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OUTLINE:
0:00 Introduction
1:19 Shiba Inu story
18:35 Regulation
22:48 Crime
27:54 Proof of stake vs proof of work
40:44 Miner extractable value
46:20 Scaling
47:43 Bitcoin blocksize wars
53:51 Hard fork vs soft fork
57:34 Craig Wright
1:04:18 Scaling: Sharding
1:11:07 Scaling: Rollups
1:19:30 Polygon and other Layer 2 technologies
1:27:11 Merging PoS and PoW chains
1:36:49 Lessons learned from Ethereum 2.0 failure incidents
1:45:35 Bitcoin vs Ethereum
1:51:30 Dogecoin
1:57:38 Elon Musk
2:00:15 Chainlink
2:03:35 Charles Hoskinson and Cardano
2:11:09 AI safety
2:16:08 NFTs
2:18:58 Scams
2:28:34 Longevity
2:37:55 Does death give meaning to life?
2:43:38 Lex and Vitalik speak Russian
2:47:29 Meaning of life
2:52:48 Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and WWII

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