{"id":88843,"date":"2023-12-29T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T08:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88843"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:28:59","slug":"vitalik-buterin-proposes-reviving-the-cypherpunk-ethos-in-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/vitalik-buterin-proposes-reviving-the-cypherpunk-ethos-in-ethereum\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin proposes reviving the &#8216;cypherpunk&#8217; ethos in Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum blockchain must revive <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-cryptography-who-are-the-cypherpunks\">&#8216;cypherpunk&#8217;<\/a> revolution, which was conceived for the network at its dawn, according to Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the second-largest cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Make Ethereum cypherpunk again<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qEiOcZLEeg\">https:\/\/t.co\/qEiOcZLEeg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1740515567621345689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to him, Ethereum was originally conceived as a &#8216;public decentralized general-purpose hard drive&#8217; that could use peer-to-peer messaging and file storage. However, this vision began to fade in 2017 with a shift toward the protocol&#8217;s financialization.<\/p>\n<p>Decentralization, open participation, resistance to censorship and trusted neutrality are among the ideals of the &#8216;cypherpunk&#8217; ethos that Buterin wants to see in Ethereum&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-rollups-and-how-do-they-scale-ethereum\">rollups<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-zero-knowledge-proof\">zero-knowledge proofs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-account-abstraction\">account abstraction<\/a> and second-generation privacy-preserving solutions have become more widespread and could support some of these values.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cInside the crypto ecosystem, it is quite possible to build things that do not align with these goals,\u201d Buterin acknowledged, hinting at some projects.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For example, the creation of a highly centralized layer protected by multisignatures with no plans to alter, or an NFT ecosystem where tokens are stored on a centralized website rather than on a decentralized data platform such as <span data-descr=\"InterPlanetary File System\" class=\"old_tooltip\">IPFS<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cResisting this pressure is hard, but if we do not do this, we risk losing the crypto ecosystem\u2019s unique value and recreating a clone of the existing Web 2.0 ecosystem with added inefficiency and inconvenience,\u201d the developer emphasised.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Buterin also said he was impressed by some developments aimed at solving the industry&#8217;s biggest problems. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-decentralised-exchange-dex\">DEX<\/a> provided enhanced safeguards after hacks of centralized exchanges, while Cowswap, Flashbots Protect and MEV Blocker helped curb \u201csandwich attacks\u201d on Ethereum users.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Buterin noted the undeniable progress of rollups, highlighting Arbitrum&#8217;s move to the &#8216;first phase&#8217;. In the wake of the statement, tokens ARB and OP rose by more than 15%.<\/p>\n<p>In late November, the Ethereum cofounder released an essay &#8220;My Techno-Optimism,&#8221; in which he shared his views on the impact of new developments, notably blockchain and artificial intelligence, on the development of human civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum blockchain must revive the &#8216;cypherpunk&#8217; revolution, conceived for the network at its dawn, according to Vitalik Buterin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[930,46,200],"class_list":["post-88843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cypherpunks","tag-ethereum","tag-vitalik-buterin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"40","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88845,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88843\/revisions\/88845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}