Joe Lubin says Ethereum is orders of magnitude ahead of Cardano
Joe Lubin · A Fireside Chat with Ethereum Co-Founder & ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Sep 17, 2018 · at 30:43
Joe Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of ConsenSys, compares Ethereum's ecosystem scale to alternative base-layer smart contract protocols in 2018.
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“There, there's just I think several orders of magnitude at this point between Ethereum and let's say a project like Cardano, or R-Chain, or DFINITY, or Zilliqa, or others.”
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