Josh Stark
@js
one core insight of the crypto community is the move to go beyond "what should the rules be?" and additionally ask: "what should the rules be made of?"
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Ben Basche
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I was about to tweet this earlier but might as well ask it here. What do you think is the latest and best articulation in blog/talk form (based on the current state of the Ethereum roadmap and its known idea mazes) of the “differentiation of Ethereum via hardness.” The sales pitch basically
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Josh Stark
@js
I'm not sure there is one - thoughts: (1) There's lots written about specific "dimensions" of hardness. How reliable is X cryptography? What are Ethereum's defenses against certain attacks? What should long-term issuance be? Much of ethresear.ch is about narrow pieces that contribute to Ethereum's hardness.
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Josh Stark
@js
(2) That makes sense for an ecosystem that has been focused on learning about and evolving the protocol to improve it. Over time, I believe our ecosystem needs significantly shift towards translating that knowledge to outsiders - see https://stark.mirror.xyz/rkLEVz9p4r3ouusD-WCkWP_iVZYkZ0K7TFkzeRfiXCU
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Josh Stark
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(3) Differentiating Ethereum's hardness vs other L1s requires... some widely understood basis for comparison. We're quite bad at this! What is the right metric or qualitative description of why Ethereum is "more secure" than Bitcoin? What about Ethereum vs Solana?
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