Vitalik: The community note function of the X platform may be the closest instance of "encryption value" in the mainstream world

Odaily Planet Daily News Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, shared his views on the Community Notes (Community Notes) function of the X platform (formerly Twitter). Community Notes is a fact-checking tool that sometimes attaches contextual notes to tweets as a fact-check and anti-misinformation tool. It was originally called Birdwatch and was first launched as a pilot program in January 2021. Vitalik said what interests him most about Community Notes is that while it is not a "crypto project," it is probably the closest thing to an instance of "crypto value" seen in the mainstream world. Community Notes are not written or curated by some centrally handpicked expert; instead, they can be written and voted on by anyone, with open-source algorithms determining which notes appear or not. The Twitter website provides a detailed and extensive guide describing how the algorithm works, and users can download the data containing posted comments and votes, run the algorithm locally, and verify that the output matches what is visible on the Twitter website. It's not perfect, but it's surprisingly close to satisfying the ideal of believable neutrality. At the same time, it's impressively useful, even in controversial situations.