Welcome back to the Gwart Show! Today we are joined by James Prestwich, a OG Ethereum engineer and leader of @init4tech, an Ethereum research group. On the show, we dive back into Ethereum’s plight, beginning with the fundamentals. We start with a review of Ethereum’s origins, James’ mental model for ETH, why PBS is broken (and was from the start), if Rollups work and how we skipped sharding, Vitalik and more Vitalik, and what Solana really means for Ethereum.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:50 Jame's bio

02:30 ETH's evolution

06:08 Mental models for ETH

08:40 How's ETH doing these days?

13:05 Current Roll Up sequencers

14:42 Other sequencer models

20:48 Fixing PBS

24:38 Not addressing known problems

28:54 Current roll up landscape

31:54 Macro & crypto

32:48 Future of roll ups

35:01 Real world impact

40:22 Goals for ETH

42:37 Consensus for ETH

46:32 Vitalik 's bad decisions

48:48 Vitalik from a tech perspective

51:47 Hard & soft power in ETH ecosystem

54:16 SOL vs ETH

56:28 If SOL is better rails, what should ETH do?

58:35 What are you optimistic about?

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