Btw, if you're traveling with an Android phone with no eSIM functionality, I'd like to show you this piece of Chinese craftsmanship. No vendor lock-in, eSIM profiles controlled with an open-source app. And it works really well, 5G too.

This is an interesting topic to think about. Imo, L2s are definitely taking advantage over L1 and I wrote a lot about it previously. But at the same time, it's what makes Ethereum so attractive to large fintech players. In my book, being taken advantage of is not something to

It's easy to understand why maximalism is stupid if you're at least a little bit technical. "I want all the planes to be Boeing 747 bc it's big and cool, Cessnas don't have a chance." "I want everyone to drive Toyotas bc they're reliable and affordable" "e=mc2 is the only winning

A great article on Based Rollups. I love its focus on the abstraction from underlying implementations and think it's very important as it clears out common misconceptions. I feel like we're re-entering the era of active design explorations and I couldn't be more excited!

>apps and infrastructure that empower people instead of MEV bots I wrote a thread on it a long time ago, but still don't understand how this problem is being effectively addressed. For the overwhelming majority of the population, identity (especially some obscure blockchain ID)

Steam is doing mass bans because of the pressure from tradfi payment providers, yet there are absolutely zero mentions of it in my crypto bubble. Are you guys even paying attention???

POV: Your transaction has been picked up in the public mempool.

As Ethereum is turning 10 years old, I can't stop thinking about how precisely its release was timed to be able to take advantage of a narrow opportunity window - late enough to be understood, early enough to survive hardening regulations and increasing institutional pressure.

I'm actually surprised nobody has done it already. It should be possible with the RFQ model and it's kinda easy to implement for solver-based bridges imo. Uniswap also has an edge here but for some reason this is not an option in their UI even though they use RFQ most of the time

If TC is an unlicensed money transmitting business, does it mean that ETH is money?

If operating some chain is an expense and not profitable business, the chain is ngmi

Super excited to launch our first mainnet product! DA Builder is a core piece of our vision for a based Ethereum with pragmatic and feature complete developer infra. There is no Spire token. The ticker is ETH.

update: every web2 app will move to its own EVM L1

Blockchains lost to Web2 right after adopting Centralized Sequencers. Since then, Web3 can no longer be gatekept as a cypherpunk asylum and will be overtaken by old school devs who've been perfecting their centralized dark magic for half a century.

Hope you won't miss it! I genuinely enjoyed it, didn't have such a thoughtful conversation for a long time. Ethereum is all you need.