Motivation truly is important. You can keep going longer and focus harder on the mission if you can internally narrativize your intellectual life as a glorious search for freedom, enfranchisement of the weak, human progress, etc. Such energies can't be thrown away completely.

Mikko Ohtamaa Lefteris Karapetsas An underrated reason to use public blockchains is precisely the fact that the infrastructure has been so relentlessly stress tested against all kinds of attacks.

It's amazing how some PoW proponents just keep repeating the unmitigated bare-faced lie that PoS includes voting on protocol parameters (it doesn't, just like PoW doesn't) and this so often just goes unchallenged. Nodes reject invalid blocks, in PoS and in PoW. It's not hard.

Also, small grammar nuance: in English when talking about things like proof of stake, we don't say "it's a security", we say "it's secure". I know these suffixes are hard though, so I forgive the error.

What do I think about network states? This one somehow ended up VERY long, but.... oh well, enjoy! vitalik.ca/general/2022/0…

YYYY-MM-DD is the only correct date format. * It's an ISO standard: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 * It's unambiguous (is 03/05/22 March 5 or May 3? No such problem here!) * General-purpose sorting sorts dates correctly * East Asian countries like Japan 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵 use it ("2022年5月3日")

Experimenting with gitcoin bounties to crowdsource improving my blog. Goal: add dark mode. (Note: read carefully. The requirements include actually going through the posts and making sure they look good in dark mode, and editing if they don't)

Is there any economic research on how morale affects economic growth? It feels like everyone agrees that in military contexts, morale is absolutely critical. So surely it should have a significant impact in regular life too. But I haven't seen anyone trying to talk about this.

Lots of responses around consumer sentiment and investor sentiment so far, but relatively little around worker sentiment. Surely worker sentiment is the most important here? The morale of the people actually producing stuff?

Also, BitTrex should make its branding more dinosaur-themed.

Proposals to adjust memory gas costs Doc: notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/prop… EthMag thread for discussion: ethereum-magicians.org/t/proposals-to…

Vyper is quietly continuing to progress and become a better and better Ethereum high-level language. vyper.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ vyper-by-example.org Great and hardworking team Vyper and many community contributors.

Argent is now Ready Merge + surge + verge + purge + splurge are not stages! They are all happening in parallel.

Sometimes the task of an intellectual isn't about trying to outsmart everyone or come up with the synthesis to the world's thesis and antithesis or whatever. Rather, it's about knowing when to just reaffirm simple dumb rules like "invading people bad".

Also an important lesson for the crypto space. Way too much mental gymnastics goes into defending things that a 12 year old applying a simple unnuanced "if it offers 20% APR it's a Ponzi" rule would correctly reject every time.

Agreeing with the proverb "those who most want to rule people are those least suited to do it" and supporting DAOs being run by transferable governance tokens is a contradiction. Transferable governance tokens are all about giving *more* power to "those who most want to rule".

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Inflation might be trending down