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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Welcome to @vitalik.eth, co-founder of Ethereum! He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)
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Integrated Kyle e/acc
@kylesamani
You have said that the goal of the Ethereum protocol design is to minimize L1 protocol complexity and maximize robustness and resiliency Lets consider that just in the case of sharding vs rollups Obviously sharding is a lot more complicated for the L1 protocol.
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Integrated Kyle e/acc
@kylesamani
But it is simpler for developers and users, bc it abstracts away fault proofs/validity proofs, does away with exogenous bridges, guarantees ETH fungibility (arbETH vs opETH), and more
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Integrated Kyle e/acc
@kylesamani
Why is it the better choice for developers and users to minimize L1 complexity and instead push that complexity up and out to developers and users?
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I think if we had gone with L1 sharding, the immensely powerful ecosystem that we have that's responsible for actually developing the infrastructure around the various L2s and scaling would just not have existed to the same extent. The L1 team was resource-constrained and focused on PoS.
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