138 - What's Next? Vitalik Buterin | Part I
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🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
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Vitalik Buterin is a crypto-economic researcher, author of the Ethereum Whitepaper, builder, and philosopher. He also recently published a new book titled, “Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains.”
In his first Bankless appearance post-merge, Vitalik shares his behind-the-scenes perspective on the merge, looking back—what he would’ve done differently, and most importantly—what’s next?
This is a two-part episode that you don’t what to miss! Part one is all about what’s next for Ethereum. And part two covers more of the social/philosophical realm of holistically, what is Ethereum. Further, Vitalik explores his thoughts on artificial intelligence and its relationship to crypto.
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Topics Covered
0:00 Intro
10:28 What Will Trolls Focus on Next?
11:34 The Merge From Vitalik’s Perspective
15:10 PoS Energy Reduction
27:09 Why PoS Took So Long
32:03 Truly Optimal PoS
35:12 What Vitalik Would Change
37:30 Where Are We in Ethereum’s Trajectory
52:53 The Economics of Staking
1:02:15 Centralization of Stake Worry
1:11:40 Censorship Resistance Problem
1:15:15 Validator Choices
1:18:30 Have L2s Lived Up to the Hype
1:20:37 The 2023-2024 Ethereum Era
1:25:41 Closing
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Resources:
Vitalik Roadmap Bankless Episode
https://youtu.be/b1m_PTVxD-s
Vitalik’s Vlog
https://vitalik.ca/
Vitalik’s New Book
https://www.amazon.com/Proof-Stake-Ethereum-Philosophy-Blockchains/dp/164421248X/
The Ethereum Roadmap
https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1466411377107558402
Paths to Single Slot Finality
https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/single_slot_finality
MEV Boost
https://www.mevboost.org/
DAOs are not corporations
https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/09/20/daos.html
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
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| 0:15.3 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become more bankless. |
| 0:22.0 | What's next with Vitalik Buterin? |
| 0:24.6 | That is the topic today. |
| 0:26.6 | We're doing this episode in two parts. |
| 0:29.0 | The focus is what's next in general, and specifically what's next for Ethereum. |
| 0:34.6 | In part one, which is being released today, we're going through the Ethereum roadmap from |
| 0:39.2 | a technical perspective. |
| 0:40.6 | This is the short to medium term. |
| 0:43.6 | In part two, we touch on the social, the philosophical, some of the deeper questions |
| 0:48.9 | around the thing that we've built called Ethereum and its impact for the world. |
| 0:54.2 | It's going to come out on the following Monday. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm going to give you a teaser of part one before we get into it and also part two. |
| 1:01.9 | Part one, that's today's episode. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to get Vitalik's reaction on the merge. |
| 1:07.2 | It took eight years to get here. |
| 1:09.4 | How did he feel? |
| 1:10.4 | We asked him that question. |
| 1:11.7 | Ethereum also no longer burns energy. |
| 1:15.1 | What are the green arguments for proof of stake? |
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