🎬 We are back in the new year and we’re starting strong Just like last year, when we opened the year with Vitalik: An Ethereum Story, we’re kicking off 2026 with another powerful film that goes to the very core of crypto ideology. 📍 Hotel One66 🗓 29 Jan 2026 ⏰ 19:00

People often ask why I care so much about local first, privacy preserving tools. Here's one reason: My own @rotkiapp DB still contains the transactions from the 2016 DAO whitehat rescue. Back then we pulled ~71% of the DAO's funds by performing the recursive attack on the DAO using ETH borrowed from friendly whales! Nine years later, that history is still mine. It lives locally on my machine and is backed up fully encrypted in the cloud, unreadable to anyone but me thanks to rotki premium. As old Ethereum history becomes harder to query, APIs shut down, and centralized indexers limit access, having your own complete onchain ledger becomes extremely valuable. Your financial history should belong to you, not some SaaS backend that can shut down, or lock down your access at any point for no reason. One day soon, you may not be able to query Ethereum’s early years at all unless you kept your own records. You should care about data sovereignty. You should use rotki.