A language with only 137 words, learnable from scratch within weeks. Though it's interesting to see just how ambiguous everything becomes with this ultra-small vocabulary. ------------------------------- Had an experience recently where one interface for a dapp did not work, and I was able to extract funds by switching to a different interface, and if even that had failed there were other workarounds like monkeying around with etherscan's "write contract" feature. Decentralization and openness are amazing. ------------------------------- OK this looks insanely bad ------------------------------- OK wait this tweet confuses me. Is Vivek worried that the US will be invaded by CANADA?!!

------------------------------- From Ukraine last year, to Nagorno-Karabakh last month and now Israel, it really does feel like there's a trend of people becoming more comfortable with using large-scale unilateral violence to solve problems. That trend itself greatly worries me; each instance normalizes and legitimizes the next. ------------------------------- Protocol and staking pool changes that could improve decentralization and reduce consensus overhead: ------------------------------- Percent of Ukraine occupied by Russia seems to be at a post-invasion all-time low:

------------------------------- This is a fun accidental example of how "over X" gets abused as a way to make numbers look more impressive. (See also: media using "most Americans believe X" to mean "53% of Americans believe X, 44% disagree") ------------------------------- The Great Vowel Shift. ------------------------------- Should Ethereum be ok with enshrining more things in the protocol?

------------------------------- Asking "do you agree with my opinion X" feels good in the moment: the other person is more likely to agree, as agreeing feels good. Asking "what do you think" without pre-supplying your take is riskier. But it's worth it, because you get more information, which is far more valuable than feeling good in the moment. ------------------------------- I hear people wanted less serious content and more memes so I figured I might as well start with a bad pun more appropriate to 2016. Q: What seat number does Vitalik have on a plane? A: ------------------------------- Yoav talking about AA at EthSingapore. Really important discussion on why AA is NOT "just meta-transactions", and why the extra steps that ERC-4337 takes compared to more naive approaches are necessary if you care about decentralization. -------------------------------