes and it has 49% byzantine fault tolerance and nodes fully verify everything with quantum-safe peerdas and starks if the protocol is an unwieldy mess of hundreds of thousands of lines of code and five forms of PhD-level cryptography ultimately that protocol fails all three tests: * It's not trustless because you have to trust a small class of high priests who tell you what"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2012819160426807639) 2026-01-18T09:27Z 5.9M followers, 380.7K engagements
"2026 is the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty. But this applies far beyond the blockchain world. In [----] I made two major changes to the software I use: * Switched almost fully to (open source encrypted decentralized docs) * Switched decisively to Signal as primary messenger (away from Telegram). Also installed Simplex and Session. This year changes I've made are: * Google Maps - OpenStreetMap OrganicMaps is the best mobile app I've seen for it. Not just open source but also privacy-preserving because local which is important because it's good to reduce the number of"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2014454477152256415) 2026-01-22T21:45Z 5.9M followers, 377.9K engagements
"The relationship between "institutions" and "cypherpunk" is complex and needs to be understood properly. In truth institutions (both governments and corporations) are neither guaranteed friend nor foe. Exhibit A: European Union seeking to aggressively support open source Exhibit B: European Union bureaucrats want Chat Control (mandatory encryption backdoors) Exhibit C: the Patriot Act (which we must note _neither party_ now expresses much interest in repealing) Exhibit D: the US government is now famously a user of Signal Basically the game-theoretic optimum for an institution is to have"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2014823681042874455) 2026-01-23T22:12Z 5.9M followers, 241.8K engagements
"I no longer agree with this previous tweet of mine - since [----] I have become a much more willing connoisseur of mountains. It's worth explaining why. First the original context. That tweet was in a debate with Ian Grigg who argued that blockchains should track the order of transactions but not the state (eg. user balances smart contract code and storage): The messages are logged but the state (e.g. UTXO) is implied which means it is constructed by the computer internally and then (can be) thrown away. I was heavily against this philosophy because it would imply that users have no way to get"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2015599527370293422) 2026-01-26T01:35Z 5.9M followers, 402.6K engagements
"The scaling hierarchy in blockchains: Computation data state Computation is easier to scale than data. You can parallelize it require the block builder to provide all kinds of "hints" for it or just replace arbitrary amounts of it with a proof of it. Data is in the middle. If an availability guarantee on data is required then that guarantee is required no way around it. But you _can_ split it up and erasure code it a la PeerDAS. You can do graceful degradation for it: if a node only has 1/10 the data capacity of the other nodes it can always produce blocks 1/10 the size. State is the hardest."
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2015965780727496907) 2026-01-27T01:51Z 5.9M followers, 182.4K engagements
"This morning I needed to check which addresses were signers on my multisig. I was on my phone and did not have the Safe app installed there. I realized that I could just look up my address on etherscan and use the "read contract" feature to get what I want directly. These are the kinds of additional UX benefits you get if your wallet or application is open source and passes the walkaway test. Giving users access to alternative options often helps in unexpected situations much more mundane than the Safe website "walking away" outright. (Of course this exact workflow will eventually have to"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2016424844682723819) 2026-01-28T08:15Z 5.9M followers, 239.2K engagements
"The situation in Iran is continuing to get much worse. Much respect for everyone going through extreme danger to try to increase the chance that Iranian people can be free. Day [--] of the internet blackout in Iran and were out here testing hundreds of VPNs just to post a few damn words. - Weve cried so much for our friends and our people that theres literally no tears left. All thats inside us now is rage curses and a burning thirst for Day [--] of the internet blackout in Iran and were out here testing hundreds of VPNs just to post a few damn words. - Weve cried so much for our friends and our"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2016460401068614076) 2026-01-28T10:36Z 5.9M followers, 560.2K engagements
"@heymarcopolox Milady"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2017201483050094996) 2026-01-30T11:41Z 5.9M followers, 32.7K engagements
"How I would do creator coins We've seen about [--] years of people trying to do content incentivization in crypto from early-stage platforms like Bihu and Steemit to BitClout in [----] to Zora to tipping features inside of decentralized social and more. So far I think we have not been very successful and I think this is because the problem is fundamentally hard. First my view of what the problem is. A major difference between doing "creator incentives" in the 00s vs doing them today is that in the 00s a primary problem was having not enough content at all. In the 20s there's plenty of content AI"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2017956762347835488) 2026-02-01T13:42Z 5.9M followers, 541.3K engagements
"I actually don't think it's complicated. IMO the future of onchain mechanism design is mostly going to fit into one pattern: something that looks like a prediction market - something that looks like a capture-resistant non-financialized preference-setting gadget In other words: * One layer that is maximally open and maximizes accountability (it's a market anyone can buy and sell if you make good decisions you win money if you make bad decisions you lose money) * One layer that is decentralized and pluralistic and that maximizes space for intrinsic motivation. This cannot be token-based"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2018208031201190294) 2026-02-02T06:21Z 5.9M followers, 320.2K engagements
"There have recently been some discussions on the ongoing role of L2s in the Ethereum ecosystem especially in the face of two facts: * L2s' progress to stage [--] (and secondarily on interop) has been far slower and more difficult than originally expected * L1 itself is scaling fees are very low and gaslimits are projected to increase greatly in [----] Both of these facts for their own separate reasons mean that the original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense and we need a new path. First let us recap the original vision. Ethereum needs to scale. The definition of"
[X Link](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2018711006394843585) 2026-02-03T15:39Z 5.9M followers, 6.2M engagements
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@VitalikButerin vitalik.eth
Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, has been actively discussing and promoting various topics, including the importance of open-source and verifiable self-driving cars, the need for a culture of distinguishing between pocket money and long-term savings, and the significance of full-stack openness and verifiability. He also emphasized Ethereum's key property of incorruptibility, which ensures that even a 51% attack cannot make an invalid block valid. Additionally, he expressed excitement about the growth of layer [--] solutions, such as Base, and their potential to provide faster withdrawal times and improved security.
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"Table of contents:"
X Link 2025-12-17T19:06Z 5.9M followers, 19.3K engagements
"I agree with maybe 60% of this but one bit that is particularly important to highlight is the explicit separation between what the poster calls "the open web" (really the corposlop web) and "the sovereign web". This is a distinction I did not realize until recently and I must admit the bitcoin maximalists were far ahead: a big part of their resistance to ICOs tokens other than bitcoin arbitrary financial applications etc was precisely about keeping bitcoin "sovereign" and not "corposlop". The big error that many of them made was trying to achieve this goal with either government crackdowns or"
X Link 2026-01-10T09:27Z 5.9M followers, 597K engagements
"We need more DAOs - but different and better DAOs. The original drive to build Ethereum was heavily inspired by decentralized autonomous organizations: systems of code and rules that lived on decentralized networks that could manage resources and direct activity more efficiently and more robustly than traditional governments and corporations could. Since then the concept of DAOs has migrated to essentially referring to a treasury controlled by token holder voting - a design which "works" hence why it got copied so much but a design which is inefficient vulnerable to capture and fails utterly"
X Link 2026-01-19T07:03Z 5.9M followers, 382.6K engagements
"Can you explain why in more detail My high-level frame for viewing these questions is: the "preference-setting" organ of a governance system should not be financialized but it's okay for other parts to be if they are accountable to the preference-setting organ. And so I strongly oppose financial stake as a way to gain an identity to participate in governance but here we are not talking about that we are talking about stake that gets slashed in case of abuse in this specific case the abuse being eg. your query violates the ToS of an LLM provider. So the preference-setting organ is not"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:12Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasma https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/14/neoplasma.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/14/neoplasma.html"
X Link 2023-11-14T12:06Z 5.9M followers, 2.2M engagements
"You can just build on L1. Ethereum transaction fees are dirt cheap and have been for all of [----] Due to client optimizations and hard drives becoming cheaper the gas limit ("block size") will continue to go up and keep tx fees cheap Return To Mainnet https://t.co/hu3PPJl3xK Ethereum transaction fees are dirt cheap and have been for all of [----] Due to client optimizations and hard drives becoming cheaper the gas limit ("block size") will continue to go up and keep tx fees cheap Return To Mainnet https://t.co/hu3PPJl3xK"
X Link 2025-11-30T19:14Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements
"I've been impressed by @fileverse (decentralized open-source encrypted docs ). Every month more bugs get fixed and recently it's finally at the point where I can comfortably send docs off for comment or collaboration and things reliably don't break. https://docs.fileverse.io/ https://docs.fileverse.io/"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:20Z 5.9M followers, 324K engagements
"My latest views on popups network states coordi-nations zones and where all of these things could lead us. (Long poast) https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/17/societies.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/17/societies.html"
X Link 2025-12-17T19:06Z 5.9M followers, 485.8K engagements
"We need better decentralized stablecoins. IMO three problems: [--]. Ideally figure out an index to track that's better than USD price [--]. Oracle design that's decentralized and is not capturable with a large pool of money [--]. Solve the problem that staking yield is competition Tracking USD is fine short term but imo part of the vision of nation state resilience should be independence even from that price ticker. On a [--] year timeline well what if it hyperinflates even moderately If you don't have (2) then you have to ensure cost of capture protocol token market cap which in turn implies protocol"
X Link 2026-01-11T07:33Z 5.9M followers, 190.3K engagements
"In [----] I plan to be fully back to decentralized social. If we want a better society we need better mass communication tools. We need mass communication tools that surface the best information and arguments and help people find points of agreement. We need mass communication tools that serve the user's long-term interest not maximize short-term engagement. There is no simple trick that solves these problems. But there is one important place to start: more competition. Decentralization is the way to enable that: a shared data layer with anyone being able to build their own client on top. In"
X Link 2026-01-21T08:02Z 5.9M followers, 601.9K engagements
"In these five years the Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of mild austerity in order to be able to simultaneously meet two goals: [--]. Deliver on an aggressive roadmap that ensures Ethereum's status as a performant and scalable world computer that does not compromise on robustness sustainability and decentralization. [--]. Ensures the Ethereum Foundation's own ability to sustain into the long term and protect Ethereum's core mission and goals including both the core blockchain layer as well as users' ability to access and use the chain with self-sovereignty security and privacy. To this end"
X Link 2026-01-30T07:59Z 5.9M followers, 638.1K engagements
"@RyanSAdams ETH is a store of value and one of the most important apps on ethereum"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:46Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Good speech by Cory Doctorow Let's repeal anti-circumvention laws. Nothing should be updateable without the user's permission nothing critical should be a black box. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=3C1Gnxhfok0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=3C1Gnxhfok0"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:00Z 5.9M followers, 113.1K engagements
"Welcome Bastian Ethereum is for node runners UX and product builders community organizers forum crews lurkers and free software advocates cyberanarchists Landian accelerationists financepunks femboys and all others who do not fit into a [---] character limit. Milady I am stepping into the role of interim co-ED @ethereumfndn to continue the progress that Tomasz has made over the last year. Tomasz brought an energy and urgency that the EF needed at a critical time and I join the community in thanking him for his work on behalf of the I am stepping into the role of interim co-ED @ethereumfndn to"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:39Z 5.9M followers, 138.7K engagements
"Recently I have been starting to worry about the state of prediction markets in their current form. They have achieved a certain level of success: market volume is high enough to make meaningful bets and have a full-time job as a trader and they often prove useful as a supplement to other forms of news media. But also they seem to be over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit: embracing short-term cryptocurrency price bets sports betting and other similar things that have dopamine value but not any kind of long-term fulfillment or societal information value. My guess is that teams"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:57Z 5.9M followers, 117.6K engagements
"Crypto prices sports short-term events - this isnt a "corrupted version" of markets. Its a way to bring in people money and liquidity. Without these markets you just wont get proper depth tight spreads and the habit of participating. You cant start straight away with hedging and complex decision markets - nobody will show up. This isnt a bug its a growth stage I used to be more open to these kinds of arguments but more recently I am more inclined to think that they are usually galaxy brain self-justification For every product that has had this justification and successfully transitioned to"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:33Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@basedguston "ETH" was mentioned twice in the above post. Maybe Ctrl+F before criticizing"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:58Z 5.9M followers, 21.6K engagements
"We should put resources toward a proper (trustless serverless maximally Uniswap-like UX) ETH - BTC decentralized exchange. It's embarrassing that we still can't easily move between the two largest crypto ecosystems trustlessly"
X Link 2020-03-24T20:47Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Congrats on the launch all"
X Link 2020-12-01T12:08Z 5.9M followers, 19.4K engagements
"Why we need wide adoption of social recovery wallets: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html"
X Link 2021-01-10T22:23Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"I'm more pessimistic about this now especially because of the PoS switch. We will need oracles. And if we want to make stablecoins robust to USD collapse (by switching to their own native CPI if that happens) we'll need more active governance"
X Link 2022-01-01T22:14Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Amazing resource by @liamihorne on EIP-4844 (aka. proto-danksharding): https://www.eip4844.com/ https://www.eip4844.com/"
X Link 2022-03-19T13:51Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"My own EIP-4844 (aka. proto-danksharding) technical FAQ: https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/proto_danksharding_faq https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/proto_danksharding_faq"
X Link 2022-03-19T13:52Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@NathanpmYoung @ESYudkowsky @slatestarcodex @eigenrobot @s8mb @robertwiblin @willmacaskill @moskov Good idea done"
X Link 2022-05-24T14:30Z 5.9M followers, [--] engagements
"What do you disagree with me the most on (followees can reply anyone else can quote tweet I'll read both)"
X Link 2022-06-05T02:54Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"My 40-liter backpack travel guide: https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/20/backpack.html https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/20/backpack.html"
X Link 2022-06-20T15:03Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Agreeing with the proverb "those who most want to rule people are those least suited to do it" and supporting DAOs being run by transferable governance tokens is a contradiction. Transferable governance tokens are all about giving more power to "those who most want to rule""
X Link 2022-07-28T17:12Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@slipscreen Triple vaxxed last dose [---] months before getting covid"
X Link 2022-09-08T16:49Z 5.9M followers, [--] engagements
"@AnthonyLeeZhang Put $7 into a 2-of-2 multisig and leave them having to negotiate taking it out"
X Link 2022-10-21T22:20Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"I propose the term "alfalfa leak" for something that doesn't give you an easy path to short term profit but is still ultimately good for you"
X Link 2022-12-05T14:58Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@donnoh_eth @dankrad @daddysether @l2beat To me for something to qualify as L2 at all it must have a security property that is meaningfully stronger than a multisig even if it's not a rollup-like total guarantee. Validiums satisfy this. Optimiums can but require rigorous analysis of what the exact security gain is"
X Link 2024-01-17T23:25Z 5.9M followers, 30.2K engagements
"I'm feeling quite unhappy about with "this cycles celebrity experimentation" so far. "Financialization as a means toward an end" I can respect if the end is worthy (healthcare open source software art etc). Financialization as the final product 🤮 Ashton and Mila's Stoner Cats was vastly more honorable than anything we've seen from this [----] celebrity memecoin era - at least there was an actual show being funded. How do we push things in a better direction"
X Link 2024-06-05T09:47Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto" https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/17/procrypto.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/17/procrypto.html"
X Link 2024-07-17T17:06Z 5.9M followers, 2.6M engagements
"@EthereanVibin ETH bullposting is good"
X Link 2024-09-11T04:15Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@not_qz @optimizoor People have mentioned it's on my queue to look into more deeply So far I'm still in my @fileverse arc I used it to write today's post https://radicle.xyz https://radicle.xyz"
X Link 2024-09-28T15:24Z 5.9M followers, 23K engagements
"@BruestleJeremy Appreciate your work [--] MB of data in [--] second is 16k compression funcs per sec one more order of magnitude improvement and we're all set 😀"
X Link 2024-10-23T23:38Z 5.9M followers, 36.4K engagements
"@RyanSAdams @odin_free"
X Link 2024-10-31T05:34Z 5.9M followers, 177K engagements
"What I would love to see in a wallet: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/12/03/wallets.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/12/03/wallets.html"
X Link 2024-12-03T11:00Z 5.9M followers, 1.6M 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 2024-12-12T06:56Z 5.9M followers, 771.2K engagements
"Left: the goal. Right: the means"
X Link 2025-01-05T17:16Z 5.9M followers, 295.3K engagements
"We do need better cause prioritization in ethereum core dev. Like if I had to choose between (i) the blob target increase from [--] to [--] and (ii) literally everything else in Pectra I would choose (i). What's the equivalent for Fusaka and G* (Obviously a big part of the answer is: blobs and blobs though I think L1 EVM improvements are important too my favorites are EOF - full AA via [----] and SIMD+EVMMAX plus moderate gas limit increases) We're doing peerdas. Maybe explore more ambitious versions of peerdas eg. https://notes.ethereum.org/NgKvvYiAQ7WdxPECCVdGUQ"
X Link 2025-01-08T15:02Z 5.9M followers, 653.1K engagements
"The @Soneium situation is a good live demonstration of how launching an ethereum L2 is great for businesses and users. Businesses can make very fine-grained choices around how much control they keep vs give to users. But whatever rules they choose that's what the rules are. Everything is onchain transparent and auditable by third parties. You can make a very closed system where there's no escape hatch and where the operator can edit the state root but then users will know exactly what they are getting into and @l2beat and armies of independent internet sleuths will help them. You can also"
X Link 2025-01-15T16:05Z 5.9M followers, 914.1K engagements
"@FesCrypto In Texas even female cows are free to self-identify as bullish"
X Link 2025-01-15T18:34Z 5.9M followers, 549.5K engagements
"@balajis Milady"
X Link 2025-01-25T16:56Z 5.9M followers, 108.6K engagements
"@ehnveee Milady"
X Link 2025-01-30T16:11Z 5.9M followers, 26.2K engagements
"L1 is scaling. A big shoutout to all the developers working on EIP-4444 (history expiry) statelessness (see the new binary tree EIP ) client efficiency upgrades and other features that will make higher L1 gas limits decentralization-friendly. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9257 Ethereum's gas limit is already up above [--] million. https://t.co/RODCBf4KFZ https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/9257 Ethereum's gas limit is already up above [--] million. https://t.co/RODCBf4KFZ"
X Link 2025-02-04T00:57Z 5.9M followers, 659.1K engagements
"@owocki @ameensol make communism great again Milady"
X Link 2025-02-12T20:20Z 5.9M followers, 4.9M engagements
"@ethereumfndn @alex_pertsev Privacy is normal and writing code is not a crime. Milady"
X Link 2025-02-26T11:03Z 5.9M followers, 124.4K engagements
"@lunar_mining but what if I like freedom and I also like the torch of reason"
X Link 2025-05-09T09:55Z 5.9M followers, 33.7K 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 2025-05-21T18:04Z 5.9M followers, 298.2K 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 2025-09-21T01:08Z 5.9M followers, 132.3K 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. https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ https://gwern.net/doc/politics/2007-thiel.pdf https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/ https://gwern.net/doc/politics/2007-thiel.pdf"
X Link 2025-10-03T00:03Z 5.9M followers, 167K engagements
"Kohaku code and roadmap Full-stack privacy and security are first-class priorities in Ethereum. 8/ We aim to have a demo ready by @EFDevcon Our code is free for all to use worldwide. Find it at : https://t.co/ZoHX2Cetiq https://t.co/ApF86vcd80 https://t.co/cHIw1oEkj4 Roadmap at : https://t.co/R2dKD9vHPj 8/ We aim to have a demo ready by @EFDevcon Our code is free for all to use worldwide. Find it at : https://t.co/ZoHX2Cetiq https://t.co/ApF86vcd80 https://t.co/cHIw1oEkj4 Roadmap at : https://t.co/R2dKD9vHPj"
X Link 2025-10-09T08:19Z 5.9M followers, 490.6K 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 [----] and Polymarket has been the key driving force making this happen. Markets on everything. Were proud to announce that $ICE the owner of @NYSE and the largest exchange company in the world is making a strategic investment of $2 billion into Polymarket valuing us at $9 billion post-money. Our partnership with ICE marks a major step in https://t.co/oShaglRx9p Markets on everything. Were proud to announce that $ICE the owner of @NYSE and the largest exchange"
X Link 2025-10-10T03:29Z 5.9M followers, 758.5K engagements
"@DanFriedman81 @StaniKulechov @aave"
X Link 2025-10-11T04:45Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@imdyingslowly @bryan_caplan me immortality and no AI risk are a pretty sweet deal though I'd be curious about the details of "no tech progress" eg. are we allowed to keep bugfixing the existing starship and eventually actually use it to do Mars colonies"
X Link 2025-10-18T04:13Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"I wish more ZK and FHE people would give their overhead as a ratio (time to compute in-cryptography vs time to compute raw) rather than just saying "we can do N ops per second" It's more hardware-independent and it gives a very informative number: how much efficiency am I sacrificing by making my app cryptographic instead of trust-dependent It's also often better for estimation because as a developer I already know how much time my computation takes to compute raw so I can just multiply. (Yes I know this is hard because the ops required are heterogeneous between executing and proving"
X Link 2025-10-18T05:28Z 5.9M followers, 316K engagements
"@inversebrah @odin_free @sandeepnailwal @0xPolygon @Polymarket @VitalikButerin"
X Link 2025-10-21T09:35Z 5.9M followers, 50.2K engagements
"@ittaia The key is that "breaking safety" is far from god power. You can revert finalized blocks (to some extent) but you can't eg. edit people's accounts and move their coins into your account"
X Link 2025-10-27T01:10Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@Istvan_A_Seres General-purpose ZKPs are the transformers of crypto: one really powerful and really general technology that just washed away decades of application-specific hard work across dozens of domains. That and quantum which makes hash-based everything more appealing"
X Link 2025-12-17T21:36Z 5.9M followers, 45K engagements
"I still have no idea how to get those tickets intentionally; in my case back then I went to the wrong train station ( instead of ) and I only noticed [--] min before departure so I was looking around visibly confused and a kid ran up and offered to help get me a new ticket in exchange for [---] usd; all the seats on the trains were taken so from what I could tell it took him significant negotiation to get the ticket I still feel very grateful to him more people should do that"
X Link 2025-12-31T19:44Z 5.9M followers, 43.8K engagements
"@MazMHussain"
X Link 2025-12-31T19:53Z 5.9M followers, 111.2K engagements
"@alpeh_v What's an example of a major political action of a major world government in the last five years that was motivated by rationalism (Either lesswrong-style or even more broadly)"
X Link 2026-02-01T11:06Z 5.9M followers, 34.8K engagements
"I think there's a fundamental difference between "speculation backed by speculation" and "speculation backed by feedback from some high-quality signal (ideally reality itself) on reasonably short time periods". Ponzis are the former and if you make something that is the former then yeah it's a ponzi. If you make something that is the latter then to a first approximation you have some hope of instead getting the benefits of a stock market. What I'm advocating is more like "ISAs for creators" than it is like creator coins as they have been done so far. The ultimate buyer that backs the"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:55Z 5.9M followers, 36.2K engagements
"@post_polar_ That sounds like a posh social club in downtown SF funded by tech venture capitalists that's desperately trying to astroturf alcohol into being an avant-garde countercultural cool thing and larps as a network state"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:48Z 5.9M followers, 41.4K engagements
"# 1: : * . * / . . 90- 00- 10- . [----] . [--] ( ) [----] . * 1990- . . . * . New York Times. : (1992) (1994-2000) (2008) . . * 80% . (i) - (ii) [----] (iii) [----] 51% 80% . : [----] . [----] . . ( ): : [----] [--] . . : [----] . . . . . : . ; . ( ) [--] () . . - . "
X Link 2026-02-12T12:49Z 5.9M followers, 122.3K engagements
"# 2: . ( ) : ( ) . . . . - - . ( : ) . . [------] . . . . - : . : * . * . * ; ; 1000- . . . . [--] . ( ) ICE . . . : . 70% 30% . 70% 30% * 30%: . * 70%: . * ( ) : 70% * 70% . .. . . . ( : ). . ( ) . : ."
X Link 2026-02-12T12:49Z 5.9M followers, 74.6K engagements
"Not clear. Most such professions have de-jure or de-facto exemptions for working on yourself and so using AI may be classified as "working on yourself but using a different kind of new tool". Of course this depends on the tool/service distinction in practice such things are decided in part by relevant actors' interests etc; there's a stronger case for the argument if you're using open-weights local AI vs a proprietary model hosted only by the creator. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021960982881611914 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021960982881611914"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:53Z 5.9M followers, 27.2K engagements
"Disappointed at people replying to this with "crypto is what it is it's your job to be super-careful and write down backup seeds in three places". We can and should create better wallet tech to make security easier. Eg. here's a social recovery ERC WIP: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/2429 I just lost all the #Bitcoin I have ever owned. My wallet got corrupted somehow and my password is no longer valid. So now not only is my Bitcoin intrinsically worthless; it has no market value either. I knew owning Bitcoin was a bad idea I just never realized it was this bad https://t.co/6SJvDJOZU6"
X Link 2020-01-20T00:48Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@edsonayllon Three and four-letter ENS names: they're a fixed-supply asset and you can do things with them"
X Link 2020-08-07T23:02Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Doing a random twitter experiment just on this day. Only the [---] people I follow can reply to this tweet. Feel free to ask things and I'll talk about anything crypto or non-crypto related"
X Link 2021-09-01T22:31Z 5.9M followers, 30.4K engagements
"Getting some confirmations from a couple sources that it's legit. Deleting my warning for now. But continue to be vigilant and always be slow and careful when sending irreversible crypto transactions. @Ukraine To follow up on @VitalikButerin's tweet I've confirmed directly with Ukrainian Ambassador @olex_scherba that the addresses are correct and in the control of the Ukrainian govt. Give Defending free and open societies may be the best thing we ever do with our BTC and ETH. @Ukraine To follow up on @VitalikButerin's tweet I've confirmed directly with Ukrainian Ambassador @olex_scherba that"
X Link 2022-02-26T16:24Z 5.9M followers, 20.5K engagements
"First priority is supporting Ukrainians. Second and also really important priority is supporting those Russians and Belarusians who refuse to let Putin's Z-ombie regime represent them and take action to oppose it. It would be an amazing gesture if a European University would openly welcome Russian students kicked out for protesting war in Russia signaling that Europe stands with those in Russia that oppose Putin and oppose the war. That not all Russians are treated as Putin&Co It would be an amazing gesture if a European University would openly welcome Russian students kicked out for"
X Link 2022-03-09T14:43Z 5.9M followers, 16.4K engagements
"@0xstark EOS is Ethereum On Steroids. The name reflects the fact that the core team learned from Ethereum's amateurish naivety and idealism and built out a team of professional top-talent software developers that created a smart contract platform with much higher scalability and speed"
X Link 2022-06-27T16:04Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"OK wow half of yall literally think that someone should be able to lock down every five-letter word in the Scrabble dictionary (which includes exotic stuff like "ZORIL") for a hundred years for less than the price of four lambos. What is a fair price that someone should have to pay to register and unconditionally guarantee ownership of a 5-letter .eth domain for [---] years What is a fair price that someone should have to pay to register and unconditionally guarantee ownership of a 5-letter .eth domain for [---] years"
X Link 2022-09-05T13:50Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"The merge is still expected to happen around Sep 13-15. What's happening today is the Bellatrix hard fork which prepares the chain for the merge. Still important though - make sure to update your clients"
X Link 2022-09-06T03:35Z 5.9M followers, 27.2K engagements
"This is really bad imo"
X Link 2022-12-16T16:51Z 5.9M followers, 2.8M engagements
"@elonmusk ok I actually respect this"
X Link 2022-12-18T23:33Z 5.9M followers, 3.1M engagements
"What do I think about biometric proof of personhood https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html"
X Link 2023-07-24T09:11Z 5.9M followers, 1.6M engagements
"2 + [--] = [--] [--] * [--] = [--] [--] / [--] = [--] [--] + [--] = [--] [---] * [-----] = [--] 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 2024-04-28T15:38Z 5.9M followers, 3M engagements
"@zengjiajun_eth @vatnshui Which way cryptographic man"
X Link 2024-05-09T08:40Z 5.9M followers, 233.1K engagements
"A quick summary of features that a celebrity crypto project needs to have for me to be more willing to respect it: [--]. Have some kind of public-good goal that it's serving other than enriching the celebrity and early adopters. Realistically either an art project or the celebrity's favorite charity or both. [--]. Have some kind of fun mechanics that go beyond just trading a token. As much as I dislike token voting DAOs at least they give something for people to do and organize around. The DAO should not fully decide the agenda but it can have some influence. [--]. Make something that lasts 10+"
X Link 2024-06-05T09:58Z 5.9M followers, 803.1K 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. https://github.com/vbuterin/zorch https://github.com/vbuterin/zorch"
X Link 2024-08-08T05:01Z 5.9M followers, 745.1K engagements
"@balajis I've criticized Telegram before for not being serious with encryption. But (given the info available so far: the charge seems to be just being "unmoderated" and not giving up people's data) this looks very bad and worrying for the future of software and comms freedom in Europe"
X Link 2024-08-25T07:03Z 5.9M followers, 734.3K engagements
"@DrewPavlou This is one of the best things about prediction markets. You can get a pretty decent APR by just repeatedly betting that the crazy thing won't happen"
X Link 2024-08-30T07:00Z 5.9M followers, 165.7K engagements
"@AraBalaghi Quantum computing is the incentive if nothing else. EOAs will be dead in the long-term future whether we like it or not because quantum computing will eventually break ECDSA"
X Link 2024-10-18T12:49Z 5.9M followers, 135K engagements
"@hasufl ". It's better to offend millions by standing aggressively for what you believe in than it is to try to keep everyone happy and end up standing for nothing. Be brave. Fight for your values. ." guess the source 😁"
X Link 2025-01-19T20:03Z 5.9M followers, 102.7K engagements
"Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in [----] and beyond https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/23/l1l2future.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/23/l1l2future.html"
X Link 2025-01-24T04:38Z 5.9M followers, 2.8M engagements
"AI as the engine humans as the steering wheel: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/02/28/aihumans.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/02/28/aihumans.html"
X Link 2025-02-28T22:10Z 5.9M followers, 346.1K engagements
"Welcome back @dannyryan Im thrilled to announce that Im joining as a cofounder of @etherealize_io to help onboard the world to Ethereum Ill be at the helm of the ship alongside @vivekventures and the incredible team he is building Im thrilled to announce that Im joining as a cofounder of @etherealize_io to help onboard the world to Ethereum Ill be at the helm of the ship alongside @vivekventures and the incredible team he is building"
X Link 2025-03-01T15:08Z 5.9M followers, 860.1K engagements
"Ethereum L1 is the world ledger. Ethereum Layer [--] will be the master ledger for the 🌎🌍🌏. Permissionless to inspect use and add data or functionality to. Credibly neutral. Censorship resistant. Tamper resistant and tamper evident (via slashing and transparency). Incessantly progressively decentralizing Ethereum Layer [--] will be the master ledger for the 🌎🌍🌏. Permissionless to inspect use and add data or functionality to. Credibly neutral. Censorship resistant. Tamper resistant and tamper evident (via slashing and transparency). Incessantly progressively decentralizing"
X Link 2025-06-20T12:22Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@louisvarge I follow the rules and proudly boast lifetime [--] missed flights in [-------] km (not including extra distance from layovers)"
X Link 2025-07-11T14:30Z 5.9M followers, 68.6K 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. Dee Hock on the founding of Visa in his work "Chaordic Organization". Visa was perhaps the first successful case of a permissionless platform with decentralized governance and ownership. Many lessons to be learned here half a century later for crypto networks. https://t.co/NQzSldlUaY Dee Hock on the founding of Visa in his work "Chaordic Organization". Visa was"
X Link 2025-08-08T11:37Z 5.9M followers, 347.6K engagements
"On idea-driven ideas https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/08/12/ideas.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/08/12/ideas.html"
X Link 2025-08-12T11:29Z 5.9M followers, 163.3K engagements
"why does it matter if there are no intermediate nodes you're still going up from storing 64n bytes for the raw data (assuming 32-byte keys and values) to storing 96n bytes Is it that the bottom layer is only 64*n now If so you can get the same benefit in a "regular" merkle tree by just storing adjacent pairs of leaf nodes together and recomputing the hash every time (only one extra hash computation per branch and you save half the data)"
X Link 2025-08-27T14:09Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Complexity is a big cost and easy to underrate. And for most use cases to date the privacy property has not been needed. Though I expect this will change soon; at the very least quantum will require us to switch to STARK proving even for client-side privacy apps. Though even before the greater efficiency of STARKs has a lot of advantages"
X Link 2025-08-27T22:53Z 5.9M followers, 35.2K engagements
"@secparam Metaculus's median date for when quantum computers will break modern cryptography is 2040: Seemingly about a 20% chance it will be before end of [----]. https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3684/when-will-a-quantum-computer-running-shors-algorithm-or-a-similar-one-be-used-to-factor-one-of-the-rsa-numbers-for-the-first-time/ https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3684/when-will-a-quantum-computer-running-shors-algorithm-or-a-similar-one-be-used-to-factor-one-of-the-rsa-numbers-for-the-first-time/"
X Link 2025-08-27T23:17Z 5.9M followers, 34.9K engagements
"@chris_j_paxton western SF is great to stay in the problem is it's so hard to get to"
X Link 2025-08-28T13:49Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"This is basically left-Balajism @balajis 😁 I think one of the better reasons why this stuff has often been considered right-coded so far (there are many bad reasons too) is that doing things like this requires a lot of sophistication and inconvenient personal choices eg. it's much easier to rally [----] people from across the internet than in one city and if you do the former people have to move to join the thing. This makes it only accessible to a limited demographic and not the people most in need of it. Though some overrate the extent to which that is a knockdown argument eg. many people"
X Link 2025-08-29T22:11Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@ATabarrok Because the housing market is not about housing it's an obfuscated market for a sort of NFT that contains a weird bundle of various rights including a city residence permit"
X Link 2025-08-30T21:06Z 5.9M followers, 49.7K engagements
"My off-the-cuff guess (low confidence) is that what El Salvador is doing is actually smarter than what CT thinks: * Used addresses are quantum-vulnerable because the ECDSA pubkey is leaked unused addresses are quantum-resistant because they're secured by hashes * The reason to split into multiple unused accounts is a UX convenience it lets you spend coins from one account without leaking the pubkey for the others * Yes the "correct" way to do this is to have a deterministic wallet and put change into a new address. But this is actually not so simple: to be able to pre-generate new addresses"
X Link 2025-08-31T12:17Z 5.9M followers, 44.3K 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 99% 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 2025-09-01T03:07Z 5.9M followers, 29.3K engagements
"@roommatemusing https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1213789119358230528 There are many things in this world much much worse than virtue signaling. Vice signaling is one of them. https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1213789119358230528 There are many things in this world much much worse than virtue signaling. Vice signaling is one of them"
X Link 2025-11-08T22:09Z 5.9M followers, 50.3K engagements
"I'm loving this arc of the pope engaging with 21st century themes and offering simple but correct and meaningful advice. The media cannot and must not separate itself from the destiny of truth. Transparency of sources and ownership accountability quality clarity and objectivity are the keys to truly opening citizens' rights for all peoples. The media cannot and must not separate itself from the destiny of truth. Transparency of sources and ownership accountability quality clarity and objectivity are the keys to truly opening citizens' rights for all peoples"
X Link 2025-11-09T00:07Z 5.9M followers, 3M engagements
"For voting ZK does not offer coercion resistance you do need trusted party MPC FHE TEE for that. But what you can do is layer ZK and eg. FHE together so that even if the FHE breaks you still have every property except coercion resistance due to the ZK. I suspect a similar thing applies for almost every other usecase of crypto-other-than-ZK (you should stack it with ZK so that you get ZK-level guarantees for as many apps / as much data as possible)"
X Link 2025-11-10T19:35Z 5.9M followers, 63.4K engagements
"Ethereum is not the world. Ethereum is an opinionated take on properties that we think should be available in the world for those who want or need them. We need to be okay with sticking hard to our principles and acknowledging the costs of that and yes sometimes being the unreasonable man fighting against the ways of the world. We are Linux not Google. The alternative is that we become inevitably dragged into being "only epsilon more decentralized than the big corps" in an endless quest to win the competition for top dog and we lose anyway because the corps have 100x more money than we do."
X Link 2026-01-05T15:09Z 5.9M followers, 101.7K engagements
"30 . . : (i) (ii) ( ZK ) . (i) ( ) . XIX . ( ). ( : ). ( ) ; . [--] . (ii) . . 70% [--] . : . . ( ) . . 13% . 13% . . : ( ) dont be evil cant be evil. 100% 25% . . . ( ) . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism https://www.youtube.com/watchv=-BB6bwJ9agM https://pol.is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:50Z 5.9M followers, 85.1K engagements
": . . . 70% 70% ... : . ( ) / . : . . USB- . : : . . . 2-4 - . . : ( ). . . https://pol.is https://pol.is"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:50Z 5.9M followers, 80.7K engagements
"RT @dannyryan: Thank you @tkstanczak 🙏 And welcome Bastian 🔥 Bastian is the single most thoughtful and wise person I have ever worked wit"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:35Z 5.9M followers, [--] engagements
"Have been following reactions to what I said about L2s about [---] days ago. One important thing that I believe is: "make yet another EVM chain and add an optimistic bridge to Ethereum with a [--] week delay" is to infra what forking Compound is to governance - something we've done far too much for far too long because we got comfortable and which has sapped our imagination and put us in a dead end. If you make an EVM chain without an optimistic bridge to Ethereum (aka an alt L1) that's even worse. We don't friggin need more copypasta EVM chains and we definitely don't need even more L1s. L1 is"
X Link 2024-11-01T01:52Z 5.9M followers, 1M engagements
"$0xBTC on a tear up today Accumulation or perhaps this beauty being marbled on @marble_cards being an inspiration for purchase ;) Any 0xBTC fans out there Retweet this for more exposure and bigger gains. https://x.com/intocryptoast/status/1096849857279598593s=19 https://x.com/intocryptoast/status/1096849857279598593s=19"
X Link 2019-02-17T20:42Z 21.7K followers, 565.2K engagements
"@zhusu Personally I hope that doge can switch to PoS soon perhaps using ethereum code. I also hope they don't cancel the 5b/year annual PoW issuance instead they put it in some kind of DAO that funds global public goods. Would fit well with dogecoin's non-greedy wholesome ethos"
X Link 2021-09-02T01:12Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Speculative controversial take: we should legitimize price gouging by top stake pool providers. Like if a stake pool controls 15% it should be accepted and even expected for the pool to keep increasing its fee rate until it goes back below 15%. I wonder who will be the first staking provider to publicly commit to limiting themselves to not operating more than 22% of validators on the chain Who do you want to see step up to the plate and prioritize beacon chain health above profits I wonder who will be the first staking provider to publicly commit to limiting themselves to not operating more"
X Link 2022-05-14T02:25Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Privacy in particular has value within DeFi apps not just for deposit/withdraw/send. Privacy can help protect against frontrunning liquidation sniping hacking and physical coercion. Remember: privacy is freedom privacy is order privacy is progress https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/04/14/privacy.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/04/14/privacy.html"
X Link 2025-06-04T22:33Z 5.9M followers, 22.7K engagements
"My response to AI 2027: The AI [----] post is high quality I encourage people to read it at I argue a misaligned AI will not be able to win nearly as easily as the AI [----] scenario assumes because it greatly underrates our ability to protect ourselves especially given the (pretty magical) technologies that the authors admit will be available in [----] in their scenario. https://ai-2027.com/ https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/10/2027.html https://ai-2027.com/ https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/07/10/2027.html"
X Link 2025-07-10T18:17Z 5.9M followers, 368.7K 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. Poll suspended. Our allegiance is with Bitcoiners. You have spoken. Who even allowed this I'm back at my desk. - Steaktoshi Poll suspended. Our allegiance is with Bitcoiners. You have spoken. Who even allowed this I'm back at my desk. - Steaktoshi"
X Link 2025-10-12T04:27Z 5.9M followers, 438.2K engagements
"In general in this area people are way too overindexed on fancy stuff and underindexed on early detection testing (breathalyzer tests are now almost available) and cleaning the air (ventilation filters uvc). The goal isn't 100% effective per-person defense the goal is getting an order-of-magnitude reduction in R0. These things are pretty independent of the details of the actual virus (though of course you need the sequence to be able to make tests for it)"
X Link 2025-10-27T02:56Z 5.9M followers, 57.9K engagements
"We need open source and verifiable self-driving cars"
X Link 2025-11-02T14:11Z 5.9M followers, 674.7K engagements
"Ethereum is scaling. 🚨🥧 We just recorded a new Ethereum Ecosystem TPS record: [----] TPS today at 14:37 UTC https://t.co/J9XFDXjs4y 🚨🥧 We just recorded a new Ethereum Ecosystem TPS record: [----] TPS today at 14:37 UTC https://t.co/J9XFDXjs4y"
X Link 2025-11-04T17:31Z 5.9M followers, 681.6K engagements
"TOP TRENDING MEMECOINS ON BNB CHAIN IN THE LAST 24H 🔸 $B @BUILDonBsc_AI 🔸 $CHEEMS @LordCheems_bsc 🔸 $BABYDOGE @BabyDoge 🔸 #BANANAS31 @BananaS31_bsc 🔸 $BURN @burnArmy 🔸 $GIGGLE @GiggleFundBSC 🔸 $MUBARAK @mubarak_cto 🔸 $BROCCOLI(714) @broccoli714bnb 🔸 $CAT @SimonsCatMeme 🔸 $CREPE @crepe_bsc 🔸 $DOGE @dogecoin 🔸 $WKC @wikicatcoin 🔸 $CAKE @PancakeSwap 🔸 $BOB @BOB_bnbbuilder 🔸# @hajimi_CTO_BNB 🔸 $KOMA @komabnb https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020337454494920876 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020337454494920876"
X Link 2026-02-08T03:22Z 341.7K followers, 17.8K engagements
"Travel time = distance [---] https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/04/14/traveltime.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/04/14/traveltime.html"
X Link 2023-04-14T07:14Z 5.9M followers, 1M engagements
"All L2s should be working on (trustless merkle-proof-based) CCIP resolvers so that we can have ENS subdomains registerable updateable and readable directly on L2s. ENS is super-important it needs to be affordable https://docs.ens.domains/dapp-developer-guide/ens-l2-offchain https://docs.ens.domains/dapp-developer-guide/ens-l2-offchain"
X Link 2024-01-03T13:37Z 5.9M followers, 1.9M engagements
"The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/30/cryptoai.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/30/cryptoai.html"
X Link 2024-01-30T11:23Z 5.9M followers, 3.7M engagements
"@Neiro_Dog Charity donation done covering all animal coins from the past year or so That said I appreciate it if coin holdings just get allocated to the charities directly😊 It's [----] we can start doing more sophisticated public goods fun-ding eg. see https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html"
X Link 2024-08-15T10:45Z 5.9M followers, 2.1M engagements
"the yield comes from borrowers trading fees etc Right so this worries me. Because it feels like an ouroboros: the value of crypto tokens is that you can use them to earn yield which is paid for by. people trading crypto tokens. Even if the answer is something clear like eg. people getting 8% APR on USD are paid by people paying 8% APR to leverage ETH at 2x it still means that the ongoing existence of the defi market is downstream of the existence of the ETH market which means that while defi may be great it's fundamentally capped and can't be the thing that brings crypto to another 10-100x"
X Link 2024-08-25T09:40Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M 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 2024-10-07T12:03Z 5.9M followers, 2.8M engagements
"@CharlotteFang77 milady"
X Link 2025-01-18T21:06Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Argentina's Ethereum community is full of amazing builders who have already contributed some of the most important software in the Ethereum ecosystem. The energy and determination to build on Argentina's current momentum and use crypto and other new technologies to build a prosperous 21st century society is real. The recent news should be taken not as a reason to give up but rather as an example of why education is so important. I continue to be very optimistic about Argentina and Latam's contributions and role in the space. The main thing I can say after $LIBRA incident is that I believe"
X Link 2025-02-20T15:32Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M 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 2025-03-01T11:00Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@dawangdege47536 @sapphycrypto @elidourado @ezraklein @DKThomp Here you go moo moo moo. Moo deng moo (cow) moonkin"
X Link 2025-04-25T01:42Z 5.9M followers, 460.9K engagements
"Simplifying the L1 https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/05/03/simplel1.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/05/03/simplel1.html"
X Link 2025-05-03T07:03Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M engagements
"How to make Ethereum L1 scaling more friendly to users running local nodes for personal use: https://ethresear.ch/t/a-local-node-favoring-delta-to-the-scaling-roadmap/22368 https://ethresear.ch/t/a-local-node-favoring-delta-to-the-scaling-roadmap/22368"
X Link 2025-05-19T04:51Z 5.9M followers, 657.4K engagements
"Does digital ID have risks even if it's ZK-wrapped https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/06/28/zkid.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/06/28/zkid.html"
X Link 2025-06-28T09:35Z 5.9M followers, 349K engagements
"Amazing to see @AragonProject leading the way in bringing privacy to governance. Privacy is normal. In elections. In boardrooms. In governance. But onchain Its been missing. For the first time private voting at scale is now possible fully onchain with @PrivacyEthereum the team building @zkMACI and Aragon. https://t.co/3UvuyOMowu Privacy is normal. In elections. In boardrooms. In governance. But onchain Its been missing. For the first time private voting at scale is now possible fully onchain with @PrivacyEthereum the team building @zkMACI and Aragon. https://t.co/3UvuyOMowu"
X Link 2025-08-20T12:15Z 5.9M followers, 300K engagements
"Low-risk defi can be for Ethereum what search was for Google https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/21/low_risk_defi.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/21/low_risk_defi.html"
X Link 2025-09-20T22:02Z 5.9M followers, 1.9M engagements
"The importance of full-stack openness and verifiability (including applications operating systems hardware and bio) https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/24/openness_and_verifiability.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/24/openness_and_verifiability.html"
X Link 2025-09-24T02:11Z 5.9M followers, 377.3K engagements
"Incorruptibility is Ethereum's most important property. Ethereum is incorruptible home Ethereum is incorruptible home"
X Link 2025-11-01T14:24Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Future generations will wonder how we were ever ok with this 110k will die of aging today 110k will die of aging today"
X Link 2025-11-11T15:19Z 5.9M followers, 990.7K engagements
"@random_walker I also agree with [--] out of [--] of these. I've expected for a while that the tasks that AI will take the longest time to reach human level are precisely the ones that are most illegible and difficult to put into metrics"
X Link 2025-11-12T19:10Z 5.9M followers, 39K engagements
"@trent_vanepps @CupOJoseph @BertKellerman If EIP-7825 did not exist then in the worst case (one tx filling the whole block) BALs would not enable parallel execution and so we would not be able to raise the gas limit as a result of BALs. So it's a necessary prerequisite of scaling"
X Link 2025-12-04T15:14Z 5.9M followers, 86K engagements
"The attacks on Europe I've seen here the last couple of days including from people I've generally considered interesting and sophisticated have been getting unhinged. I get that EU has problems - GDPR clickthroughs are dumb Chat Control is awful they need to be less bureaucratic and supportive toward entrepreneurs its kindness toward Ukraine often doesn't extend well to Gaza or Sudan or other places people saying mean things about criminals getting longer sentences than the criminals is just crazy - but the apocalyptic attitude about the issues evoking imagery of barbarians pillaging Rome etc"
X Link 2025-12-09T11:24Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"An important and underrated form of trustlessness is increasing the number of people who can actually understand the whole protocol from top to bottom. Ethereum needs to get better at this (by making the protocol simpler). wow @VitalikButerin proposed to follow the lead of @tinygrad and establish goal of max lines of code for ethereum spec wow @VitalikButerin proposed to follow the lead of @tinygrad and establish goal of max lines of code for ethereum spec"
X Link 2025-12-17T16:47Z 5.9M followers, 235K engagements
"@zkDragon @scupytrooples yeah I would support us doing this over time CC @ncsgy @tkstanczak"
X Link 2025-12-20T18:49Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"I have thought for a while that if anyone wants to spin up yet another "new AI lab because the existing ones are not good for humanity" they should have an explicit binding charter to focus on human-augmentation tools and not build anything with [--] min time horizon autonomy Even if all the arguments about safety end up wrong ASI companies pursuing Maximum Autonomy Now are a dime a dozen the human augmentation niche ("don't build skynet build mecha suits for the mind") is underserved. Also pls make it open source as much as possible. On your point about econ v. tech view of labor displacement"
X Link 2025-12-29T13:49Z 5.9M followers, 196.9K engagements
"24 [--] . . . . . . . . [----] . . [--] (). . : [--]. [--]. : ... https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021929744380702912 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021929744380702912"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:49Z 5.9M followers, 542.2K engagements
"@killerstorm @ciscoguru @zooko Nah dude the real smart money is going all in on Ixcoin"
X Link 2018-11-17T20:29Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"@R_Tyler_Smith @RyanSAdams I think it originated on /r/buttcoin. As I remember the vocab there: bitcoin - buttcoin ETH - mETH (or "etherbutts" or "ethere-ho-hum") IOTA - IdIOTA ETC - classic mETH me - Vitalik Butterin (two t's)"
X Link 2020-06-10T21:27Z 5.9M followers, [---] engagements
"8. Twitter banning @sci_hub is sad. You should definitely NOT click this link to SciHub's telegram bot and violate the publishing cartels' god-given right to massive profits. https://telegram.me/scihubot https://telegram.me/scihubot"
X Link 2021-01-12T07:27Z 5.9M followers, [----] engagements
"Self-custody is important. And social recovery and multisig is a great way to do it. A quick reddit post on how I think about choosing guardians for social recovery and multisig wallets: https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/11tijiv/how_i_think_about_choosing_guardians_for_multisig/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/11tijiv/how_i_think_about_choosing_guardians_for_multisig/"
X Link 2023-03-17T06:01Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"The one comment I'll make is that I feel bad that @solana and other projects are getting hit in this way. They don't deserve it and if ethereum ends up "winning" through all other blockchains getting kicked off exchanges that's not an honorable way to win and in the long term probably isn't even a victory. This is especially true since the real competition is not other chains it's the rapidly expanding centralized world that is imposing itself on us as we speak. I wish all honorable projects a fair outcome in this whole situation"
X Link 2023-06-30T05:00Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M engagements
"@dcinvestor If I did not believe in ETH as SOV I would not hold 90% of my net worth in it"
X Link 2024-08-27T15:04Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"@weboftrees I think of Orbit as exposing the entire linear tradeoff space between Algorand-style (committee-based no economic finality) and Tendermint-style (instant full finality low node count). It feels obvious that the correct point on that spectrum is somewhere in the middle"
X Link 2024-09-30T13:38Z 5.9M followers, 97.2K engagements
"From prediction markets to info finance: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html"
X Link 2024-11-09T01:41Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M 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 [--] ETH for🦛+ frens. May they live long and prosper🖖🏻"
X Link 2024-12-26T11:53Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M 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 2025-01-18T15:16Z 5.9M followers, 7.4M engagements
"No. This is not how this game works. The person deciding the new EF leadership team is me. One of the goals of the ongoing reform is to give the EF a "proper board" but until that happens it's me. If you "keep the pressure on" then you are creating an environment that is actively toxic to top talent. Some of Ethereum's best devs have been messaging me recently expressing their disgust with the social media environment that people like you are creating. YOU ARE MAKING MY JOB HARDER. And you are decreasing the chance I have any interest whatsoever in doing "what you want". Milady."
X Link 2025-01-21T12:29Z 5.9M followers, 5.2M 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 99% 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 [--] weeks"
X Link 2025-02-06T20:09Z 5.9M followers, 1M engagements
"Thank you to everyone to has given their kind support over the last few weeks"
X Link 2025-02-09T06:59Z 5.9M followers, 924.4K 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. hearing so many eth ogs say they havent heard of me is sad but heres a short bio for them: Im a normal girl who likes having fun online with her internet friends yippie :) hearing so many eth ogs say they havent heard of me is sad but heres a short bio for them: Im a normal girl who likes having fun online with her internet friends yippie :)"
X Link 2025-03-01T11:42Z 5.9M followers, 2.6M engagements
"A simple L2 security and finalization roadmap https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-simple-l2-security-and-finalization-roadmap/23309 https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-simple-l2-security-and-finalization-roadmap/23309"
X Link 2025-03-28T21:25Z 5.9M followers, 662K engagements
"@WatcherGuru @cz_binance Also worth reiterating thanks for all the support from @sandeepnailwal @CryptoRelief_ who both funded important biomedical infra in India and returned a large portion of to Balvi to expand on its research and dev mission globally"
X Link 2025-07-01T20:00Z 5.9M followers, 281.9K engagements
"Reminder that Peter Thiel is to put it mildly not a cypherpunk"
X Link 2025-10-03T00:03Z 5.9M followers, 948.4K engagements
"Regular reminder: A key property of a blockchain is that even a 51% attack cannot make an invalid block valid. This means even 51% of validators colluding (or hit by a software bug) cannot steal your assets. However this property does not carry over if you start trusting your validator set to do other things that the chain does not have control over - at that point 51% of validators can collude and give a wrong answer and you don't have any recourse"
X Link 2025-10-26T02:34Z 5.9M followers, 600.6K engagements
"ZKsync has been doing a lot of underrated and valuable work in the ethereum ecosystem. Excited to see this come from them https://t.co/mbanFBPMVe https://t.co/mbanFBPMVe"
X Link 2025-11-01T07:32Z 5.9M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Galaxy brain resistance: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/11/07/galaxybrain.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/11/07/galaxybrain.html"
X Link 2025-11-07T21:21Z 5.9M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Signed the trustless manifesto @thewizardofpos @yoavw https://trustlessness.eth.limo/general/2025/11/11/the-trustless-manifesto.html https://trustlessness.eth.limo/general/2025/11/11/the-trustless-manifesto.html"
X Link 2025-11-13T00:23Z 5.9M followers, 750.1K engagements
"@alpeh_v Privacy is not a feature. Privacy is hygiene"
X Link 2025-11-23T23:10Z 5.9M followers, 204.9K engagements
"I hope Zcash resists the dark hand of token voting. Token voting is bad in all kinds of ways (see ); I think it's worse than Zcash's status quo. Privacy is exactly the sort of thing that will erode over time if left to the median token holder. https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html"
X Link 2025-11-30T09:31Z 5.9M followers, 1.2M engagements
"We need a good trustless onchain gas futures market. (Like a prediction market on the BASEFEE) I've heard people ask: "today fees are low but what about in [--] years You say they'll stay low because of increasing gaslimit from BAL + ePBS + later ZK-EVM but do I believe you" An onchain gas futures market would help solve this: people would get a clear signal of people's expectations of future gas fees and would even be able to hedge against future gas prices effectively prepaying for any specific quantity of gas in a specific time interval"
X Link 2025-12-06T12:19Z 5.9M followers, 574.9K engagements
"Wonderland is a great team and has been very helpful in the Ethereum ecosystem including to the EF on interop and Kohaku and to many Ethereum projects. My startup @Wonderland is hiring [--] Senior Solidity developers. We work at the cutting edge of crypto. Theres no better place to get exposure to the coolest shit being built in this space. DM me you won't regret it RTs appreciated for reach. My startup @Wonderland is hiring [--] Senior Solidity developers. We work at the cutting edge of crypto. Theres no better place to get exposure to the coolest shit being built in this space. DM me you won't"
X Link 2025-12-17T22:38Z 5.9M followers, 203.2K engagements
"Crypto is building toward human empowerment as it has been since the beginning "Empowerment" was the code of the philosophy of the Pirate Party before crypto even existed. Crypto is building towards human empowerment as it has been since the beginning. Never lose sight of the mission at hand. Crypto is building towards human empowerment as it has been since the beginning. Never lose sight of the mission at hand"
X Link 2025-12-20T10:42Z 5.9M followers, 302.2K engagements
"Happy solstice"
X Link 2025-12-21T23:50Z 5.9M followers, 326.3K engagements
"This is what I worry Europe will get negatively polarized into: an ideology taking pride in a neat sanitized online environment free of evil corporate and fascist pathogens. I hope European govs do not go this way and instead take a Pirate Party approach of user empowerment. First what's wrong with the tweet I'm quoting: The idea that there should be "no space" for something you dislike is fundamentally a totalitarian and anti-pluralistic impulse. It's incompatible with being in an environment that you do not fully control. This is especially true for categories that are subjective and"
X Link 2025-12-26T15:31Z 5.9M followers, 632.6K engagements
"Balance of power https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/30/balance_of_power.html https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/30/balance_of_power.html"
X Link 2025-12-31T01:54Z 5.9M followers, 440.6K engagements
"Welcome to [----] Milady is back. Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased blob count increased node software quality improved zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later) But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make"
X Link 2026-01-01T14:41Z 5.9M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum. These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network. To see why let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far: BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth highly decentralized no consensus Bitcoin (2009): highly decentralized consensus but low bandwidth - because its not distributed in the sense of work being"
X Link 2026-01-03T21:07Z 5.9M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was created to set people free This was an important - and controversial - line from the Trustless Manifesto ( ) and it is worth revisiting it and better understanding what it means. efficient and convenient have the connotation of improving the average case in situations where its already pretty good. Efficiency is about telling the world's best engineers to put their souls into reducing latency from [---] ms to 368ms or increasing yields from 4.5% APY to 5.3% APY. Convenience is about people making one click instead of"
X Link 2026-01-05T13:51Z 5.9M followers, 1.1M engagements
"One metaphor for Ethereum is BitTorrent and how that p2p network combines decentralization and mass scale. Ethereum's goal is to do the same thing but with consensus. Another metaphor for Ethereum is Linux. * Linux is free and open source software and does not compromise on this * Linux is quietly depended on by billions of people and enterprises worldwide. Governments regularly use it. * There are many operating systems based on Linux that pursue mass adoption * There are Linux distributions (eg. Arch) that are highly purist minimalistic and technologically beautiful and focus on making the"
X Link 2026-01-08T06:46Z 5.9M followers, 435.6K engagements
"Increasing bandwidth is safer than reducing latency With PeerDAS and ZKPs we know how to scale and potentially we can scale thousands of times compared to the status quo. The numbers become far more favorable than before (eg. see analysis here pre and post-sharding ). There is no law of physics that prevents combining extreme scale with decentralization. Reducing latency is not like this. We are fundamentally constrained by speed of light and on top of that we are also constrained by: * Need to support nodes (especially attesters) in rural environments worldwide and in home or commercial"
X Link 2026-01-08T07:00Z 5.9M followers, 589.9K engagements
"@rstormsf Done. Re-posting the contents for public consumption:"
X Link 2026-01-09T06:51Z 5.9M followers, 97.5K engagements
"Ethereum itself must pass the walkaway test. Ethereum is meant to be a home for trustless and trust-minimized applications whether in finance governance or elsewhere. It must support applications that are more like tools - the hammer that once you buy it's yours - than like services that lose all functionality once the vendor loses interest in maintaining them (or worse gets hacked or becomes value-extractive). Even when applications do have functionality that depends on a vendor Ethereum can help reduce those dependencies as much as possible and protect the user as much as possible in those"
X Link 2026-01-12T07:56Z 5.9M followers, 900.6K engagements
"@IfeTeddy0108 The new consensus layer (leanCL) is being designed fully with ZK in mind. For the execution layer RISC-V is one option to be more ZK-friendly and we're exploring alternatives too"
X Link 2026-01-12T08:48Z 5.9M followers, 32.3K engagements
"In [----] there was a vision: you can have permissionless decentralized applications that could support finance social media ride sharing governing organizations crowdfunding potentially create an entire alternative web all on the backs of a suite of technologies. Ethereum: the blockchain. The world computer that could give any application its shared memory. Whisper: the data layer. Messages too expensive for a blockchain that do no need consensus. Swarm: the storage layer. Store files for long-term access. Over the last five years this core vision has at times become obscured with various"
X Link 2026-01-14T06:32Z 5.9M followers, 498.6K engagements
"@aztecnetwork Privacy is freedom. Privacy is order. Privacy is progress. Milady"
X Link 2026-01-14T20:41Z 5.9M followers, 95.4K engagements
"Sounds a lil bit anti-islam but hey Fuck statements like this. Similarly fuck claiming that standing up for Gazans' West Bankers Lebanese Syrian people's right to live in peace and not get encroaching settlements constant drone strikes and bombs is antisemitic. And fuck claiming that standing up for Ukrainian people's right to live in peace and not be invaded is Russophobic. And fuck not even noticing the needless and extreme manmade suffering in Sudan Myanmar North Korea and elsewhere. And fuck the possibility that in the future statements like this will have to include a line for Greenland."
X Link 2026-01-15T20:56Z 5.9M followers, 212.2K engagements
"2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness. Some of what this practically means: Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer. Helios: actually verify the data you're receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it. ORAM PIR: ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you're asking so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off to dozens of third parties all around the world. Social recovery wallets and timelocks:"
X Link 2026-01-16T18:32Z 5.9M followers, 571K engagements
"An important and perenially underrated aspect of "trustlessness" "passing the walkaway test" and "self-sovereignty" is protocol simplicity. Even if a protocol is super decentralized with hundreds of thousands of nodes and it has 49% byzantine fault tolerance and nodes fully verify everything with quantum-safe peerdas and starks if the protocol is an unwieldy mess of hundreds of thousands of lines of code and five forms of PhD-level cryptography ultimately that protocol fails all three tests: * It's not trustless because you have to trust a small class of high priests who tell you what"
X Link 2026-01-18T09:27Z 5.9M followers, 380.7K engagements
"2026 is the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty. But this applies far beyond the blockchain world. In [----] I made two major changes to the software I use: * Switched almost fully to (open source encrypted decentralized docs) * Switched decisively to Signal as primary messenger (away from Telegram). Also installed Simplex and Session. This year changes I've made are: * Google Maps - OpenStreetMap OrganicMaps is the best mobile app I've seen for it. Not just open source but also privacy-preserving because local which is important because it's good to reduce the number of"
X Link 2026-01-22T21:45Z 5.9M followers, 377.9K engagements
"The relationship between "institutions" and "cypherpunk" is complex and needs to be understood properly. In truth institutions (both governments and corporations) are neither guaranteed friend nor foe. Exhibit A: European Union seeking to aggressively support open source Exhibit B: European Union bureaucrats want Chat Control (mandatory encryption backdoors) Exhibit C: the Patriot Act (which we must note neither party now expresses much interest in repealing) Exhibit D: the US government is now famously a user of Signal Basically the game-theoretic optimum for an institution is to have"
X Link 2026-01-23T22:12Z 5.9M followers, 241.8K engagements
"I no longer agree with this previous tweet of mine - since [----] I have become a much more willing connoisseur of mountains. It's worth explaining why. First the original context. That tweet was in a debate with Ian Grigg who argued that blockchains should track the order of transactions but not the state (eg. user balances smart contract code and storage): The messages are logged but the state (e.g. UTXO) is implied which means it is constructed by the computer internally and then (can be) thrown away. I was heavily against this philosophy because it would imply that users have no way to get"
X Link 2026-01-26T01:35Z 5.9M followers, 402.6K engagements
"The scaling hierarchy in blockchains: Computation data state Computation is easier to scale than data. You can parallelize it require the block builder to provide all kinds of "hints" for it or just replace arbitrary amounts of it with a proof of it. Data is in the middle. If an availability guarantee on data is required then that guarantee is required no way around it. But you can split it up and erasure code it a la PeerDAS. You can do graceful degradation for it: if a node only has 1/10 the data capacity of the other nodes it can always produce blocks 1/10 the size. State is the hardest."
X Link 2026-01-27T01:51Z 5.9M followers, 182.4K engagements
"This morning I needed to check which addresses were signers on my multisig. I was on my phone and did not have the Safe app installed there. I realized that I could just look up my address on etherscan and use the "read contract" feature to get what I want directly. These are the kinds of additional UX benefits you get if your wallet or application is open source and passes the walkaway test. Giving users access to alternative options often helps in unexpected situations much more mundane than the Safe website "walking away" outright. (Of course this exact workflow will eventually have to"
X Link 2026-01-28T08:15Z 5.9M followers, 239.2K engagements
"The situation in Iran is continuing to get much worse. Much respect for everyone going through extreme danger to try to increase the chance that Iranian people can be free. Day [--] of the internet blackout in Iran and were out here testing hundreds of VPNs just to post a few damn words. - Weve cried so much for our friends and our people that theres literally no tears left. All thats inside us now is rage curses and a burning thirst for Day [--] of the internet blackout in Iran and were out here testing hundreds of VPNs just to post a few damn words. - Weve cried so much for our friends and our"
X Link 2026-01-28T10:36Z 5.9M followers, 560.2K engagements
"@heymarcopolox Milady"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:41Z 5.9M followers, 32.7K engagements
"How I would do creator coins We've seen about [--] years of people trying to do content incentivization in crypto from early-stage platforms like Bihu and Steemit to BitClout in [----] to Zora to tipping features inside of decentralized social and more. So far I think we have not been very successful and I think this is because the problem is fundamentally hard. First my view of what the problem is. A major difference between doing "creator incentives" in the 00s vs doing them today is that in the 00s a primary problem was having not enough content at all. In the 20s there's plenty of content AI"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:42Z 5.9M followers, 541.3K engagements
"I actually don't think it's complicated. IMO the future of onchain mechanism design is mostly going to fit into one pattern: something that looks like a prediction market - something that looks like a capture-resistant non-financialized preference-setting gadget In other words: * One layer that is maximally open and maximizes accountability (it's a market anyone can buy and sell if you make good decisions you win money if you make bad decisions you lose money) * One layer that is decentralized and pluralistic and that maximizes space for intrinsic motivation. This cannot be token-based"
X Link 2026-02-02T06:21Z 5.9M followers, 320.2K engagements
"There have recently been some discussions on the ongoing role of L2s in the Ethereum ecosystem especially in the face of two facts: * L2s' progress to stage [--] (and secondarily on interop) has been far slower and more difficult than originally expected * L1 itself is scaling fees are very low and gaslimits are projected to increase greatly in [----] Both of these facts for their own separate reasons mean that the original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense and we need a new path. First let us recap the original vision. Ethereum needs to scale. The definition of"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:39Z 5.9M followers, 6.2M engagements
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