@theycallmedan has put a line in the sand. He did it on Twitter also.
Earlier today he had a recording where he literally called the blockchain scaling trilemma "bullsh^t". He followed it up with theoffer to debate anyone on the topic.
In this video I go through what he said and how it applies to Hive. We are gaining a lot of insight into the mechanisms that SpkNetwork and VSC are employing with regards to the future direction of Hive and smart contracts.
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The Trilemma was meant to be a Schema, like a chart type in Excel, fitting to show ETH and its EVMs with their attributes. That post was part of Vitalics' efforts to promote ZK operations. Back at that time, it wasn't so certain that the ETH community as a whole would be interested to see them on the "main" chain.
He stated later, that his post doesn't make sense for cross-chain comparisons to him either.
Now, unfortunately, Vitalic has lost a lot of power in the ETH community over the last two years. Some of that is by design, because he was like a single point of failure, or still is to some degree. A different argument can be made, that some of his posts have been very alien to the brought Blockchain Dev community.
let me add just a couple of words to the Trilemma, this is the most neutral look at it:
I've always found it fascinating to explore the impact of transaction costs on this idea. If this is the only perspective you're focusing on currently, then as transaction fees increase, all three aspects should deepen. Moreover, in this worldview, decentralization, security, and scalability are often seen as competing forces. This means that you can either excel in handling a lot of transactions (scalability) or in protecting the system (security). That can only be true if you talk about the old-school POW ETH, it's like bending the world to your needs, promoting the metaphor to an axiom of the universe. Sufficiently confusing to not get called out by everyone, that is what it exceeds in the most.
However, the ultimate security feature in Blockchaintown is actually data transparency combined with the option to opt-out. This illustrates the concept that being adaptable (anti-fragile) is better than just being strong (hard/secure). And immediately brings to mind our journey as humans, a species of mammals on this Earth. We've emerged victorious in the evolutionary race largely due to our anti-fragility, haven't we? Sure we never won a bite battle vs a Tiger or arm wrestling vs a Silverback Gorilla.