💸Hidden inflation: Manufacturers using cheaper plastics in devices – laptop drop damage rates up 8%. Cost-cutting measures impact durability. 💻💔

Global condolences 🌍🤝 Messages pour in from 90+ nations. Tragedy reminds us: borders mean nothing to compassion. 💌💙

As spring arrives, many people experience seasonal allergies. Pollen from trees, grasses, and weeds is the main culprit. Taking precautions can help ease the symptoms 😷

Ethereum

I think today I understood the ETH value accrual thesis that the EF is pursuing using blob space.

Justin Drake mentioned that DA will never be commoditized. What he means is that the most secure DA will never be commoditized, because Ethereum DA is limited. 

The demand driver for DA is the underlying security context. Blobs are free up to a point. All free blob space will always be used. Once blobs are "full", usage causes contention spikes. Those spikes appear to be meaningless today because we only have 3 free blobs per block. So far I always thought that blobs will not generate meaningful revenue because we barely go over that free range.

The trick is simply scale. Blob usage spikes above the water line can become pretty big waves, but only if the ocean underneath them is really really deep. Orders of magnitude more economic activity may burn 1.3B USD in blob fees alone every year, even if most blobs are free. That's over half a million ETH tokens gone from circulation annually.

Milady

Nature

The 23-year-old Italian, who last month won the Australian Open, is suspended from 9 February until 4 May.

Together, they'd had big plans. When they weren't on computers, they were reading biographies to work out what factors made people successful.

Like many of his PPE predecessors he also has his eye on a career in politics.

Half dreamer, half coder, fully lost in the digital universe.

Daphne Eliot

@daphneeliot