Lane Rettig on The Failure of Ethereum Governance

In this interview, Peter McCormack talks with Ethereum Core Developer Lane Rettig. They discuss the Ethereum foundation, why Lane quit, ethics, hypocrisy, decentralisation vs scalability, and building better institutions.

Episode timestamps:

00:00:00 Introduction 
00:06:16 Different approaches 
00:17:31 Code is law? 
00:29:20 Ethereum Foundation 
00:39:56 Irreperably broken? 
00:52:34 Failed governance 
01:04:16 Why did it fail? 
01:16:47 Incentives & influence 
01:29:22 Disband the foundation? 
01:41:05 Naivete & moving targets 
01:51:42 Sacrificing decentralization

The episode premiered on October 1, 2021.