Vitalik Buterin
6 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Vitalik Buterin · said 25 times in 14 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Ben Horowitz (6), Sonal Chokshi (4), Ali Yahya (3), Nick Tomaino (2), Dennis Nazarov (2), Chris Dixon (2), Phil Dayan (1), Olaf Carlson-Wee (1)
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2024 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 14 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Voting, Security, and Governance in Blockchains and Cryptonetworks
- a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- a16z Podcast | Mental Models for Understanding Crypto Tokens
- Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
- a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
- a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Vitalik Buterin, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Vitalik: Early crypto 2.0 projects suffered from Swiss army knife design
“Both that project and also pretty much every other project that existed at the time that was trying to do what you might call blockchain, two point O crypto, two point O cryptocurrency, two point O, whatever you call it. And the weakness is that they were tryi…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Buterin: Building fair lotteries on Bitcoin requires O(N³) collateral versus O(N) on Ethereum
“Like, one of them was they published this at the Financial Cryptography, in the workshop, that they were trying to create a provably fair lottery on top of Bitcoin, and it turns out that if you have N players in the lottery, Then you basically have to have O o…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Vitalik: OpenSSL underfunding directly caused the Heartbleed bug
“Bottom-level protocols are something that's been, like, so horribly underfunded. You know, like, in the mainstream world, if you look at even something like the hard bleed bug, which happened in large part because OpenSSL security research was just, like, so h…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Vitalik: Traditional crowdsales front-load incentives, weakening long-term developer commitment
“With a traditional crowdsale, the incentives to the developers are all up front, and there's theoretically not as much incentive for the developers to kind of keep working on the project in the long term.”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Dixon: No one, including Vitalik Buterin, can cut developers off Ethereum
“As a developer, you can now invest in this. You can build things on top of Ethereum with the knowledge that no one can, you know, Vitalik, who's the kind of the, you know, the leader of Ethereum, can't pull the rug out from under you, even if you wanted to.”