Ryan Sean Adams

That's where we remove the re-execution.

A great Elon Musk quote here is, the best part is no part at all.

And what a cryptographic proof does is it removes the whole part of re-execution.

So blocks in a blockchain get executed once, and then no one has to actually re-execute it.

They can just trivially verify it, which allows for a lot of redundant work to get removed from the system.

And that allows for just work being constrained down to one block producer.

And then everyone else is just like, thumbs up, that is correct.

And we really like take off the brakes off of a blockchain system.

Now, the reason why Bitcoin wasn't built like this in the first place, the reason why Ethereum wasn't built or any other blockchain wasn't built like this in the first place was, you know,

Technological progress along cryptographic hashes also needed to mature.

Maybe you could like take everything that I just said and run with it, but also talk about just like the technological parallel path of cryptographic proofs as they've been progressing alongside blockchains.

Instruction, yeah.

I really like the idea of there has been this three parallel paths of computing, first starting with computers where they were first narrow and then we were able to make them generalized and then we were able to make them generalized and fast, which is where modern computers are now to this day.

And then we created blockchains, you know, virtualized ledger-based computers in the sky, decentralized systems.

They started narrow with Bitcoin.

And then we learned to generalize them with Ethereum.

And then we learned to generalize them and make them fast with many other smart contract chains.

And now we are doing the same thing with cryptography.

Started narrow with cryptography, learned to make it generalized, and now we are making them generalized and fast.

And that generalized and fast unlock on the computing tech tree of cryptography is now being able to be taken and bestowed into Ethereum, which is what we're going to talk about for the rest of this episode.