Michael Keller

All that number of other topics.

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Yeah, I guess maybe let's talk about the EF, their structure and getting smaller.

So Vitalik put together a post.

He actually ends this post and said this, the past years have been challenging era for Ethereum.

I think a lot of ETH investors certainly feel that.

A lot of people in the Ethereum ecosystem feel that too.

Good to see him put that into words.

He said, I personally favor when talking about...

Like this post is revealing because there's a number of, you know, vitalic thoughts, which are always very important for the stewardship of Ethereum.

On ossification of the Ethereum protocol, he says this, I personally favor a soft lean and done approach to Ethereum.

Once the straw map is completed, that's the current Ethereum roadmap.

Generally stick to security fixes and small high value changes and have a much higher bar for considering new features.

So I think...

The idea here is that the current EF structure and funding gets it crops, that's censorship resistance, it's open source privacy security, those being kind of the priorities.

And then once the straw map is done, like the role of the EF shrinks even further still.

And so this post was, I thought, good for Vitalik.

I'm glad that somebody from the Ethereum Foundation publicly addressed this.

Glad that Vitalik did, because what we were seeing over the past three to six months was kind of a leakage of what we thought were key people in the Ethereum Foundation.