Dmitry Buterin | Layer Zero
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🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Dmitry Buterin joins David for the premiere of Layer Zero, a new Bankless podcast that explores the human side of Ethereum. Beneath the technological innovation and socioeconomic disruption happening in the DeFi space, there are human beings – really interesting, thoughtful, passionate human beings. Layer Zero is at the bottom of the economic stack: the people.
For the debut episode, it only made sense to bring on Dmitry, father of Ethereum founder Vitalik. Topics include Vitalik’s youth, Soviet Russia, and universal consciousness, but they don’t stop there. How often does Dmitry check ETH Price? What’s his workout routine? Tune in and find out.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:00 Dmitry Buterin
6:30 Growing Up in the Soviet Union
11:27 Learning Computer Science
17:02 Vitalik’s Youth
20:58 A Gifted Kid
22:43 Mindfulness & Spirituality
26:43 Kindness & Compassion
32:00 Ethereum & Spirituality
39:57 Political Compass
45:21 Canada & Vitalik’s Social Skills
49:20 The World Traveler
55:29 Conferences & Safety
1:00:23 ETH Price
1:01:48 Exercise
1:03:52 Hanging Out
1:04:53 A Chaotic World
1:07:00 Consciousness & Communism
1:15:56 A March to Universal Consciousness
1:18:48 Exporting Values
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Resources:
Dmitry on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/BlockGeekDima?s=20
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Layer 0. |
| 0:15.4 | Layer 0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that make up the Ethereum |
| 0:19.8 | community. |
| 0:20.8 | Ethereum is built by code, but it's composed by people, and each individual member of |
| 0:26.1 | the Ethereum community has their own story to tell. |
| 0:28.8 | The CypherPunks understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it. |
| 0:32.8 | And Layer 0 focuses on the people behind the code, because Ethereum is people all the way |
| 0:37.8 | down, and it always has been. |
| 0:40.4 | On the first episode of Layer 0, I'm excited to have a conversation with Demetri buterin. |
| 0:45.7 | And if we're calling this Layer 0, I think Demetri buterin might be Layer negative 1. |
| 0:51.2 | Demetri buterin is the father of Vitalik buterin, the guy that kicked off this whole Ethereum |
| 0:56.0 | movement. |
| 0:57.0 | And I really wanted to have him on as the first guest because of the relationship between |
| 1:01.6 | the DNA of the people that make up this industry and the actual things that come to manifest |
| 1:07.2 | on it in code. |
| 1:08.2 | I think there's a relationship there. |
| 1:10.2 | Demetri was born in Russia and was raised in communist Russia. |
| 1:16.3 | And we go through the story of what that was like, his first introduction into computers, |
| 1:22.6 | his computer science major at university. |
| 1:25.8 | And then moving into the world, he's in now where he lives in Canada. |
| 1:30.6 | Demetri is focused on the world of meditation and mindfulness, and that is a topic of conversation |
| 1:37.4 | that I'm also very interested in as well. |
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