THE PROTOCOL: The Zuzalu Retreat, Million-Dollar Bitcoin Art, and Ethereum Diversity Dilemma
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Grants are sparked by a retreat led by Vitalik Buterin, and creations akin to NFTs are minted on the Bitcoin blockchain, garnering attention at Sotheby's. Meanwhile, a glitch in Ethereum's Nethermind client software resulted in the removal of 8% of validators.
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In this installment of "The Protocol," hosts Brad Keoun, the founding editor of The Protocol Newsletter, and tech journalists Sam Kessler and Margaux Nijkerk, explore the following stories:
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Zuzalu - Vitalik Buterin-Led Retreat in Montenegro
The program aims to continue the "growth of the pop-up city movement" and "support technology-driven projects,” according to a post on Gitcoin.
Genesis Cat NFT Sells for $254K in Sotheby's Auction
The sale of the digital image from the Taproot Wizards project came as popularity surges for the NFT-like creations minted atop the Bitcoin blockchain's Ordinals protocol. All in, some 19 lots sold by Sotheby's raked in a combined $1.1 million.
Ethereum outage
The lion's share of Ethereum's validators rely on the same piece of software to power their operations. According to some experts, this could be a big risk.
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Zuzalu, Vitalik Buterin-Led Retreat in Montenegro, Inspires Grants for 'Zu-Villages'
Bitcoin-Based Digital Art Image 'Genesis Cat' Sells for $254K in Sotheby's Auction
Bug That Took Down 8% of Ethereum's Validators Sparks Worries About Even Bigger Outage
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Protocol is sponsored by the Stellar Community Fund. |
| 0:07.9 | Dive deep into the blockchain realm with the protocol podcast, with Coindesk founding editor of the protocol newsletter, Brad Cowan and tech journalists, Sam Kessler and Margo Nykirk. |
| 0:19.2 | They unravel the intricate technologies powering cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, one block at a time. |
| 0:26.6 | Just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello and welcome to the Protocol podcast. I'm Brad Cowan here with my co-hosts tech reporters Margo Nykirk and Sam Kessler. |
| 0:43.3 | We're so excited about today's episode. We're going to dive right into the latest news and developments in technology behind crypto and blockchains. |
| 0:52.8 | First, please do not forget to subscribe to our weekly newsletter, |
| 0:56.8 | The Protocol on coindusk.com. |
| 1:00.4 | It comes out on Wednesdays, and it's really good. |
| 1:03.3 | So we're going to talk about some of that today, |
| 1:06.3 | and let's get right into it. |
| 1:07.8 | And our first news story we're going to discuss. |
| 1:11.7 | Margo, this was such a fun story you did. |
| 1:15.6 | The headline is Zuzaloo. |
| 1:18.6 | Vitalik Buterin-led retreat in Montenegro inspires grants for zoo villages. |
| 1:26.6 | It's like a lot of things that people probably have no idea |
| 1:29.9 | what any of that is. But Margo, I think you wrote about Zuzaloo. You were probably the first |
| 1:37.2 | person to do a really cool feature story on Zuselu. Start with telling people what that is and then |
| 1:42.6 | transition into what this latest story is. |
| 1:46.2 | Yeah. So Zuzaloo was a conference that was held back. It was a two-month-long, I should call it an event, not really a conference that was held back from March to May in Montenegro. |
| 1:59.0 | And it wasn't necessarily crypto-focused, but there was a lot of |
| 2:03.9 | presence from figures in the crypto blockchain industry, including Vitalik Buter and the co-founder |
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