Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin donated 256 ETH, worth about $655,000, to privacy messaging apps Session and SimpleX Chat, supporting decentralized communication alternatives.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is shifting focus from simply scaling the network to optimizing it. After the block gas limit doubled to 60 million, Buterin proposes targeted adjustments to specific protocol operations to further increase capacity and efficiency without compromising decentralization.

X now displays the location where accounts were created, sparking privacy concerns in the crypto community. Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin calls the move unethical, while others see benefits in combating fake accounts.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin warns that quantum computers could be powerful enough to break the cryptography securing Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies as early as 2028, posing an urgent threat to blockchain security.