Censorship & State Capture with Nic Carter & Lane Rettig
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Nic Carter is a Partner at Castle Island Ventures & Lane Rettig is a core developer for Spacemesh. In this interview, we discuss the Ethereum merge specifically addressing the issue around increasing censorship of Ethereum transactions, the chilling state attacks on privacy and what Bitcoiners could learn.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:40 The energy usage narrative
00:12:01 Next steps after the merge
00:18:15 Ethereum’s existential risk from sharding
00:24:18 The complexity of Ethereum; the objective of Ethereum
00:29:43 Proof of Work versus Proof of Stake
00:42:06 Issues following the merge
00:45:40 Maximum Extractable Value - MEV
00:56:23 How MEV leads to centralization
01:04:50 Is Ethereum being fully captured?
01:16:12 The chilling impact on privacy; proposed mitigations
01:28:25 Could Bitcoin be captured?
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