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After the Merge: Miner Changes
by Michelle Zaremskas, Golda Velez and Nishant Sharma The Ethereum Foundation laid down a challenge to the community to analyze the performance and behavior of the chain before and after the Merge. So, here is our possibly naive analysis, performed without having done any prior work in the Ethereum ecosystem. The primary tool we used was the Alchemy API to retrieve blocks and transactions, as well as some additional libraries to examine miner rewards. Our first impression was that much remain...
After the Merge: Miner Changes
by Michelle Zaremskas, Golda Velez and Nishant Sharma The Ethereum Foundation laid down a challenge to the community to analyze the performance and behavior of the chain before and after the Merge. So, here is our possibly naive analysis, performed without having done any prior work in the Ethereum ecosystem. The primary tool we used was the Alchemy API to retrieve blocks and transactions, as well as some additional libraries to examine miner rewards. Our first impression was that much remain...
Soul is Rational: Why we need SBTs
The dismal science, also known as Economics, describes behavior as "rational" if maximizes personal satisfaction. Markets are held up as a tool for maximizing everyone’s satisfaction, yet they they inherently anonymize the participants, limiting the “rational” values that can be modeled. Behaviors based on principles or relationships are disregarded - yet non-transactional values that cannot be "bought" are central drivers for behavior in most humans that I care to associate with. I prefer to...
Soul is Rational: Why we need SBTs
The dismal science, also known as Economics, describes behavior as "rational" if maximizes personal satisfaction. Markets are held up as a tool for maximizing everyone’s satisfaction, yet they they inherently anonymize the participants, limiting the “rational” values that can be modeled. Behaviors based on principles or relationships are disregarded - yet non-transactional values that cannot be "bought" are central drivers for behavior in most humans that I care to associate with. I prefer to...
