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Ed Felten: Arbitrum – The Layer 2 Scaling Solution Increasing Speed and Reducing Fees

Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies

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Is Proof of Work Incentive Compatibility Compatible?

i learned about smart contracts and this idea that you could do, run software on top of a block chain. This is going to be huge, as a softword platform. A, that in turn led me to thinking about, well, like, hat are the technical barriers to that technology actually getting used by a billion people? And a, well, one of the big technical barriers that seemed obvious at the time was scale lity. That's what led i to the work that sort of the birth of arbitram in early 20 14,. Sort of an attempt to try to solve the problem of how to scale this technology up so that it could get the use that i figured, i think

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