Vitalik Buterin Advocates for Anonymous Voting in Governance

According to PANews, Vitalik Buterin recently commented on the incident involving the arson of a judge's home, expressing his belief that more governance actions should involve anonymous or secret voting. He suggested that such measures, like his previous advocacy for secret voting in the United Nations General Assembly, could protect decision-makers from external pressures and threats of violence. Buterin emphasized that a judge's responsibility is to make rulings based on their interpretation of facts and conscience, rather than being accountable to violent mobs. He acknowledged that these ideas might seem radical, questioning why cryptocurrency enthusiasts would apply zero-knowledge proof technology to social issues. However, he argued that in the 2020s, an era where physical retaliation is easily accessible, including from foreign adversaries, such concepts might increasingly enter the Overton window of public discourse.