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by category:
- MEV
  + relays
    * Bid cancellations considered harmful
    * Optimistic relays and where to find them
    * An Optimistic Weekend
    * Towards ePBS an Optimistic Roadmap
    * Optimistic Relay Proposal
  + enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation
    * Consider the ePBS
    * ePBS – the infinite buffet
    * Relays in a post-ePBS world
    * Payload-Timeliness Committees
    * Why Enshrine Proposer-Builder Separation?
    * Equivocation Attacks in mev-boost and ePBS
  + misc.
    * Mechan-stein
    * On block-space distribution mechanisms
    * Execution Tickets
    * Timing Games – implications and possible mitigations
    * dr. changestuff or: how i learned to stop worrying and love mev-burn

- proof-of-stake
  + `ETH` the asset
    * Issuance Issues — Initial Issue
    * Issuance Issues — Subsequent Soliloquy
    * Issuance Issues — Tertiary Treatise
    * My (e)thesis: settlement, data availability, execution — in that order.
  + ethereum consensus
    * Concurrent Block Proposers in Ethereum
    * Rollup-centric roadmap, 2024 version
    * A set-theoretic view of Ethereum coteries
    * Time, Slots, and the ordering of events in Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
  + EIP-7251; MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE
    * MAXEB Consolidation
    * Slashing penalty analysis – EIP-7251
    * EIP-7251 FAQ
    * Increase the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE – a modest proposal
  + censorship resistance
    * The case for ILECTRA
    * Inclusion Lists PoC Specification
    * Inclusion lists: execution, consensus, & engine spec overview
    * Unconditional Inclusion Lists
    * Resistance is not futile; CR in mev-boost
    * No free lunch – a new inclusion list design
  + liquid staking/restaking
    * The risks of LRTs
    * Magnitude and direction of Lido attack vectors
    * Can we find Goldilocks? Musings on “two-tiered” staking, a native Liquid Staking Token design

- misc
  + On 0x3d84
  + Solo staking rig
  + Implementing Iterative Mixed Refinement in STRUMPACK
        

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by year:

2024

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→ My (e)thesis: settlement, data availability, execution — in that order.
     by Mike
     https://hackmd.io/@mikeneuder/ethesis

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→ Mechan-stein
     by Mike
     https://ethresear.ch/t/mechan-stein-alt-franken-ism/20321

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→ On block-space distribution mechanisms
     by Mike, Pranav, & Tim Roughgarden
     https://ethresear.ch/t/on-block-space-distribution-mechanisms/19764

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→ Issuance Issues – Tertiary Treatise
     by Mike
     https://hackmd.io/@mikeneuder/iitt

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→ Issuance Issues – Subsequent Soliloquy
     by Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/subsol

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→ Issuance Issues – Initial Issue
     by Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/iiii

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→ The Case for ILECTRA
     by Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/the-case-for-ilectra

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→ Inclusion Lists PoC Specification
     by Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/il-poc-spec

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→ The risks of LRTs
     by Mike & Tarun
     https://ethresear.ch/t/the-risks-of-lrts/18799

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→ Concurrent Block Proposers in Ethereum
     by Mike & Max
     https://ethresear.ch/t/concurrent-block-proposers-in-ethereum/18777

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→ Rollup-Centric Roadmap (2024 version) (mike+stokes version) (From The Vault)
     by Mike & Stokes
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/rcr2vmsvftv

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→ Consider the ePBS
     by Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/consider-the-epbs

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→ Inclusion lists: execution, consensus, & engine spec overview
     by Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/il-spec-overview

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→ Unconditional inclusion lists
     by Mike and Toni
     https://ethresear.ch/t/unconditional-inclusion-lists/18500

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Validator consolidation in EIP-7251
     by Francesco & Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@fradamt/maxeb-consolidation

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2023

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Execution tickets
     by Justin and Mike
     https://ethresear.ch/t/execution-tickets/17944

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The persistence of timing games
     by Caspar and Mike
     https://ethresear.ch/t/timing-games-implications-and-possible-mitigations/17612

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Dr. changestuff or: how i learned to stop worrying and love mev-burn
     by Mike, Toni, and Justin
     https://ethresear.ch/t/dr-changestuff-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-mev-burn/17384

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On 0x3d84a438af72f6396785eea97b32f903520e36c8
     by Mike
     https://github.com/michaelneuder/michaelneuder.github.io/blob/master/public/on0x3d84.pdf

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A set-theoretic view of Ethereum coteries
     by Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/set-theoretic-ethereum

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Magnitude and direction of Lido attack vectors
     by Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/magnitude-and-direction

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Resistance is ~not futile; CR in mev-boost~
     by Mike
     https://ethresear.ch/t/resistance-is-not-futile-cr-in-mev-boost/16762

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solo-staking rigt
     by Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/solo-staking-rig

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ePBS – the infinite buffet
     by Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/infinite-buffet

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Can we find Goldilocks? Musings on “two-tiered” staking, a native Liquid Staking Token design.
     by Mike
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/goldilocks

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Slashing penalty analysis; EIP-7251
     by Mike and Barnabé
     https://ethresear.ch/t/slashing-penalty-analysis-eip-7251/16509

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No free lunch – a new inclusion list design
     by Vitalik and Mike
     https://ethresear.ch/t/no-free-lunch-a-new-inclusion-list-design/16389

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Relays in a post-ePBS world
     by Mike, Jon, Hasu, Tomasz, Chris, and Toni
     https://ethresear.ch/t/relays-in-a-post-epbs-world/16278

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FAQ on EIP-7251; Increasing the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE
     by Mike, Francesco, Dapplion, and Mikhail
     https://notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/eip-7251-faq

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Payload-timeliness committee (PTC) – an ePBS design
     by Mike Neuder and Francesco D'Amato based on discussions with Potuz and Terence Tsao
     https://ethresear.ch/t/payload-timeliness-committee-ptc-an-epbs-design/16054

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Increase the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE – a modest proposal
     by Mike Neuder, Francesco D'Amato, Aditya Asgaonkar, and Justin Drake
     https://ethresear.ch/t/increase-the-max-effective-balance-a-modest-proposal/15801

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Why enshrine Proposer-Builder Separation? A viable path to ePBS
     by Mike Neuder and Justin Drake
     https://ethresear.ch/t/why-enshrine-proposer-builder-separation-a-viable-path-to-epbs/15710

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Bid cancellations considered harmful
     by Mike Neuder and Thomas Thiery
     https://ethresear.ch/t/bid-cancellations-considered-harmful/15500

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Time, slots, and the ordering of events in Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
     by Georgios Konstantopoulos and Mike Neuder
     https://www.paradigm.xyz/2023/04/mev-boost-ethereum-consensus

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Optimistic relays and where to find them
     by Ankit Chiplunkar and Mike Neuder
     https://frontier.tech/optimistic-relays-and-where-to-find-them

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Equivocation attacks in mev-boost and ePBS
     by Francesco D'Amato and Mike Neuder
     https://ethresear.ch/t/equivocation-attacks-in-mev-boost-and-epbs/15338

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An optimistic weekend
     by Mike Neuder, Niclas Blomberg, and Justin Drake
     https://github.com/ultrasoundmoney/mev-boost-relay/blob/prod-optimistic-relaying/docs/optimistic/an-optimistic-weekend.md

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Towards enshrined PBS — an optimistic roadmap
     by Mike Neuder
     https://github.com/michaelneuder/optimistic-relay-documentation/blob/main/towards-epbs.md

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Optimistic Relay Proposal
     by Mike Neuder
     https://github.com/michaelneuder/optimistic-relay-documentation/blob/main/proposal.md

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2020

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Implementing Mixed-Precision Iterative Refinement in STRUMPACK
     by Michael Neuder

     strumpack.pdf

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