Buterin Says X’s New Location Feature ‘risky’ As Crypto Users Flag...

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said X's new feature showing the country that an account is based in was a form of “mandatory doxing.”

X director of product Nikita Bier announced the feature was rolled out on Saturday, framing it as a way to ensure the integrity of the platform and allow users to verify information.

Buterin said on Sunday that some accounts will eventually “find ways to pretend to be from countries that they are not,” but initially thought the change could have positive effects, such as increased visibility into how people from different communities feel about various issues.

“I thought about this more and I think responders are right that revealing the country non- ‘consensually without offering any opt-out option, not even stop using your account, is wrong,” Buterin later said.

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams was also firmly against the new feature and said “I hate it. Opt-in doxing is fine, mandatory doxing is psychotic.”

The X user “Langerius,” a lead at Web3 community and consulting group Hunters of Web3, said there is a way for concerned users to opt out of the new feature.

Other X users were more positive about the new feature. Some argued that revealing an account location in a country the size of the US, with a population of around 350 million, was unlikely to leave anyone easily identifiable.

More still, including crypto venture capitalist Nic Carter, said the feature was necessary to prevent accounts linked to overseas users from attempting to interfere in politics by masquerading as being from a particular country.

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Source: CoinTelegraph