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HN recommends it as a fascinating conversation showing how the Ethereum founder thinks.
Lex Fridman interviews Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum, cryptocurrency and the future of money. The conversation also touches on technical topics such as quantum computing and mining.
“listening to the founder of Ethereum on the Lex Fridman podcast was fascinating.” (HN, 2020)
I don't want anything to do with cryptocurrencies but listening to the founder of Ethereum on the Lex Fridman podcast was fascinating. The way that guy thinks is just impressive. [this video]
Fascinating conversation showing how the Ethereum founder thinks.
I didn’t watch that one. So far I’ve only listened to a few. I mostly listen via the podcast feed. I posted the ones I liked to my linkblog ( [link] ): [2020-12-26] Lex Friedman Podcast #80 - Vitalik Buterin - Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money - Fascinating and well paced conversation with the founder of Etherium covering a wide range of topics including Satoshi Nakamoto, blockchains, proof of work and identity, PKI and digital signatures, Bitcoin, money, the Etherium origin story, smart contracts, software engineering and project governance challenges, proof of stake and consensus algorithms, sharding of storage and computation, Etherium 2.0, games built using smart contracts, Uniswap, AI and crypto, and closes on Immortality [this video] [2021-02-13] Lex Friedman Podcast #159 – Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading - Looks at the recent WalkStreetBets and Gamestop Saga that caused such a stir in the trading markets, then moves on to talk about hedge funds, shorting, new ways crypto and AI could change the world of finance, aswell as more esoteric topics like running a startup and the meaning of life [link] I might have a listen to the cringey one you linked to. I wonder if it was just an off day for him or perhaps he didn’t gel well with the guest.
Wide-ranging, well paced talk with the Ethereum founder from Bitcoin to immortality.
Yes. Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum founder) talks about this in his talk with Lex Fridman. According to him, the overhead of running a Quantum computer will be higher than the speed-up advantage you get by using it for mining. Link to his talk [this video] (43:00)
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