crypto
- VB
21 Aug 2026
Vitalik Buterin quoted
This is a wild and risky bet; it sits on a graveyard of failed attempts at white-box cryptography .
- VB
21 Aug 2026
Vitalik Buterin quoted
A big-enough random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, a big-enough random irreversible circuit degenerates into having only a few possible outputs.
- 8 weeks earlier
- VB
29 Jun 2026
Vitalik Buterin quoted
HoldsObfuscation is the most powerful primitive yet conceived in cryptography.
The most powerful primitive that has been conceived in cryptography is obfuscation
↗Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)vitalik.eth.limo
- 4 years earlier
- DH
21 Feb 2022
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
No longer holdsCryptocurrency deserves to be dismissed: its problems outweigh its promise, and the trustless world it offers is not one worth wanting.
But wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.
SaidBut wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.
- 11 months earlier
- DH
19 Mar 2021
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
One of the reasons I've never cared for crypto currencies is that the associated utopia of trustless society had zero appeal to me. I don't think the world is better off by erasing the need to trust in our transactional counterparts, so turning these transactions into pure computing always struck me as a regression.