Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #188

Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Vitalik’s Blog: https://vitalik.ca/

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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

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