Vitalik Buterin

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Why I support privacy: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/04/14/privacy.html

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P = NP is in fact an easy problem. It has several solutions: * P = 0 * N = 1 * N = integer > 1, P = "turn right 360/(N-1) degrees" * N = integer > 1, P = any idempotent (eg. "erase everything at a particular location") Most people who think they understand the truth about P = NP have only grasped the first two.

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I actually think the growth of app layer is exactly the time that good social philosophy is needed *most*. Analogy: imagine that C++ had been made by a totalitarian racist fascist. Would it be a worse language? Probably not. C++ is general purpose, there isn't much surface for bad social philosophy to wreck it (or good social philosophy to improve it). Ethereum L1 is not quite in that position: someone who doesn't believe in decentralization would not add light clients, or FOCIL, or (good forms of) account abstraction; someone who doesn't mind energy waste would not spend half a decade moving to PoS... But the EVM opcodes might have been roughly the same either way. So Ethereum is perhaps 50% general-purpose. Apps are ~80% special purpose. What apps you build depends heavily on what ideas you have of what ethereum apps (and ethereum as a whole) are there to do for the world. And so having good ideas on this topic out there becomes crucially important. https://x.com/owocki/status/1911160442728419681

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Solution to a puzzle from the other app (This is actually relevant to energy-efficient ventilation!)

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我最近发现，很多人还是以为山海坞的名字是"上海坞". 我在想，是不是大家可以fork山海坞一下，给不同的fork基于其他城市的名字？比如： * 圣镇坞 * 晨都坞（大家每天5点起床！） * 京东坞 * 牛约坞 * 多人多坞

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My own current privacy roadmap (much lighter on L1 changes, but also more limited in its consequences): https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-maximally-simple-l1-privacy-roadmap/23459 Highly encourage people to read both! https://x.com/pcaversaccio/status/1909939119037313255

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A simple L2 security and finalization roadmap https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-simple-l2-security-and-finalization-roadmap/23309

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The tree ring model of culture and politics https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/03/29/treering.html

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We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/03/29/pubos.html

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For 2025 we need Fusaka on L1 with PeerDAS, ideally with 48/72 blob target/limit Let's aim to get a Fusaka testnet with these blob parameters running the day after Pectra goes live.

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Big congrats to @hww and @tkstanczak on their new role in the EF!

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I know this is less important than everything else about this whole clusterfuck, but Zelensky doing as much to legitimize going without a suit as Zuck did to legitimize dropping out of college is super based. https://x.com/KermlinRussia/status/1895591133914533915

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Вот это настоящая храбрость. Иногда я могу быть смелым в интернете и однажды на конференции с безопасного расстояния 30 м поругал скаммера. Но эта женщина говорит неприятную правду тем, у кого есть оружие, хотя у неё оружия нет, и если ей повредят, наказание маловероятно. Герой https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1895199041019093353

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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. The argument that the flashlight on him is motivated by things he said (advocacy of freedom and refusal to accept legitimacy of coercive state power) seems compelling. The US tax-by-citizenship and associated exit tax regime is extreme; the former is shared by almost no other countries in the world, and the latter is on the high end of what countries do (eg. UK only charges capital gains if you return within 5 years). If the IRS did intimidate Roger's lawyers to get privileged info, that is a bad faith move; right to consult lawyers in confidence must be kept sacrosanct. Mistakes should be treated by giving an opportunity to pay back taxes, not with prosecution. @FreeRogerVer https://x.com/RealRossU/status/1892619346293231741

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AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/02/28/aihumans.html

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https://x.com/ethereumfndn/status/1895442343689363652

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Reminder: there's also plenty of people who have lost huge amounts of crypto to *loss* rather than theft. Software bug, forgotten password, lost device, paper wallet burned down in LA fire, upgraded device without backing up data .... lots of ways for that to happen. Because there's no attacker to go after, victims don't have a strong need to talk about it. And often because they see no one to blame but themselves, victims will be too ashamed to talk about it. But it happens. Often. And the truly robust wallet security solutions that our ecosystem needs to build should take loss into account too. (This is a big part of why I talk about social recovery so much!)

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Aya first shared the idea of transitioning from ED of @ethereumfndn to President a year ago. She has accomplished much in her seven years as executive director of the EF. As I see it, the role of an ED is to create an environment where others can shine and do their best work, and so every success of the EF - the steady execution of Ethereum hard forks, client interop workshops, Devcon, Ethereum's culture and steadfast commitment to its mission and values, and more - is in part a result of Aya's stewardship. @AyaMiyagotchi will continue supporting the EF in many of the same ways in her new role. Meanwhile, we have been working on the new EF leadership structure, and will share more news soon. Stay tuned! https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/02/25/aya-announcement

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EF research AMA is happening right now! https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1iw8ln8/ama_we_are_ef_research_pt_13_25_february_2025/

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