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@VitalikButerin

I choose balance. First-level balance. mi pinxe lo crino tcati slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/12/in-…

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@VitalikButerin
Aug 21
My third (and last) post in my series on obfuscation (iO): local mixing vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/0… Local mixing is a very different philosophy from the other two, no prior background in lattices required, and very different tradeoffs (eg. in terms of computational overhead, it's
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@VitalikButerin
Aug 16
Bitcoiners deserve a lot of credit for pioneering many of these ideas (see Utreexo). But yes, this is what the current proposed Ethereum scaling strategy looks like in action. We want Ethereum to have the best of UTXO-style state, dynamic state, and everything in between,
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@VitalikButerin
Aug 11
Impressive work! For comparison, an H100 can do roughly 100-200 tok/s of Muse 30B for raw inference single-thread, going up to low thousands of tok/s with a large number of threads - and I am sure that for the massively-multi-threaded case they can optimize the prover further.
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@VitalikButerin
Aug 10
Yabloko, Russia's only remaining openly anti-war political party, was just banned. bbc.com/news/articles/… Also recently, Nadezhdin (from a different party) had to flee to France: washingtonpost.com/world/2026/08/… Looks like the last traces of political opposition are being removed
Russian court bars only anti-war party from standing in parliamentary elections
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@VitalikButerin
Aug 10
I updated my 2023 roadmap diagram to overlay where the items that were there sit in the current Strawmap ( strawmap.org ). In general, a lot of overlap, but: * Some things got reshuffled in order (eg. quantum safety up-prioritized) * Some things deprioritized (eg.