Episode 13: Anthony Sassano of The Daily Gwei & ETHhub

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Anthony Sassano is an Independent Ethereum educator, angel investor, and advisor. He is the founder of The Daily Gwei (a daily newsletter and daily video recaps of the entire Ethereum ecosystem) and Co-Founder of EthHub provides research and resources to learn about Ethereum.

First Question:

Which crypto project spiked your interest first outside of BTC and ETH? And why?

Questions about Ethereum Staking :

How do you feel about the EIP-1559 since it’s launched? Did you make any interesting observations?

Staking is often described as a way to hedge inflation in crypto networks. How do you feel about that considering Ethereum‘s inflation may turn negative with EIP-1559

What needs to happen so that Bitcoiners will appreciate the monetary policy of Ethereum as they do for Bitcoin?

Ethereum has a staking economic design that is purposely chosen with no limit of validators. At the same time it does not support any delegation, which is meant to make as many people as possible to run validator nodes themselves. But at the same time this pushes a lot of stakers to use Staking Pools, which may or may not be very decentralized. How do you think does Ethereum compare here in terms of decentralisation to other networks with no limit to the number of validators, but supporting delegation - e.g. Tezos or others

Where would you position Ethereum in general as part of the Ecosystem of Proof of Stake Networks?

How do you expect the market for Ethereum Staking to change once Ethereum gets merged into Ethereum 2.0? Considering Rocket Pool and other solutions will go live too.

How much ETH do you think will be staked - let’s say a year after the merge?

What do you think about a potential competition between Staking ETH and supplying to other yield strategies or lending? Could this be a potential risk for the network?

What is your take on staking derivatives, do you think there can be many successful solutions? And are there even different use cases for different types of derivatives?

Do you think MEV (Miner Extractable Value) will be a problem for Ethereum 2.0 after the merge too? And what are the implications of this?

Are you worried at all that anything critical could go wrong with the merge of Ethereum?

What are you most excited about for Ethereum in the coming months? (Besides the merge)

What is in your opinion the best way to stake ETH if you have less than 32 ETH?

In your opinion what’s the best way to earn interest on ETH if you do not want to lock your tokens until the merge?

Last but not least: do you have any prediction when the merge will happen?