Vitalik Buterin

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Personal website - vitalik.ca

twitter.com/VitalikButerin

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Vitalik Buterin on creating one of the world’s largest cryptocurrencies

Feb 28, 2019

Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency in the world. Buterin says that bitcoin does one thing and does one thing well. He compares it to a plot key calculator whereas he sees Ethereum as a smartphone. A smartphone can run a plot key calculator app, but it can also run other apps.

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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, cryptocurrency, and the future of money | AI Podcast #80 with Lex Fridman

Mar 16, 2020

Vitalik Buterin is co-creator of Ethereum and ether, which is a cryptocurrency that is currently the second-largest digital currency after bitcoin. Ethereum has a lot of interesting technical ideas that are defining the future of blockchain technology, and Vitalik is one of the most brilliant people innovating this space today. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.

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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #188

Jun 4, 2021

Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum.

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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Article "Hacker Steals Over $690,000 After Hijacking Vitalik Buterin's Twitter Account"
A fake link promising an exclusive NFT was posted to the Ethereum inventor's feed.

by Nicholas Morgan
September 11, 2023