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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #188

Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum.

Lex FridmanhostVitalik Buteringuest
Jun 3, 20213h 2mWatch on YouTube ↗

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EPISODE INFO

Released
June 3, 2021
Duration
3h 2m
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Lex Fridman Podcast
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Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

EPISODE LINKS: Vitalik's Twitter: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin Vitalik's Blog: https://vitalik.ca/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:19 - Shiba Inu story 18:35 - Regulation 22:48 - Crime 27:54 - Proof of stake vs proof of work 40:44 - Miner extractable value 46:20 - Scaling 47:43 - Bitcoin blocksize wars 53:51 - Hard fork vs soft fork 57:34 - Craig Wright 1:04:18 - Scaling: Sharding 1:11:07 - Scaling: Rollups 1:19:30 - Polygon and other Layer 2 technologies 1:27:11 - Merging PoS and PoW chains 1:36:49 - Lessons learned from Ethereum 2.0 failure incidents 1:45:35 - Bitcoin vs Ethereum 1:51:30 - Dogecoin 1:57:38 - Elon Musk 2:00:15 - Chainlink 2:03:35 - Charles Hoskinson and Cardano 2:11:09 - AI safety 2:16:08 - NFTs 2:18:58 - Scams 2:28:34 - Longevity 2:37:55 - Does death give meaning to life? 2:43:38 - Lex and Vitalik speak Russian 2:47:29 - Meaning of life 2:52:48 - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and WWII SOCIAL:

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  • Lex Fridman

    host
  • Vitalik Buterin

    guest

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Vitalik Buterin, Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #188 explores Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum’s Future, Power, Ethics, and Longevity Vitalik Buterin and Lex Fridman explore Ethereum’s roadmap, focusing on proof-of-stake, sharding, and rollups as the path to massive scalability with lower energy use and stronger security guarantees.

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