users care about the certainty of many guarantees offered by blockchains ("you control these funds", "this app can't steal your username"), and decentralization (of different kinds) is part of what makes those guarantees hard

Hot take:

End users just want products that work well, they don’t give a damn about decentralization.

Andy

users care about the certainty of many guarantees offered by blockchains ("you control these funds", "this app can't steal your username"), and decentralization (of different kinds) is part of what makes those guarantees hard

https://x.com/ayyyeandy/status/1882705439571534004

"only the EF can do" significantly weakens those guarantees

what's something that only the EF can do?

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

1. It's his statement.
2. I don't know. I don't work for the EF.
3. I also want to know.

I think we haven't always been effective at communicating subtraction, let me try here:

- Ethereum is too big and too important to be supported only by one org

- So the EF needs to both (1) do the most critical things that only we can do, (2) build up and empower a strong ecosystem around us who can share the burden

- There are at least two parts to (2). One part is about making sure we are not getting in the way of others. People will not take action themselves to solve some problem if everyone is under the impression "Oh, it's all the EF's responsibility". Another part is very actively helping the people who *do* step up to solve a problem or build organizations that help share those burdens. We've done that with ETHGlobal, Protocol Guild, L2Beat, Nomic Foundation (hardhat developers), 0xPARC, ENS, and several others. 

- So "subtraction" is not just about fading into nothing. It is about creating the conditions under which the EF can be less of a dependency, and that requires helping build up others.

1. "So the EF needs to both (1) do the most critical things that only we can do, (2)..."
2. milday???

1. "So the EF needs to both (1) do the most critical things that only we can do, (2)..."
2. milday???

https://warpcast.com/js/0xdb46d9e4

1. He didn't say what you quoted anywhere?
3. Nothing, the answer is nothing.