In this episode, I am joined by Andrew Poelstra, Tadge Dryja and Vitalik Buterin and Patrick McCorry. With Paddy as co-host, we discuss the fundamental and technical differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum, scalability and use cases.

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00:06:52 What is Bitcoin trying to achieve?
00:11:52 What is Ethereum trying to achieve?
00:14:16 Introduction to Patrick McCorry
00:17:42 Patrick McCorry hosts
00:20:02 Satoshi Dice
00:43:28 Frankenstein systems and Bitcoin bugs
01:16:12 Scriptless scripts
01:21:23 Bitcoin vaults
01:30:33 Multisig
01:34:12 Ethereum world computer
01:38:10 Scalability
01:41:58 UTREEXO Protocol
01:51:19 SNARKS
01:56:59 What's holding up Schnorr?
02:42:13 Final Comments

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“The point of Bitcoin is to be sound money… we care about scalability, we care about privacy, but soundness always comes first.”
— Andrew Poelstra

Location: Squadcast
Date: Thursday 3rd September
Company: Blockstream, MIT Digital Currency Initiative, Ethereum, PISA Research
Role: Director of Research, Research Scientist, Founder, Co-founder & CEO

In my recent Bitcoin Vs Ethereum show, I was joined by Samson Mow and Vitalik Buterin to discuss the philosophical differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum.

For me, the fundamental differences between the two are quite clear, where Bitcoin is conservative and slow, focusing on sound monetary policy, Ethereum is inflationary, experimental and has, what many consider unachievable goals.

Following the debate about the philosophical differences I was keen to expand the conversation into the technical differences between the two networks.

In this episode, I am joined by Andrew Poelstra, Tadge Dryja and Vitalik Buterin and Patrick McCorry. With Paddy as co-host, we discuss the fundamental and technical differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum, scalability and use cases.