Ethereum is hard. Its mission is the most ambitious of any technology project in history. Where typically technologists seek to recreate industries using the latest innovations, like alt-L1s with payment systems, Ethereum is seeking to replace banking and

Ethereum will either forever remain a curious niche, or will supplant all existing orders into a new world that we can only begin to envision. One where an individual can make the money on their person more secure than the gold held at Fort Knox, and can single-handedly effect execute any kind of financial transaction faster and cheaper than a global banking system comprised of companies worth trillions of dollars.

It's a technological project whose success means total political and economic revolution. It's the grand culmination of several lines of technological evolution: from the discovery of language, math and writing, to the harnessing of electricity and the invention of computers. Its success will transition the core, governing institution of human civilization from analog to digital, leading to hyper-acceleration of the rate of innovation.