An Economic Definition for Censorship Resistance
summary
Defines censorship resistance = fee (cost to make a write fail) and shows time-sensitive ops like oracle updates, liquidations and on‑chain auctions fail if inclusion is only eventual. Demonstrates a public Builder landed an obviously censored block with one tx for about $100. Shows K consecutive slots raise resistance but add delay, and proposes K concurrent proposers plus conditional tipping (small t if multiple include, large T if sole includer) to separate cheap inclusion from high censorship resistance.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Censorship resistance intro
- 0:22Limitations of resistance
- 1:04Timely inclusion importance
- 2:10Vitalik’s censorship thought
- 4:41PBS and censorship market
- 5:23Simple censorship demo
- 6:30Economic definition
- 8:16Resistance in protocols
- 9:20Auctions impact
- 10:22High resistance cost
- 10:43Ending proposal monopoly
- 12:32Conditional tipping incentives
- 13:17Measuring resistance
- 13:58Blockchain design implications
- 14:21Q&A
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