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Tim Roughgarden
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Proposer-builder separation (PBS) plays a major role in Ethereum's current block-building process. But is PBS a good design? Is it really necessary? A new paper with Maryam Bahrani and @pgarimidi develops the theory necessary for reasoning rigorously about these questions
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Background: The idea of PBS is to split out the role of assembling a block of transactions from the other duties of the validator, with the goal of preserving decentralization in the validator set despite potential centralizing forces in block-building
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After doing this research, are there any suggestions?
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Thanks for the thread, learned a ton.
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