The following is a conversational Vitalik buterin, his second time on the podcast.

Vitalik is the co-founder of Ethereum and one of the most influential people in cryptocurrency

and technology broadly defined.

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As a side note, let me say that Ethereum, Bitcoin, and many other cryptocurrencies have

been taking a wild ride of prices going up and down in the past few months.

To me, the prices were never as important as the ideas, both technical and philosophical.

Cryptocurrency has the potential to empower billions of people to participate in the global

economy in a way that resists the manipulation by centralized power.

Also, with smart contracts, layer 2 technologies, data pools, NFTs, and of course integration

of artificial intelligence into the whole thing, we have the opportunity to build tools

and worlds that transform physical and digital life as we know it, hopefully minimizing

the suffering in the world and maximizing the fun.

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