THE PROTOCOL: Ethereum's Whispered Woes and Crypto's Influencers—For Better or Worse?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A censorship issue plagues blockchains, notably within the Ethereum network, where 72% of blocks are crafted by validators filtering transactions linked to a sanctioned program known as Tornado Cash.
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In this installment of "The Protocol," hosts Brad Keoun, the founding editor of The Protocol Newsletter, and tech journalists Sam Kessler and Margaux Nijkerk, explore the following stories:
- Censorship on Ethereum is Becoming a Problem
Four of the five biggest "block builders" on Ethereum are excluding transactions sanctioned by the U.S. government, data shows.
- Bitcoin Mining: CENSORSHIP OR 'SPAM FILTERING?'
Opinions are divided in the Bitcoin community over the efforts by a new mining pool called Ocean, guided by the feisty developer Luke Dashjr and backed by Block Inc.'s Jack Dorsey, to weed out NFT-like transactions the project characterizes as "spam."
- Columbia CryptoEconomics (CCE) Workshop 2023
This two-day workshop brings together practitioners, researchers, and academics to discuss challenges, recent progress, and opportunities in the economics of blockchain protocols.
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| 0:53.9 | Dive deep into the blockchain realm with the protocol podcast with coin desk founding editor of the |
| 0:59.7 | protocol newsletter brad count and tech journalists sam kessler and margo nikirk they unravel the |
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| 1:20.4 | Hello and welcome to the Protocol podcast. I'm Brad Count here with my co-hosts Margo |
| 1:25.6 | Nykirk and Sam Kessler. |
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| 1:33.5 | And now let's dive right into it with the latest news and developments in technology behind |
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| 1:40.1 | In our first segment, we're going to be talking about Ethereum's censorship problem. |
| 1:46.2 | Sam, this was a story that you wrote yesterday as our feature for the protocol newsletter. |
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