DEBATE: BTC vs ETH; Which is more Sound Money?
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🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
BTC vs. ETH. It's the crypto title fight.
Crypto is a non-zero sum game, but there can only be one #1 blockchain. Which of the two giants has the better monetary policy? What about roadmap? Community? Culture?
Tune in as the two communities square off to find out which protocol is the more sound.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:00 Dennis, Muneeb, and Justin
7:09 What is Money?
11:18 Soundness
14:32 Properties of Bitcoin
19:45 Bitcoin's Security
25:33 Stacks vs Rollups
31:55 Blockspace Value
35:25 Fee Markets & Security
41:05 Properties of Ethereum
45:08 Weak Subjectivity
53:07 Proof-of-Stake
1:01:55 Money vs Smart Contract Platform
1:08:17 Stacks
1:13:24 Money & Execution Layers
1:17:25 Attacking the Network
1:25:27 Slashing & Hard Forks
1:30:37 Soundness & Monetary Policy
1:39:02 Ossifying and Innovation
1:43:29 Closing & Disclaimers
Resources:
Justin on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/drakefjustin?s=20
Dennis on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Dennis_Porter_?s=20
Muneeb on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/muneeb?s=20
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Bankless Nation, today we are having a special episode, a debate about Bitcoin and |
| 0:11.4 | Ether, the infamous debate which one is money? |
| 0:14.8 | What is sound money? |
| 0:15.8 | Which one is more sound money? |
| 0:17.6 | And joined me, co-moderating this debate, is Dennis Porter, who I've actually done one |
| 0:22.2 | of these debates with before. |
| 0:23.7 | So this is actually round two of a ETH versus Bitcoin sound money debate. |
| 0:29.5 | Dennis, are you ready to get started with this? |
| 0:32.4 | Yeah, I'm ready. |
| 0:33.4 | Thank you for having me on. |
| 0:34.4 | David, I really appreciate it. |
| 0:35.4 | I had a really great time last debate that we went back and forth. |
| 0:39.3 | It was mostly civil for the most part, so it was a good back and forth. |
| 0:42.9 | We were able to discuss our points. |
| 0:44.7 | It was more of a general Bitcoin versus Ethereum type of conversation, but this one looks |
| 0:49.6 | like we're going to be focusing a lot on sound money aspect of Bitcoin versus Ethereum. |
| 0:54.2 | So I'm looking forward to having it. |
| 0:55.2 | We'll be joined by a couple of great ones as well. |
| 0:57.5 | Absolutely. |
| 0:58.5 | And so as last debate, it was just me versus Dennis, and then eventually we tapped in some |
| 1:03.0 | people from the audience. |
| 1:04.2 | We are bringing in some technical people as well. |
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