
who saved you at your lowest?
MJ Brennan
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who saved you at your lowest?


"I used to be a bitcoiner. The transition to a new store of value only happens once every 3,000 years. That's the main prize -- just focus on that. But [security] is the criteria that ultimately convinced me to flip from Bitcoin to ETH." "I have a higher degree of certainty that Ethereum will be around longer [than Bitcoin]. The reason for that is because Bitcoin relies on proof-of-work, which is less efficient than proof-of-stake and doesn't scale with the value of the network. And as the block subsidy of Bitcoin halves every four years, it is increasingly becoming more and more reliant on transaction fees to fund the security budget paid to miners." "If you look at [Bitcoin's] security budget right now, about 0.6% of revenue to miners is transaction fees... The problem with that is if Bitcoin becomes 'digital gold', flips gold, and becomes a $30 trillion asset, but it only costs $10-20 billion to attack it, that's too asymmetric." "You want the security budget to scale with the market cap, similar to how countries spend a % of their GDP on defense. The more valuable something is, the more you need to spend to protect it." "Ethereum, with the Merge, migrated to proof-of-stake, which is fundamentally more secure because it's less reliant on transaction fees and it scales with the value of the network. If 1/3rd of ETH is staked and then you need 1/3rd of those ETH to censor the network, you're looking at roughly 10% of the total market cap as the cost to attack the network." "So if Ethereum flips Bitcoin and gold and becomes a $30 trillion asset, it'll cost ~$3 trillion to attack the Ethereum network versus Bitcoin at like $10 billion." "The other aspect here is that as AI hyperscalers invest more and more in AI, proof-of-work becomes increasingly vulnerable because the cost to attack the Bitcoin network is starting to look close to the quarterly CapEx these hyperscalers are spending on their data centers." Full interview on @Bankless with @VivekVentures discussing the new @Etherealize_io "Productive Money" report below.






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it's not a cherry picked list, I'm being as comprehensive as humanly possible and I lay out my criteria in the article. obviously it's subjective but I did the best I could based on my knowledge and 10 years following this space full time. I'm not going to accept a situation where you have to call up a dev to get their perspective on a critical matter, nor is that practical for me or anyone else. they should freely share this with the public or recuse themselves entirely. there are a trillion dollars at stake. you can't accept the responsibility of stewarding a protocol while keeping your views on the most important technical debate private. barring public statements on the mailing list or on here, i will continue to assume the vast majority of these people are not concerned, and act accordingly.




