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devcon 7 / why ethereums issuance policy is redacted

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Why Ethereum's Issuance Policy is [redacted]?

Duration: 00:28:14

Speaker: Ansgar Dietrichs, Caspar Schwarz-Schilling

Type: Talk

Expertise: Intermediate

Event: Devcon

Date: Nov 2024

This talk explores the status quo of staking economics, its drawbacks as we see them and what the future of staking economics could look like.

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