Best Yehoshua Zlotogorski Podcasts (2024)

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Nic Carter & Linda Jeng || DeFi Protocol Risk: The paradox of DeFi – Mastery Review (Part 2) 1:12:37

2y ago1:12:37

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"crypto markets are becoming highly interconnected with the traditional financial sector" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Al…

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Nic Carter & Linda Jeng || DeFi Protocol Risk: The paradox of DeFi – Mastery Review (Part 1) 33:05

2y ago33:05

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"crypto markets are becoming highly interconnected with the traditional financial sector" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Al…

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Ultimate Guide to L2s on Ethereum by DCBuilder - a Mastery review! (Part 2) 29:05

2y ago29:05

29:05

"In this article, I’ll talk about L2s on Ethereum, the state of the current scaling ecosystem, and why I believe running L2s on top of Ethereum is the most economically and technically sustainable scaling solution long term." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://lin…

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Ultimate Guide to L2s on Ethereum by DCBuilder - a Mastery review! (Part 1) 38:28

2y ago38:28

38:28

"In this article, I’ll talk about L2s on Ethereum, the state of the current scaling ecosystem, and why I believe running L2s on top of Ethereum is the most economically and technically sustainable scaling solution long term." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://lin…

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Is Proof of Stake a security? A Debate! Adam Cochran vs Adam Levitin 21:53

2y ago21:53

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"I'll take the opposed, in that I think there is decent precedent to find ETH to not be a security in a post-merge environment. Let's breakdown some specifics:" In this readthrough I'm going to Twitter for the first time to read a 43 long tweet thread (yup - 43 tweets) by @adamscochran, aka Adam Cochran, Partner at CEHV and Adj. Professor of Info S…

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Merge week replay: Why Proof of Stake by Vitalik Buterin 17:44

2y ago17:44

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IT'S MERGE WEEK! To celebrate I'm going back to the OG episode for this podcast - Vitalik's article on Why Proof of Stake! On Nov 6th 2020 Vitalik Buterin wrote a short article on why the Ethereum ecosystem is migrating to Proof of Stake (PoS). Despite the shift being planned for years there's a lot of discussion in the ecosystem on why Ethereum is…

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Blockchain Bite #8: All the resources you need to brush up 5:48

2y ago5:48

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The merge is coming - right next week! Here are some of my recent favorite pieces of content that cover the bull and the bear case. To read: The Complete Guide to Rollups: https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-complete-guide-to-rollups The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ethereum: https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-ether…

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The Bitcoin Whitepaper (plain readthrough) 25:37

2y ago25:37

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The Bitcoin whitepaper! This is a plain readthrough of the whitepaper. Here is the conclusion of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, if you can understand this section, you've understood the whitepaper: "We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust. We started with the usual framework of coins made from digital signatures, whi…

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The Bitcoin Whitepaper explained! 55:05

2y ago55:05

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The Bitcoin whitepaper explained! This is a readthrough of the whitepaper interspersed with commentary that breaks down the important parts and offers explanations and meaning. Here is the conclusion of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, if you can understand this section, you've understood the whitepaper: "We have proposed a system for electronic transaction…

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A look at the Lightning Network || Lyn Alden Part 3! 50:17

2y ago50:17

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"I continue to view the digitization of money as a key theme for the 2020s decade and beyond, both in bottom-up ways (e.g. bitcoins) and in top-down ways (e.g. central bank digital currencies), and am interested to see the directions that it goes in." Today we're reading part 3, the final part, of Lyn Alden's 1:30 hour long article on the state of …

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A look at the Lightning Network || Lyn Alden Part 2! 1:01:09

2y ago1:01:09

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"All manner of individual hardware electronic devices became mostly-obsolete as they became applications on a smart phone. I view the Bitcoin/Lightning stack as being similar. The network is still tiny and has a lot of development work still to do, and nothing is for certain. But to me it looks like a powerful monetary network with a ton of upside …

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Emergency pod! Coincenter analysis of Tornado Cash sanction 44:24

2y ago44:24

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"If the purpose of sanctions is not to punish, but to change behavior, then it makes no sense to add to the SDN List an immutable smart contract that cannot change its behavior because it has no agency. It is not a person nor is it under the control of any person. By conflating the Tornado Cash Entity and the Tornado Cash Application and adding bot…

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A look at the Lightning Network || Lyn Alden 1:01:31

2y ago1:01:31

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"A truly decentralized and permissionless payment network requires its own underlying self-custodial digital bearer asset. If instead it runs on top of the fiat currency system or relies on external custodial arrangements at its foundation, then it is neither decentralized nor permissionless." Today we're reading Lyn Alden's 1:30 hour long article …

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GHOST: Secure High-Rate Transaction Processing in Bitcoin || Yonatan Sompalinsky and Aviv Zohar 49:01

2y ago49:01

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"Bitcoin is a disruptive new crypto-currency based on a decentralized open-source protocol which has been gradually gaining momentum. Perhaps the most important question that will affect Bitcoin’s success, is whether or not it will be able to scale to support the high volume of transactions required from a global currency system. We investigate the…

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Tendermit: Consensus without mining by Jae Kwon 29:12

2y ago29:12

29:12

"Tendermint is awesome. The future is now" Today we're diving into the original whitepaper on modern proof of stake blockchains: Tendermint. This paper from 2014 lays the groundwork for many of the proof of stake blockchains that come after and is the basis for the entire Cosmos ecosystem. We'll breakdown why proof of stake over proof of work how c…

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When Token? What do Tokenomics actually solve? || Blockchain Bite #8 7:52

2y ago7:52

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When should you use tokenomics in your web3 project? What purpose does a token serve? Let's break down the core 'why' behind adding a token to your project and when you should or shouldn't use a token. This is the core question to ask when you evaluate a projects token or consider using a token in your own project.…

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Casper: The Friendly Finality Gadget || Vitalik Buterin & Virgil Griffith 47:29

2y ago47:29

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"We introduce Casper, a proof of stake-based finality system which overlays an existing proof of work blockchain. Casper is a partial consensus mechanism combining proof of stake algorithm research and Byzantine fault tolerant consensus theory. We introduce our system, prove some desirable features, and show defenses against long range revisions an…

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Three attacks on PoS Ethereum part 2 44:53

2y ago44:53

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"Honest-but-rational or ideologically motivated validators could use this attack to increase their profits or stall the protocol, threatening incentive alignment and security of PoS Ethereum. The attack can also lead to destabilization of consensus from congestion in vote processing." Part 2! Today we're reading through a recent paper that pokes so…

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"I believe in blockchain just not Bitcoin" || Blockchain Bite #7 6:21

2y ago6:21

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Have you heard the sentence "I believe in blockchain just not Bitcoin"? I have - many times. It's usually said by people who have a tech background and want to sound tech savvy but anti crypto. They want to hedge their bets: sound techhie but not crypto fanatics. They're missing the whole innovation that crypto and web3 bring. They're missing all o…

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Three attacks on Proof of Stake Ethereum 30:07

2y ago30:07

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"Honest-but-rational or ideologically motivated validators could use this attack to increase their profits or stall the protocol, threatening incentive alignment and security of PoS Ethereum. The attack can also lead to destabilization of consensus from congestion in vote processing." Today we're reading through a recent paper that pokes some serio…

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Is crypto an inflation hedge? 10:09

2y ago10:09

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A lot has been argued about whether crypto is or isn't an inflation hedge over the past few months. IMO the answer is clear: for any realistic time horizon, yes it is. But to understand why, we need to zoom out and dive into what inflation is and how an inflation hedge acts. Let's explore inflation, Bitcoin and Ethereum.…

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How to build moats in web3? The 5 powers framework || By Yehoshua Zlotogorski 22:53

2y ago22:53

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"So beyond a token, how can web3 protocols and companies build competitive moats that help them capture part of the value they’re creating? Below is a ‘five power’ framework on moats that web3 projects can utilize, beyond tokens." As always, you can support the show by supporting and subscribing to Alpe Audio: 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://li…

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Decentralized oracles? An interview with Nick Fett, CTO, Tellor 1:06:35

2+ y ago1:06:35

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Today I'm diving deep into the oracle problem with probably the most qualified person out there: Nick Fett, CTO of Tellor protocol. Tellor is a decentralized oracle protocol aimed to help Ethereum based projects solve the oracle problem. As we discuss, the oracle problem is a tough nut to crack, especially in a decentralized manner. It opens up pro…

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Ethereum's Centralization Dilemma Through Lido Staking || By Dap, Suresats.com 29:36

2+ y ago29:36

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"With 'The Merge' coming, up to 64 million total ETH will be available to be staked and become activated within one year. Lido’s size and network effect gives them a major advantage in absorbing this potential inflow as well." __________________________ 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to y…

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What is Byzantine Fault Tolerance? || Blockchain Bite 5 8:27

2+ y ago8:27

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BFT, aka Byzantine Fault Tolerance, is a key part of distributed systems consensus mechanisms. As we approach The Merge and discussions heat up about Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake, I thought it would be a good time to go back to basics and discuss a core part of any consensus mechanism.

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Part 2: Flashboys! 2.0 || All you want to know about MEV 39:37

2+ y ago39:37

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"We additionally show that high fees paid for priority transaction ordering poses a systemic risk to consensus-layer security. We explain that such fees are just one form of a general phenomenon in DEXes and beyond—what we call miner extractable value (MEV)—that poses concrete, measurable, consensus-layer security risks. We show empirically that ME…

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Blockchain Bite #4: The Merge is coming! || Anthony Sassano 7:13

2+ y ago7:13

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The merge is coming! Don't believe the FUD, things are happening and this blockchain bite, a read of Anthony Sassano's Daily Gwei newsletter is a little primer on the status of the merge. You should subscribe to the Daily Gwei: https://thedailygwei.substack.com/ __________________________ 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/…

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Flashboys! 2.0 || All you want to know about MEV part 1 51:19

2+ y ago51:19

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"We additionally show that high fees paid for priority transaction ordering poses a systemic risk to consensus-layer security. We explain that such fees are just one form of a general phenomenon in DEXes and beyond—what we call miner extractable value (MEV)—that poses concrete, measurable, consensus-layer security risks. We show empirically that ME…

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Tokenomics 101: The Basics of Evaluating Crypto Currencies || Nat Eliason 22:36

2+ y ago22:36

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"As in normal economics, the two forces we are most interested in are Supply and Demand. Understanding how those are baked into the tokenomics give us a good sense of how desirable a given token or cryptocurrency should be." __________________________ 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you…

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A dive into the Liquity protocol, an interview with Co founder Robert Lauko 41:50

2+ y ago41:50

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Today is a special episode! We're diving deep into the Liquity protocol with a guest: Robert Lauko, the co-founder of the protocol. Liquity is a great case study in everything we've been discussing these past few months: - The importance of decentralization - Immutability vs governance - DeFi risks and trade offs. I really enjoyed this conversation…

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This is EIP-1559 || By Anthony Sassano, The Daily Gwei #300 17:16

2+ y ago17:16

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"EIP-1559 is poised to greatly enhance the user experience on Ethereum for processing transactions. Of course, most people like to focus on the fee burn aspect of EIP-1559 (and so do we), but the overall benefits of EIP-1559 go far beyond the fee burn and will have a positive impact on end-users." ___________________________________ 👉 Start learnin…

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A reminder on Why Proof of Stake? || Blockchain Bite #3 8:18

2+ y ago8:18

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It's been a while since we first discussed why Ethereum is adamant on the shift to Proof of Stake, so as the merge gets delayed a bit yet again, I wanted to chat about why we care about proof of stake and the reasons for the shift to it. Full readthrough of Vitalik's 'Why PoS' Can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pL31iFiUj5ncIL8lPd9…

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Bootstrapping Web3 Networks: The Limitations of Token Incentives || By Sameer Singh 22:25

2+ y ago22:25

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"Tokens can be an effective way to bootstrap networks that need passive user participation, but they can be counterproductive for those that need active participation" ___________________________________ 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need…

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Part 2: Nic Carter & Linda Jeng || DeFi Protocol Risk: The paradox of DeFi 1:12:37

2+ y ago1:12:37

1:12:37

"crypto markets are becoming highly interconnected with the traditional financial sector" In Part 2 of this read we're going to complete all 5 risk factors that DeFi brings to the table. ___________________________________ 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn…

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The Howey Test | Blockchain Bites #2 7:03

2+ y ago7:03

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The Howey Test is one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot in the crypto world when it comes to the legality of many projects. But most don't know where it comes from and what it actually means. Let's break it down.

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Nic Carter & Linda Jeng: DeFi Protocol Risk: The paradox of DeFi 33:05

2+ y ago33:05

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"crypto markets are becoming highly interconnected with the traditional financial sector" 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Alpe is the app for you. It’s an audio education app that brings great in depth course…

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Why crypto can't just be 'copied' 😡 Blockchain Bites #1 8:36

2+ y ago8:36

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Welcome to Blockchain bites! This is a new format where I'll cover topics, terms, debates but in short bite size takes. Think of it as your lexicon for your blockchain discussions at a cocktail party. This bite is about why crypto can't just be 'copied' - which is one of the most ridiculous arguments that keep on popping up on Twitter or in discuss…

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The Limits to Blockchain Scalability, By Vitalik Buterin 34:13

2+ y ago34:13

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"For a blockchain to be decentralized, it's crucially important for regular users to be able to run a node, and to have a culture where running nodes is a common activity." 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Alp…

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Endgame! By Vitalik Buterin 26:21

2+ y ago26:21

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"While there are many paths toward building a scalable and secure long-term blockchain ecosystem, it's looking like they are all building toward very similar futures. There's a high chance that block production will end up centralized" 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. …

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Unpacking the web3 sausage, by Dror Poleg & How I define web3 31:04

2+ y ago31:04

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"To most users, the freedom to pack up and move your digital assets and identity does not matter. But it might matter one day, and when it does, it will matter a lot." ____________________________________________________ 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn o…

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My first impressions of web3, by Moxie (Founder of Signal app) 45:28

2+ y ago45:28

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"This was surprising to me. So much work, energy, and time has gone into creating a trustless distributed consensus mechanism, but virtually all clients that wish to access it do so by simply trusting the outputs from these two companies without any further verification." ____________________________________________________ 👉 Start learning with Al…

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Double: I was wrong, we need crypto [By DHH] & The freedom to transact [By Punk 6529] 29:16

2+ y ago29:16

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"But wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting. You don't need laser eyes or an NFT avatar to appreciate that." ____________…

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Part 2: The ultimate guide to L2s on Ethereum, By DCBuilder 29:05

2+ y ago29:05

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"Thanks to L2s users will finally be able to enjoy low fees using their favorite web3 applications, a much better UX emerges as transaction confirmations are almost instant (thanks to L2 sequencers), and help scale blockchains massively." ____________________________________________________ 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70t…

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The ultimate guide to L2s on Ethereum, By DCBuilder 38:28

2+ y ago38:28

38:28

"In this article, I’ll talk about L2s on Ethereum, the state of the current scaling ecosystem, and why I believe running L2s on top of Ethereum is the most economically and technically sustainable scaling solution long term." _______________________ 👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you b…

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The Future of Work is not Corporate, it's DAOs and Crypto networks. By Ben Schecter 47:28

2+ y ago47:28

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👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Alpe is the app for you. It’s an audio education app that brings great in depth courses that are as fun as podcasts but as educational as well, a degree. Each lesson comes with…

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An incomplete guide to rollups, Vitalik Buterin 44:29

2+ y ago44:29

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👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Alpe is the app for you. It’s an audio education app that brings great in depth courses that are as fun as podcasts but as educational as well, a degree. Each lesson comes with…

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A rollup-centric Ethereum roadmap, Vitalik Buterin 25:05

2+ y ago25:05

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👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Alpe is the app for you. It’s an audio education app that brings great in depth courses that are as fun as podcasts but as educational as well, a degree. Each lesson comes with…

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The Beacon Chain Ethereum 2.0 explainer you need to read first 42:35

2+ y ago42:35

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👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Alpe is the app for you. It’s an audio education app that brings great in depth courses that are as fun as podcasts but as educational as well, a degree. Each lesson comes with…

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Moving beyond coin voting governance, by Vitalik Buterin 40:42

2+ y ago40:42

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👉 Start learning with Alpe: https://link.alpeaudio.com/70to/d895de1 This episode is brought to you by Alpe Audio. Want to learn on the go but need more depth than a podcast? Alpe is the app for you. It’s an audio education app that brings great in depth courses that are as fun as podcasts but as educational as well, a degree. Each lesson comes with…

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Social Token Paradox by Gaby Goldberg 9:53

3y ago9:53

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