https://twitter.com/chrisblec/status/1632851504175501312

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

as we shared in our blog, our intention is for base to remain open, decentralized, and permissionless.

https://base.mirror.xyz/H_KPwV31M7OJT-THUnU7wYjOF16Sy7aWvaEr5cgHi8I

@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

I understand intentions, but for now, it’s not decentralized, which lead to the questions in the interview. What happens when tornado cash gets deployed to Base?

A boring OFAC tells CB to not bridge out any token that touched the contract.  

A creative OFAC will tell CB to block the sequencer from allowing any transaction involving the contract.

Law and policy for interesting ideas.  Worked at Google and Discord.  Co-founded MobileCoin. 

Blocking the transactions at the sequencer isn't an effective means of censorship on an optimism bedrock chain. Transactions can be pushed (circumventing the sequencer) to Base directly from L1. See https://community.optimism.io/docs/developers/bedrock/explainer/#deposits

From my understanding, 1. is true. I'm unclear on 2... But I'd imagine you could use 1. to interact with another bridge?

Oh, interesting.  Just to be clear, on Optimism:

1. I can interact with a L2 smart contract directly from L1 without involving the sequencer? 

2. I can withdraw tokens from L2 directly from L1 without involving the sequencer?