According to Foresight News , Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted, "Ethereum was not created to make finance more efficient or applications more convenient, but to liberate people." This is an important and controversial statement from the "Trustless Declaration," which deserves re-examination and a better understanding of its meaning. He emphasized that the "efficiency" and "convenience" of finance and applications primarily focus on improving what is already good, but Ethereum's game is about "resilience." Resilience means reducing the risk of suffering 100% loss, maintaining the network's availability and stability in the face of political pressure, developer bankruptcies, cloud service outages, or cyberwars.
Vitalik stated that this resilience allows anyone, anywhere in the world, to participate equally in the network, while emphasizing the importance of "digital sovereignty" and reducing vulnerability to external dependence. Resilience is not only a value Ethereum excels at, but also essential for people in today's unstable world. Ultimately, Ethereum must achieve a decentralized, permissionless, and resilient block space, and enrich it.
