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Vitalik Buterin’s Twitter Account Hacked, With $691K Drained From People’s Wallets

ZachXBT declined to speculate on whether Buterin was the victim of a "SIM swap" attack, stating that the Ethereum founder, who has 4.9 million followers on X, formerly Twitter, is a "big enough target to where an insider could have been paid off." SIM swapping involves taking control of someone's

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Vitalik Buterin’s X account hacked, drains $691K+ from victims : Report

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, had his X (formerly Twitter) account compromised, which, according to social media reports, resulted in victims losing over $691,000 through malicious links.In a Sept. 10 post on X, Dmitry Buterin, the father of Vitalik Buterin, announced that his son's account has been compromised:“Disregard this post, apparently Vitalik

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Tornado Cash alternative detailed in paper co-authored by Vitalik Buterin

Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Ethereum(ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin; core developer Ameen Soleimani; Jacob Illum of Chainalysis; and scholars Matthias Nadler and Fabian Schar have co-authored a research paper on a novel privacy protocol dubbed “Privacy Pools.” The paper presents a

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Financial privacy and regulation can co-exist with ZK-proofs — Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a research paper diving into privacy pools systems as a tool to achieve more privacy in financial transactions, allowing users to prove dissociation from illicit funds through zero-knowledge proof technology.The document initially discusses one of the most popular privacy-enhancing protocols, Tornado Cash, which allows

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Vitalik Buterin on fix for Ethereum centralization — make running nodes easier

The centralization of nodes is one of the biggest problems facing the Ethereum network and should be addressed by making the running of nodes cheaper and easier, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.Currently, the majority of the 5,901 active Ethereum nodes are being run through centralized web providers like Amazon

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