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π Vitalik says 2026 is the year to "take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty.β
He adds that "sending all your data to third party centralized services is unnecessary."
π For over a decade we've been conditioned to accept that "convenience" means handing over every byte of our digital lives to mega-corporations who monetize our every click, like, and whisper. 2026 as the turning point for computing self-sovereignty isn't just optimism β it's a realistic deadline now that the tooling (zero-knowledge proofs, decentralized identity, local-first apps, end-to-end encrypted everything) has finally matured enough to be usable by normal people. The era of "upload everything to the cloud or you're a luddite" is ending. Sovereignty isn't about going off-grid; it's about having real choice