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There is no spoon... Prev research engineer @ethereum

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Here's Part 1 of a broader blockchain manifesto i've been writing for a while. This piece speaks to the "why" behind blockchains. Enjoy

https://t.co/AuSnjFdngl

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@pmarca autism-maxxing > retard-maxxing > everything else

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On the road to getting the Ethereum light client library functional across all consensus forks. It now passes Bellatrix spec tests.
- Altair [ X ]
- Bellatrix [ X ]
- Capella [ ]
- Deneb [ ]
- Electra [ ]
- Fulu [ ]

https://t.co/yYxqm0Ui43

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@mert but will the use of encryption be used against you too?

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Good judgement is more valuable now than ever before

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@naval What does that mean for Ethereum + other L1s? Asking for a friend

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i wonder what happens if/when AI-powered mathematical breakthroughs break blockchains' cryptographic algorithms.

Networks might need to tap into AI intelligence(s). Whoever's got the best AI could provide near instant updates to cryptographic upgrades. Others get wrecked

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My gut tells me human understanding of important information systems will still be valuable over the next 5 years. Maybe i'm biased... We're all ignorant.

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Yesterday, the light client library was refactored to store sync committees in one location instead of two. Idk why Claude Code originally generated two places for committees to exist within.

https://t.co/DPYiaUWhsP

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@beffjezos @curtis_yarvin

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@drakefjustin What do you think is the likelihood of human-first development through 2029?

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@zengjiajun_eth @VitalikButerin @0xdasha - "cypherpunk principled non-ugly ethereum" -> my guess is lean Ethereum (or whatever they call it these days)

- "as a bolt-on to the present-day system" -> i have no idea what this will look like

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Something like this doesn't seem far-fetched at all imo...

Guessing it just might not be worth exposing a zero-day from the perspective of said power-player (at least in the short term)

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If a nation-state/transnational conglomerate has a backdoor in all (or almost all) computer chips, do those with dreams of self-sovereign digital information have to pack it up and call it a day?

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Weak men create hard times

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Here's the Ethereum light client library i'm building.

Light clients give resource-constrained apps + devices the ability to independently verify information within Ethereum.

Check it out! -> https://t.co/yYxqm0Ui43

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@VitalikButerin Amazing to see you leading the charge. Inspirational.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

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: wallets that don't make you lose all your money if you misplace your seedphrase, or if an online or offline attacker extracts your seedphrase, and *also* don't make all your money backdoored by Google.

Privacy UX: make private payments from your wallet, with the same user experience as making public payments.

Privacy censorship resistance: private payments with the ERC-4337 mempool, and soon native AA + FOCIL, without relying on the public broadcaster ecosystem.

Application UIs: use more dapps from an onchain UI with IPFS, without relying on trusted servers that would lock you our of practical recovery of your assets if they went offline, and would give you a hijacked UI that steals your funds if they get hacked for even a millisecond.

In many of these areas, over the last ten years we have seen serious backsliding in Ethereum. Nodes went from easy to run to hard to run. Dapps went from static pages to complicated behemoths that leak all your data to a dozen servers. Wallets went from routing everything through the RPC, which could be any node of your choice including on your own computer, to leaking your data to a dozen servers of their choice. Block building became more centralized, putting Ethereum transaction inclusion guarantees under the whims of a very small number of builders.

In 2026, no longer. Every compromise of values that Ethereum has made up to this point - every moment where you might have been thinking, is it really worth diluting ourselves so much in the name of mainstream adoption - we are making that compromise no longer.

It will be a long road. We will not get everything we want in the next Kohaku release, or the next hard fork, or the hard fork after that. But it will make Ethereum into an ecosystem that deserves not only its current place in the universe, but a much greater one.

In the world computer, there is no centralized overlord.
There is no single point of failure.
There is only love.
Milady.

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@pmarca @wabi With great power comes great responsibility. Thoughts and prayers for good judgement and clarity while you help build the future.

Wishing you the best 🙏🤟

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I'm building a light client with Claude. Gonna be streaming while programming tomorrow from 7-9 MST.

The point of the stream is to learn about the Ethereum Protocol and gain deeper understanding with friends.

Look out for a post with a link tomorrow at 7