We should completely purge the "money" discussions out of Ethereum. ETH never was money and never will be money. The cope around the whole money shite is just wasting valuable intellectual resources that could have been used on what actually matters.
The more I see the touted "performance" metrics of made-up chains that aren't live yet, the more I'm impressed with what Solana can do live while being decentralized
Lads, going forward, I will be comparing the performance metrics of my local AWS instance of a chain to Solana and Ethereum. It's an absolutely fair comparison as users can decide for themselves what security trade-offs they want to make.
Apparently, Solana should start claiming that their "latency" is ≈10ms because it's true for a small subset of power users. Who cares what the "latency" is for the rest of userbase?
1. Decentralization is orthogonal to security. We build decentralized systems for shits a giggles. 2. Latency in distributed systems is the time it takes for a confirmation to propagate from you to your neighbor's flat. If the distance between the two parties is longer, then it no longer counts as latency. 3. You can simultaneously have a geographically distributed, diverse set of pseudonymous and frequently-changing proposers and cater towards power users who collocate. 4. Stake distribution have no impact on protocol security. The most optimal design for a blockchain is to yolo the entire supply to a single validator.
Told my girlfriend that instead of going through all the marriage-related paperwork, we should just coin our relationship on Zora. Now I'm single. Thanks Jesse.
I think people are starting to forget why we're here. We're here to build censorship-resistant tools that empower individual sovereignty. Everything is downstream of that. If you remove censorship resistance from the equivation, then you might as well just switch to AWS.