Tim Beiko | Layer Zero
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🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Tim Beiko runs the core protocol meetings for Ethereum. His path into crypto began in 2017, buying the top. But he stayed in the space, initially working for Consensys and their Besu Ethereum Client before trailblazing with EIP-1559's implementation.
This conversation covers his story into working with Ethereum core developers, the role and landscape of Ethereum clients, and coordinating the maintenance and upgrades to the Ethereum protocol.
With the merge on the horizon and barbarians at the gates, humans like Tim Beiko work to keep Ethereum as credibly neutral, efficient, and open as possible. Can Vitalik impose his will on Ethereum? Is it centralized? This episode has the answers.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:30 Tim Beiko Before Crypto
12:27 Getting into the Space
16:45 Working for Conensys
20:56 Clients and Values
26:48 Forks of GETH
31:52 Clients as Businesses
37:42 Keeping the Balance
44:57 EIP-1559
51:47 Coordinating Core Devs
59:00 Communicating Code
1:05:17 Security
1:11:18 What the People Want
1:14:18 Who is a Core Dev?
1:21:07 Facilitating Forever
1:26:00 When Merge?
1:30:47 Closing
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Resources:
Tim on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TimBeiko?s=20
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Layer0. Layer0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that |
| 0:11.5 | make up the Ethereum community. Crypto is built by code, but it's composed by people, |
| 0:16.2 | and each individual member of the crypto community has their own story to tell. |
| 0:20.7 | CypherPunks understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and Layer0 |
| 0:24.7 | focuses on the people behind the code, because crypto is people all the way down, and always |
| 0:28.9 | has been. Today, I'm speaking with Tim Beko. Tim Beko has a similar timeline with getting |
| 0:34.4 | into crypto, as I did, got into the top of the 2017 markets, and then found his way into |
| 0:40.2 | what niche fits him best. Started working as a client project lead at consensus, project |
| 0:45.8 | manager, and then eventually he hand raised and used his position working on the base |
| 0:51.2 | who client to really focus on EIP 1559. And Tim raising his hand to take that effort |
| 0:58.0 | on EIP 1559 led him into the role of being the all-core devs coordinator. So this |
| 1:03.7 | podcast is really a lesson in the dynamics of what it means to make upgrades to Ethereum. |
| 1:09.7 | And very, very true to what I think Layer0 is all about is like, what code and who is |
| 1:15.2 | proposing this code that ultimately becomes part of Ethereum really needs to be considered, |
| 1:19.3 | because the code dictates how people's lives will look. What Ethereum is will impact the |
| 1:23.7 | people that use it, and Tim Beko is at the heart of what changes make their way into |
| 1:28.1 | Ethereum and what changes do not. And so this is a fantastic podcast to answer the question, |
| 1:34.0 | are there just centralized actors that can upgrade the code, can Vitalik just get whatever |
| 1:38.1 | he wants into code and upgrade Ethereum as ECFITs? We've talked about these subjects directly, |
| 1:42.4 | and then also talk about some overarching decisions and problems that will inevitably |
| 1:47.8 | be part of Ethereum's future, and what we can do to solve those problems now. Also, |
| 1:52.4 | this is a lesson in client diversity and client development, and so just a very informative |
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