1/ SBF retweeting the co-founder of NEAR, who suggests that eth1 and eth2 should remain separate chains forever, contrary to the ethereum community's consensus that eth1 will be embedded in eth2 as of eth1.5.

Why are they doing this? https://twitter.com/ilblackdragon/status/1324408910246113280

2/ imo, because if ethereum's L2s succeed (they will) and there's a seamless transition from eth1 to eth2 (there will be), then the ethereum killers' reason to exist, as well as their window of opportunity, is diminished.

3/ For those who may think that embedding eth1 into eth2 may not happen, consider that the success of this is worth literally tens of billions of dollars to the ethereum community. We want to shed proof of work's billions/yr in expense and migrate eth1's network effects to eth2.

4/ It's great that NEAR wants to support eth1. Yet, they shouldn't suggest that eth1+2 stay separate (this decision is clearly behind us), or that the "current eth1 is here to stay, for years to come" when the EF estimates that eth1.5 will launch in 2021.

https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/#phase-one-five