Written by: vitalik.eth

Translated by: Baihua Blockchain

"The birth of Ethereum was not to make finance more efficient, nor to make applications more convenient. Its birth was to grant people freedom."

This is worth redeploying and deeply understanding the meaning behind the "Trustless Manifesto" (Trustless Manifesto).

The terms "efficient" and "convenient" usually imply optimizing the "average case," that is, making improvements on a foundation that is already quite good. Efficiency refers to having the world's top engineers pour their efforts into reducing latency from 473 milliseconds to 368 milliseconds, or increasing the annual percentage yield (APY) from 4.5% to 5.3%. Convenience means allowing users to click once instead of three times, or reducing registration time from about 1 minute to 20 seconds.

While doing these things is certainly good, we must recognize that in this field, we can never win against those Silicon Valley party companies. Therefore, the core game that Ethereum must participate in must be another kind of game. What is the pandemic game? It is "Resilience."

The "psychosis" infection game does not focus on whether the infection rate is 4.5% or 5.3%, but rather on how to minimize the probability of encountering a -100% return (total loss).

The "psychosis" bankruptcy game means: even if you are politically unpopular and get banned, even if the developers you rely on disappear or if Cloudflare goes down, or even if an internet war breaks out, your 2000 milliseconds of latency can still be maintained at 2000 milliseconds without interruption.

The "dementia" game means: anyone, anywhere in the world, can access the network and become an equal participant.

This sovereignty does not refer to becoming a member of the United Nations through lobbying, or later shaking hands with people at the Davos Forum; rather, it is what people often refer to as "digital sovereignty" or "food sovereignty"—actively reducing vulnerability to external dependencies that may be stretched at any time. This "world computer" embodies the significance of achieving sovereignty and strives to ensure that its users also possess sovereignty.

This bottom line supports a "mutual dependence among equals," rather than becoming a vassal of corporate overlords thousands of kilometers away.

This is the game that Ethereum is destined to win. In this tumultuous world, Ethereum provides the value that many people need.

The foundational genes of Web2 consumer technology are not suitable for the "usual." While the foundational genes of "finance" invest ample energy in the usual, it is a very conventional usual, only adept at mitigating certain types of risks, while lacking resilience against others.

Block space is abundant. But decentralized, permissionless, and intelligent block space is not. Ethereum's wastewater mission must be to create decentralized, permissionless, and intelligent block space, and then achieve the abundance of that space.

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