Vitalik criticizes the "user volume first" mindset, emphasizing autonomous human-machine sovereignty tools

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PANews January 23 News, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin responded to community concerns about his “abandoning mainstream tools and shifting to niche decentralized tools” by stating that blindly chasing “tools everyone uses,” even if these tools collect user data and may have backdoors for multiple governments, is the mindset that led to the failure of projects like Liberty Reserve; on the contrary, insisting on building and using tools that protect user sovereignty and freedom is the approach that led to the birth of Bitcoin. He previously announced that he has essentially switched to the decentralized encrypted document tool Fileverse and migrated from Telegram to Signal.

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