The Ethereum Merge: Transitioning to Proof of Stake

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OUTLINE:
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(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