Gate News, March 18 — Vitalik Buterin posted a statement, saying that the idea that zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) make running nodes irrelevant is misleading. He himself was long misled by this view. Vitalik pointed out that users need more than just verifying the correctness of header information; they also need to be able to read the blockchain in a way that protects privacy and resists censorship. He emphasized that remote procedure calls (RPC) cannot provide this capability, even Helios and Colibri cannot do so. Vitalik stated that the future of Ethereum lies in becoming a network that handles far more data and transactions than a single node needs to process. However, to truly achieve a permissionless, bottleneck-free system, more than just zero-knowledge proof technology is required.
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