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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure, which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public, and some is still in progress. What we're trying to achieve is primarily the following goals: * Improve level of technical expertise within EF leadership * Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors, old and new, that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional), app devs, wallets, L2s * Bring in fresh talent, improve execution ability and speed * Become more actively supportive of app builders, and make sure important values and inalienable rights (esp privacy, open source, censorship resistance) are a reality for users including at the app layer * Continue to increase our use of decentralized and privacy tech and the Ethereum chain, including for payments and treasury management ...
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... Explicit *non-goals* are: * Execute some kind of ideological / vibez pivot from feminized wef soyboy mentality to bronze age mindset * Start aggressively lobbying regulators and powerful political figures (esp in USA, but really anywhere, especially large powerful countries), and risking compromising Ethereum's position as a global neutral platform * Become an arena for vested interests * Become a highly centralized org, or even more of a "main character" within Ethereum These things aren't what EF does and this isn't going to change. People seeking a different vision are welcome to start their own orgs.
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I've been reading Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar and I see a lot of similarities between the path taken the Linux community and what the Ethereum community is trying to do. But I wonder if the lessons from Linux necessary apply to Ethereum in the same way, ...for one, the Linux community had a very diverse ecosystem of distros similar to what Ethereum is gunning for with L2s, but the user experience on any of these distros didn't suffer from liquidity fragmentation issues the Ethereum users have to contend with today.
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I think the Linux equivalent of liquidity fragmentation is packaging format fragmentation. So much duplicated work goes into this.
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Or perhaps that's analogous to devs needing to deploy apps on a variety of L2 VMs as I mentioned earlier to @vrypan.eth. But unlike L2, the Linux UX in not affected in the same way (or rather not as much) cause I still run my apps in the same environment. From what I see, L2s are still the winning approach to scaling, but a couple of things need to go. 1. It sucks to always be connecting wallet, popping up browser extensions or signing on mobile. feels like every POST request needs manual intervention. Can't we have appKeys or sessionKeys or sth. I can derive them once from my masterKey and sign tx quietly (think Farcaster signers). I can fund them with tokens for app use, manage them from my wallet and never see a popup again (or at least for a while). 2. Bridges should be middleware, not user facing apps. These a lot of work ongoing already in iterop, but the end game has to make bridge actions invisible. In fact, b̶i̶r̶d̶s̶ bridges don't exist 🙈 https://warpcast.com/ichristwin.eth/0xdec99f6c
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