Resilience is built through facing challenges and emerging stronger, rather than avoiding difficulties or seeking easy paths.

True friendships are forged in adversity.

In the rush of daily life, remember to pause and appreciate the small, beautiful moments that make everything worthwhile.

Each day offers a new chance to reinvent yourself, to learn from past mistakes and pursue your true passions.

Embrace the unknown with courage, for it holds the potential to transform your life in ways you never imagined.

Sometimes the hardest battles are the ones fought in silence, where no one sees our struggles or victories.

Ethereum

thank you, ∟ 

https://github.com/djrtwo/writing/blob/main/docs/2024-09-13_goodbye-for-now.md

IMHO, L2Beat's/Vitalik's Stages are incomplete. For Stage 2, in addition, 

- Alternate sequencing triggered within 1 epoch (i.e. 6.4 minutes). Currently, Optimism is 12 hours, which is not acceptable (preferably, there's real-time distributed sequencing) 
- Security council has pause rights only; upgrades even for onchain provable bugs must go through governance, emergency path with >X% approval

Then, there should be an optional Stage 3, or Stage X, where:

- Based or based-like sequencing is mandated
- Security council is dissolved
- Smart contracts upgrades require >Y% (80%?) approval from the protocol's full governance, in addition to >30d delay

For big-tent high-value L2s like Arbitrum One, Stage 3 should be the target. For most, Stage 2 should be perfectly fine, and even Stage 1 enough for many lower-value app-specific L2s.

In the past, I've mentioned many times that upgrade rights to Security Council are not good enough for Stage 1, and that they should only come with freeze or pause rights. That's why I cannot recommend anyone use Arbitrum One or OP Mainnet despite being Stage 1 according to L2Beat. Glad to see that is the case for ZKSync. In addition, I'd like to see an elected Security Council for Stage 1, a unilaterally selected Security Council is also not good enough. (E.g. OP just held its first elections, hope ZKSync will do so soon) 

I have also expressed my opinion on some aspects of Stage 2 being not good enough, you can see that here: https://warpcast.com/polynya/0x6131e8f0

(Disclaimer: I hold some $ZK tokens and am a delegate for both ZK Nation and OP Collective)

In the past, I've mentioned many times that upgrade rights to Security Council are not good enough for Stage 1, and that they should only come with freeze or pause rights. That's why I cannot recommend anyone use Arbitrum One or OP Mainnet despite being Stage 1 according to L2Beat. Glad to see that is the case for ZKSync. In addition, I'd like to see an elected Security Council for Stage 1, a unilaterally selected Security Council is also not good enough. (E.g. OP just held its first elections, hope ZKSync will do so soon) 

I have also expressed my opinion on some aspects of Stage 2 being not good enough, you can see that here: https://warpcast.com/polynya/0x6131e8f0

(Disclaimer: I hold some $ZK tokens and am a delegate for both ZK Nation and OP Collective) 

https://x.com/TheZKNation/status/1834256567316705674

stablecoins

Fantastic

https://castleisland.vc/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/stablecoins_the_emerging_market_story_091224.pdf

im very late, but i just discovered 3blue1brown and damn is this channel good

i am legit impressed they managed to make a spacesuit which looks like a pair of pajamas

What’s your favorite way to get a steppable simulation of a tx that has occurred on an evm chain?

Music

Every time I listen to Melodrama it's even better than I remembered. Unbelievable stuff.

Adults could previously offer kids advice about the future. That’s no longer the case.

the Ethereum Commons produces three resources. these can't be wholly owned w/o compromising their integrity

different kinds of value are bound up in productive processes: block-building, validating, maintaining software

$ will engage here to extract from the unownable whole

ok updates

 - "media" replaces "software" as the more general resource type
- first pass to fill out the venn examples. what's missing?
- commons designation moved to outside

LunarLynx

@lunarlynxx