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I choose balance. First-level balance. mi pinxe lo crino tcati

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1Sep 15, '22And we finalized! Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.21.4×0171k40k842
2Feb 24, '22Reminder: Ethereum is neutral, but I am not.10.2×099k12k474
3Jan 18, '25We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure, which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made p8.0×7.3M17k2.3k1.6k
4Feb 24, '22Очень расстроен решением Путина отказаться от возможности мирного решения спора с Украиной и вместо этого начать войну. Это преступление против украинского и русского народа. Хочу 7.0×062k11k277
5Dec 29, '22Some smart people tell me there is an earnest smart developer community in Solana, and now that the awful opportunistic money people have been washed out, the chain has a bright fu6.5×5.9M35k7.8k685
7Sep 15, '22"The merge will reduce worldwide electricity consumption by 0.2%" - @drakefjustin5.7×049k8.6k262
8Jan 21, '25No. This is not how this game works. The person deciding the new EF leadership team is me. One of the goals of the ongoing reform is to give the EF a "proper board", but until that5.6×5.1M11k8991.1k
9Mar 9, '22Ukrainians are far from the only ones suffering from war. Also people in Yemen, Ethiopia... just as human as Ukrainians and you are. This is NOT a valid excuse to not care about Uk5.5×050k7.3k214
10Mar 18, '22The quote tweets on the new time article about me are truly amazing. These are barely even cherry picked, it's pretty much one piece of awesome after another. Highly recommend scro4.8×042k3.7k685
11Dec 28, '23Make Ethereum cypherpunk again4.5×4.1M12k3.1k1.8k
12Jan 1, '22Happy new year! Today, a mini-tweetstorm of some of the things I've said and written over the past decade, and what I think about those subjects today.4.5×032k5.4k6.1k
13Mar 15, '22gm! Here is a picture of a beautiful field full of flowers.4.3×043k3.3k139
14Aug 21, '24I have been told that I need to "do less philosophizing and do more ethereum bullposting". Hence, here is an ethereum bullpost, courtesy of stable diffusion 3 inpainting + gimp.4.2×3.8M25k3.7k663
15Nov 21, '22I'm hearing through the grapevine that something important is about to happen. Please recognize the fact that my elite social connections to people who are early to know things mak4.2×039k3.6k619
16Dec 30, '23By popular demand, an updated roadmap diagram for 2023!4.1×3.7M16k3.8k2.6k
17Feb 19, '24One application of AI that I am excited about is AI-assisted formal verification of code and bug finding. Right now ethereum's biggest technical risk probably is bugs in code, and 3.9×3.6M12k2k873
18Mar 29, '24What else could memecoins be?3.8×3.5M21k6.1k1.9k
19Jun 18, '20Things I'm excited about (incomplete list) * Cryptography+blockchains esp @ethereum family * Life extension @SENSResearchFou * New governance/"social tech" @RadxChange * Better onl3.8×020k3k599
21Jan 13, '22Poll for Ethereum community. You wake up in 2035, and 80% of all transactions + savings in the world are in one currency that is not ETH. Which would you prefer it to be?3.4×016k4.5k353
22Apr 28, '242 + 2 = 0 2 * 6 = 11 3 / 5 = 9 3² + 8² = 11² 420 * 61779 = 1 It's the new math. If you use it, it becomes much easier to make proofs of things. If you know, you know.3.3×3M11k1.6k1.4k
23Nov 4, '22Updated roadmap diagram!3.3×022k5.5k2.5k
24Feb 26, '22An opportunity to support Ukrainians here! Proceeds go to civilian efforts helping Ukrainians suffering from the war.3.3×026k6.2k166
25Nov 9, '25I'm loving this arc of the pope engaging with 21st century themes and offering simple but correct and meaningful advice.3.3×3M14k1.1k687
27Jul 13, '24Plane be like... Me be like... We really need to clean up our indoor air, but until then thank you @zhouliang_mask!3.2×2.9M9.7k8121.3k
28Dec 16, '22This is really bad imo3.1×2.8M11k1.3k162
29Oct 7, '24I appreciate all the memecoins that donate portions of their supply directly to charity. (eg. I saw ebull sent a bunch to various groups last month) Anything that gets sent to me g3.1×2.8M13k2.5k672
30Jan 24, '25Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond3.0×2.8M11k2k1.5k
31Nov 29, '22Freedom is important.3.0×026k3.7k65
32Apr 30, '22The largest consequence of Elon taking over Twitter may well be not any specific policy decision he makes, but rather the morale effect of his supporters feeling emboldened and his2.9×027k2.3k373
33Sep 1, '21Doing a random twitter experiment just on this day. Only the 268 people I follow can reply to this tweet. Feel free to ask things and I'll talk about anything crypto or non-crypto 2.8×023k3.1k1.7k
34May 17, '22Thread: some still open contradictions in my thoughts and my values, that I have been thinking about but still don't feel like I've fully resolved.2.7×020k3.1k2.4k
35Mar 10, '24Abolish daylight savings time.2.7×2.4M15k1.7k158
36Dec 2, '21Happy birthday beacon chain! Here's an updated roadmap diagram for where Ethereum protocol development is at and what's coming in what order. (I'm sure this is missing a lot, as al2.6×019k4.1k1.7k
37Jan 7, '24This is awful advice. Some actual financial advice: * Diversification is good. * Save. Get to the point where you have enough to cover multiple years of expenses. Financial safety 2.6×2.4M8.9k1.5k823
38Sep 8, '21We need to move NFTs onto the layer 2 ecosystem to cut fees. However, doing that *right* requires good cross-rollup portability standards, so the ecosystem can avoid getting locked2.5×018k3.7k586
39Jan 7, '22My argument for why the future will be *multi-chain*, but it will not be *cross-chain*: there are fundamental limits to the security of bridges that hop across multiple "zones of s2.5×015k3.6k2.4k
40May 21, '22How do we create a culture where it's harder to set (or become) the topic of public conversation by doing something terrible and easier to do so by doing something great?2.5×021k2.4k303
41Sep 6, '22The merge is still expected to happen around Sep 13-15. What's happening today is the Bellatrix hard fork, which *prepares* the chain for the merge. Still important though - make s2.5×021k3.8k144
42Nov 1, '21Crypto cities!2.4×017k3.6k1.6k
43May 23, '21The limits to blockchain scalability (or, why you can't "just increase the block size by 10x"):2.4×018k3.2k1.3k
45Sep 14, '2212 hours until the merge!2.1×018k3.3k133
46Dec 6, '21Endgame2.1×015k3.1k1.1k
47Nov 15, '22Automatically downgrading every single thing SBF believed in is an error. It's important to actually think and figure out which things contributed to the fraud and which things did2.1×017k1.7k212
48Aug 24, '22People continue to underrate how often cryptocurrency payments are superior not even because of censorship resistance but just because they're so much more convenient. Big boost to2.0×017k2.9k181
49Feb 17, '18Reminder: cryptocurrencies are still a new and hyper-volatile asset class, and could drop to near-zero at any time. Don't put in more money than you can afford to lose. If you're t2.0×013k4.8k36
50Aug 19, '22Regular reminder to people trying to make things better: It is not your responsibility to solve every problem.2.0×017k2.6k249
51Jan 28, '22CryptoRelief sending $100m of the $SHIBA funds back to me. I plan to personally deploy these funds with the help of science advisors to complement CryptoRelief's existing excellent2.0×015k3.4k92
52May 21, '22I love seeing people with .eth in their handles arguing with each other on twitter. Diversity of opinions is fun, and it's even more fun when there's an in-your-face reminder that 2.0×018k2.2k73
53Apr 20, '24This is bad. Crypto is not just about trading tokens, it's part of a broader ethos of protecting freedom and privacy and keeping power in the hands of the little guy. And these val2.0×1.8M12k2.6k820
54Jun 10, '22Please stop using "real name" to refer to your passport name. Your government doesn't get to define who you "really" are. If you use a different name in most day-to-day interaction1.9×016k1.9k357
55Aug 12, '22The terminal total difficulty has been set to 58750000000000000000000. This means the ethereum PoW network now has a (roughly) fixed number of hashes left to mine. predicts the mer1.9×014k3.6k239
56Aug 5, '24I think people will be surprised by how quickly "cross-L2 interoperability problems" stop being problems and we get a smooth user experience across the entire ethereum-verse (incl 1.9×1.7M11k1.4k473
57Feb 26, '22Getting some confirmations from a couple sources that it's legit. Deleting my warning for now. But continue to be vigilant, and always be slow and careful when sending irreversible1.8×016k2.7k94
58Mar 3, '24Polymarket is predicting that blobs (~125 kB) will cost ~0.001 ETH. Today, 125 kB calldata costs ~30 gwei per gas * 16 gas per byte * 125000 gas ~= 0.06 ETH And if you think polyma1.7×1.6M5.7k1.1k403
59Dec 1, '20Congrats on the launch all!1.7×016k1.8k24
61May 25, '21Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed people but underrated among informed people:1.7×010k3.2k256
62Nov 18, '22ok guys please don't beg for money in social or chat messages I feel bad refusing as I know lots of your causes are honorable, but unfortunately it's hard for me to verify each one1.6×015k91186
63Feb 11, '22Нападение на Украину может только навредить России, Украине и человечеству. Вернется ли ситуация на мирный путь или будет война, сейчас может решить не Зеленский, не нато, а @Kreml1.6×014k1.9k74
64Feb 5, '25The more I think about it, the more I think 2013-era morality is pretty much correct: * free speech good * starting companies and making good products good * monopolies bad, vendor1.5×1.4M13k9081.6k
65Aug 31, '22"Proof of Stake", the (physical and digital) book compiling various writings I've made over the last ~10 years, will be out in a month! You can get a signed digital copy and NFT he1.5×011k2.2k815
67Mar 9, '22First priority is supporting Ukrainians. Second, and also really important, priority is supporting those Russians and Belarusians who refuse to let Putin's Z-ombie regime represent1.4×013k1.6k69
69Jan 13, '22What are the craziest and most unhinged criticisms of me you've seen on twitter or elsewhere? Here are a few good ones, I wonder what else people have seen that I haven't!1.4×012k790178
70Dec 13, '22It's okay to hate the fact that X is a monopoly and desperately wish for more competition to emerge, but at the same time not hate X as a whole, and even believe that X is made up 1.4×013k1.2k126
71Sep 19, '22People whose primary vibe is "I and my tribe are domain-expertise-endowed professionals, the people I criticize and mock are amateurs, and you should shut up" are really really unc1.4×012k1.3k255
72Apr 15, '22Don't oppose Elon running twitter (at least compared to status quo), but I do disagree with the more generalized enthusiasm for wealthy people/orgs hostile-takeovering social media1.4×012k1.2k194
73May 14, '22Strongly support this. Coordinated sympathy and relief for the average UST smallholder who got told something dumb about "20% interest rates on the US dollar" by an influencer, per1.4×011k2.1k268
74Oct 1, '22So many scam accounts have blue checkmarks these days. Seems like a complete failure of blue checkmarks in their current form. I'm definitely seeing the wisdom of turning twitter i1.4×012k1.6k73
75Sep 12, '22Normalize saying "dub" (instead of "double-yoo") as the name of the letter W. All letters deserve a one-syllable name.1.3×011k1k78
76Jun 7, '22Pro-tip: if you're "tired of having to explain the same thing 100 times" on the internet, write an article that explains your view clearly in long-form! Then in the future you, and1.3×012k1.2k342
77Jan 4, '22Paradox of diversity: if every organization within society must fully reflect the diversity of that society's members, then there can be no diversity *between* organizations in tha1.3×012k1.4k330
78Aug 30, '22World economic forum initiation ceremony completed.1.3×011k885168
79Jul 2, '24Prediction markets and Community Notes are becoming the two flagship social epistemic technologies of the 2020s. Both truth-seeking and democratic, built around open public partici1.3×1.2M12k1.7k902
80Jul 30, '24Happy 9th birthday, Ethereum! Looking forward to seeing what the next decade brings.1.3×1.2M16k2.1k254
81Oct 30, '22Should I publicly blab my opinions about crypto regulation more? Feels unfair to let other people get attacked by CT but never actually poke my own head out.1.3×011k1.1k401
82Oct 10, '18I officially predict a financial crisis some time between now and 2021. Not because I have any special knowledge or even actually think that, but so that I can have a ~25% (or what1.2×011k1.9k41
83Nov 16, '22The "centralized anything is evil by default, use defi and self-custody" ethos did very well this week, but remember that it too has risks: bugs in smart contract code. Important t1.2×010k1.7k280
85Oct 7, '23Protocol and staking pool changes that could improve decentralization and reduce consensus overhead:1.2×1.1M3.6k1.3k303
86Nov 9, '22Anti-malaria, pandemic response, mitigating extreme poverty, life extension research, mitigating existential risks (including AI) and thinking about the multimillion-year future of1.2×011k1.3k478
87Aug 14, '22Regular reminder: all 5000+ of my instagram accounts are fake profiles and have nothing to do with me. Anything you see "Vitalik Buterin" (or "Bütеirn" or whatever) posting on inst1.2×011k1.1k33
89Feb 1, '18If you send me 0.1 ETH, I will send you nothing, because I am too lazy.1.1×010k1.4k3
90Jul 16, '22Is there any economic research on how morale affects economic growth? It feels like everyone agrees that in military contexts, morale is absolutely critical. So surely it should ha1.1×09k937259
91Aug 8, '22Idea: stealth addresses for ERC721s. A low-tech approach to add a significant amount of privacy to the NFT ecosystem. So you would be able to eg. send an NFT to vitalik.eth without1.1×06.6k1.4k514
92Jun 28, '22Decline of formal attire is an underrated form of social progress.1.1×09.4k944190
93Sep 14, '22Looks like the "hashrate will drop weeks before the merge due to miners rushing to sell ahead of everyone else" thesis has been proven completely false. I'm a bit surprised! I argu1.0×09.2k1.2k91
95Nov 5, '22One of my minor gripes with many mainstream media publications is how unwilling they are to link directly to primary sources. Often I have to go through many different articles and1.0×09.4k98585
96Feb 9, '25Thank you to everyone to has given their kind support over the last few weeks1.0×913k10k768184
98Feb 24, '25💛💙0.7×615k10k1.1k140
99Aug 4, '22Some quick theorycrafting of how much data space we can save by improving compression (especially in rollups). ERC4337 signature aggregation ( ) is essential to this.0.6×03.7k702310
100Aug 5, '22Another great book by @Delphi_Digital, this time on rollups.0.3×01.4k226178

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