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#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is M.E.V. Minor Extractable Value an Existential Risk to Ethereum?

Some people describe M.E.V. minor extractable value as an existential risk to Ethereum. The basic idea is that if you have the ability to choose which transaction is going to a global lock and in what order, then you can take advantage of that position for economic gain. There's also things that involve like front-running other people's transactions. And it's part of your turn back to sharding - we're turned to the big picture of the scaling problem,.

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