**Vitalik Buterin’s Post-Merge Musings: Faster, Safer, and More Accessible Ethereum**

- **Speed Up, Buttercup!** 🚀

- Vitalik Buterin reflects on Ethereum’s “Merge” and eyes faster transaction speeds.

- Finalizing transactions currently takes 15 minutes; Buterin suggests single-slot finality to speed things up.

- **More Stakeholders, Less Barrier**

- Current staking requirement: 32 ETH. Proposed: 1 ETH.

- Lowering the bar could democratize staking and enhance decentralization.

- **Security First**

- Buterin highlights cryptographic techniques to fend off attacks.

- Future-proofing against quantum computing threats and enhancing recovery from 51% attacks.

Stay tuned for the Prague-Electra upgrade in Q1 2025!