Make Ethereum cypherpunk again

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/12/28/cypherpunk.html

Everything built should be built to not depend on the social layer. No matter how strong and effective the social layer is the probability of it degrading is non 0 and only increases with time.

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Shouldn’t we aspire to minimise the number of variables that can fail due to the social layer?

The problem is that building things to rely solely on incentives is in many cases impractical. A purely in-protocol automated system has no way to "pay people to be decentralized".

You have to build for worst case scenario because given a long enough time, the worst case scenario will come. This is if you care about eth actually lasting as long or longer than a society, which you should.

IMHO the social layer is what keeps things decentralized. Otherwise it is LSTs/restaking all the way.