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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #188

Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
1:19 – Shiba Inu story
18:35 – Regulation
22:48 – Crime
27:54 – Proof of stake vs proof of work
40:44 – Miner extractable value
46:20 – Scaling
47:43 – Bitcoin blocksize wars
53:51 – Hard fork vs soft fork
57:34 – Craig Wright
1:04:18 – Scaling: Sharding
1:11:07 – Scaling: Rollups
1:19:30 – Polygon and other Layer 2 technologies
1:27:11 – Merging PoS and PoW chains
1:36:49 – Lessons learned from Ethereum 2.0 failure incidents
1:45:35 – Bitcoin vs Ethereum
1:51:30 – Dogecoin
1:57:38 – Elon Musk
2:00:15 – Chainlink
2:03:35 – Charles Hoskinson and Cardano
2:11:09 – AI safety
2:16:08 – NFTs
2:18:58 – Scams
2:28:34 – Longevity
2:37:55 – Does death give meaning to life?
2:43:38 – Lex and Vitalik speak Russian
2:47:29 – Meaning of life
2:52:48 – Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and WWII

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59 comments

  1. Sadago

    He’s a very nice person that is also contributing in turning all of the world’s economy into this nightmarish dystopia of financial speculation and I find that… pretty interesting in “road to hell + good intentions” kinda way

  2. Lex Fridman

    Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast.
    0:00 – Introduction & sponsor mentions:
    – 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
    1:19 – Shiba Inu story
    18:35 – Regulation
    22:48 – Crime
    27:54 – Proof of stake vs proof of work
    40:44 – Miner extractable value
    46:20 – Scaling
    47:43 – Bitcoin blocksize wars
    53:51 – Hard fork vs soft fork
    57:34 – Craig Wright
    1:04:18 – Scaling: Sharding
    1:11:07 – Scaling: Rollups
    1:19:30 – Polygon and other Layer 2 technologies
    1:27:11 – Merging PoS and PoW chains
    1:36:49 – Lessons learned from Ethereum 2.0 failure incidents
    1:45:35 – Bitcoin vs Ethereum
    1:51:30 – Dogecoin
    1:57:38 – Elon Musk
    2:00:15 – Chainlink
    2:03:35 – Charles Hoskinson and Cardano
    2:11:09 – AI safety
    2:16:08 – NFTs
    2:18:58 – Scams
    2:28:34 – Longevity
    2:37:55 – Does death give meaning to life?
    2:43:38 – Lex and Vitalik speak Russian
    2:47:29 – Meaning of life
    2:52:48 – Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History and WWII

    1. Victoria J

      This video keeps coming up in my autoplay even though I disliked it. How can I get youtiube to stop forcing this video on me? It’s seriously started playing at least 30 times. The huge number of views is from youtube forcing this on people. I wish I could block it somehow. So sick of this corrupt creep Vitalik. Make him go away.

    1. Philip Hemerlein

      That’s why everybody says do your own research, everybody dances around topics and “can’t talk because of “sensorship” lol “ wow parentheses in parentheses, lol won’t see that again

  3. Scrub Five

    The end of the conversation about immortality through digital consciousness scared the heck out of me. But of course, they have a good point about our brain evolving to still find meaning in different phases of life or whatever. But I also agree that death makes life so valuable. Idk how I feel about this. I guess I won’t live to see the day anyway.

    1. Jedi

      Making advancements in medicine to live longer and healthier is wonderful. Take it one step further and understand your power comes from improving yourself spiritually. Scientology works so well that I split my efforts 50 50.

  4. J

    This was such an informative and touching interview. I had tears streaming down my face feeling the love, care, and hope you carry for humanity. I am so out of my depth in web3, but I am determined to learn and participate in this quantum opportunity to free humans. Much gratitude ?

  5. Rozay Nelly

    It’s amazing to see ETH doing well at 3.2k after all the doomsday analyses from naysayers. Indeed, the stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. Good to remind people of this right now; you buy on fear and sell on greed or just hold through it all for the long term. It’s easy but lots of people forget. Thanks for all you do Lex!

  6. Tdot321 Action

    These conversations are enlightening. Love to see more controversial topics being discussed especially those conversations that Lex disagrees with. Agreement or just understanding isn’t learning.

  7. Jeffrey Neltner

    My condolences about your brother Christopher. I lost both my brothers some years back and it just sucks.

    Your brother was a warrior and a beast.
    I agree these things should only embolden us more to go after our best life

    I truly appreciate you pushing me to take action years back and finally man up and realize that fact.

    Prayers for you and your family.

    Fly high Cody

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