#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0

One of the issues with late twenty century thinking is the mentality that nature is good and disruptions from nature are bad. Nature can be in terms of actual scientific nature but also anything with similar characteristics, such as free markets in financial markets. COVID-19 has really flipped a lot of minds, as it's been undeniable that the defau... See more

One of the philosophical things that I hope to achieve is to decouple the concept that public goods have to come from one central organization.

Trying to combine the value of decentralization and open source to make it sustainable in supporting those working on these projects, without turning that support into the centralization of a group.

"Technologies tend to automate workers doing boring tasks, blockchains automate the intermediary. Instead of taxi drivers, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly"