Ethereum: Too Big to Fail?

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The intrinsic problem is too big to fail. 2016 is a perfect analog to this, right? So is 2008 banking crisis. And Vitalik is saying, I am concerned unless we kind of guard at the social layer around this, that that could happen with restaking. That's when things have this really negative externality in being too big to failing.

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