Vitalik Buterin (@vitalik.eth): [Farcast] I am more optimistic. The reasons why we historically did not push harder on privacy are:

[Farcast] I am more optimistic. The reasons why we historically did not push harder on privacy are: 1. ZK tech was not mature enough, there would have been too much soundness failure risk and UX would not have been good enough no matter how much we tried. 2. Fees are too high, and anything with SNARKs costs 10x more on top of that. Both problems are now basically solved. And we have increasingly mature privacy tools: railway, now veil.cash, tornado itself is continuing to be used. And so now we can, and should, go on offense. I think the main error is that we have thought of "privacy wallets" as a separate type of dapp or wallet, where in reality it should be an integrated feature of your wallet.