The Importance of a Mental Model in Ethereum Research

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Justin Drake: I'm mostly interested in the way we quantify MEV. We're working with the auction model or having proposers, like, impose their view of bids from bloodbuilders. And if we can ensure that in the protocol, then that's a way for the protocol to be aware of what's going on. The EP1559 has this on-chain Oracle for the base C. But Dom, where do you fit inside of this conversation? Where have you specialized? What's your role here when you do a lot of the Ethereum research?

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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Justin Drake: https://twitter.com/drakefjustin?s=20

Dom: https://twitter.com/domothy?s=20

Hildobby's Dune Board: https://dune.com/hildobby/eth2-staking

Ultrasound.Money: https://ultrasound.money/

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