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Sounds pretty fucking amazing if this means more people can get to work
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Making a high-throughput L1 to reduce gas cost is a bit like making a road wider to reduce traffic In reality, the wider road makes more people think ”oh I can take my car to work now instead of commuting!” => traffic re-clogs => it takes exactly as long to get to work as before twitter.com/KyleSamani/sta…
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You're attacking a strawman He didn't say widening the road is bad He said widening the road is a futile solution because of induced demand will fill the road with congestion anyway The only solution is modular blockchains, with L2s settling on the safest consensus layer
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If this is true, why are there 12 lane highways? Why not make everything single lane dirt roads? Allowing more people to get to places on time has a noble social purpose, and increase demand following does not negate that purpose or value
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