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Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin is the founder and chief scientist at Ethereum. He discusses the nascent field of Cryptoeconomics, the best analogy for understanding the Blockchain, why belief in progress is our most useful delusion.
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On blockchain as a ‘world computer’
- A Blockchain, as a whole, functions like a computer. It has a hard drive and stores on it what all the accounts are.
- It stores the code of all the smart contracts, and what the memory of all the smart contracts are. It accepts incoming instructions that are signed transactions sent b...
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On future breakthroughs
Scalability can increase the capacity of Ethereum blockchain and become substantially cheaper and more ready for mainstream use.
User experience could be another breakthrough in terms of using the blockchain, not being as clunky and security.
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On Ethereum community
There are different circles in the Ethereum community, some overlapping, some not.
You could be a full-time employee of the Ethereum Foundation or its outpost in Singapore. You could be a groupie, someone who has intellectual ideas and hangs out with us. You could be part of Ethereum while...
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Building a smarter coin
Despite Mt.Gox and the Silk Road, bitcoin continued to enter the mainstream. At the end of 2014, Microsoft began accepting bitcoin payments. In 2015, other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum - also based on the blockchain - began to emerge.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Is a Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology. He has taught at Harvard and the University of Toronto and is an accomplished scientist on the psychology field.
Dr. Peterson is currently one of the world’s most popular public thinkers and writer of...
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