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A quick thread on supply and demand economics, and why certain "naive" solutions to high gas prices won't work. First of all, why is the gasprice currently 465 gwei? Why
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One important problem in ethereum that has not yet seen enough love is decentralized marketplaces for providing historical information (logs, txs... basically anything other than current state). One example is
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Fortunately at least a few people got it: the point of these polls was to explore the tradeoff between "voting as preference satisfaction" and "voting as information gathering".Thread: If the
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Prediction:The megatrend in cryptography of the 2010s was elliptic curves, pairings and general purpose ZKPs/SNARKs.The megatrend of the 2020s will be (in addition to broad adoption of the above) lattices,
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Yesterday I talked about the benefits of total decentralization. Today I'll talk about the benefits of deliberately engineered *bounded* centralization.Thread: The best argument in favor of any centralization is often
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