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ETHTaipei: Vitalik Discusses Dencun AI Restaking Farcaster


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Welcome

  • As a nomad, what's the quick dish you've been making yourself a lot lately?
  • When you travel and live around, what experimental community event inspired you the most?
  • What are you most excited to work on these days? Doesn't have to be Ethereum/crypto related.

Dencun upgrades & Ethereum Roadmap

  • How does the Dencun upgrade contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem?
  • Can you share how the reduction in transaction costs facilitated by EIP-4844 will impact the ethereum ecosystem?
  • What do you envision as the single most transformative impact Ethereum will have on society in the next five years?
  • Dencun, and L2s are scaling Ethereum, and AA is making it easier for end users to not deal with the tech. Do you see a future where Blockchains could be abstracted away for end users, and if so, what would Ethereum's place be in such a world?
  • Can you explain how you see the current challenges in Ethereum's proof of stake, and how single-slot finality (SSF) and other upgrades could address those issues?
  • How do Verkle trees address the pressing need for enhanced scalability and better node decentralization in Ethereum?
  • We have seen many projects proposing ''modularize blockchain'' solutions, and we're also seeing ideas that the Ethereum L1 could be responsible for shared sequencing.
  • How do you see the broader question: what are the functions that an L1 should handle centrally, and what should be left to individual L2s?

Security & Privacy

  • How does zk address the trust issue for non-technical individuals? How can they know if zk truly achieves de-identification?
  • How do you propose Ethereum can address the pressing concern of quantum-enabled threats, and what implications does this have for the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem?
  • Will there be a standard of criteria or symptoms the foundation has already predicted or estimated for the community to be alerted it's a quantum attack?

Industry Trends

  • In your opinion, what are the key benefits of integrating AI with cryptocurrency, and how might this reshape the industry?
  • In a February tweet, you discussed AI's role in debugging code, which is crucial for Ethereum. Could you provide further thoughts on how AI could be used in crypto and Ethereum?
  • What is your opinions on eth restaking fever? (Like Eigenlayer, which claim to provide ''trust of Ethereum'' to actively validated services)
  • You are more active on Farcaster than Twitter?
  • Do you think DeSocial applications like Farcaster can really compete with Web2 social apps or be able to subvert the social pattern?
  • In the face of greater institutional adoption and greater concentration of power within crypto, how can the industry stay true to its original ethos of decentralisation and freedom?
  • Do you have any specific advice to how non-English writers can participate in the Public Goods ecosystem?
  • How can the upcoming Ethereum upgrade facilitate greater adoption in developing and unbanked regions, such as Indonesia, where 66% of the population lacks access to banking services?

Personal Insights

  • Why are you so interested in longevity? What will you do if you are immortal?
  • What has surprised you the most in terms of how crypto has evolved and played out? Like if you were to tell yourself 5 years ago about how things are now, what would surprise you the most? How do you think the crypto world/industry will look like another 5 years from now?
  • Could you share one piece of advice you would like to give to Taiwanese developers who are new to blockchain?

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