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/ethereum_average_block_time

2) What is EIP-1559: https://consensys.net/blog/quorum/what-is-eip-1559-how-will-it-change-ethereum

3) Quadratic Hash problem: https://bitcoinclassic.com/devel/Quadratic%20Hashing.html

4) The merge: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge

5) MEV watch: https://www.mevwatch.info

6) Sousveillance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

7) Best weather cities to live in the US: https://wired.com/2014/02/see-u-s-cities-get-least-days-pleasant-weather

8) Global passport ranking: https://passportindex.org/byRank.php?ccode=cn

9) Longyearbyen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyearbyen

10) Demography of the Roman Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire

VIDEO

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xhPqZZYJSE

CREDITS

Editing: twitter.com/DholakiaJaydeep

Images: twitter.com/elijah10t

SOCIAL

thenetworkstate.com

twitter.com/VitalikButerin

twitter.com/balajis