The Risks of Intermediated Ether and the Importance of Self-Custody

The Ethereum community is currently in debate, are we going to change the monetary policy of ETH? Why should we? Who gets to decide? What should it be?

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------ TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 Intro

00:03:23 Defining Monetary Policy

00:07:35 Total Monetary Base

00:12:46 M1 Chart https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1NS 

00:15:54 M2 Chart https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2NS 

00:20:05 Inflation + Purchasing Power https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCNS 

00:22:50 Bitcoin Issuance Policy https://river.com/learn/who-creates-new-bitcoin/ 

00:30:22 Ethereum's Monetary Policy https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=ETH&c=native&m=supply.Current&resolution=24h  https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/iiii  https://ultrasound.money/ 

00:35:27 ETH Social Contract

00:37:23 Bitcoin Monetary Policy

00:43:09 History Of ETH Issuance https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/pull/971 

00:50:58 Proposal Breakdown https://ethresear.ch/t/endgame-staking-economics-a-case-for-targeting/18751 

01:01:57 ETH Supply Curve https://imgur.com/pVrZ9Ii 

01:13:37 David's Opinion on Moving Forward

01:19:08 Ryan's Opinion

01:25:06 Policy Option 2

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