Seems as silly as anything else that service comes up with lately …

I mean. This is from the dude’s Xitter. Not a rexeet, an original xeet.

“In late 2014 Ethereum was in trouble. Vitalik Buterin asked Steven Nerayoff to do a full diagnostic assessment and recommendations on how to save Ethereum and restructure it for long term success. Over the early months of 2015 Steven and Vitalik spoke many times. These are five of those conversations that happened to be recorded.”

What kind of douche nozzle refers to themselves in the third person.

“In 2023 YorickDowne wrote a brilliant rejoinder on an obscure Reddit forum” 🤡

Polygon PoS is a side chain, but it calls itself a “commit chain” because it publishes checkpoints to Ethereum L1.

There is a pre-PIP proposal to change it to a zkEVM Validium. A Validium publishes validity proofs, like a rollup, but unlike a rollup it does not publish transaction data, but handles data availability (DA) itself.

Note the transaction data for rollups will only be kept around for a while with 4844 (in next Ethereum hardfork early 2024) and then purged - long enough for a fraud proof for optimistic chains.

This is meant to be a chain using validity proofs not fraud proofs. I am a little shaky as to where the trade off is in keeping the DA off the Ethereum L1 - lower cost vs? Need to read Vitalik’s paper on that again 😅