The Chopping Block: Why the Once-Taboo MEV Is Now a Core Part of Ethereum - Ep. 449

Welcome to “The Chopping Block!” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, Flashbots co-founder Phil Daian joins the show to go deep on what maximal extractable value (MEV) means and how it’s shaping the Ethereum ecosystem.

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Show highlights:
🔹 how Phil started working in MEV and why he believes it resembles 'Alice in Wonderland'
🔹 Phil's definition of MEV and when he realized this was an actual problem
🔹 how Flashbots was born
🔹 the story of how Vitalik didn't care about sandwich attacks at the time Uniswap was released
🔹 whether it's possible to minimize MEV via more competition
🔹 the never-ending debate about whether MEV should be accepted
🔹 why Tarun thinks the concept of fair ordering is against nature
🔹 how Bitcoin uses social norms to solve its weaknesses
🔹 how Google is being called out in court for creating auction to front run its customers
🔹 how Flashbots worked prior to and after Ethereum's Merge
🔹 why Flashbots complies with OFAC sanctions
🔹 what is the Suave project and how it aims to decentralize Flashbots
🔹 what the future of MEV looks like

Hosts
Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital

Guest:
Phil Daian, founder and frontiersman at Flashbots

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