⚡️ A Philosophy of Subtraction - by saffron - Reboot
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How the Ethereum Foundation drives innovation through delegation
In September, I promised that one of our goals for the Reboot newsletter would be to uncover “how the sausage gets made”—teasing apart the marriages and tensions between theory and practice, peeking behind the scenes at how technologists understand the ethics and impact of their work. This incredibly researched essay by Saffron Huang is one of the best (and only?) analyses of the Ethereum Foundation, one of the most quietly influential yet important organizations shaping crypto today. It spotlights their professed “philosophy of subtraction,” an unusual approach for a frontier technology…
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