“Ethereum as a commons” is such a useful frame for me

Anyone can contribute, anyone can see the constraints directing labor (public decision making, EIP process), anyone can use/produce the shared resources (software, blockspace, history)

That’s very different from what we’ve come to expect of our technology

the gang commons-pills the community

https://warpcast.com/trent/0x21da3d96

* core protocol consigliere @ Ethereum Foundation
* funding core devs with @protocolguild (member)
* creating artifacts @ Stateful Works

I was thinking recently about how Ethereum only works because it's ~communist at the protocol level (collective ownership, consensus governance) and ~capitalist at the transaction/contract level (market dynamics, tokens, MEV, etc). Maybe something else at the L0 social level?

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

Currently: WhatsABI

I was trying to imagine what a "capitalist" consensus protocol would look like, and my first thought was basically what people naively assume PoS is: whoever has the most money gets to pick the rules. Nobody wants this, not even capitalists.

The combination is what makes this possible.

Hot take: Improving decentralization technology is the process of reducing the amount of civic duty required to maintain the properties of a decentralized system.

Also maybe related to your line of thinking, curious what you think of this definition: https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth/0x209f52

the next iteration of the article will hopefully include examples about how the commons stewardship has curtailed the influence of capital

eg. PoS adds finality, which eliminates (reduces/makes more costly) deep reorgs chasing juicy MEV or something

issuance reductions, etc