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: <a href="https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_block_time">https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_block_time</a>
2) What is EIP-1559: <a href="https://consensys.net/blog/quorum/what-is-eip-1559-how-will-it-change-ethereum">https://consensys.net/blog/quorum/what-is-eip-1559-how-will-it-change-ethereum</a>
3) Quadratic Hash problem: <a href="https://bitcoinclassic.com/devel/Quadratic%20Hashing.html">https://bitcoinclassic.com/devel/Quadratic%20Hashing.html</a>
4) The merge: <a href="https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge">https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge</a>
5) MEV watch: <a href="https://www.mevwatch.info">https://www.mevwatch.info</a>
6) Sousveillance: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance</a>
7) Best weather cities to live in the US: <a href="https://wired.com/2014/02/see-u-s-cities-get-least-days-pleasant-weather">https://wired.com/2014/02/see-u-s-cities-get-least-days-pleasant-weather</a>
8) Global passport ranking: <a href="https://passportindex.org/byRank.php?ccode=cn">https://passportindex.org/byRank.php?ccode=cn</a>
9) Longyearbyen: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyearbyen">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyearbyen</a>
10) Demography of the Roman Empire: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire</a>



VIDEO
YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xhPqZZYJSE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xhPqZZYJSE</a>



SOCIAL
<a href="https://thenetworkstate.com">thenetworkstate.com</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin">twitter.com/VitalikButerin</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/balajis">twitter.com/balajis</a>

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