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11 links, first saved May 13, 2021, latest June 13, 2023.
- The Three Transitions
I continue to see a wide range of powerful use cases for Ethereum. With that said, there are a number of technical challenges still in front of Ethereum even with "The Merge"…
- What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
As the creator of Ethereum I was very interested in reading about Vitalik Buterin 's take on what he is excited about in the space. While obviously being a promoter of Ethereum,…
- The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
I found this essay from Buterin in a reference from Tobi Lütke in the Knowledge Project . Legitimacy as an asset that is built and withdrawn from is something that I think…
- Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
Buterin theorizing on different approaches to making centralized exchanges safer for users, requiring less trust. There is some interesting ideas here, but we already know the…
- DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
I find Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) one of the most interesting structures in crypto. I bought Lil Noun 1416 so I could be a Lil Nouns DAO voting member, and have…
- Soulbound
I don't like the World of Warcraft term that Buterin uses to describe non-transferrable NFTs, but the idea is something that I’m very intrigued by and have been for a while. There…
- Endgame
Vitalik Buterin 's assessment of multiple ways to scale blockchains like Ethereum to deal with massively larger transactions per second. The sharding and layering techniques he…
- Crypto Cities
I enjoy that Buterin chooses to write long form blog posts and eschews little quips on social media. He thinks deeply about these topics and his perspective is always…
- Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed people but underrated among informed people
Vitalik Buterin , the creator of Ethereum, breaks down how you can approach voting using a blockchain. His analysis is detailed and shows how a solution could be constructed. He…
- The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
Vitalik Buterin goes into the fundamentals about scaling blockchain solutions. This is the biggest thing that Ethereum needs to figure out. His approach here is fundamental and…
- Why sharding is great: demystifying the technical properties
Very detailed technical post by Vitalik Buterin , creator of Ethereum, describing a sharding approach to improve the scalability of blockchains. The random committee approach he…