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Vitalik Buterin Says Bitcoin Maxis Were Right, Calls for a New ‘Sovereign Web’
Jan 12, 2026
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by Wayne Jones
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Vitalik Buterin emphasizes the importance of digital sovereignty, aligning with Bitcoin maximalists on the need to protect user autonomy against corporate control. He argues that the current internet undermines privacy and user power.
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said on January 10 that Bitcoin maximalists were largely correct about digital sovereignty, arguing that today’s internet has drifted toward corporate-controlled systems that quietly weaken user power.
His remarks frame sovereignty as more than resistance to governments, casting it instead as a fight to protect privacy, attention, and autonomy from profit-driven online platforms.
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