Ethereum, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Ethereum comes up
Metaverse and crypto - beyond the BS
- ▶ 26:10 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, I think the, you know, things like Ethereum moving from proof of work to proof of stake, suddenly the energy consumption goes down by orders of magnitude and the number of transactions it can do goes up by orders of magnitude. 2 times in the scene
The FTX face-palm
- ▶ 18:25 Benedict Evans Um, we've had people, A, there is Bitcoin and Ethereum, which are financial instruments that may or may not have applications built upon them, and may or may not be used as a current basis of financial systems, or payment systems, or what… 2 times in the scene
The Evolution of networks
- ▶ 26:48 Benedict Evans And Ethereum does a bit more. 2 times in the scene
Talking about crypto
- ▶ 2:59 Benedict Evans Wave two is particularly when you, when sort of people get excited about Ethereum is, no, you could actually run like simple scripts and contracts and maybe some code on this thing.
- ▶ 23:09 Benedict Evans No, because it's, I mean, no, you read, you read, you read the Ethereum guys, you know, as, you know, his, his, his publication, the stuff that he publishes, and you're like, I think all of those are words.
- ▶ 24:19 Benedict Evans And just the fact that I've explained that, and I know somebody who's deep in crypto is saying, no, mate, that's not how it works, kind of is, is kind of proving my point, that it's, it's hard even to explain what it is that you've just… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:32 Benedict Evans You could do that with your million dollars of Ethereum really, really easily.
- ▶ 34:16 Benedict Evans Um, it's a, it's a contract that runs on the Ethereum blockchain.
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 29:09 Benedict Evans The cultural base for that is very, very shallow and very, very recent, and you also, it's very hard to unpick how much of this is somebody that genuinely thinks that thing is worth a million dollars of their money, and how much of that is…
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 37:33 Benedict Evans Or are they swapping their Ethereum game into another token in the belief that this token will go up faster?