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PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Aviator, diver, ETH maxi, nexialist | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

5/ Radical thought: as much as I’d love to see ETH do another 10x from here, what if… this was never the point? Ethereum’s mission isn’t to pump anyone’s bags. If the network can offer plentiful settlement block/blob space at cost, instead of at extractive margins, isn’t that a desirable feature?

One of the features of Ethereum that initially made me think this would be the future was/is the idea of The World Computer - a series of machines that allow for distributed and decentralized execution of any arbitrary code (instructions) in the some future time in a guaranteed way (albeit on the EVM), guaranteed to happen, but not a hard guarantee on the exact time.

Also another feature I found appealing was the trust-less preservation of history: how these nodes would be difficult to take down if everyone had a copy of the immutable history of these txs, executions and data and that that even one of these full nodes could propagate to preserve the history - making it really difficult to take down.

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