Ethereum Founder Buterin Warns Of New X Feature: Here’s Why
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is sounding the alarm over X’s new “show which country the account is from” transparency tag, arguing that the feature will be quickly undermined by spoofing while exposing some users to unacceptable privacy risk. X has recently expanded its “About This Account” surface, letting users see metadata such as an account’s […]
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A Twitter post from someone claiming to be the DAO attacker who has taken 3,641,694 ether has thanked the DAO for this reward, has justified the action as being consistent with the DAO smart contract terms, and is warning that any attempts to deploy a fork in Ethereum would bring legal action. Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum co-founder, questioned the tweet’s validity. He tweeted, “Signature looks shady at first glance: the first byte is 0x5f, which is not a standard v value by any encoding that I know about. So I would not trust this is from the attacker until I get the proper signature.” The....