10 Reflections on the first 10 years of Ethereum 1. “it takes a village” Many of the people who showed up to celebrate together Ethereum blockchain genesis block 10 year anniversary in Sydney are people who have been collaborating, building software, speculating and forming deep bonds around the shared mission of Ethereum. So many over the heads sustained and kept their enthusiasm (albeit occasionally questioning themselves 🥹) over multiple rough experiences: - the DAO hack - parity multisig exploits - countless exchange hacks - ICO boom and bust - huge dumps before DeFi summer - the list can go on and on No one type of person or one region of the world could create this, “it takes a village”

2. Character traits: shared characteristics of Ethereum people I’ve observed over the years (generalization) - curious - intellectually honest - welcomes critical thinking - individualistic - paradoxically trusting of strangers / janky addresses and at the same time doom prepping with strong cryptography - often becoming unemployable and entrepreneurial - optimistic {believing in somETHing} 2/

3. Ethereum is a de facto network state in the most bare bone but robust essence: 「public settlement infra」that supports 「freedom of transaction」 akin to 「nation state」 (roads, water systems, legal system) that supports 「free speech」 It’s true that other public blockchain networks are also de facto network state, but just as nation states are not all alike and some perform better than others, same goes to network states: the higher integrity, least corruption and more robustness leads to best space for the commoners as well as the capitalists. Where there is decentralization, client diversity, self correcting social layers is where network states will flourish, where it’s lacking they’ll have less merit Ahem <insert network name> 3/