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Vitalik Scholar
Study notes on Vitalik Buterin's talks and the ideas behind Ethereum. Each post links to the full original, summarises it in 100 and 1,000 words, and lists the key terms with somewhere to read further.
Clips
The 2020-era mistake: putting everything on the blockchain because it was the one hammer we had.
Vitalik wrote an anonymous document in Chinese, machine-translated it, and was still identified within about two weeks.
Local model rewrites the prompt, an anonymizing network hides you, ZK-API pays for each query unlinkably.
Trusted hardware plus one onchain counter turns a safety camera into something the public can audit.
Someone who shares the goals without using our chain is more of an ally than someone who uses it for incompatible goals.