Bankless founder: Ethereum L1 execution hardware requirements should be the latest two generations of MacBook Pro

David Hoffman, founder of Bankless, wrote on X Platform that “Ethereum development has prioritized L2 execution for more than 2 years. This is at the expense of L1 execution. L1 execution lags behind Moore’s Law, while L2 receives undue growth and valuation subsidies from L1. Therefore, we should re-prioritize our work on L1 execution. I agree with @MaxResnick1 that L1 hardware requirements should be ‘latest 2nd generation Macbook Pro’, which is completely consistent with the social contract of individual stakers. This increases the accessibility of Ethereum L1 to 10x more users at a low cost. The argument against this is that the Ethereum ecosystem needs to be reorganized around less synchronous composability - growing L1 execution will reduce the urgency of solving this problem. Ethereum centered on rollup is the right roadmap - let’s face the problem.”