Summary: Support the show, consider donating: 3PCV8LKfA9952FTF9Y4wGTUmYikEgHws34 (http://bit.ly/1AHdNNW) At just 20-years young, Vitalik Buterin is one of the most brilliant minds in the cryptocurrency space. Previously, a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, he has conceptualized Ethereum, the most radical and ambitious cryptocurrency project since Bitcoin. After raising $18m in a crowdsale, a team of over 30 are working on launching the project by March 2015. In his work on designing a system for the future, he has been grappling with many of the hardest problems in the cryptocurrency space over the past year. In a fascinating discussion, we covered: - How Ethereum has evolved since the white paper - The problems of Proof-of-Work - Why Proof-of-Stake is the future of consensus protocols - Why his main focus has been on consensus issues and scalability - Why Bitcoin will never be stable enough to price things in - The flawed ideology of ‘Bitcoin maximalism’ that prevents people from considering Proof-of-Work alternatives Links mentioned in this episode: - Ethereum: http://ethereum.org - How to get started: Your first DApp in under one hour: https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1402/how-to-get-started-your-first-dapp-under-one-hour - Ethereum Proof-of-Concept 7: https://github.com/ethereum/cpp-ethereum/wiki - Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/25/proof-stake-learned-love-weak-subjectivity/ - Slasher: A Punitive Proof-of-Stake Algorithm: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/01/15/slasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm/ Sponsors: - Gems: http://getgems.org - Shapeshift: https://shapeshift.io - Fairlay: http://fairlay.com Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/058 YouTube: http://youtu.be/qPsCGvXyrP4 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture. - Visit our website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com - Subscribe to our newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter - Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc
