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Hassan Shittu

Vitalik Buterin U-Turns on Self-Validation, Citing ZK-SNARKs in 2026 X Post

On January 26, 2026, Vitalik Buterin said on X he no longer stands by a 2017 remark dismissing end-user blockchain validation. He now argues zk-SNARKs make independent Ethereum verification feasible and a useful fallback against outages and centralization, reframing long-running trade-offs on scalability, decentralization, and verification.
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