The recent sanctions by the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) and arrest of developer Alexey Pertsev have forced critical discussions around the topic of censorship on Ethereum. Existential questions regarding the cultural norms blockchain technology might reproduce are important invitations to reflect upon why we’re here in the first place. Currently, over 66% of the blocks on Ethereum are excluding transactions from the OFAC-sanctioned wallets, according to data from MEV Watch.1 Accord...

The recent sanctions by the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) and arrest of developer Alexey Pertsev have forced critical discussions around the topic of censorship on Ethereum. Existential questions regarding the cultural norms blockchain technology might reproduce are important invitations to reflect upon why we’re here in the first place. Currently, over 66% of the blocks on Ethereum are excluding transactions from the OFAC-sanctioned wallets, according to data from MEV Watch.1 Accord...