Is There a Censorship Market?

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Any sort of lon scheme that's going to deal with builders in protocol is also going to probably need to address this. What does a builder who offers out a transaction type that says, you can pay me to censor someone look like? And when you take this thought experiment to the limit, i think you'd start to discover some of the beautiful economic properties That block chains have of censorship over multiple blocks being like, prohibitively expensive.

Listen to conversations between two veterans of the crypto industry: Su Zhu, CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital, and Hasu, Strategy lead at Flashbots. Exploring the big ideas in crypto from first principles.

In this episode, Hasu continues the conversation with Danny Ryan and Tim Beiko, two researchers from the Ethereum Foundation. The three are joined by Stephane Gosselin, co-founder of Flashbots, who makes his podcast debut and stands in as Hasu's co-host.

Together, they discuss:

MEV before and after the Merge
mev-boost and proposer-builder-separation (PBS)
The rise of liquid staking pools
Whether Lido should cap its own growth
How the Ethereum Foundation sees its role in interacting with very "protocol-adjacent" projects like Flashbots + Lido

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