Ethereum's Economic Engine and the Supercharger

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Justin: I want to throw a version of a this metaphor into the hat and see if you like it. So we have the Ethereum economic engine 99% of the thrust gets powered by the combustion engine and regular old gasoline, but that 1% of the contention slot is actually a supercharger. In Bitcoin land, the cell pressure comes from having to buy electricity and buy mining rig, but in context of taking its taxes. Justin: MEV game is kind of a game where every millisecond counts and you have the armies of PhDs and very sophisticated players coming in.

Ethereum is getting yet another economic upgrade! The scarcity engine is getting a massive level up with the advent of the MEV Burn.

With Justin Drake and Domothy, they walk us through the research and reasoning behind this next upgrade

Just when we thought we couldn’t get any more bullish…

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------ Topics Covered

0:00 Intro 7:00 What is MEV? 13:30 MEV is Subjective 17:15 The Oil Analogy 21:15 The Benefits of Smoothing 28:35 Builders and Proposers 38:45 Forced Centralization 44:35 Rug Pool Protection 48:30 Distribution 58:20 Pros of Burning 1:05:15 Burning on Overdrive 1:09:30 Does this Hurt Stakers? 1:13:55 Too Deflationary? 1:23:30 Monetary Premium 1:28:15 EIP-4844 1:31:00 The Engine 1:35:50 Wen?

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