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Podcast: On The Brink with Castle Island
Episode: David Hoffman (Bankless) on Everything About the Merge
Description: Bankless' David Hoffman joins Matt and Nic for a special episode to cover Ethereum's highly-anticipated Merge. In this episode:Â How David came to Ethereum and the Bankless origin story The story behind the Bankless DAO Whether David would ever consider focusing on other blockchains What could cause David to abandon Ethereum The Coinbase OFAC filtering debate Why proposer-builder separation might make validator-driven censorship harder Filtering transactions at the pool layer versus undertaking a 'Treasury Activated Soft Fork' Under what conditions would social slashing of major validators make sense? How embedded is the social slashing consensus into Ethereum's social f...