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L2s Won’t Scale Ethereum | Multicoin

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The Mismatch Between EVM and Physics and Silicon

I don't think any of those L2s are actually addressing the scaling problem from first principles. Whether you have an optimistic roll up or a ZK roll up, you're not actually making the execution of the transactions faster. And so I just kind of see a fundamental mismatch between like the core execution strategy of the EVM and what actually is physics and silicon. We actually already have the counterfactual for what happens when you get a big server and you turn up the gas limit on the EVM. That's called B&B chain. No one at Binance even suggests they can break 500 TPS. So I believe that if you are in an ecosystem where L2s

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