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Is Ethereum changing its monetary policy again?

Dun, da da.

Question for you, David.

So there's this debate in the Ethereum community right now,

and I've been paying attention to it, but a bit on the margins.

I think you've been more directly paying attention to it.

But it's a debate about changing the monetary policy of Ethereum,

this holy ground we're treading in.

Should we do it?

Who gets to decide?

What should the eventual monetary policy be?

What's the context for this conversation?

Yeah, so two Ethereum Foundation researchers

introduced a blog post, like a research blog post,

proposed the idea of changing the monetary policy of Eath,

changing the Eath issuance curve from what it is today to something else.

Along with this research post came a proposal in alignment with the research post

to include a change to eith monetary policy for the next upcoming hard fork in Electra,

which could be a hard fork as soon as the end of this year.

And this expediency, this speed, created a ton of controversy and debate about the politics and

optics of EF researchers rushing in a this debate that we're experiencing that we're seeing in the Ethereum community, there's really like two pillars here.

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