Vitalik Buterin — Creator of Ethereum feat. Naval Ravikant

Pimsleur

Pimsleur (inferred)

“one thing that i've used is the pims over podcasts so that's p-i-m-s-l-e-u-r so it's just a series of these 30 minute podcasts”— Vitalik Buterin

Duolingo

Duolingo (inferred)

“i also use duolingo as well that's been helpful in some cases so just like a combination of these techniques”— Vitalik Buterin

Google Translate

Google (inferred)

“google translate with image translation can be a incredible savior in lands where you don't understand the orthographies”— Tim Ferriss

Bitcoin (BTC)

“bitcoin is like a yes spreadsheet where everyone only controls their own five squares of the spreadsheet but ethereum is a spreadsheet with macros”— Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum Name Service (ENS)

ENS (inferred)

“i mentioned ens the ethereum name system right so yeah that's you can think of it as a decentralized name system”— Vitalik Buterin

Status

Status (inferred)

“there is a messaging service called status it's like you know in terms of like what it feels like to hear that you know it's a messenger”— Vitalik Buterin

Telegram

Telegram (inferred)

“it's similar to telegram we're signal or whatsapp or any of those um but the difference is that it is decentralized”— Vitalik Buterin

Signal

Signal Foundation (inferred)

“it's similar to telegram we're signal or whatsapp or any of those um but the difference is that it is decentralized”— Vitalik Buterin

WhatsApp

Meta (inferred)

“it's similar to telegram we're signal or whatsapp or any of those um but the difference is that it is decentralized”— Vitalik Buterin

Augur

“there's some prediction markets so fly forbes where you can go and like bet on different outcomes like you know who's going to win some sports game”— Vitalik Buterin

Robinhood

Robinhood (inferred)

“like robin hood builds their application and then schwab builds another application wisdom tree builds a mutual fund or an etf”— Naval Ravikant

Charles Schwab

Charles Schwab (inferred)

“robin hood builds their application and then schwab builds another application wisdom tree builds a mutual fund or an etf”— Naval Ravikant

WisdomTree

WisdomTree (inferred)

“schwab builds another application wisdom tree builds a mutual fund or an etf those can't combine with each other”— Naval Ravikant

Steem

Steemit (inferred)

“there was this platform called steam and in the steam uh there's steam the platform and then there's steam the company”— Vitalik Buterin

Tron

Tron (inferred)

“then the steam the company got bought out by justin sun you know the infamous tron person”— Vitalik Buterin

Hive

Hive (inferred)

“the users um said is well we're creating a new platform called hive and hive is just a fork of steam”— Vitalik Buterin

WordPress

Automattic (inferred)

“if we look at say wordpress as an open source project you have companies like automatic and matt mullenweg”— Tim Ferriss

Namecoin

“you had bitcoin uh for currency you had namecoin for domain names you would have like single purpose protocols”— Vitalik Buterin

Mastercoin

“mastercoin was one example of what i call the swiss army knife protocol”— Vitalik Buterin

Maker / DAI stablecoin

MakerDAO (inferred)

“make or dial which kind of maintains um you know die the stable coin that you know algorithmically targets a price of one dollar”— Vitalik Buterin

RAI

Reflexer (inferred)

“i mean now there's also rye uh you know there's a lot of examples of this”— Vitalik Buterin

Bitcoin Cash

“bitcoin cash is very layer one focused and this is a this is a classic thing in computing”— Vitalik Buterin

BitTorrent

BitTorrent (inferred)

“combining at least some of the advantages of uh you know a bitcoin style blockchain and bittorrent right like bittorrent is very layer one scale”— Vitalik Buterin

Optimism

Optimism (inferred)

“i think a couple of days ago optimism uh announced that they're going to launch their mainnet fairly soon”— Vitalik Buterin

StarkWare

StarkWare (inferred)

“there are these uh zero-knowledge-based roll-ups you know pioneered by starkware and others”— Naval Ravikant

Ethereum Classic

“ethereum did already have the schism right of ethereum and ethereum classic and uh a lot of the proof-of-work proponents did actually move over”— Vitalik Buterin

Arbitrum

Offchain Labs (inferred)

“there's also a project called arbitrum which is also an evm capable roll up”— Vitalik Buterin

Loopring

Loopring (inferred)

“there is actually simpler roll-ups that are only capable of processing simple transactions and exchanging between assets like loopring and zk-sync”— Vitalik Buterin

zkSync

Matter Labs (inferred)

“like loopring and zk-sync and those roll-ups have already been running stably for about a year”— Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum Foundation

Ethereum Foundation

“the ethereum foundation as an organization exists so the executive director of that is um ayamiya gucci”— Vitalik Buterin

ConsenSys

ConsenSys (inferred)

“for the first few years consensus um did quite a lot in consensus is still doing a lot”— Vitalik Buterin

Uniswap

Uniswap (inferred)

“now there's also a uniswap whose treasury has just grown a huge amount and they here are even wealthier than the ethereum foundation”— Vitalik Buterin

Coinbase

Coinbase (inferred)

“without having to use a centralized authority like a coin base or a gemini or a coin list”— Naval Ravikant

Gemini

Gemini (inferred)

“without having to use a centralized authority like a coin base or a gemini or a coin list”— Naval Ravikant

CoinList

CoinList (inferred)

“without having to use a centralized authority like a coin base or a gemini or a coin list”— Naval Ravikant

Flow

Dapper Labs (inferred)

“whether it's flow or ava or near or whatever there's a whole bunch of those”— Naval Ravikant

Avalanche (AVAX)

Ava Labs (inferred)

“whether it's flow or ava or near or whatever there's a whole bunch of those”— Naval Ravikant

NEAR Protocol

NEAR (inferred)

“whether it's flow or ava or near or whatever there's a whole bunch of those”— Naval Ravikant

Balancer

Balancer (inferred)

“there's also people who are built on top of you like balancer and curve and unit swap and whatnot”— Naval Ravikant

Curve

Curve Finance (inferred)

“there's also people who are built on top of you like balancer and curve and unit swap and whatnot”— Naval Ravikant

Diaspora

“like um diaspora the decentralized alternative to facebook the people tried to build around 2010 is one good example”— Vitalik Buterin

Zcash

Electric Coin Company (inferred)

“for bitcoin you can for a theorem you can for z cash for example i think you can”— Naval Ravikant

SushiSwap

SushiSwap (inferred)

“it was kind of reactionary that was reacting to you know kind of sushi swap trying to kind of swoop in”— Vitalik Buterin

Uniswap (UNI token)

Uniswap (inferred)

“they did this one really cool thing which has a big part of the initial distribution was this very uh kind of egalitarian air drop”— Vitalik Buterin

Tornado Cash

Tornado Cash (inferred)

“then there's i think tornado cash had an airdrop a couple of weeks back uh there's more of these assets coming in”— Vitalik Buterin

Gitcoin Grants

Gitcoin (inferred)

“there's this uh thing called git coin grants that happens a few times a year uh and that's had about like seven or um or eight rounds”— Vitalik Buterin

Rapamycin

“do you take rapamycin i do not take rapamycin um metformin is the one that i take”— Vitalik Buterin

Trans-resveratrol

“looking into trans resveratrol and finding even at that time this was 2008 2009 people who had for years been using want to say 500 milligrams per day”— Tim Ferriss