Sebastian Bürgel builds technical solutions that empower the individual. He works at Gnosis as VP Technology and is founder of the private data exchange infrastructure HOPR. He previously co-founded two other technology startups: Validity Labs (blockchain education & services) and SONECT (fintech). Sebastian holds a Ph.D degree in Microtechnology from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich.

Sebastian Buergel

In this lightning talk I will present three major directions that we need to tackle to make Ethereum Cypherpunk:
1. Against popular trends, I call for increasing block time (instead of making it faster) to increase resilience via better DVT and mixnets - both are struggling with low latency blocks
2. Let's revive the Ethereum world computer, not just financial infrastructure and their implications
3. Rethink [d]app UX entirely - how does resilient human interaction feel like in the digital era?