Vitalik’s $45M Gamble: Privacy, Thrift, and Silicon Dreams

Meanwhile, the Ethereum Foundation is embracing what Buterin calls “mild austerity,” which translates to “we’re eating ramen for the next five years while we figure out how to make Ethereum not crash every other Thursday.” It’s like a tech version of a New Year’s resolution: ambitious, slightly delusional, and probably doomed to fail by March.

![The study demonstrates that a system initialized within the ground state of the [latex]XXZ[/latex] Hamiltonian and subsequently evolved under a different Hamiltonian exhibits underdamped oscillations in the [latex]U(1)[/latex]-symmetric probe, with the oscillation frequency dictated by the final Hamiltonian’s parameter and the amplitude scaled by the magnitude of the difference between initial and final Hamiltonian parameters-a behavior consistently observed across a range of parameter values.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.20926v1/x1.png)

