The Chopping Block: ETHPoW Is 'a Terrible Way to Fork the Blockchain' - Ep. 396

The Chopping Block: ETHPoW Is 'a Terrible Way to Fork the Blockchain' - Ep. 396

Unchained

Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. In this episode, Emin Gün Sirer, the emperor of Avalanche, also joined the conversation

Show topics: Gün’s take on the Ava Labs conspiracy story and whether there was any truth in the videos
The impact of the Merge on ETH issuance and energy usage
What’s going on with the ETHPoW fork, and how the team has been messing up
The TL;DR of the technical side of Ethereum scaling, explained by Tarun
How, in the beginning, proof of stake was designed to resemble proof of work 
What Ethereum miners are going to do after the Merge
Whether increasing hash rates spike prices of PoW coins 
How the Basic Attention Token is like the Stanford prison experiment
Whether the fights between Gün and other founders were positive or negative
How an exchange delisted every privacy coin
Whether Coinbase's support of the lawsuit against the US Treasury over Tornado Cash was a PR move
How this moment in history resembles the 90s and the rise of the internet
Whether there are blockchain-haters and what the crypto industry can do better
How there can’t be a single chain to meet every need
How FTX and Coinbase have different approaches to regulation 
How would everyone celebrate a successful Merge and whether there’s a chance of it failing

Hosts
Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital

Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

Robert Leshner, founder of Compound 

Guest
Emin Gün Sirer, Founder and CEO of Ava Labs
 
Episode Links  
Ava Labs Accusations: Emin Gün Sirer’s statement

CoinDesk article 
Crypto Leaks article
 
Tornado Cash
Treasury Press release 
Coinbase supports lawsuit against US Treasury
Huobi delisting privacy coins
Previous coverage of the Tornado Cash Sanctions on Unchained:

Is TRM Labs Blocking Addresses From DeFi Protocols? Ari Redbord Says No 
Tornado Cash Sanctioned. Did the Government Overstep Its Bounds?
The Chopping Block: Did OFAC Overstep by Sanctioning Tornado Cash?
Given the Sanctions on Tornado Cash, Is Ethereum Censorship Resistant?
Preston Van Loon on Ethereum's Merge and His Lawsuit Against Treasury

 
ETH Proof of Work and Miners: ChainID missing; the request from Coinbase
 
CoinDesk article

The ETHPoW team said the fork will be deployed within 24 hours of the Merge
ETHPoW team’s promise to abolish EIP-1559
ETHPoW first blocks

 
The Merge: Ethereum Foundation Merge announcement.
Ethereum carbon emission reductions.


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