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In 2025 ETH & its L2s will have: - isolated L1 proposers from MEV's economic centralization - much more decentralized L1 building / L2 sequencing - widespread MEV mitigation at the app / user level - many MEV experiments (Timeboost, MEV taxes, etc) years of hard work for ETH paying off

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Nice ACD recap and 2025 outlook from @tim https://tim.mirror.xyz/CuRtFjkujKBqVsdvCGvthiPIYaZyzNc5sWIaExw2UpE

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Best reads of 2024: https://bert.substack.com/p/best-reads-of-2024

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Since it is a slow news day... excited to share a new building architecture: parallel block building https://writings.flashbots.net/parallel-builder

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Brief technical writeup of a proof-of-concept builder implementing synchronous interop between multiple OP-Stack rollups 🦾 https://collective.flashbots.net/t/crucible-hackathon-opstack-interop-builder/3572

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my bot was too powerful https://ny.eater.com/2024/6/7/24173621/restaurant-reservation-anti-piracy-act-bill-passes-new-york

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The rollup fee dilemma: lower your fees and get spammed by bots, raise them to deal with bots and price out users

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alright here we go

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Flashbots Protect has leveled up: - Fast mode: wicked fast inclusion speeds - Upgraded backend for best in class reliability and speed - Etherscan integration - Beautiful and simple UI to get started Add to your wallet on mainnet: https://protect.flashbots.net

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Been years since I've made an MEV searcher but got to scratch that itch lately with... a Resy reservation bot. Surprisingly competitive?

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One of the nice things that you get from using a TEE builder is fast, credible pre-confs. Could bring OP-Stack "block times" as felt by users down a lot.

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Was on a podcast recently talking MEV, rollups, and what isn't being paid enough attention to in Ethereum research! Fun conversation, give it a listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0expIwKw9P23RmS6tXwNE9

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What is the best way to level up from being "good enough" to "great" at Rust? Have written a bunch of code through a variety of projects and touched most parts of Rust by now. Obviously past the tutorial phase.

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Couple of books gifted by the parents for my birthday. Excited for this stack, going to start with Natural Goodness - a “reply to Nietzsche.”

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Enjoyed "Children of Time" - a long ranging, imaginative sci-fi novel. I was looking for a followup after reading The Three Body Problem trilogy and settled on this after also reading Hail Mary. I liked Three Body more, that was more "philosophy" and less "fantasy." But it was still enjoyable nonetheless.

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Wrote a review of The End of History, lamenting our loss of History itself: https://bertcmiller.com/the_end_of_history.html

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https://gist.github.com/karalabe/4313ece67b528113ea72388ac2df25d8 Intrigued by this new CR proposal from Péter Szilágyi. First takes are: 1. I am worried that tying the fork choice rule to the mempool will not be a good idea. Mempools are brittle. 2. This lowers the value of blocks by adding constraints for builders

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Two big trends for this cycle: 1. Scaling: increasing the overall economic and compute throughput of chains (see: rollups, reth, parallel EVM, etc) 2. Expressivity: increasing the kinds of applications that can be built without trust (see: SUAVE, TEE/ZKP coprocessors, restaking, etc)

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Tinkered with the Base p2p layer and found: * One bot is crawling the network hard. Several fake nodes all named "nodecrawler" from the same IP but different ports that repeatedly connect and disconnect to my node. * It is pretty hard to find real nodes * A few nodes are sharing their mempool but it's all old txs

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Two surprising things about MEV on rollups: 1. Just how much $ is being left on the table by sequencers today by not implementing some kind of MEV auction 2. Just how much of their txs are actually bots spamming the network trying to capture arbs

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