Ray Buckton

You're Thinking About the Metaverse Wrong I should have invested in Minecraft. I had one of the first 10,000 Minecraft accounts back in 2009. Zombies didn't attack, and sponge blocks didn't work, but flying around the map gave a sense that this game style could be huge. The forums agreed. Everyone thought it would be THE thing by the end of the year. But it wasn't. Fanfare died down. In 2011, many folks said Minecraft was a niche, dying game. But the developers kept buildi...

My wife was just starting to take Ethereum seriously when I told her about scaling. She mistook me saying “sharding” for “sharting,” and I lost a year’s worth of concept legitimization. Needless to say, “proto-dank sharding” had her rolling with laughter. Anyways, EIP-4484. Let’s start with the TL;DR version.TL;DREIP-4484 creates “blobs” that attach to Ethereum’s existing blocks. These blobs are purpose-built for Layer 2 rollups and give them some guaranteed, predetermined place to store thei...