michaelb.eth

Software engineer

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

@MsMelChen The solution is to rally around open source.

That's the only way to compete with a superpower technology network effect if you are not a superpower yourself. And it's the only way to bring the rest of the world along on the same team as you.

Open source.

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@apesgowild @sworland11 @DailyStackHQ There is no technical solution whatsoever to release coins, they’re locked behind cryptography that can’t be broken by classical supercomputers even if attempted nonstop for thousands of years. A code-protocol change could mint “replacements”, but why would miners agree to it?

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@0xcyp He did! But going a layer deeper, in quoting Tolkien, he was quoting a devout Catholic who personally experienced and witnessed close up a great deal of suffering and evil during World War I. Tolkien’s faith and experiences had a huge impact on the characters and stories of LotR.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[jack @jack]

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) https://t.co/cv0FkCVeBt

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@jarradhope_ can your or someone at IFT blog/tweet about what’s happened with Status L2 in relation to NIP-1/3/4 and votes on those with SNT?

I’m interested in more transparency on these matters, but no acrimony on my part, just want to understand better.

[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.

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@unclebobmartin It’s slurfed out some nice Elisp for my needs, impressive really, would take me days to dig into the corners of the manual and prior art. But…sometimes output is missing a paren and I’m better off fixing it myself else it will turn its rembrandt into roadkill if I ask for a fix.

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@Wisdom_HQ John Carpenter’s “The Thing” (1982)

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@ethstatus !Feliz Navidad¡

https://t.co/JRsHbRLbxa

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@toshine4u Function

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@unclebobmartin Maybe perception they're differet is (1) nature of UIs vs (2) common backend setups of yore. (1) mostly dominated by state machines with async/nondeterm events. (2) CGI et al commonly gave purely sync short-lived context, so mindset different because program behavior so different

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@unclebobmartin Crush + OpenRouter make a great combo in my experience so far: solid TUI and it’s simple to try out various LLMs

https://t.co/HWZIv20hyN

https://t.co/fj0X5k5IQe

[cyp.eth @0xcyp]

super excited to announce that the first step towards our mainnet launch is here!

start today by depositing $SNT & $LINEA

next week the $ETH vault opens

let's goooooo

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@0xcyp @salimteymouri I remember being introduced to proof of attendance (POAP) at ETHDenver in 2019. Is it time for 🌍 campaign for project leads and regulator folks to show monthly public “proof of active participation” in cryptocurrency tech? Mechanism/s should reasonably respect privacy, of course

[cyp.eth @0xcyp]

oh? 👀

[Status Network @StatusL2]

Status Network mainnet is getting closer

if you hold SNT, you can have your say on how the network launches

a new vote is live

it covers activating a limited part of the community fund to prep the L2 for launch, and grow the Status ecosystem

jump in and cast your vote ↓
https://t.co/jcW6dDqxO0

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@vrycmfy Tons of alts to React out there, personally I'm bullish on Svelte and combining it with XState. But as you say vulnerabilities are everywhere.

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@valhalla_dev @vrycmfy @somewheresy @conceptcountry @Logos_network Tech, science, depth of understanding possible for individuals and academies, these have progressed and still do. But people in general repeat long cycles…

“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.”

[michaelb.eth @michaelb_eth]

@Corpetty @ethstatus They do house calls?