Vitalik Buterin Addresses Privacy Use Cases in Ethereum’s ZK-VM: Speed Challenges Explained

On September 24, COINOTAG News reported that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin addressed the irony surrounding the seemingly “unrealized” use case of ZK-VM in privacy applications. Speaking on a social platform, Buterin elucidated, “The situation is quite straightforward: privacy-driven use cases necessitate that clients produce proofs. However, the current speeds of client provers are inadequate for managing tasks more intricate than Merkle branches.”