Ethereum's Scalability and Energy Consumption

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Eddie Hsieh: Scaling is like a perfect kind of like midwit diagram to me, right? Like the left side, they're like blockchain so slow need more transactions need more blocks based. And whereas I think the top says like, we need more block space, like things need to need to scale. We need scalability in order for there to be wasteful experimentation and playful experimentation," he said. "It's unfolding before us"

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