On The Brink with Castle Island

David Hoffman (Bankless) on Everything About the Merge (EP.349)

Sep 14, 2022

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Cryptocurrency and Censorship

02:34

The Minimum Viable Solution Is Here

01:42

Block Native vs Pro Pro Proposer Builder Separation

04:09

Introduction

2min

The Steely Dan of Podcast, Where the Podcaster Is Podcast

4min

Bankless Podcast

6min

Etheorium

3min

Block Native vs Pro Pro Proposer Builder Separation

4min

Is It Permissible to Impose a Treasury Activated Soft Fork?

3min

Cryptocurrency and Censorship

3min

Is There a Consensus on Proof of Work?

3min

Bitcoin Price - How Much Money Michael Saylor Has Purchased Bit Coin?

5min

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Etheorium

4min

11.

Stakers vs Miners

4min

12.

Is It a Good Thing to Lending to the Private Sector?

3min

13.

M E V

2min

14.

Block Builders Are Going to Compete on a Number of Different Vectors

4min

15.

Is the Supply Chain of Transaction Ordering Really Pernicious?

2min

16.

The Minimum Viable Solution Is Here

2min

17.

Is M E v Free a Good Thing?

2min

18.

Is This an Official Road Map?

4min

19.

Etherium Proof of Stake

4min

20.

Bankles

2min

Bankless' David Hoffman joins Matt and Nic for a special episode to cover Ethereum's highly-anticipated Merge. In this episode:

How David came to Ethereum and the Bankless origin story
The story behind the Bankless DAO
Whether David would ever consider focusing on other blockchains
What could cause David to abandon Ethereum
The Coinbase OFAC filtering debate
Why proposer-builder separation might make validator-driven censorship harder
Filtering transactions at the pool layer versus undertaking a ‘Treasury Activated Soft Fork’
Under what conditions would social slashing of major validators make sense?
How embedded is the social slashing consensus into Ethereum’s social fabric?
The significance of the new supply dynamics stemming from the Merge
Is the unlock something to worry about?
Is there a ‘crowding out’ effect from staked Ether becoming a risk free rate?
Does MEV pose a concentration risk post Merge?
Are MEV-driven yields for stakers perverse?
Is MEV an inescapable feature of richly stateful blockchains
Why the notion of Certified-Toxic-MEV-free blocks might emerge
How is Ethereum’s roadmap determined?
What’s the deal with the Surge, the Verge, the Purge, and the Splurge?
What are the strongest narratives coming out of the Merge?
Probabilities of the Merge success
Why the Merge may not be fully priced in

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Intro and outro music: Daniel Allan's Collage #344

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