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Vitalik launches AI de-anonymization experiment: claims to have anonymously authored an important Ethereum document
June 22, 2026
CoinFeed News
CoinFeed June 22 news, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that recently there have been voices suggesting that AI text analysis will make online anonymity unsustainable. To this end, he revealed that at some point in this decade he anonymously authored a publicly available document of moderate importance to Ethereum, and estimates that there are about 200 to 2,000 documents in the Ethereum ecosystem of no less importance than this document. Vitalik invites the community and AI tools to "find" this anonymous work among these documents, to test whether AI can de-anonymize authors in large-scale texts through stylistic analysis and other means.