#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0
Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(08:18) - Shiba Inu story
(25:35) - Regulation
(29:48) - Crime
(34:54) - Proof of stake vs proof of work
(47:43) - Miner extractable value
(53:19) - Scaling
(54:42) - Bitcoin blocksize wars
(1:00:51) - Hard fork vs soft fork
(1:04:34) - Craig Wright
(1:11:18) - Scaling: Sharding
(1:18:07) - Scaling: Rollups
(1:26:30) - Polygon and other Layer 2 technologies
(1:34:11) - Merging PoS and PoW chains
(1:43:49) - Lessons learned from Ethereum 2.0 failure incidents
(1:52:35) - Bitcoin vs Ethereum
(1:58:30) - Dogecoin
(2:04:38) - Elon Musk
(2:07:15) - Chainlink
(2:10:35) - Charles Hoskinson and Cardano
(2:18:08) - AI safety
(2:23:07) - NFTs
(2:25:57) - Scams
(2:35:34) - Longevity
(2:44:55) - Does death give meaning to life?
(2:50:38) - Lex and Vitalik speak Russian
(2:54:29) - Meaning of life
(2:59:48) - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and WWII