Below is an AI transcription of Erik Voorhee’s keynote speech at the CoinCenter 10th anniversary dinner for visual consumption. I found this speech to be quite profound and laying out the foundation for understanding Bitcoin (and other “sound” blockchains) and their existence:

This post is to follow up on my rationale for how I distributed my vote for the Optimism RetroPGF Round 2 and some thoughts relating to the results, a retrospective and how RPGF3+ could help better distribute future rounds to public goods.

Firstly, I am immensely grateful to have the opportunity to participate in the Optimism RetroPGF Round 2 as a badgeholder and also as a project contributor to help explore and experiment with how to solve our public goods funding problems. I value that there is no concrete method to doing this optimally as we all explore the best methods to allocating 10M Optimism tokens to ensure we make the greatest impact in positively growing the Ethereum + Optimism ecosystems for the world. This post is to outline my thought process as I navigate 197 projects nominated for this round.