Buterin Donates To 2 Projects Pushing ‘next Steps’ Of Digital Privacy

Decentralized messaging apps Session and SimpleX Chat are “pushing these directions forward,” Buterin said, adding that he “donated 128 ETH to each” and encouraged users to try them.

Session has been designed to remove the usual identifiers and metadata that traditional messengers rely on, such as phone numbers, and it has no central servers.

SimpleX Chat also doesn’t rely on using a phone number and doesn’t assign users an identifiable ID, among other features.

Estimated to have a net worth of at least $737 million based on his crypto holdings, Buterin has frequently made donations to projects aligned with Ethereum’s values and has also donated to numerous charities.

“Unfortunately, regulatory and technical developments are currently threatening the future of private messaging. However, the challenges private messaging faces are solvable, and I think Vitalik clearly understands the importance of decentralization in this fight,” he said.

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Sybil attacks occur when a bad actor creates multiple pseudonymous identities or nodes to gain control or an undue advantage within a peer-to-peer network.

However, he also said spreading global awareness should be an important next step for encrypted, decentralized messaging.

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Source: CoinTelegraph