Ethereum developer: "I'm more worried about the safety of the blockchain than about the scalability"

The prominent developer of Ethereum (ETH) Vlad Zamfir has recently revealed that he believes that the crypto community should be more concerned with "blockchain safety" than with scalability issues.

Zamfir, who joined the Ethereum community as a developer in 2014 just two years after graduating in Mathematics from the University of Guelph, observed via Twitter:

I'm much more concerned about blockchain security than scalability, use cases or blockchain adoption.

Safety and security

When asked to clarify his response (from a Twitter user) that he meant the security of the blockchain, Zamfir said that he actually meant "security" and not security. The active blogger, who regularly talks about topics related to cryptoeconomics, explained that the Ethereum blockchain network is adequately protected, since the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) "is performed as specified".

Commenting on the confusion due to the use of two similar words – safety and security – the co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin, who recently received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel, said:

Generally it is a bad idea to draw a clear distinction between two words that seem synonymous and try to force people to accept them in the sense of two different things.

Bitcoin "It's not safe!"

Meanwhile, Anaïs Urlichs, the head of research at Eblock Ventures, asked about "ongoing trials [have been] implemented in Ethereum and other blockchain to ensure safety. "In response, Zamfir said that the best preventive measures currently in place are" disclaimers and tools ", however, he added that" it's never enough ".

Interestingly, when a use of Twitter recommended that people use bitcoins (BTC) instead of Ethereum, Zamfir said:

Bitcoin is not safe! But it is safer than Ethereum. But unfortunately even the Bitcoiners do not want a difficult fork.

Zamfir went on to explain that most people are unable to keep their keys safe and that losing them is a "security issue because they can lose the ability to spend Bitcoins when they lose their private keys".

A Twitter user responded to Zamfir's explanation by noting that he does not see the security problem in the situation, but sees it as a personal responsibility problem. "

Asked about the fact that he considers "bad practices of programming in Solidity (programming language built for Ethereum) as a vulnerability", Zamfir said: "A problem of security, not of vulnerability".

Solidity is a "weak point"

In response, another user claimed that the kind of problems Zamfir was talking about were "beyond what blockchain developers can do [control]"How do you think that Solidity is a" weak point "-" after the management of private keys, but education is all that there is to do ".

Héctor Cárdenas, the CEO of a Spanish newspaper, joined the conversation by observing: "Curious that you are worried about this, when the biggest threat to the" blockchain safety "is a trusted third party in control, an owner, something like the Ethereum Foundation is for Ethereum. "

Responding to Cárdenas comments, Zamfir said:

You could think about security. I wonder if you can characterize Tezos as an owner.

The developer of Ethereum then claimed that Tezos developers actually own his blockchain.