Devcon #4 - Péter Szilágyi | Building Geth
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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Welcome to Devcon 6. The first Devcon for Bankless, the conference was a ton of fun and an amazing cultural experience in Bogota, Colombia.
Péter Szilágyi is a Core Developer for Ethereum, building the Geth client. One of the most important people in the Ethereum ecosystem, Peter has been tirelessly building critical infrastructure for the last 8 years.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:00 Building Geth
5:25 Emerging Worlds
7:42 Forking Geth
9:15 The App Layer
13:30 A Helpful Community
17:09 Ethereum’s Weaknesses
21:00 The Purpose of Ethereum
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Resources:
Peter
https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, Bangladesh Nation, to the DevCon 6 experience coming up next in these |
| 0:07.9 | line of interviews. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm talking with Peter from the guest team. |
| 0:11.2 | I don't really know if Peter has ever done an interview before. |
| 0:15.0 | Peter is one of these core devs that is heads down and just believes in Ethereum. |
| 0:20.2 | Even though his a hot take is that most of the stuff that we do on the Ethereum app layer |
| 0:24.6 | is just like a bunch of shenanigans that he's confused by. |
| 0:28.2 | But he still is one of the core and most important people in this space, hirelessly and relentingly |
| 0:34.3 | building out Geth for the rest of us to use. |
| 0:36.8 | And not just the Ethereum ecosystem, but Geth is that consensus client, the execution |
| 0:41.4 | client of Ethereum, that so many people have forked and spun off and built their own |
| 0:45.0 | blockchain and raised billions of dollars, like avalanche, phantom, like any like alt layer |
| 0:51.4 | one. |
| 0:52.4 | The whole meme of like forking Geth and then juicing it up and then raising 100 million |
| 0:56.4 | dollars comes from Geth. |
| 0:57.9 | And a lot of Peter's work and other people's of the guest team. |
| 1:00.8 | So I asked Peter about how he feels about all of this and overall just what it's like |
| 1:04.8 | been building Geth for the last eight plus years now. |
| 1:09.0 | So I hope you enjoy this interview, but first I'm going to talk about some of these fantastic |
| 1:12.4 | sponsors that make the show possible. |
| 1:14.1 | In all of my years in crypto, I've never been hacked, scammed or phished. |
| 1:17.5 | And I owe a large part of that credit to my ledger Hardware wallet or really my ledgers, |
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