Devcon #1 - Vitalik Buterin | A New Era for Ethereum
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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Devcon 6. The first Devcon for Bankless, the conference was a ton of fun and an amazing cultural experience in Bogota, Colombia.
Vitalik Buterin—of course—joins us in the first in a series of interviews we held on location in Bogota, covering the context and magnitude of Devcon, Vitalik’s conference lifestyle, and a new era for Ethereum in a post-merge world.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:25 What is Devcon?
7:18 Past Devcons
13:17 A New Chapter for Ethereum
16:45 Parallel Development
19:50 Arbitrum x Prysm
24:40 The zkEVM
27:04 Vitalik’s Conference Lifestyle
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Resources:
Vitalik Buterin
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Nicholas Nation, welcome to the DevCon 6 Experience. |
| 0:08.2 | I just got back from DevCon Bogota and it was my first DevCon and I had a ton of fun. |
| 0:12.8 | And this is something I do every time I go to a conference, some big conference. |
| 0:16.1 | I try and come back with as much content and interviews as possible. |
| 0:19.8 | So this trip come back with about 10 interviews between 10 to 20 minutes in length from a |
| 0:24.5 | variety of members throughout the Ethereum community. |
| 0:27.6 | I want to give you the experience that I had and many other people had if you were not |
| 0:31.4 | able to make it to DevCon. |
| 0:33.0 | Or maybe you were able to make it to DevCon, but you were just too busy doing the hackathon |
| 0:36.5 | and tending the booths and you didn't get to talk to everyone that you wanted to talk |
| 0:39.5 | to. |
| 0:40.5 | So I pulled in as many different people I could to get their perspective as to what DevCon |
| 0:43.5 | was for them, what they're paying attention to in the future, and overall just how |
| 0:47.3 | much fun do they have while hanging out in Bogota, Colombia. |
| 0:51.1 | First up in the list, Vitalik Buterin of course, and we talk about a number of different things |
| 0:55.7 | throughout DevCon. |
| 0:56.8 | He's been to every single DevCon, so I asked him about the history of DevCon and how |
| 1:00.4 | DevCon has progressed forward as Ethereum has progressed forward. |
| 1:03.9 | And I also make the point about how DevCon isn't really just a tech conference. |
| 1:08.1 | It's also something much more than that. |
| 1:10.5 | So what does DevCon actually do for the Ethereum ecosystem? |
| 1:14.5 | And then we just go through the list of a variety of other subjects as well, such as what |
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