The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

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Decentralized networks require a consensus mechanism that can protect against a Sybil attack (where one attacker pretends to have many different accounts and outvotes everyone else)

Vitalik Buterin • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

“Digital scarcity was born with Bitcoin but now extending into things that are not fungible, not exchangeable with each other” – Naval Ravikant

Vitalik Buterin • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

Whereas Bitcoin is digital gold and favors a rising price, this isn’t necessarily the case with Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

As opposed to traditional finance, where, for instance, Robinhood trading and Wisdom Tree mutual fund cant combine with each other

Vitalik Buterin • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

Ethereum’s defining feature is unstoppable applications that run doesn’t trust or rely on any single entity to operate

Vitalik Buterin • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

Contrast this with the traditional world, where you don’t see Facebook airdropping its shares or Twitter sharing its revenue with its users

Vitalik Buterin • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

UniSwap is a decentralized finance protocol to exchange Cryptocurrencies on Ethereum. SushiSwap cloned the protocol and attempted to migrate the community. In response, UniSwap issued and airdropped its own token

Vitalik Buterin • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

In a sense, the value of bitcoin is in the currency with the blockchain as a side feature. While the value in Ethereum is the blockchain being used and Eth is the byproduct

Vitalik Buterin • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

Smart contracts are at the core of the ETH blockchain. Ethereum applications allow composability. That is, they can be built on top of each other like Lego blocks.

Vitalik Buterin • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

We are used to closed source companies capturing the value. Now, open-source protocols capture value. “This is the next phase of the internet after mobile” – Naval Ravikant

Vitalik Buterin • The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, on Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs. BTC, ETH2, Scaling Plans and Timelines, NFTs, Future Considerations, Life Extension, and More (Featuring Naval Ravikant) (#504) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss