BTC vs ETH Technicals with Andrew Poelstra, Tadge Dryja, Vitalik Buterin & Patrick McCorry - WBD258
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 174 minutes
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Location: Squadcast Date: Thursday 3rd September Company: Blockstream, MIT Digital Currency Initiative, Ethereum, PISA Research Role: Director of Research, Research Scientist, Founder, Co-founder & CEO
In my recent Bitcoin Vs Ethereum show, I was joined by Samson Mow and Vitalik Buterin to discuss the philosophical differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum.
For me, the fundamental differences between the two are quite clear, where Bitcoin is conservative and slow, focusing on sound monetary policy, Ethereum is inflationary, experimental and has, what many consider unachievable goals.
Following the debate about the philosophical differences I was keen to expand the conversation into the technical differences between the two networks.
In this episode, I am joined by Andrew Poelstra, Tadge Dryja and Vitalik Buterin and Patrick McCorry. With Paddy as co-host, we discuss the fundamental and technical differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum, scalability and use cases.
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| 0:00.0 | So the point of Bitcoin is basically to be sound money and there are other goals that we have now |
| 0:07.0 | we care obviously about like scalability saying we care about privacy but soundness always comes first. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello there from Bedford, the Bitcoin Mecca of the world. |
| 0:18.0 | How are you all? |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast, |
| 0:21.0 | which is brought to you by the mighty Cracken the best place to buy sell and trade Bitcoin. I'm your host Peter |
| 0:26.4 | McCormack and today I have a second discussion looking at Bitcoin and |
| 0:30.2 | Ethereum going a bit more technical and this time I've got Andrew Polstra, Tajajer and Vitalik Bhutering |
| 0:36.0 | to look at this. I also asked Patrick McCorry to come on and help co-host this one |
| 0:41.0 | as it is a bit more technical and you know I'm not very technical. |
| 0:45.6 | But before we get into that I do have a message from all my amazing sponsors. |
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