EIP-8198 introduces infra for variable slot timing, enabling Ethereum to gradually shorten slots as bottlenecks are better understood.
We published our take on it, supporting the move toward shorter slots while arguing that geo incentives should remain part of the evaluation 👇
There has been a lot of attack vs. defense of Germany and German bureaucracy for start-ups following @patrickc's post on the matter.
So let me give you a list of the FKIN insanity I faced after acquiring a German company - list is not exhaustive. In random order:
* 16hs live
what a brilliant example of one guy reading a post, taking one sentence out of context in a way that is probably meant to deceive, and many others retweeting because it supports their political orientation
what you would think reading this + its retweets: thinking models are
I've said it before (in spite of supporting the small block vision at the time) but in hindsight, Bitcoin actually lost the block size wars.
At the same time, block size isn't the main or even the only reason why activity moved to other chains. That was programmability, and here
It is so sad. Bitcoin usage was growing exponentially up until 2014ish.
And then we collectively told the world we didn't want them using our precious "block space," by keeping the 1 MB limit.
We had more demand than we ever hoped for but rather than building out the
