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Fwiw from @vitalik.eth 

https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1608591727316684804?s=46&t=TMSRb5fs-zTSV6Yifvh8hQ

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I listened to a podcast with Anatoly recently and he had an interesting take on that. He thinks long-term, being non-EVM gives them more hope of survival b/c there's fungibility across EVM chains (Dont like AVAX, go somewhere else).

Ppl who build on Solana's stack have higher switching costs if they want to leave.

I think the real problem for Solana is not tech, but that Ethereum & EVM network effects are really strong, and in the bear market we're in network effects matter even more.

I'm genuinely curious: is the viewpoint Solana is effectively a distributed database a function of # of validators it has, or something else?

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- Yup on #1 (although good founders in SOL space).
- Disagree on #2, I don't think its realistic for good outcomes if founders don't have equity in what they build
- Replied separately on #3
- Genuinely curious if this is bc # of validators or some other part of Solana design?

1. Smartest people I know in crypto focus on ethereum (includes L2s)
2. Shares reserved for founders is bad ethics
3. Doesn’t differentiate enough from ETH technically to be worth a schism
4. Ways it does differ go towards centralization. Feels like the wrong direction (prefer privacy chains for example)

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Do u believe this description is still accurate after the upgrades made with local fee structure and no outages over the past few months?

It's got one-nine of uptime and can be taken down at anytime. It's not censorship resistant when an ICO can take the chain down. There no fundamental difference between Solana and a replicated SQL database (And SQL databases have better uptime).

Like @0xen said; VC pump and dump.

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At this point if it's not on Ethereum or Cosmos ecosystems, I'm not interested.

Special purpose chains and P2P networks are ok but ideally they're connected to Ethereum or Cosmos ecosystems as well in some way.

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Multi-chain world. 

Only 1 fully decentralized one.

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Curious how you discern the difference between the two? 

Just about every crypto ecosystem has lured opportunistcally either explictly or implicitly, no?

Seems like it lured lots of opportunistic dev talent rather than philosophically aligned dev talent. 

For that reason, it feels fragile to me.

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Thx! Curious on why you feel its unsecure? (Thought they had 2500+ validators).

Agree NFTs are mostly trashy, but to me, viewing Solana thru the prism of NFT projects is a very 2021 way of looking at it. The potential is far greater, altho who knows if they reach it.

Hear you re: SBF but i think that fades over time

fast, cheap, unsecure due to low validator count. generally trash pump-n-dump NFTs. i personally mentally associate SOL with SBF so – that's not great

could maybe comeback post FTX fallout? idk

In the hindsight it was the top when they did those sleazy Bollywood ads to lure devs

Great thread and comments. I don’t love Sol because of the heavy VC bags and validators. 
I wonder if it could ever pivot to an Eth L2 and get its security there? Best chance imo

I definitely appreciate Solana

1. Performant global state without fragmentation 
2. SVM enables a different design space 
3. A lot of use cases such as CLOBs can only be done on Solana 
4. Met hundreds of Solana devs and who are passionate and non dogmatic

For us to early adopt building on any chain there needs to be strong advantages that outweigh the risks. Their risks have been large; stoppages, hacks (wormhole), and existential (SBF). What advantages do they offer we can’t get somewhere else with less risk? Until those are addressed, we’ll watch from afar.

I stopped following the “Alt L1 Eth Killers” narrative ~6 months ago. 

Feeling good about Ethereum + L2s (Arb Optimism Metis) and need to read more about Cosmos.