Welcome back to The Gwart Show! Today we are rejoined by Jon Charb of DBA. A fellow podcaster and SOL bag holder, Gwart digs into Jon’s recent blog post on Ethereum’s future, community alignment, value of ETH, and Bitcoin rollup development.

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00:00 Start

00:41 ETH's North Star Blog Post

03:57 Is SOL a true competitor?

05:44 WTF is a settlement layer?

09:35 Main points of North Star post

16:08 Community alignment

19:21 Gas limit increase

22:30 L1 performance increase

25:35 Is the value in the execution?

28:28 TradFi does care about credible neutrality

34:44 L1 blockspace premium

40:35 Does world computer = money?

44:15 Store of value vs utility

48:38 ETH at $1

50:39 Effects of 32 ETH to stake

52:29 Distribution of stake now

57:28 Beamchain

1:02:36 Why would Bitcoin rollups be different?

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