#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX to get 1 month of fish oil - Magic Spoon: https://magicspoon.com/lex and use code LEX to get $5 off - Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit - Four Sigmatic: https://foursigmatic.com/lex and use code LexPod to get up to 60% off - BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off EPISODE LINKS: Vitalik's Twitter: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin Vitalik's Blog: https://vitalik.ca/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: - Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (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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