Vitalik & Tyler Cowen talk Ethereum
summary
Argues that crypto’s hard lessons are institutional, not just technical: governance often requires active community action (example: a contentious fork that wiped attacker funds), and experiments like quadratic funding already distributed about $2M via Gitcoin. Lists concrete scaling tools — sharding and roll-ups, zk proofs, optimistic rollups and proof‑of‑stake — and shows the urgency with a real fee spike ($17.76) on a congested trade. Notes ETH 2.0 pieces on testnets, rising developer activity (710 devs, 175 hackathon projects; 1,713 devs and 470 projects year‑to‑date).
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