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vitalik.eth· 2026-03-18 00:40
An excellent post explaining the importance of Ethereum having a dynamically available consensus, that both provides economic finality and ensures chain progress even under conditions where economic finality is impossible.https://t.co/wrtIRFnHpL ...
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Wu Blockchain· 2026-03-15 03:26
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the ecosystem should remain open to revisiting Ethereum’s current separation between beacon and execution clients. He noted that running two daemons and coordinating them adds unnecessary complexity for users running their own nodes. In the short term, standardized wrappers (e.g., Docker-based tools) could simplify client deployment, while in the longer term Ethereum may reconsider the architecture as “Lean Ethereum” consensus matures.https://t.co/RL9Kr6f5Rh ...
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Dash· 2026-03-07 00:04
RT hilawe (@hilawe)🧵Consensus, Privacy, and Performance: The Three Pillars of the Dash v3.1 Release 🧵$Dash is entering a new era. The March 2026 Dev Update just dropped, and the numbers are staggering: 100+ pull requests merged in 2 weeks, 92% test coverage, and a Testnet date set for March 20.Here’s why @Dashpay's v3.1 is the upgrade the industry has been waiting for. 👇 #Dash #Crypto #privacy #Zcash $ZEC ...
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Michaël van de Poppe· 2026-03-01 16:55
The consensus seems to be that Gold, Silver, and Oil are going to be trending upwards tomorrow.I don't think that it's actually going to happen.The uncertainty was whether or not the U.S. was going to attack Iran, and that was heavily priced in already.It has happened. Peak fear is behind us, and slowly this should translate into a rotation on the markets.I think that equities, $BTC and #Crypto will do well coming 1-2 months. ...
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Solana· 2026-02-12 05:56
RT Soubhik Deb (@soubhik_deb)Solana’s consensus is getting surgery, not a patch.With Alpenglow, they are ripping out core assumptions and pushing finality toward hundreds of milliseconds.Alpenglow will be one of the most ambitious protocol upgrades for @solana and for crypto overall.I had an wonderful conversation with @TheWattenhofer, @DiscoKobi and @qkniep from @anza_xyz on what is Alpenglow and how does it impact Solana ecosystem.Stay tuned for the full episode of TheCoordinate podcast! ...
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Wu Blockchain· 2026-02-09 04:57
Vitalik: The Blockchain Trilemma Is Being SolvedOn January 27, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stated at the ETH ChiangMai togETHer Tuesday event that the long-held "blockchain trilemma" of scalability, consensus, and decentralization is not a mathematical theorem, but rather an engineering, stage-dependent challenge. With the advancement of technologies such as zk-SNARKs and PeerDAS at both the computation and data layers, Ethereum is attempting to achieve higher system capacity while maintaining strong c ...
Bitcoin: The Mycelium of Money? 🍄💰
Bitcoin Bram· 2026-02-02 11:01
Both Bitcoin and psychedelics are self-organizing systems that emerge from some [music] form of chaos. Bitcoin is the mcelium of money. It's distributed, resilient, antifragile, and it has no central spores.It's just [music] the consensus propagating through the digital soil. And it replaces central banks, which is a top- down order, with peer-to-peer consensus, which is a bottom up selforganization. ...
Christine Lagarde on Why Consensus Isn’t Always the Right Approach
Bloomberg Originals· 2026-01-14 18:34
How do you find consensus at the governing council level. I mean, is it right actually to always try and find consensus in in terms of just mechanics. >> You know, not not always.There there are times and there are, I'm sure, circumstances or sectors where you have to just drive through and and be this authoritative uh leader who is going to carry the day and ignore completely what the views of others are. It's just not my style. And so far, it has it has served me reasonably well.Even in times of crisis, w ...
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vitalik.eth· 2026-01-08 06:46
One metaphor for Ethereum is BitTorrent, and how that p2p network combines decentralization and mass scale. Ethereum's goal is to do the same thing but with consensus.Another metaphor for Ethereum is Linux.* Linux is free and open source software, and does not compromise on this* Linux is quietly depended on by billions of people and enterprises worldwide. Governments regularly use it.* There are many operating systems based on Linux that pursue mass adoption* There are Linux distributions (eg. Arch) that a ...