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Exactly. This is admitting that Ethereum is not designed to scale at all for anything on-chain such that it needs half-baked "Layer 2" contraption like Polygon, zkEVM, zkSync, Optimism, etc to be remotely useful for people who are not millionaires wasting >$100k in fees to send $100.

Even so. If the service is not on a layer 2, then you have go through the bridging process of moving your ETH to and from layers which is more complicated than directly using a layer 1 blockchain.

These 'solutions' are telling everyone that Ethereum is never going to fix these issues and the duck-taped layer 2 contraptions are now making it even harder for 'normies' to just 'use it'.



It is designed to be secure at scale. Not much else is doing that over a long period, yet.


Which popular alternatives to ETH are /technically/ insecure according to you?




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