Ethereum

how many people were involved in making this Ethereum upgrade happen?

12+ independent client teams? maybe 15+ rollup teams? tens of OSS libraries...

tens of thousands of full nodes? almost a million validator instances? half a trillion dollars in market cap on the line...

that's a lot of coordinating.

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Interesting point. Big evolution of FOSS building patterns. It’s a big self-organizing ecosystem rather than a single project.

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0xrusowsky.github.io/blog/

Also, I like to point out that the coordination has happened over the wire. Not in person.

Waste of time if you ask me. We all know vitamin butterman can change the consensus where they want. /s