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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 Jun 2020

    Things I'm excited about (incomplete list) * Cryptography+blockchains esp family * Life extension * New governance/"social tech" * Better online education of all types * Building cities * Ongoing global poverty reduction * Space

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  2. 19 hours ago

    Doing a random twitter experiment just on this day. Only the 268 people I follow can reply to this tweet. Feel free to ask things and I'll talk about anything crypto or non-crypto related.

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  3. Aug 21

    Some thoughts on mechanism design for sales of limited-supply items (NFTs, tokens, but also not-inherently-blockchainy items), and how to do better than the current sales that sell out quickly and create big annoying splats on the gas market.

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  4. Aug 20

    A proposed alternative to CBC-ification for long-term hardening+simplification of the consensus mechanism: moving to committee-based single-slot finality. My proposal and some discussion-here:

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  5. Aug 15

    Decentralized governance is necessary, but coin voting governance in its current form has many acknowledged and unacknowledged dangers. Augmenting or moving beyond coin voting is a key part of the solution:

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  6. Aug 15

    this seems like a fun coincidental counterexample to the usual "fear multifactorial explanations" rule. The effect has three causes all pointing in the same direction, and even *with almost exactly the same magnitude*!

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  7. Aug 15

    Another fun analysis: why is post-London chain capacity ~9% higher than it was before? Turns out the effect is evenly split between three causes: (i) ice age delay, (ii) not-always-full pre-London blocks, (iii) mathematical artefacts of EIP 1559 formula.

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  8. Aug 6

    How full blocks are in a range of EIP 1559 blocks from today, versus in a simulation from two months ago that assumes fairly uniform but random tx activity and realistic block production. It actually looks pretty similar!

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  9. Retweeted
    Jul 21

    Founder of Ethereum on decentralization, global warming, gas fees, the future of ETH, and what he will be doing 1000 years from now: I've decided to chat with Vitalik to understand how activists can meaningfully use blockchain 🐰🍬

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  10. Retweeted
    Jul 29

    🚀NEW EPISODE🚀 and talk to about and its potential to change our society in ways that go beyond and financial applications.

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  11. Jul 28

    Against overuse of the Gini coefficient:

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  12. Jul 20

    Retroactive public goods funding! Collaboration with the team. Big thanks to them for also being willing to be the first to implement the mechanism!

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  13. Jul 20

    During the last few weeks there has been a lot of discussion around the possibility of miners running custom software that accepts bribes to reorg the chain. and I explain how this will become harder after the proof of stake merge:

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  14. Jul 1

    The online summit has started! I will be speaking on block space markets in Ethereum sharding and then on a panel on MEV minimization and democratization in ~4 hours.

    When meets ... Time for (this is the agenda link) TODAY at 11:30 ET, let's go deep on MEV: 1 Evolution of MEV 2 Framing the MEV Problem 3 Protocol & app-level solutions 4 MEV minimization vs. democratization
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  15. Jun 23

    EF research team AMA has started!

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  16. Jun 18

    I attempt to explain Verkle trees:

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  17. Jun 16

    I wrote up some much more detailed plans (including proto-EIPs) for Verkle trees and state expiry! Verkle trees: State expiry: Intro:

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  18. Retweeted
    Jun 7

    Happy to announce a $25M grant program for existential risk reduction, enabled by the generosity of crypto-pioneer & the Shiba Inu community. We'll open the application portal as soon as we can, and hope you'll apply with great ideas!

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  19. Retweeted
    Jun 7

    ☀ Altair: Beacon chain upgrade ☀ & shared the details of penalty parameter, inactivity score, sync committee & Lightclient sync protocol. Follow the recording for an in-depth explanation of features in .

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  20. Retweeted
    Jun 3

    Here's my conversation with , his second time on the podcast. We talk about , , , , , , , , , life, immortality, AI, and even speak Russian at the end.

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  21. May 25

    Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed people but underrated among informed people:

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