Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #80
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as a fascinating conversation showing how the Ethereum founder thinks.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2020 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec neillyons · 2020-12 · on “Ask HN: Best Talks of 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]
Recommends ZephyrBlu · 2020-08 · on “Trust Models”
Not related to this topic, but I recently watched Lex Fridman's podcast episode with him and it was really interesting as well: [this video] .
Recommends mjgs · 2021-02 · on “Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]”
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 contract
Cites zakember · 2021-06 · on “World Bank rejects El Salvador request for Bitcoin help”
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)