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#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Trade Off Between Block Size and Decentralization?
One way to achieve layer one scaling is to increase the block size. So I think for decentralization, it's important for both of these tasks to be accessible. If you have a chain that's too expensive to read, then everyone will just trust a few people to read for them. But if on the other hand, it becomes really expensive to write, then everyone would move onto like basically second layer systems that are incredibly centralized. That takes away from decentralization and self sovereignty as well. And so this has been my viewpoints, like pretty much the whole time, right? In the Bitcoin case, basically what happens was that Bitcoin originally, like at the very beginning, it didn't really
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