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#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Bitcoin and the Balanced Overflow Bug

Einstein: There were basically two clients that were called Geth and Parity. But what happened as a result of us having two clients is that the attacker was just not able to come up with blocks that both clients were completely failing at processing. He says if Bitcoin had been a multiple implementation system, then what would have almost certainly happened is like one of the clients bugged out.

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