#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 Lex Fridman Podcast

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:

Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

(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