The privacy coin boom taking place in 2025 is no coincidence.
Key industry stakeholders have time and again pushed back strongly against rules that leave no breathing space for crypto. The latest to have his say is Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
Buterin has strong opinions against the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). In a recent X post, the Ethereum co-founder warned that the law risks creating a digital environment where there is “no space” for controversial ideas or products to exist at all.
“I hope European govs do not go this way, and instead take a Pirate Party approach of user empowerment.”
While the DSA aims to make online platforms safer and more accountable, Buterin argued that this philosophy is flawed. He believes the problem isn’t that unpopular or extreme ideas exist, but that algorithms often amplify them at scale. Trying to erase such ideas entirely, he said, risks encouraging excessive surveillance and enforcement.
