Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin), co-founder of Ethereum, joins Patrick Blumenthal (@PatrickJBlum) to discuss the future of crypto and technology. Topics discussed:

- How is crypto starting to influence mainstream culture and corporations?
- Is crypto positive or negative for nation states?
- How much of crypto is innovation versus regulatory arbitrage?
- Should we be reforming existing institutions to adopt crypto, or forming new ones?
- How is exit possible in 2022? What role could DAOs play?
- Vitalik’s thoughts on the War in Ukraine
- Vitalik’s thoughts on San Francisco after COVID
- Is the world becoming more centralized or decentralized?
- Is civilizational collapse in the next 50 years likely?
- Vitalik’s request for startups
- Vitalik’s thoughts on the future of cities