dsimmons

Great Seinfeld bit :)

A journalist/marketer telling us how to fix things, cool.

"You just... easy!"

ngl this is a large part of why I migrated from Atlanta -> Denver a few years ago.

Clojure is hands-down the best programming language I've used.

That said, I'm still holding out hope that it'll be hosted on top of something other than the JVM -- frankly, the JVM keeps me from using it more than I otherwise would.

I was kind of wondering about this myself!

Although they're putting a "positive" spin on it, surely this can't be good (for at least one party)?

I can't help but wonder if this is in any way motivated by the fact that ENS could be viewed as a threat/competitive in a hypothetical future where web3 becomes more mainstream.

This.

Regardless of how you feel about "web3", I think most people (especially in technology) should see this as a problem and aspire to a brighter future where governments/corporations aren't making decisions about what people can and can't see on the web, especially when they're inherently biased.

This. Based on current activity, it gets close, but if/once fees rise again, there's a threshold above which it becomes net deflationary.

To be fair, I think this is mainly aimed at developers (and ETH ecosystem developers specifically).

While I don't disagree that there's a "vocabulary" problem (e.g. "dank-sharding"), in a perfect world, a normie would largely just interact with an application without needing to know any of this.

Many/most people "in the know" peg it somewhere in the ballpark of ~90-95% chance of success from what I've seen.

Why do we need bacon? I just want the mushrooms without paying an arm and a leg!

For context, I live in the city and don't have a reliable way (or space) to grow them myself, or else I would.

I'll be honest, these kinds of skeuomorphic alt-meats never make sense to me. That said, I'm someone who eats healthy by default and doesn't consume a lot of meat, so I understand that I'm not the target audience.

But if you think someone living in rural America and eating bacon regularly is going to convert to this stuff, you're kidding yourself.

> If the costs to run a validator are too expensive or need too many resources then you just end up promoting a centralized solution.

If I recall correctly, the current number (32) was picked somewhat arbitrarily because, at least at the time, it was "enough" without being "too much" (in terms of incentives, skin in the game, and penalties for bad behavior).

I'd have to use a Googly device to find the price of Ether at the time when this decision was made, but I'm pretty sure it was a lot less than it was now. And once it'd been put into effect, it's difficult (e.g. unfair) to change it.

Longer-term, it likely won't remain so high, especially as the price of ETH appreciates. I believe I recall seeing discussions of changing this number in the future, but it's not the nearest-term priority.

For now, there are decent options around staking pools. Lido is the elephant in the room, but more and more people have been moving to Rocket Pool because it better promotes decentralization.

In the short-term, it's likely already priced in: folks have known this is coming for a while, and especially over the past 2-3 months where it became "real" versus "coming soon".

Longer term, there may be uses for GPUs when it comes to zero-knowledge proofs (think: expensive to produce, easy to verify), but we still have a ways to go in that department.

Gas fees don't materially change under Proof of Stake. It's a common misconception that The Merge reduces fees (it does not).