Balaji Srinivasan Launches The Network State Podcast With First Guest Vitalik Buterin

The Network State Podcast

Balaji Srinivasan and Vitalik Buterin

Episode 1 | February 2023

A discussion between Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan on starting new countries, improving yourself, and upgrading Ethereum.

OUTLINE

00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - A brief history of Ethereum 16:54 - The DAO hack 20:32 - The Devcon 2 attack 33:24 - The Merge 35:52 - Ethereum Roadmap 47:41 - The de-OFACization of Ethereum? 1:06:18 - Starting new countries 1:22:20 - Svalbard 1:27:29 - Network effects 1:33:12 - Regulation as a bounding box 1:35:42 - What new country would Vitalik start? 1:39:39 - Network states and social networks 1:43:19 - Advice on leveling up 1:51:17 - How Vitalik learned Chinese 1:55:14 - Learning by doing LINKS

1) Ethereum Average Block Time: https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethere... 2) What is EIP-1559: https://consensys.net/blog/quorum/wha... 3) Quadratic Hash problem: https://bitcoinclassic.com/devel/Quad... 4) The merge: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge 5) MEV watch: https://www.mevwatch.info/ 6) Sousveillance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousvei... 7) Best weather cities to live in the US: https://wired.com/2014/02/see-u-s-cit... 8) Global passport ranking: https://passportindex.org/byRank.php?... 9) Longyearbyen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyea... 10) Demography of the Roman Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra... AUDIO

1) Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 2) Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/10yi2HX... CREDITS

Editing: https://twitter.com/DholakiaJaydeep Images: https://twitter.com/elijah10t SOCIAL

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin https://twitter.com/balajis https://thenetworkstate.com

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