Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin’s blog post highlighting the threats he sees that artificial intelligence (AI) could pose to humanity has attracted a slew of fiery responses from AI and blockchain community members.On Nov. 27, Buterin published a blog post titled “My techno-op ...

Super-advanced artificial intelligence, left unchecked, has a “serious chance” of surpassing humans to become the next “apex species” of the planet, according Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. But that will boil down to how humans potentially intervene with AI de ...

A mix of highly influential and controversial entrepreneurs make up the latest list of the ten most popular crypto entrepreneurs based on their social media presence, with Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao leading the pack in first place and convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried trailing& ...

Liquid staking (LST) has emerged as a popular solution for Ethereum users to participate in staking without locking up their Ether (ETH) for extended periods. However, concerns have been raised about the potential for liquid staking to centralize power within the Ethereum ecosystem. In thi ...

Plasma, a once-prominent Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, should be revisited by teams currently working on zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs), says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.Invented in 2017, Plasma diverts data and computation — except deposits, withdrawals ...

Ether (ETH) price has declined by 14.7% since its peak at $2,120 on April 16, 2023. However, two derivatives metrics indicate that investors have not felt this bullish in over a year. This discrepancy warrants an investigation into whether the recent optimism is a broader response to Bitcoin (BTC ...

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has written a blog post discussing the ongoing debate over which features should be integrated into the Ethereum protocol and which should be built on top of it. This debate centers on whether to enshrine features within the core protocol or delegate them to smart co ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a research paper diving into privacy pools systems as a tool to achieve more privacy in financial transactions, allowing users to prove dissociation from illicit funds through zero-knowledge proof technology.The document initially discusses ...

The centralization of nodes is one of the biggest problems facing the Ethereum network and should be addressed by making the running of nodes cheaper and easier, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.At current, the majority of the 5,901 active Ethereum nodes are being run throu ...

Taiwan's digital authority has issued Etherium creator Vitalik Buterin a so-called gold card - a residence permit document with the right to enter the island's territory at any time. For the sake of issuing the "golden card" the authorities held a whole ceremony. Audrey ...

The Ethereum co-founder gave his opinion on the Community Notes feature of the X social network. In his opinion, it is the closest tool to the kind of content evaluation that decentralized platforms should have. Ethereum project co-founder Vitalik Buterin express ...

While account abstraction is perceived to be a catalyst that could onboard a billion users to Ethereum, its co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared some challenges in implementing the new feature on the blockchain.Speaking on July 18 at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) event in Par ...

The advent of Bitcoin (BTC) Ordinals signals the “organic return of builder culture” to the network, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.Buterin made the comments in a July 7 Twitter space where he spoke at length with Bitcoin proponents Eric Wall and Udi Wertheime ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that he does not stake all of his Ether (ETH) due to multisignature wallets being “complicated in a bunch of ways.”On the June 29 episode of the Bankless podcast, Buterin revealed the “biggest reason” why he is only st ...

A bearish trend formation has been pressuring cryptocurrency prices for the past eight weeks, driving the total market capitalization to its lowest level in more than two months at $1.06 trillion, a 2.4% decline between June 4 and June 11.This time, the move wasn’t driven by Bitcoin ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes the success of Ethereum will come down to three major technical “transitions” that need to happen almost simultaneously — layer-2 scaling, wallet security and privacy-preserving features.In a June 9 post via his personal blog, ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is working with India-based crypto fund Crypto Relief and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal to send $100 million toward COVID-19 research and medical infrastructure development in India. Buterin and Nailwal will receive $90 million in USD Coin (USDC) fr ...

Blockchain industry veteran and Bitcoin Cash supporter Roger Wehr believes that Etherium does much more for mass cryptocurrency adoption than bitcoin, despite its smaller capitalization. During Show Me The Crypto on YouTube, Roger Ver emphasized that Etherium has brought ...

In a recent blog post, Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, delved into the issue of selecting key custodians for wallets with multi-signature transactions and those that offer the option of key recovery. A multi-signature wallet is a type of wallet where a transaction requires approval f ...

The Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, recently made headlines after selling several meme-based cryptocurrencies, causing a stir in the crypto community. Lookonchain reported that Buterin sold a whopping 50 billion units of MOPS for 1.25 ETH, equivalent to around $2,000. Additionally, he so ...