Vitalik criticizes the "user growth first" mindset, emphasizes autonomous human-sovereign tools

PANews, January 23 – Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin responded to community criticism regarding his “abandonment of mainstream tools in favor of niche decentralized tools,” stating that blindly chasing “tools everyone uses,” even if these tools collect user data and may have backdoors for multiple governments, is the mentality that led to the failure of projects like Liberty Reserve. In contrast, insisting on building and using tools that protect user autonomy, machine sovereignty, and freedom is the mindset that contributed to the birth of Bitcoin. Previously, he announced that he had basically switched to the decentralized encrypted document tool Fileverse, and had migrated from Telegram to Signal.