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Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains is a 2022 collection of essays and posts by Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin, edited and contextualized by media scholar Nathan Schneider. Rather than offering a linear history or a beginner manual, it assembles writings produced before and during Ethereum’s rise to examine what blockchains could make possible beyond digital currency. The book moves among protocol design, cryptography, governance, economics, and public goods, reflecting Buterin’s belief that internet-native systems can coordinate people and resources in new ways. Its title points to the shift from energy-intensive proof of work toward proof of stake, but the scope is wider than consensus engineering. Buterin treats technical rules as social arrangements: choices about validation, incentives, privacy, and ownership affect who can participate and how collective decisions are made. The result is an intellectually demanding primary-source record of a major blockchain designer thinking through Ethereum’s ambitions, tradeoffs, and unresolved political implications.