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<p><b>OUTLINE:</b><br />
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.<br />
(00:00) – Introduction<br />
(08:18) – Shiba Inu story<br />
(25:35) – Regulation<br />
(29:48) – Crime<br />
(34:54) – Proof of stake vs proof of work<br />
(47:43) – Miner extractable value<br />
(53:19) – Scaling<br />
(54:42) – Bitcoin blocksize wars<br />
(1:00:51) – Hard fork vs soft fork<br />
(1:04:34) – Craig Wright<br />
(1:11:18) – Scaling: Sharding<br />
(1:18:07) – Scaling: Rollups<br />
(1:26:30) – Polygon and other Layer 2 technologies<br />
(1:34:11) – Merging PoS and PoW chains<br />
(1:43:49) – Lessons learned from Ethereum 2.0 failure incidents<br />
(1:52:35) – Bitcoin vs Ethereum<br />
(1:58:30) – Dogecoin<br />
(2:04:38) – Elon Musk<br />
(2:07:15) – Chainlink<br />
(2:10:35) – Charles Hoskinson and Cardano<br />
(2:18:08) – AI safety<br />
(2:23:07) – NFTs<br />
(2:25:57) – Scams<br />
(2:35:34) – Longevity<br />
(2:44:55) – Does death give meaning to life?<br />
(2:50:38) – Lex and Vitalik speak Russian<br />
(2:54:29) – Meaning of life<br />
(2:59:48) – Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History and WWII</p>