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Lorien Gabel and Benjamin Thalman (Figment) on Staking and the Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade (EP.413)

On The Brink with Castle Island

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The Risk of Centralization in Cryptocurrency Networks

Benjamin: I think there's two ways to think about centralization. There's centralization of token holders. And then there's as you rightly point out, there's infrastructure concentration. So if a protocol is having all the consensus down on Amazon, east, that's obviously a really bad thing for pretty clear reasons and basic performance. We do take an active strategy looking for launching on a new network.

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