I agree with maybe 60% of this, but one bit that is particularly important to highlight is the explicit separation between what the poster calls "the open web" (really, the corposlop web), and "the sovereign web".https://t.co/w7Vtbn7uFtThis is a distinction I did not realize until recently, and I must admit the bitcoin maximalists were far ahead: a big part of their resistance to ICOs, tokens other than bitcoin, arbitrary financial applications, etc was precisely about keeping bitcoin "sovereign" and not "c ...

RT c-node (@colludingnode)> There is no law of physics that prevents combining extreme scale with decentralizationbasedAlso glad to see anonymity of validators mentioned. Very underrated and important ...

Increasing bandwidth is safer than reducing latencyWith PeerDAS and ZKPs, we know how to scale, and potentially we can scale thousands of times compared to the status quo. The numbers become far more favorable than before (eg. see analysis here, pre and post-sharding https://t.co/2gR8V6hxJe ). There is no law of physics that prevents combining extreme scale with decentralization.Reducing latency is not like this. We are fundamentally constrained by speed of light, and on top of that we are also constrained ...

One metaphor for Ethereum is BitTorrent, and how that p2p network combines decentralization and mass scale. Ethereum's goal is to do the same thing but with consensus.Another metaphor for Ethereum is Linux.* Linux is free and open source software, and does not compromise on this* Linux is quietly depended on by billions of people and enterprises worldwide. Governments regularly use it.* There are many operating systems based on Linux that pursue mass adoption* There are Linux distributions (eg. Arch) that a ...

“Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was created to set people free”This was an important - and controversial - line from the Trustless Manifesto ( https://t.co/QAvZfiNxpe ), and it is worth revisiting it and better understanding what it means.“efficient” and “convenient” have the connotation of improving the average case, in situations where it’s already pretty good. Efficiency is about telling the world's best engineers to put their souls into reducing latency from 47 ...

Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum.These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network.To see why, let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far:BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth, highly decentralized, no consensusBitcoin (2009): highly decentrali ...

Welcome to 2026! Milady is back.Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later)But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or poli ...

RT lucacs (@lucacs)prediction markets doubling down on sports is extremely short sighted ...

RT Aya Miyaguchi (@AyaMiyagotchi)@Milady_Japan https://t.co/RVJGAqe85D ...

RT Eugene Leventhal (@bbeats1)Inspired by @VitalikButerin's d/acc work & the general trend of 'gov is dead so why bother' this year, I want to introduce gov/accgov/acc is an open research program focused on outlining the problems we're facing in web3, as a starting point for accelerating gov R&D🧵👇 ...