We need Censorships
summary
Censorship means limiting access to data, and on Ethereum it appears at three layers: consensus layer, application (dApp) layer and social layer. OFAC’s Tornado Cash sanctions lead validators, builders and relays to drop transactions — studies show roughly 35% rising toward 51% participation in censoring blocks — while Gitcoin removed Farsi grants and MetaMask bans some IPs. Proposed fixes are concrete: build surveillance resistance so censorship is infeasible, and experiment with inclusion lists to force-canonicalize blocked transactions.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Defining censorship
- 3:33Curation and moderation
- 6:31Censorship on Ethereum
- 9:24Risks of blockchain censorship
- 11:51Blockchain censorship problem
- 13:35Solutions for censorship resistance
- 14:38Berlin Manifesto and ethics
- 15:43Call to action
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