#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

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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