⚡️ TODAY: Vitalik Buterin reverses his 2017 stance on blockchain self-sovereignty, now says ZK-SNARKs enable personal verification without full transaction replay.He emphasizes self-verification must remain as fallback against centralization. https://t.co/lA5CNLN06N ...

Vitalik Buterin no longer agrees with his 2017 view of "recording only transactions without committing state," due to mature zero-knowledge technologies like ZK-SNARKs enabling state verification without full transaction replay, reducing trust assumptions without sacrificing usability. He emphasized that blockchains must preserve personal independent verification as a fallback for real-world failures in networks, nodes, providers, or consensus—crucial in extreme cases as a counterbalance against intermediar ...

I no longer agree with this previous tweet of mine - since 2017, I have become a much more willing connoisseur of mountains. It's worth explaining why.https://t.co/LerCobzgvoFirst, the original context. That tweet was in a debate with Ian Grigg, who argued that blockchains should track the order of transactions, but not the state (eg. user balances, smart contract code and storage):> The messages are logged, but the state (e.g., UTXO) is implied, which means it is constructed by the computer internally, and ...