Why Ethereum Lost The Plot [Su Zhu]

<p>Listen: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2fDTuh5aU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2fDTuh5aU</a> (start at 25min mark)<br>Crypto villain of the year <a href="https://cryptobriefing.com/2021-review-the-top-10-crypto-villains-year/">https://cryptobriefing.com/2021-review-the-top-10-crypto-villains-year/</a></p><p><strong>Transcript</strong></p><p>i would be curious to learn in</p><p>what sense has ether over optimized for</p><p>being money so what at what points did</p><p>it make a trade-off like a conscience</p><p>trade-off to say</p><p>we</p><p>we designed the chain to be better money</p><p>and worse as let's say an execution</p><p>layer</p><p>sure</p><p>i think a good broad way to understand</p><p>it is if you look at antonio the founder</p><p>of do idx's tweets about it afterward</p><p>and he he said you know</p><p>the ethereum user experience on on layer</p><p>one has basically not even 10xed over</p><p>five years</p><p>um and at that time the roadmap</p><p>was very much to to figure out how to</p><p>cater to users and developers right um</p><p>and and so i think just like if you just</p><p>zoom out that far it's pretty easy to</p><p>see that we're we're in a very different</p><p>place today</p><p>on ethereum than it was uh</p><p>a couple years ago and i think the</p><p>another easy way to see this is just</p><p>with d5 itself right where if you look</p><p>at the d5 that's kind of really taken</p><p>off and done well it's been crosstrained</p><p>it's been non-ethereum right so you know</p><p>luna versus snx but then also you know</p><p>um</p><p>sort of projects on avalanche versus</p><p>projects on ethereum the you know the</p><p>same exact project but they'll do better</p><p>on avalanche um and then you know you</p><p>you you kind of get a sense that um</p><p>i think ethereum rightfully says that</p><p>they're the bedrock or kind of the uh</p><p>birthplace of defy innovation right but</p><p>what that also means is that if that's</p><p>the</p><p>main claim to to to um</p><p>sort of pow