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"@ethereum is losing users."
It's a narrative that refuses to disappear.
But, Ethereum has the highest user retention rate among major blockchains, with 26.2% of users returning a year later.
And that's what makes this metric so powerful.
Anyone can attract attention during a bull market. Anyone can benefit from a trend. But convincing users to come back months later is a completely different challenge.
Because retention isn't built on hype. It's built on products people use, developers who keep shipping, liquidity that keeps growing, and an ecosystem that continues to evolve through every market cycle.
Over the years, Ethereum has faced competition from every direction. New chains arrived promising to replace it, outperform it, or move faster than it.
Yet when it comes to keeping users engaged over the long term, Ethereum still stands at the top.
In crypto, it's easy to attract attention.
Earning long-term loyalty is much more difficult. Ethereum continues to do both.
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Here's a look at Team USA in Men's Freestyle after the first day of action at U17 Worlds for the boys:
45kg: Keegan Bassett - 1st Round Saturday vs Slavov
48kg: Ariah Mills - FINALS, Going for GOLD
51kg: Sammy Sanchez vs Spasov 1st Round Sat
55kg: Grey Burnett - Going for Bronze
60kg: Ashton Besmer vs Assambek 1st Round Sat
65kg: Arseni Kikiniou - FINALS, Going for GOLD
71 kg: Jayden James vs Goguadze 1st Round Sat
80kg: Aaron Stewart - Eliminated
92kg: Tanner Hodgins vs Alizadeh 1st Round Sat
110kg: Alex Taylor - Eliminated
Action resumes at 3:30am EST Saturday on @FloWrestling.
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Happy Independence Day!
Another one for Enterprise-Elite & Ultra users: GetBdnBlockStream is now live on Base.
Get real-time access to new blocks as they hit the bloXroute BDN, faster than the network’s default peer-to-peer propagation.
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RProxy is now live! Part of the Validator Gateway, RProxy is a relay infrastructure that provides faster and more reliable transaction propagation.
Key features include:
🌐 Multi-region availability. Relays in Virginia, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, Dublin, and Sydney.
⚡️ Pre-fetch support. Pre-loaded transaction data for reduced latency and optimized workflows for Builders.
🔧 Preconfirmations enabled. Preconfs allow Builders to signal their commitment to include specific transactions in a block or slot, improving reliability. We now support @primev_xyz and @chainbound_ solutions on mainnet.
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James Cameron has written & directed 3 of the top 4 highest-grossing movies of all time (Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Titanic).
Before he made movies, Cameron was a truck driver.
He didn't go to film school.
Instead, on the weekends, he would go to the library and..
"I'd pull any thesis that [University of Southern California] graduate students had written [on] anything that related to film technology," Cameron explained.
"And for the cost of xeroxing (photocopying), I [got] all these doctoral dissertations [and] build up these big binders on how everything was done."
"So I literally gave myself a full graduate course on film technology for about $120.
I didn’t have to enroll in school because it was all there in the library. I’d set it up to go in like I was on a tactical mission, find out what I needed to know, and take it all home."
Takeaway 1:
When asked what motivated him to read those big binders full of information on filmmaking, Cameron said he was just following what excited him.
"People seek out the information and knowledge they need," he said. "It's like a divining rod."
The mythologist Joseph Campbell similarly talked about how reading is like "a divining rod," a way to find what you are uniquely attracted to and meant to do.
"You’ve got to read," Campbell said. "Find [what] excites you. And if it doesn’t excite you…It’s not yours.”
Takeaway 2:
Of course, at some point, Cameron had to put the binders down and pick up a camera.
When he eventually attempted to make his first movie, Cameron said, “It was a bit like a doctor doing his first appendectomy after having only read about it."
The bestselling author and learning expert, Scott Young, has a great article with a great title, "Do The Real Thing."
"When you examine case studies of people who have had major accomplishments," Scott writes, "you expect there to be some trick or shortcut...More often, however, the strategy used is dead simple: doing the real thing."
Takeaway 3:
Leonardo da Vinci used to sign off his letters, “Leonardo da Vinci, disscepolo della sperientia” ("disciple of experience").
He used to believe that one learns best by solely "doing the real thing."
Over time, however, he evolved out of this belief and, biographer Walter Isaacson writes, "became a disciple of both experience and received wisdom."
When you examine case studies of people who have mastered their craft, you usually find they are "disciples of both experience and received wisdom."
Like Cameron, they read the library and they do the real thing.
- - -
“Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going.” — Leonardo da Vinci
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![bpoppenheimer's tweet photo. James Cameron has written & directed 3 of the top 4 highest-grossing movies of all time (Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Titanic).
Before he made movies, Cameron was a truck driver.
He didn't go to film school.
Instead, on the weekends, he would go to the library and..
"I'd pull any thesis that [University of Southern California] graduate students had written [on] anything that related to film technology," Cameron explained.
"And for the cost of xeroxing (photocopying), I [got] all these doctoral dissertations [and] build up these big binders on how everything was done."
"So I literally gave myself a full graduate course on film technology for about $120.
I didn’t have to enroll in school because it was all there in the library. I’d set it up to go in like I was on a tactical mission, find out what I needed to know, and take it all home."
Takeaway 1:
When asked what motivated him to read those big binders full of information on filmmaking, Cameron said he was just following what excited him.
"People seek out the information and knowledge they need," he said. "It's like a divining rod."
The mythologist Joseph Campbell similarly talked about how reading is like "a divining rod," a way to find what you are uniquely attracted to and meant to do.
"You’ve got to read," Campbell said. "Find [what] excites you. And if it doesn’t excite you…It’s not yours.”
Takeaway 2:
Of course, at some point, Cameron had to put the binders down and pick up a camera.
When he eventually attempted to make his first movie, Cameron said, “It was a bit like a doctor doing his first appendectomy after having only read about it."
The bestselling author and learning expert, Scott Young, has a great article with a great title, "Do The Real Thing."
"When you examine case studies of people who have had major accomplishments," Scott writes, "you expect there to be some trick or shortcut...More often, however, the strategy used is dead simple: doing the real thing."
Takeaway 3:
Leonardo da Vinci used to sign off his letters, “Leonardo da Vinci, disscepolo della sperientia” ("disciple of experience").
He used to believe that one learns best by solely "doing the real thing."
Over time, however, he evolved out of this belief and, biographer Walter Isaacson writes, "became a disciple of both experience and received wisdom."
When you examine case studies of people who have mastered their craft, you usually find they are "disciples of both experience and received wisdom."
Like Cameron, they read the library and they do the real thing.
- - -
“Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going.” — Leonardo da Vinci
Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyDsJLPXsAIX5UE.jpg)
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Tom Petty's first solo album, "Full Moon Fever," includes some all-time great songs: Free Fallin', I Won't Back Down, and Runnin' Down a Dream.
But when Petty took the album to the record label MCA in 1987, they rejected it.
There are no hits here, MCA said.
“I was hurt so bad,” Petty said of the rejection. “It was just a board to the forehead.”
"The rejection knocked him down," Petty's biographer writes. Petty was depressed. He stopped making music. And he tried to completely forget about the album.
Then, something incredible happened.
Petty went to a dinner hosted by two Warner Bros. Records executives, Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker.
After dinner, another musician in attendance, The Beatles' George Harrison, said, “Let’s get the guitars out and sing a little bit.”
Harrison and Petty played a couple of songs, and then Harrison said, "Let’s do that Free Fallin’ song, Tom. Play that.”
After Petty sang Free Fallin', Waronker said, "that's a hit."
“Well, [MCA] won’t put it out,” Petty said. Then Osten said, “I’ll fuckin’ put it out.”
With his band, The Heartbreakers, Petty was locked into a contract with MCA, so he couldn't release an album with Warner Bros. But he could tell MCA about Warner Bros.' interest in the album.
And that's what he did. "I [went] back [to MCA] and I played them the same record," Petty said, "and they were overjoyed...They put it out. And it was a huge hit."
Takeaway 1:
MCA initially said that the album "Full Moon Fever" had no hits on it. In 2021, the opening track, Free Fallin', was named one of the top 500 songs of all time.
The filmmaker William Goldman famously wrote that this is "the single most important fact of the entire movie industry" (and it applies to all creative industries):
“Nobody knows anything."
"Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows what's going to work.”
"Trying to predict public taste," Goldman writes, "[is] just not possible."
Takeaway 2:
When Petty played the album for MCA, they didn't think it was any good. When he played it for the Warner Bros. guys, they wanted to sign him on the spot.
Dr. Edith Eger's son was born with athetoid cerebral palsy. The first doctor Eger took him to told her that her son might not make it to high school.
“That’s when I asked,” she said, “‘Where do I get a second opinion?”
Eger took her son to another doctor, who saw great potential in the boy. Indeed, he went on to graduate
top in his class from University of Texas.
“This is a country of second opinions,” Dr. Eger says.
---
"Did you know that Raiders of the Lost Ark was offered to every single studio in town—and they all turned it down? All except Paramount. Why did Paramount say yes? Because nobody knows anything. And why did all the other studios say no? Because nobody knows anything. And why did Universal, the mightiest studio of all, pass on Star Wars, a decision that just may cost them, when all the sequels and spinoffs and toy money and book money and video-game money are totaled, over a billion dollars? Because nobody, nobody—not now, not ever—knows the least goddam thing about what is or isn’t going to work." — William Goldman
Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!
![bpoppenheimer's tweet photo. Tom Petty's first solo album, "Full Moon Fever," includes some all-time great songs: Free Fallin', I Won't Back Down, and Runnin' Down a Dream.
But when Petty took the album to the record label MCA in 1987, they rejected it.
There are no hits here, MCA said.
“I was hurt so bad,” Petty said of the rejection. “It was just a board to the forehead.”
"The rejection knocked him down," Petty's biographer writes. Petty was depressed. He stopped making music. And he tried to completely forget about the album.
Then, something incredible happened.
Petty went to a dinner hosted by two Warner Bros. Records executives, Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker.
After dinner, another musician in attendance, The Beatles' George Harrison, said, “Let’s get the guitars out and sing a little bit.”
Harrison and Petty played a couple of songs, and then Harrison said, "Let’s do that Free Fallin’ song, Tom. Play that.”
After Petty sang Free Fallin', Waronker said, "that's a hit."
“Well, [MCA] won’t put it out,” Petty said. Then Osten said, “I’ll fuckin’ put it out.”
With his band, The Heartbreakers, Petty was locked into a contract with MCA, so he couldn't release an album with Warner Bros. But he could tell MCA about Warner Bros.' interest in the album.
And that's what he did. "I [went] back [to MCA] and I played them the same record," Petty said, "and they were overjoyed...They put it out. And it was a huge hit."
Takeaway 1:
MCA initially said that the album "Full Moon Fever" had no hits on it. In 2021, the opening track, Free Fallin', was named one of the top 500 songs of all time.
The filmmaker William Goldman famously wrote that this is "the single most important fact of the entire movie industry" (and it applies to all creative industries):
“Nobody knows anything."
"Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows what's going to work.”
"Trying to predict public taste," Goldman writes, "[is] just not possible."
Takeaway 2:
When Petty played the album for MCA, they didn't think it was any good. When he played it for the Warner Bros. guys, they wanted to sign him on the spot.
Dr. Edith Eger's son was born with athetoid cerebral palsy. The first doctor Eger took him to told her that her son might not make it to high school.
“That’s when I asked,” she said, “‘Where do I get a second opinion?”
Eger took her son to another doctor, who saw great potential in the boy. Indeed, he went on to graduate
top in his class from University of Texas.
“This is a country of second opinions,” Dr. Eger says.
---
"Did you know that Raiders of the Lost Ark was offered to every single studio in town—and they all turned it down? All except Paramount. Why did Paramount say yes? Because nobody knows anything. And why did all the other studios say no? Because nobody knows anything. And why did Universal, the mightiest studio of all, pass on Star Wars, a decision that just may cost them, when all the sequels and spinoffs and toy money and book money and video-game money are totaled, over a billion dollars? Because nobody, nobody—not now, not ever—knows the least goddam thing about what is or isn’t going to work." — William Goldman
Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsU2nKHWAAARUHY.jpg)
On today's ACDE call, Ethereum devs agreed to schedule the Shanghai upgrade on the Goerli testnet for March 14th at epoch 162304. Goerli is the final public testnet where devs will test staked ETH withdrawals before activating the code change on mainnet.
https://t.co/IBHjPQEuzR
Excited to announce that Flashbots is successfully running a block builder inside an SGX enclave!
This brings us a step closer toward transaction confidentiality and decentralization of the block building role.
Tons of open learnings, code and tooling! ⚡️
https://t.co/rrlLq6jxLW
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