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I enjoy cats, my spouse, ice cream, and analog to digital media conversion. Prev: USAA, Ethereum Foundation, Flashbots, Zcash Comm. Grants. He/Him. 🏳️‍🌈
hudsonjameson.comJoined September 2012
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Today is a really special day for Ethereum. I want to elaborate on why I am personally super excited and why it is so monumental. The Merge represents a pinnacle of collaboration and engineering mastery across dozens of teams and hundreds of people.
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But Anon, public goods will someday replace all goods, including ourselves. Don't you want to be there for the public goods awakening of your lifetime? Our sins and atrocities mankind has committed will be washed in the cleansing rain of public goods.
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I thought
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was actually Steve Irwin's daughter Bindi getting aggressively into crypto and using their real name on their account to make us think it couldn't be her. I have been informed it is actually not Bindi Irwin at all. I am devastated.
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The networking stack within DAS Playground has just hit a big milestone: Our primary overlay network has been instantiated! 1. Discv5 Protocol [X] 2. DAS Overlay [X] 3. Secure DAS Overlay [ ] Two down, one to go. Check it out:
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GitHub - EchoAlice/das-playground: Where I tinker with creating a Secure Kademlia DHT discv5 overlay
Where I tinker with creating a Secure Kademlia DHT discv5 overlay - GitHub - EchoAlice/das-playground: Where I tinker with creating a Secure Kademlia DHT discv5 overlay
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"We can't shoot it down because it may fall on civilians blah blah blah..." Simply launch a larger balloon that can eat this smaller one.
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You gotta be max-maxxing. Hit maxes at the gym. Fill the water RIGHT TO THE EDGE of the "Max Fill" line on containers. Set out to be best friends with every person named Max in your town.
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23/ I'm a white dude and am happy to share my view, but as you take into consideration my opinions, be sure to reach out to underrepresented people you know in the space to see what they think. Ultimately it's their lived experiences that matter in this.
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22/ perspectives that you will never be able to fully experience because you aren't black/white/a woman/a man/etc. As a project and ecosystem, any heavy statistical imbalance of participation from others perspectives hurts the reach of Ethereum and its projects.
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21/ even if there are none, it would be in the best interest of the ecosystem to help out and donate time/money to their training programs. One argument I've seen is that beyond diversity being achieved in a team for "the sake of diversity", there are experiences and
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20/ in the interest of the community to support that. That is why I feel like we should, in good faith, talk to Ethereum and blockchain programs who are doing developer mentorship and training for underrepresented groups. There may not be any barrier (I believe there are), but
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19/ Even if you believe that gender shouldn't matter and you shouldn't count numbers or try to achieve an x percentage of underrepresented people in a project, I think we all agree that there should not be barriers of entry for participants who want to be involved and that it is
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18/ I can't speak on behalf of the effort, but my personal opinion is that there was intention by that program to include diverse candidates and to seek out diverse candidates. I am unsure of how that resulted since I left the Ethereum Foundation in 2021.
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16/ one not always talked about. Even with these explanations, if there have only been 7 in my mind in 6 years that is not great. I believe the barrier of entry to be a core dev and gain trust in the protocol building ecosystem can be high and intimidating for anyone and one
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15/ value. So given the opportunity, after participating in Ethereum core dev work, moving on to a less stressful, newer, and higher paid opportunity makes sense and I have 0 problems with people doing that. Again, this certainly isn't the only reason for core dev turnover, but
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14/ to devs regardless of gender. While core dev pay is a whole other can of worms (which is better over time), beyond just a "number" there is more political pressure and stress to be an Ethereum core dev for a long time since you are writing code for a software securing so much
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13/ on to other projects, but one reason that comes to mind as a possibility is that there is better pay/more fun work at a projects using similar code bases. L1s and L2s heavily use modified Ethereum client code and have VC money to be able to poach core devs. It has happened
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12/ this when it comes up. For the sake of clarity, to my recollection there have been at least 7 women who people usually would define as "core devs" during my time as the All Core Devs call manager (2016-2021). I'm not really in a place to say why they decided to move
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11/ in the "core dev" label for this reason. Although I pointed out that much of the group photo is only a subset of overall participants at the protocol research/dev level, that doesn't dismiss Franzi's point about representation in these spaces. The community is divided on
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10/ significant portion of that group shot. Researchers may not work on clients day to day at a coding level, but participate actively in discussions, speccing, prototyping, and testing of ideas before they become EIPs to be implemented by other core devs. I usually include them
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9/ people that work primarily on the protocol in one way or another who were not present, maybe even more. There are 4 EL clients and 5 CL clients, some of which have dozens of devs committed to the Ethereum protocol alone. This isn't even including "researchers" who also made a
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8/ devs. This meeting, from what I understand, aimed at getting the most vital representatives from various areas and teams of the ecosystem whose talent and advice could be used to shape future upgrades of Ethereum at the protocol level. I'd estimate there are at least 5x more
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7/ When it comes to the interop photo Franzi was referring to, there was only 1 woman in the photo, but the interop photo itself only had a subsection of core devs that also included specialized researchers from other projects that would potentially not be classified as core
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6/ for others to declare you a "core dev" or other things. Really the term "core dev" is at this point a bit antiquated and inadvertently fails to honor the contributions, and maybe even opinions, of those contributing to the protocol without that title.
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5/ of either of them participating on a core dev call or referring to themselves (or others referring to them) as "core devs", likely because their contributions were less publicly visible or maybe there is some measure of how much time you're committed to purely protocol work
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4/ As Ethereum as a community has expanded, so has the participation and opinions from groups outside of the full-time core development teams. A good example of this is Emily and Sara from the Uniswap Labs team who contributed to EIP-1153 - Transient storage opcodes. I am unaware
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3/ If we work with the definition from the blog, that actually may make this question more complicated. Protocol development has generally been only handled by those who spend the majority of their time on a specific client or niche within the protocol...until the last few years.
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Franzi makes a good point, but she also points out later that the exact number is not the issue. I want to explain the history of underrepresented groups, such as women, in Ethereum core dev roles, what has been done, and what people on both sides of the debate can get behind...
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Don't we have a single woman working in a client team? 🙁 I only see Hsiao-Wei... kind of sad
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