Vitalik Buterin

vitalik.ca

21 October 2026 17:28

Fun fact of the day: Bitcoin mining cost is split about 50/50 between compute capex and electricity. Meanwhile, AI inference is almost completely dominated by compute capex.

Vitalik Buterin

vitalik.ca

21 October 2026 17:28

Wrapped zkAPI + Tor + extra cover traffic + local LLM prompt rewriting in an open-AI compatible daemon, and made a "paranoid mode" wrapper for my agent harness (pi): Each conversation gets assigned a separate Tor circuit… https://firefly.social/post/ff-4cf7e6be0b1c4968977d9e9baa1018c9?s=bsky

Vitalik Buterin

vitalik.ca

21 October 2026 17:28

Big congratulations to the @zksync airbender team for this milestone. At this point, I consider the battle for speed to be definitively won, and the top priority for zkEVMs should shift fully to security. To me that… https://firefly.social/post/ff-cf32416828dc4e9a94a02b6fc16d3ea7?s=bsky

Vitalik Buterin

vitalik.ca

21 October 2026 17:28

For anyone who is either a fan of vaccines, or a critic of vaccines but open-minded to the idea that vaccines *could* be great if they were made with a more open-source open-science and public-spirited approach, I highly… https://firefly.social/post/ff-af3375fe486244f89a7530a26b74f97e?s=bsky

Vitalik Buterin

vitalik.ca

21 October 2026 17:28

I don't recommend anyone scramble to move their funds to new wallets today. But we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously, and minimize our exposure to not just quantum-vulnerable… https://firefly.social/post/ff-6b9ea3d6b396440fab84615f7cb106d8?s=bsky