Vitalik's "post-AI cryptography": pseudonyms are dead, per-action anonymity is in
devanshmehta · x · 2026-11-02
At a CCC talk, Vitalik Buterin outlined "post-AI cryptography": zero-knowledge proofs can only suffer soundness breaks (unlimited credential minting), never privacy breaks; and pseudonyms are obsolete since AI makes any slip-up traceable — favoring action-by-action anonymity instead. The poster disagrees, arguing pseudonymous reputation-building over time (think Satoshi) can't be replicated with full anonymity.
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