Ethereum

Is the following a good analogy?
1. The Internet aspires to be neutral infrastructure for communication.
2. Permissionless blockchains aspire to be neutral infrastructure for computation.

I'm going back on the academic lecture circuit in 2024 (often with skeptical audiences), so I'm currently fine-tuning my blockchain+web3 arguments/analogies/explanations. Feedback very welcome!!

brilliant talk!
somehow i hadn't quite grasped the idea when reading the associated post but this time it made so much sense
https://youtu.be/Aiu8gcBlOuc?si=-Rmnyhb0Arvqpyje

you might like @js 's framing on blockchains https://warpcast.com/ayushm.eth/0x3aa6d3
associated blogpost: https://stark.mirror.xyz/n2UpRqwdf7yjuiPKVICPpGoUNeDhlWxGqjulrlpyYi0

I work for Ethereum at the Ethereum Foundation.

Head of research at a16z crypto.
Professor, Columbia University.

20. hacking @ https://www.spire.dev/ 
previously intern Nethermind, epns.io

looks very interesting, thanks for the tip!

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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Thanks for the feedback! Thoughts on alternatives?

Initial reactions: internet = neutral infrastructure is not clicking. it's technically right but doesn't evoke the aha moment when we compare to blockchains.

Internet connects the world 

Permissionless blockchain lets you transact with the world without censorship

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1091.pdf - blockchains as primitives for MPC