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The thing that freaked me out most when I grasped the concept of MEV was this spooky intuition that it was baked into the fabric of the universe or something
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The community seems to make a distinction around benevolent versus malevolent MEV and it’s a complex debate. Certain MEV are truly harmful, and MEV as a whole clogs up the chain and could consume it if not mitigated
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Another problem is that if block proposers can suck up all of the MEV, That means there are returns to scale in mining, which becomes a centralizing force. You could theoretically end up with one gigantic validator pool who has eaten all the MEV and used it to hire the best PHDs
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