# @pcaversaccio: most people designing the Ethereum protocol don't use Ethereum th

Source: https://x.com/pcaversaccio/status/2113612790212808867
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Submitted by tim on 2026-10-23 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

A tweet by @pcaversaccio argues that the main problem with Ethereum protocol design is that most of the people designing it do not use Ethereum themselves. The post contends that designers without personal dependence on the system, and without financial exposure when it breaks, cannot identify the right things to fix. It describes such designers as operating from an "ivory tower" and "playing god" with a system whose consequences they do not have to bear.

## Article

look the foundational problem with ethereum protocol design is that most of the people designing the protocol don't actually use ethereum themselves. you can't fix the right things if you don't use your own fucking product. you don't have enough skin in the game if you don't personally depend on the system you're designing & stand to lose money when it breaks. i understand, everything looks great from an ivory tower lol. things look very different when you're actually on the ground dealing with the consequences. if you don't use ethereum yourself but still think you're qualified to design its protocol, you're playing god with a system you don't have to live with and whose consequences you don't have to suffer.