David's Takes: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Riding an MEV Bot
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to David's takes. A new format with David and RSA where we explore David's weekly articles in 30 minutes or less.
This week, we’re diving into one gigantic metaphor. Ethereum as a reserviour of liquidity. So sit back, relax, and enjoy "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Riding an MEV Bot".
Read David's article here: https://www.bankless.com/a-hitchhikers-guide-to-riding-an-mev-bot/
If you're looking for a more technical explanation check out our recent episode with Dan Robinson: https://youtu.be/h4gzZib0j48
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:00 Why did David Write This?
6:17 A Reserviour of Liquidity
9:25 The Ships Metaphor
13:36 Offchain Signed Orders
17:17 Intents
22:07 Dutch Auctions
24:06 Impications Of This?
28:25 How This Impacts Bridges
30:30 What's Left To Unpack?
33:15 Closings And Disclaimers
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you look at the original Xbox games, |
| 0:02.6 | the graphics sucked. |
| 0:04.2 | And then if you looked at the late stage Xbox games, |
| 0:06.5 | the graphics were like orders of magnitude better, |
| 0:08.2 | but it was the same hardware. |
| 0:09.8 | How did that happen? |
| 0:10.8 | Because the software got better. |
| 0:12.4 | And so this is the software of Ethereum layer, |
| 0:14.8 | improving what we can do with the hardware layer of Ethereum. |
| 0:22.7 | Hey, Bankless Nation. |
| 0:23.6 | We've got a new show format for you. |
| 0:25.0 | This one's short punchy. |
| 0:26.2 | It's a deep dive into a crypto rabbit hole |
| 0:28.6 | that David and myself are exploring. |
| 0:30.3 | These are our takes, taking really |
| 0:31.9 | 25 minutes max. |
| 0:33.8 | It's going to be our punchiest episode ever, right, David? |
| 0:36.8 | God, it's pretty ambitious |
| 0:38.3 | if they were going to do this in 12 minutes or less. |
| 0:40.3 | It would be a first. |
| 0:42.0 | Each of these episodes will focus on one specific theme. |
| 0:45.1 | On today's episode, we're talking about an article |
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