Vitalik Buterin

@vitalik.eth

73 Following

398354 Followers

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

https://x.com/restofworld/status/1863975739822899336 Business class public transit is super underrated imo. I remember taking business class subway in Shenzhen (it cost ~$3 instead of ~$1) and it was a great experience. If public transit bodies themselves offer it, it could be a large revenue opportunity.

11 replies

74 recasts

373 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

What I would love to see in a wallet: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/12/03/wallets.html

20 replies

235 recasts

985 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

https://x.com/kamilkazani/status/1863204704789860816 What are some cases where the thing that you think some faction should have done to maximize their chance of winning is something that goes _against_ your values? The two must diverge at least sometimes!

9 replies

59 recasts

360 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

I feel like I disagree with this approach to government efficiency: https://x.com/DOGE/status/1860739165144367441 The examples listed are a tiny fraction of all spending. If a government _optimizes_ for "don't make oopses that look bad on twitter", then it will end up missing a lot of valuable opportunities, and at the same time lots of actually-wasteful large-scale things will remain just because they look respectable. You _want_ a VC-like approach on small-scale public funding, that is okay with large quantities of oopses, because its goal is to make sure it captures the 1000x opportunities. Concentrate prudence energy on the large-scale stuff.

39 replies

238 recasts

1035 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

Reposting this post of mine from 1.5 years ago... I still find this fascinating https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/04/14/traveltime.html

17 replies

177 recasts

864 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

PSA: my bluesky is https://bsky.app/profile/vitalik.ca , the other ones are all fake

23 replies

129 recasts

750 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

The contract here is a sublinear staking contract: if you are in the whitelist (specified as an ERC1155 collection), then you can stake N coins, and get a return of N ** 0.75 coins per slot, for as long as the contract has coins to pay for it. There is a fundedUntil mechanism that ensures that if the contract runs out of money, every staker gets rewarded for every slot up to the fundedUntil timestamp, and the mechanism doesn't turn into a fractional reserve. https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/sublinear_staking/code.vy Bounty of total 2 ETH for identifying any bugs / vulnerabilities in the contract and proposing specific fixes, if multiple issues are found the bounty will be split based on severity. Amount: 2 ETH @bountybot

24 replies

243 recasts

1062 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

This is a fascinating essay on education (that happens to be a tweet) https://x.com/justinskycak/status/1858012912557633800

12 replies

177 recasts

672 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

One part of L2 scaling is Ethereum increasing its blob capacity. The other part is rollups becoming more data-efficient. Good to see Starknet rising to the challenge. Would love to see more EVM rollups increasing data efficiency too (see https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/17/futures2.html#3 ) https://x.com/Starknet/status/1858471396323836276

8 replies

188 recasts

785 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

d/acc day bio section starting soon! Lots of people already here

8 replies

99 recasts

633 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

d/acc day starting in 10 min!

15 replies

220 recasts

1223 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

Blobs have quietly "entered price discovery" Total fees seem to be averaging ~10 ETH per day lately.

32 replies

387 recasts

1534 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

From prediction markets to info finance: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html

33 replies

337 recasts

1299 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

The voters banned banning banning banning charging too high rent. (To be clear I'm in favor of this, the best way to keep rent low is buidl buidl buidl)

33 replies

386 recasts

1713 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

Two great new educational songs dropped this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzN148WQ2OQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS8SdwzlKCQ

12 replies

250 recasts

889 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

Argot, a collective of developers who have been working on important Ethereum dev tools we know and love for many years, is in the process of becoming an independent org. https://x.com/argotorg/status/1851947521842512203

12 replies

258 recasts

1123 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

Highlighting an EVM upgrade idea: combine EVMMAX and SIMD

9 replies

110 recasts

440 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

ok I'm actually not sure why you US people are now making rallies for monosodium glutamate and I'm not sure I want to find out

18 replies

169 recasts

709 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 6: The Splurge https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/29/futures6.html

17 replies

454 recasts

1469 reactions

Vitalik Buterin pfp

Vitalik Buterin

Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 5: the Purge https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/26/futures5.html

6 replies

182 recasts

644 reactions