Excellent thread from Andreas.

...whose community cares deeply about the sound money religion. That said, I think "satisfying the sound money religion" cannot properly happen until the eth2 + EIP 1559 issuance schedule is implemented and proves its sustainability regardless....

The least-bad world is the one where power is distributed among different and diverse groups, and no single class of actor overwhelmingly dominates the others. This in particular implies that governments having *zero* power also does not work well. See also SSC:

@RealRoss2020 Galaxy brain take: nationalists on all sides, despite the vitriol they throw at each other, are allies. They both work together toward the common goal of ensuring the world stays in a climate of fear and conflict that preserves their role and importance.

Thanks to EDCON for having me! I miss the badgers 🦡 but it's also great to see the popularization of free virtual events and blockchain education. It's a difficult year for everyone. Thanks to all the event organizers for connecting the community together as usual. 🙂

More charities should accept ETH for donations. It's legitimately an efficient payment rail especially for international transactions, and with the recent growth in stablecoins there's more and more ways to make volatility go away.

To those replying with "gas fees are too high", my answer to that is "well then more people should be accepting payments directly through zksync/loopring/OMG". Seriously, scaling to 2500+ TPS for simple-payments applications is here, we just need to... use it.

Wow😻😻😻😻

RIP 😭

SBF IMO the good guys were Hayden Adams 🦄 and the Previous Uniswap Username Use @Uniswap team who have done years of hard work, made the virtuous decision to launch without a coin when everyone else was spinning up a glitzy ICO ASAP, and in the last two weeks have somehow been attacked for it.

This article gets it right, in Africa, cryptocurrency probably has its first actual theatre where it’s use is more practical than just for base speculation. Hedging currency depreciation using stablecoins, utilizing bitcoin for overseas trade, etc, etc google.com/amp/s/mobile.r…

One of my favorite things about 2020 is how the quality of people's world models gets publicly verified almost in real-time. Have a dumb take on the coronavirus? People will be quote-tweeting it at you within 2 months. Uncritically shilling a bad coin? Proven wrong within a week

Things that more people should do when making public statements and predictions: openly express our degree of confidence. Could be numbers ("75%") or words ("probably", "I could be wrong but", "may"). Acting *certain* feels good in the moment but we should resist the urge more.

Protests in Nigeria being met with deadly force in response 😢 Wish Nigerian people best of luck in their struggle to get police and military that treat them with basic dignity and respect.

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Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol? vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/0…

Protocol and staking pool changes that could improve decentralization and reduce consensus overhead: notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/stak…

Different types of layer 2s vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/1…

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