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Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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  EPISODE LINKS:
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  Vitalik’s Blog: https://vitalik.ca/
  
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  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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