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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Ethereum - Is There a Software Engineering Lead?

Proof of stake and sharding are both challenging. The reason is that proof of stake is kind of just a change to how the consensus layer works. Sharding does both that, but it's also a change to the networking layer. So most of the networking layer in cryptocurrency is you're shouting broadcast messages. And this is more like ad hoc networks. But do you have like a bunch of subnet like, exactly, and you have to switch between? Oh, man, I'd love to see the, so it's a beautiful idea.

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