Today in history a 427k person organization that operates in 77 countries shifted its infrastructure overnight to a 99.95% more carbon friendly approach

A moment in history that I don't think we will see again Image
427, 304 validators maintaining this organizations distributed system #EthereumMerge

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11 client teams coordinated open-source software in an upgrade that had 0 impact on end users #EthereumMerge

ethereum.org/en/upgrades/me…
Long envisioned as the destination consensus protocol all the way from the #Ethereum whitepaper written when @VitalikButerin was 19 years old
ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/

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Colleagues in @MSFTResearch published this #ethereum #evm #blockchain scaling research

Net/net 6x speed increase of EVM execution ...

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in 1999 I became convinced the wireless internet would be the next wave

in early 2000 I left Microsoft to pursue this conviction

in 2007 the iPhone launched; in 2008 the AppStore

8 years
wish I had discovered Bitcoin in 2008, 😭

unlikely I would have been a maximalist given my software, OS, end-end solutions, #buidl focus

what attracted me to #blockchain was the comp sci terms that invaded my social feed 2015

what attracted me to Ethereum was the #buidling
by Aug 2015 I had become convinced #blockchain would be the next wave

in Jan 2016 pivoted all my work @Microsoft

speed of open-source development, PKI, distributed system w/ an incentive model is vastly more complicated than an AppStore

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