Fusaka Upgrade: More Bandaids, Less Decentralization?

Another Upgrade? Seriously? So, Ethereum's doing another "upgrade," huh? "Fusaka," they're calling it. Sounds like some kind of experimental sushi. Anyway, apparently, it's supposed to make everything faster and cheaper. PeerDAS, Blob-Only Parameters (BPO)... give me a break. It's the same old song and dance. More band-aids on a system that's creaking like an old pirate ship. They're promising 100,000+ TPS (transactions per second) through Layer-2 rollups. Okay, great. But let's be real, who's actually using Ethereum for anything other than trading JPEGs and yield farming some fly-by-night DeFi token? I mean, I use it to pay for stuff online, offcourse, but is anyone really using it in the real world? Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Is Coming on Dec 3 — 100K TPS, Lower Fees & the Road to $3,500 ETH And this PeerDAS thing? Nodes only need to store 1/8th of the data? Sounds… suspiciously like cutting corners. Like saying, "Yeah, we're still decentralized, just *less* decentralized." How long before that 1/8th becomes 1/16th, then 1/32nd? At some point, you gotta ask: are we even pretending anymore?

"Elastic Scaling" or Elastic Band-Aid?

"Elastic Scaling" - More Like "Elastic Excuses" Then there's the BPO fork, which apparently allows them to "dynamically adjust Blob parameters." "Elastic scaling," they call it. I call it "making it up as you go along." It's like they're admitting the original design was fundamentally flawed. Which, let's be honest, it was. Ethereum was supposed to be the "world computer," but it's turned into a glorified database for crypto casinos. And the blob fee adjustment? Linking the Blob base fee to the L1 base fee? So, even when nobody's using the network, we're still going to pay *something*? That's some next-level price fixing right there. They say it'll have a "minimal impact on user costs," but I'll believe it when I see it. It's like when airlines started charging for baggage. "Oh, it's just a small fee," they said. Now you're paying more to check a bag than you paid for the damn ticket. Oh, and they're raising the gas limit to 60 million. Because that's totally going to solve the congestion problem. It's like adding another lane to the highway – for about five minutes, it might seem better, but then traffic just expands to fill the new space.

"User Experience" or Developer Wish Fulfillment?

User Experience? More Like "Developer Convenience" And don't even get me started on the "user experience" upgrades. Native support for secp256r1 elliptic curve? What does that even *mean* to a normal person? Sounds like they're making it easier for developers to build more complicated scams, not making it easier for my grandma to buy a cup of coffee with crypto. This is a long con. "Oh, we're improving user experience," they say, while simultaneously making the whole system more opaque and complex. And honestly... I'm not even sure what the end game is here. Are they trying to compete with Visa? Replace the dollar? Or just keep the gravy train rolling for the Ethereum Foundation? They say this upgrade will "shape the economic model of L2 settlement" and "influence ETH deflation dynamics." Translation: "We're hoping this will make us rich, but we have no freaking clue if it'll actually work." Then again, maybe I'm the crazy one here. Maybe this Fusaka upgrade *will* magically solve all of Ethereum's problems. Maybe it *will* usher in a new era of decentralized finance and global prosperity. Nah. Probably not. What a Waste of Time Look, I'm not saying crypto is dead. But Ethereum? It's starting to feel like a zombie project. They keep throwing money and engineering at it, hoping to revive it, but the underlying problems are still there. The fees are too high, the system is too slow, and nobody outside of the crypto bubble cares. They can upgrade all they want, but they can't fix the fundamental lack of real-world utility. It's like trying to build a skyscraper on a foundation of sand. It might look impressive for a while, but eventually, it's all going to come crashing down.