Ethereum Foundation researcher Karl Floersch joined us to discuss the main projects to upgrade Ethereum: Casper, Sharding and Plasma. Karl has been playing a key role in creating a new and simpler specification for Ethereum sidechains called Plasma Cash. We discussed the evolution of the Plasma project and what Ethereum's evolution in the coming years could look like. Topics discussed in this episode:How Karl originally became involved in EthereumThe role of Casper, Sharding and Plasma in the Ethereum roadmapThe problems with the original Plasma conceptHow Plasma Cash provides a simple scalability solutionThe challenge of data availabilityUse cases and timeline for Plasma Links mentioned in this episode: Plasma Cash Simple SpecEthereum Plasma MVP OverviewPlasma Cash Discussion on Ethereum ResearchCryptoeconomics: An IntroductionPlasma & The Public Ethereum Chain - Joseph Poon (Ethereal Summit 2017)Plasma - Original Whitepaper Sponsors: Gnosis X: Build a revolutionary prediction market dApp on Gnosis & win up to '$100,000 in GNO tokens Support the show, consider donating: BTC: 1CD83r9EzFinDNWwmRW4ssgCbhsM5bxXwg (https://epicenter.tv/tipbtc)BCC: 1M4dvWxjL5N9WniNtatKtxW7RcGV73TQTd (http://epicenter.tv/tipbch)ETH: 0x8cdb49ca5103Ce06717C4daBBFD4857183f50935 (https://epicenter.tv/tipeth) This episode is also available on :Epicenter.tvYouTubeSouncloud Watch or listen, Epicenter is available wherever you get your podcasts. Epicenter is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain, Sƒbastien Couture & Meher Roy.