Lex Fridman Podcast

#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

Jun 3, 2021

03:08:54

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Vitalik Buterin

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Redefining the Meaning of Money in Life

01:17

Understanding the origins of evil

01:46

The Complexity of Scams

01:33

Maximizing Scalability and Efficiency with ZK Roll-ups

01:22

Introduction

2min

The Low Carb Way of Showing Love

2min

How to Get a Free $75 Sponsor Job Credit to Upgrade Your Job Post

3min

Shiba Inu - What's It All About?

4min

The Shiba People Dumped to My Cold Wallet, Right?

5min

The Great Crypto Crash

3min

Is There Something You Can Extend to the Bigger Picture of Crypto?

2min

Decentralization and Open Source in Cryptocurrency

3min

Ethereum - What's the Best Case and Worst Case?

5min

10.

Is a Cryptocurrency Revolution Coming?

4min

11.

Psychedelics

2min

12.

Ethereum 2.0 - Proof of Stake and Charting

5min

13.

Proof of Stake Mining - It's Not Just About Energy

2min

14.

Is Proof of Stake Secure?

2min

15.

Ethereum Hacking

3min

16.

Is M.E.V. Minor Extractable Value an Existential Risk to Ethereum?

2min

17.

The Risk of Centralization in MEV Mining

3min

18.

The Future of Ethereum - Layer Two

2min

19.

Is There a Trade Off Between Block Size and Decentralization?

2min

20.

Bitcoin

4min

21.

Are Hard Forks the Right Way to Make Changes?

2min

22.

Bitcoin Cash

3min

23.

Craig Wright - Is He the Soshina Komodo?

3min

24.

What's the Difference Between Greg and Satoshi?

3min

25.

The Future of Sharding

2min

26.

Using Random Samples to Scale a Blockchain

4min

27.

How to Scale a Distributed Blockchain

2min

28.

What Are Rollups?

5min

29.

ZK Roll-Ups Are Going to Win Out in the Medium to Long-Term Battle Over Layer Two Technologies

2min

30.

ZK Stocks Are Still a Crazy New Technology, Right?

3min

31.

Polygon

3min

32.

Ethereum - What's the Tension?

3min

33.

Ethereum 1.0 Proof of Work - Proof of Stake Merge

4min

34.

Is the New Chain Going to Hold All the Information of the Past Transactions?

2min

35.

Ethereum Classic Isn't Switching to Proof of Stake?

2min

36.

What's Next for the Ethereum Merge?

2min

37.

What We Learned From Those Kinds of Incidents

2min

38.

Ethereum and the Multi-Client Architecture

3min

39.

Bitcoin and the Balanced Overflow Bug

3min

40.

Why Do We Need Bitcoin Plus Lightning Network for Scalability?

3min

41.

Is Ethereum a Core Technology?

4min

42.

Do You Fear the Doge?

2min

43.

Ethereum and Dogecoin to Work Together?

3min

44.

Tesla and Elon Musk's Journey Through the Cryptocurrency World?

2min

45.

Is Dogecoin the Most Entertaining Cryptocurrency?

4min

46.

Ethereum: Is There Positive Human Story to Be Told About Why YouTube Parted Way?

2min

47.

IOHK Research

2min

48.

Is There a Consensus Model?

4min

49.

AI Safety - Is There a Risk of AI Destroying the World?

4min

50.

What Do You Think of NFTs?

3min

51.

Is Bitcoin a Scam?

5min

52.

Is Bitcoin a Scam?

4min

53.

I'm Learning to Navigate This Space

2min

54.

Anti-Aging and Longevity Research

2min

55.

Do You Think Humans Can Eventually Live Forever?

5min

56.

Is There a Future for Humans?

3min

57.

Converting Consciousness Into Engineering Problems

4min

58.

You Know, You Can Have Conflict Without Bloodshed

2min

59.

Do You See Benefits to Speaking Multiple Languages?

3min

60.

You'll Save the World

3min

61.

Is There a Meaning to School?

2min

62.

The Last Year of COVID Life

2min

63.

How Do You Conciliate the Macro and the Micro?

6min

64.

Vitalik Buterin - A Conversation With Dan Carlin

2min

Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Vitalik’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin
Vitalik’s Blog: https://vitalik.ca/

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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

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Lex Fridman Podcast

#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

Episode guests

Redefining the Meaning of Money in Life

Understanding the origins of evil

The Complexity of Scams

Maximizing Scalability and Efficiency with ZK Roll-ups

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