#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money

Vitalik Buterin is co-creator of Ethereum and ether, which is a
cryptocurrency that is currently the second-largest digital
currency after bitcoin. Ethereum has a lot of interesting technical
ideas that are defining the future of blockchain technology, and
Vitalik is one of the most brilliant people innovating this space
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LINKS: Vitalik blog: https://vitalik.ca Ethereum whitepaper:
http://bit.ly/3cVDTpj Casper FFG (paper): http://bit.ly/2U6j7dJ
Quadratic funding (paper): http://bit.ly/3aUZ8Wd Bitcoin
whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Mastering Ethereum
(book): https://amzn.to/2xEjWmE This conversation is part of the
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the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be
able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 -
Introduction 04:43 - Satoshi Nakamoto 08:40 - Anonymity 11:31 -
Open source project leadership 13:04 - What is money? 30:02 -
Blockchain and cryptocurrency basics 46:51 - Ethereum 59:23 - Proof
of work 1:02:12 - Ethereum 2.0 1:13:09 - Beautiful ideas in
Ethereum 1:16:59 - Future of cryptocurrency 1:22:06 -
Cryptocurrency resources and people to follow 1:24:28 - Role of
governments 1:27:27 - Meeting Putin 1:29:41 - Large number of
cryptocurrencies 1:32:49 - Mortality