Good interview from Roman Storm. His trial is coming soon in 10 days.
Privacy of messaging without backdoors is now widely accepted, and many in business and government regularly use tools like Signal.
Given the extremely regular hacks of centralized databases that we see today, improving privacy in other domains (including payments, identity, AI) is not something to be "balanced" against security, it's a necessary _part_ of our security.
I hope 🇺🇸can lead the way in making a more secure world with stronger freedoms and fewer data leaks a reality. The first step is sending a clear signal to developers that this important work is welcome.
#FreeRomanStorm
As of today, all Ethereum execution clients support history pruning for pre-merge data. For mainnet, this means 300-500 GB less disk space required to operate a node. Learn more about what this means and how to take advantage the new functionality: https://t.co/4eXiSnbL9p
My response to AI 2027:
https://t.co/hqqXLM5UZl
The AI 2027 post is high quality, I encourage people to read it at https://t.co/84O5mfN5dh
I argue a misaligned AI will not be able to win nearly as easily as the AI 2027 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 2029 in their scenario.
@VitalikButerin OK so here's a fuller response: https://t.co/fRzka2KRcE
Besides the in-line comments above, I'd like to challenge you to sketch your own alternative scenario to AI 2027, depicting your vision. For example:
--1 page on d/acc technologies and other prep that people can start working on today, that quietly build up momentum during the first part of AI 2027: Vitalik Version.
--1 page on 'the branching point' where AI 2027: Vitalik Version starts to meaningfully diverge from original AI 2027
--1-3 pages on what happens after that, depicting how e.g. OpenBrain and DeepCent's misaligned AIs are unable to take over the world, despite having successfully convinced corporate and political leadership to trust them. (Or perhaps why they wouldn't be able to convince them to trust them? You get to pick the branching point.) This section should end in 2035 or so, just like AI 2027.
I predict that if you try to write this, you'll run into a bunch of problems and realize that your strategy is going to be difficult to pull off successfully. (e.g. you'll start writing about how the analyst tools resist Consensus-1's persuasion, but then you'll be trying to write the part about how those analyst tools get built and deployed, and by whom, and no one has the technical capability to build them until 2028 but by that point OpenBrain+Agent5+ might already be working to undermine whoever is building them...) I hope I'm wrong.
The best way to build an L2 is to lean into the L1's offerings (security, censorship resistance, proofs, data avail...) more, and reduce your logic to just being a sequencer and a prover (if based, just a prover) over the core execution.
This is the combination of trust minimization and efficiency that the 2010s enterprise blockchain crew wanted, but was never able to achieve. Now, with Ethereum L2s, you can achieve it. And we've already seen successful examples of the L1's features protecting users' rights if something on the L2 goes wrong.
1/ 🚀 Following the incredible momentum from Beam Day at EthCC[8] in Cannes, we are excited to share our view and draft proposal for Post-Quantum Devnet-1!
Read further 👇 for the summary, or head straight to https://t.co/Jcna4Cyw98 for the full writeup.
ethereum has been online ten years straight with zero pauses and zero maintenance windows.
in that time:
- facebook went down for 14 hours
- aws kinesis froze for 17
- cloudflare dropped 19 datacenters
- alt L1s…well, you know.
every centralised giant blinks, they rely on on-call humans and scheduled downtime.
but ethereum never stops, not through forks, crashes, bubbles, lawsuits, hacks, wars, and every kind of drama the internet can throw at it.
and it’s not thanks to a CEO or a hotline.
it’s not because someone saved it.
it’s because we all did.
devs, stakers, researchers, users,
millions of us, scattered across the world, choosing to show up, block after block, year after year.
while banks fail, clouds go dark and servers get patched, ethereum keeps going.
we keep going.
ten years online.
forever to go.
0/ Ethereum turns 10 today! 🎉
There’s so much to celebrate—but for me, it’s about the becoming of something improbable.
When it was born, I still remember a dev at my old job shrugging it off: “just another s***coin.”
Back then, it felt like a wild dream—and yes, it hit some big bumps early on.
10 years later? Safe to say he was very wrong.
10 years ago, @ethereum was just an idea.
Today, the ecosystem sets out to bring Ethereum to billions across the globe.
I’m grateful for how it has brightened my life over the past 8 colorful years.
With your involvement, the next decade will be even more inspiring 💚