A discussion between Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan on starting new countries, improving yourself, and upgrading Ethereum.

OUTLINE00:00 - Introduction01:27 - A brief history of Ethereum16:54 - The DAO hack20:32 - The Devcon 2 attack33:24 - The Merge35:52 - Ethereum Roadmap47:41 - The de-OFACization of Ethereum?1:06:18 - Starting new countries1:22:20 - Svalbard1:27:29 - Network effects1:33:12 - Regulation as a bounding box1:35:42 - What new country would Vitalik start?1:39:39 - Network states and social networks1:43:19 - Advice on leveling up1:51:17 - How Vitalik learned Chinese1:55:14 - Learning by doing

LINKS1) Ethereum Average Block Time: https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_block_time2) What is EIP-1559: https://consensys.net/blog/quorum/what-is-eip-1559-how-will-it-change-ethereum3) Quadratic Hash problem: https://bitcoinclassic.com/devel/Quadratic%20Hashing.html4) The merge: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge5) MEV watch: https://www.mevwatch.info6) Sousveillance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance7) Best weather cities to live in the US: https://wired.com/2014/02/see-u-s-cities-get-least-days-pleasant-weather8) Global passport ranking: https://passportindex.org/byRank.php?ccode=cn9) Longyearbyen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyearbyen10) Demography of the Roman Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire

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