Vitalik Buterin: “bro the ETH foundation is paying researchers and devs that are responsible for

(i) ethereum not bleeding 5M ETH/year to proof of work
(ii) your fees being low today
(iii) your txs getting included in < 30s instead of like 1-30 min (eip 1559)”.

@VitalikButerin @NeoCallss @Hexologist31 I want to know why the Ethereum Foundation doesn't stake all of its ETH holdings and only use the revenue to cover costs, just like the Nobel Prize Foundation? Why do you insist on selling ETH regularly without considering market sentiment and everyone's voices? You have always…

@jason_chen998 @NeoCallss @Hexologist31 One internal reason why has been that we don't want to be in the situation of being forced to make an "official choice" in the event of a contentious hard fork.

One interesting idea around this that is being considered is giving some grants in the form of "you can stake our ETH,…

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Vitalik Buterin: “bro the ETH foundation is paying researchers and devs that are responsible for

(i) ethereum not bleeding 5M ETH/year to proof of work
(ii) your fees being low today
(iii) your txs getting included in < 30s instead of like 1-30 min (eip 1559)”.

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1850416571942068525