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The Evolution of Ethereum | Tim Beiko

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Ethereum - The Most Valuable Property of the Ethereum Protocol

Einstein: The most valuable property of the network is what we call liveness, but this basically just means like keep producing blocks. And if everybody's like online all of the time, then it's pretty easy to keep the network moving forward. But that's it like if people start being offline that starts to be bad. He says there's an exponential, it's exponentially bad when more people are offline. Einstein: If I run a node from my house in Vancouver and I go offline and I'm the only one who goes offline, I get a much smaller penalty than iflike the entire network has gone offline.

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