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It's really underrated how 4 years ago the worst ethereum UX problem was that transactions would often take like 10 min to confirm if you get unlucky with the gasprice, and that problem just completely went away with EIP-1559. Today transactions reliably confirm in 5-20 seconds. https://x.com/post_polar_/status/1803406902430236907

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So apparently the new vocabulary alpha is that these days "games" just means "gambling", and so if you want to talk about actually interesting games you say "e-sports"

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I think there is less contradiction between these than it might seem. We need more "return to cypherpunk roots" on some axes (eg. L2s getting to stage 1, inclusion lists, light clients...) and more UX focus on some axes (most notably, making cross-L2 more seamless).

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Some reflections on the Bitcoin block size war https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/05/31/blocksize.html

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AI discourse on twitter be like... It feels like there's a large divergence in perceptions at the moment. Some people saying "OpenAI abandoned AI safety, that's proof AI safety is NGMI", some other people saying "OpenAI abandoned AI safety, that's proof OpenAI is NGMI". And I'm sure OpenAI itself has a different view

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Oh wow this orb.land thing is actually really cool https://orb.land/ Thank you @justindrake for reminding me of it!

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Re-upping my post from 1.5 years ago on "layer 3s": https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2022/09/17/layer_3.html The summary is that layer 3s don't magically improve throughput even more, though they can reduce some fixed costs of batch publishing and deposits/withdrawals.

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A quick note on next steps in Ethereum protocol simplification and node resource load decreases (aka "the Purge"): https://notes.ethereum.org/@vitalik.eth/purge_2024_03_31

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The only "crypto villain from a previous era" who deserves a path to redemption is Mark Karpeles @MagicalTux - precisely because he's the only one who's not clamoring for attention asking for one. He's just quietly doing interesting stuff. Compare his twitter with a weaker soul:

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This is a one terabyte USB key. ONE TERABYTE. Modern technology is amazing.

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What else could memecoins be? https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/03/29/memecoins.html

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In a sense, this is peak "degrowth". People having very enjoyable and productive lives while using very few physical resources. https://twitter.com/haig98/status/1753839916948009316

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