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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Do "super", "hyper", "ultra", "meta" actually mean anything different beyond just being "cool prefixes" that cycle in and out of favor either organically or suddenly when a major entrepreneur just comes along and names their entire ecosystem after one of them?
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@nor
imo: super - superior (perhaps literally bigger, e.g. superlinear) meta - self observing, recursive (e.g. meta study) hyper - beyond ultra - very very
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Those meanings are real, but on the other hand... if the Superchain had been a Hyperchain, and hyperstructures had been ultrastructures, would anyone have noticed? 😛
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@chase-tbf
Good thing you didn’t name Ethereum “SuperBTC”! Often the harder we rep the less attention we get. Instead of the “SuperChain” maybe something simple like “1Chain” Or “BaseChain” would make more sense.
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@nor
I think superchain feels more semantic than markety. It’s a chain of chains. Metachain might have also worked but somehow feels less capable, like it’s just an api to other chains rather than a chain itself
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