Hard And Soft Power In Ethereum With James Prestwich
We continue our attack on the social layer.
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Show Notes
Welcome back to the Gwart Show! Today we are joined by James Prestwich, a OG Ethereum engineer and leader of @init4tech, an Ethereum research group. On the show, we dive back into Ethereum’s plight, beginning with the fundamentals. We start with a review of Ethereum’s origins, James’ mental model for ETH, why PBS is broken (and was from the start), if Rollups work and how we skipped sharding, Vitalik and more Vitalik, and what Solana really means for Ethereum.
Follow our guest on Twitter: @_prestwich
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:50 Jame's bio
02:30 ETH's evolution
06:08 Mental models for ETH
08:40 How's ETH doing these days?
13:05 Current Roll Up sequencers
14:42 Other sequencer models
20:48 Fixing PBS
24:38 Not addressing known problems
28:54 Current roll up landscape
31:54 Macro & crypto
32:48 Future of roll ups
35:01 Real world impact
40:22 Goals for ETH
42:37 Consensus for ETH
46:32 Vitalik 's bad decisions
48:48 Vitalik from a tech perspective
51:47 Hard & soft power in ETH ecosystem
54:16 SOL vs ETH
56:28 If SOL is better rails, what should ETH do?
58:35 What are you optimistic about?
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