@lex_node Do u remember when YouTube was a “free” widget you could embed on your website?
Then you became a “customer” of YouTube.
Then YouTube stole all your “customers” because of its network effects.
Then your website became irrelevant.
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we will look back on the (mostly) graceful wind down of EF preeminence as a key turning point for Ethereum and ETH
a massive change which only a few will understand the significance of
not because it was a bad institution, but because it was simply TOO preeminent and it inadvertently promoted a monoculture in R&D which focused too much on theory instead of users and the market
what is happening now is actual, REAL subtraction. a real and healthy abdication of formal & informal authority which will enhance the decentralization of the Ethereum ecosystem
thanks for those who worked at the EF over the years to help Ethereum, and to all of those who keep working on it both there and elsewhere
but we are officially exiting the cathedral and entering the bazaar
and what i believe will be the most exciting and eventful epoch in Ethereum's history