How it started; how it's going. Bitcoin on brink of bailing out chancellor 🤯

the ethereum merge online and in-person watch parties in sept 2022 truly an incredible experience! shout out to anyone who was around then and still around today 🫡

CDF of Ethereum block propagation delays across countries, measured relative to the fastest node per slot (block first seen). Only a few countries (FI, CH) achieve sub-100 ms delays; most show 200–500 ms median lag. This represents a lower bound estimate for block propagation.

I know many affected parties have dismissed this topic for the most, but during Berlinterop it became fairly clear that client engineers favor ePBS over the alternatives. This thread is an appeal for affected parties to voice your concerns/requests ahead of the next breakout

@LefterisJP my family insisted I share these with my crypto bird friend, so here you go! Taken from my study window this afternoon.

jAvA iS sLoW 🤪

Classic.

the eth core devs don’t tweet a lot about just how hard the work that they do is so let’s talk about it: 1. every line of code they merge can move more money than most banks process in a quarter. there is no staging server for that. 2. they swap consensus logic for a 400B + dollar economy without scheduling downtime. ever. 3. they coordinate hundreds of researchers, auditors, and client teams across time zones, cultures, and philosophies, yet ship like a single mind. 4. they do it all in public, with every decision dissected by the loudest peanut gallery on the internet, and still keep the vibe collaborative. 5. they design for attackers who have nine figure incentives and infinite patience. then they sleep anyway. 6. they keep six independent clients in perfect sync so the same block lives at the same height for every node in the world. 7. they turn bleeding edge research into production code while preserving backwards compatibility for machines that went online before defi even had a name. 8. they debug issues that only happen once a year on a single archive node because someone somewhere will rely on that edge case. 9. they write cryptography that must stay unbroken for decades while the math itself evolves beneath their feet. 10.when the upgrade lands smooth the outside world shrugs. inside ethereum we know it was a minor miracle. every successful fork proves that decentralized coordination can outperform the world’s best hierarchies and shows that open internet capital markets are now the default. thank you, truly. we owe you everything.

1/ “Credible neutrality” is Ethereum’s secret weapon. It’s not sexy. It’s not easy to explain. But it’s why Ethereum matters and why it can outlast everything else. Here’s what it means, and why it’s so powerful:

Over the past few months, I've been thinking about how AllCoreDevs evolve to support Ethereum's maturing ecosystem and ambitious roadmap. Last month, I laid out a high-level framework for it (quoted here), and yesterday I published a more in the weeds follow up😄 TL;DR 👇