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It's great for a 'bounty program' - but it speaks negatively to the intercity of a system that is not supposed to have any centralised control.

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I think it speaks to the reality of a development process lead by humans in uncharted territory. Figure it out, audit it, test it for a long time, eventually cross fingers and blow the fuses. After that, either it successfully becomes a permanent public fixture, or maybe there's a small chance it implodes one day, who knows?

Certainly anything that's absolutely mission critical should not live on these L2 networks yet.

"I think it speaks to the reality of a development process lead by humans in uncharted territory."

Yes, exactly, and that's why we can't have distributed systems with 'no central authority' - if those systems are inherently and always faulty there needs to be intervention of some kind by an 'authority'.

There is no such thing as a trestles system, the whole thing depends on webs of trust.

I guess we’ll find out Soon(TM). Trustless computation is the plan. Maybe it’s possible to build a system that’s correct/antifragile enough, when you restrict yourself to some hundreds of lines of code tops?

That could be true, but it doesn't matter until we find a real use case that transcends our regular systems.

Optimism, Arbitrum, and other Ethereum L2 rollups plan to have decentralized sequencers.

It’s all new technology so they’re taking it slow.

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