Andreas Antonopoulos, speaker, educator and author of "Mastering Bitcoin" and "Mastering Ethereum," dives into the ETH supply debate that raged over the last week. In this episode, he talks about:

• why the question about the ETH supply is a "silly gotcha"
• what technical features of the Ethereum blockchain make it less straightforward to calculate the supply of ether
• how the shift to Ethereum 2.0 and a proof of stake system will affect the value of ETH as money
• why Bitcoin and Ethereum are not natural competitors and will continue to coexist
• how macro forces will affect Bitcoin, and whether it will ever be used as a medium of exchange in addition to a store of value
• whether the full Ethereum 2.0 transition will happen in time to meet DeFi demand
• why Bitcoin gives Ethereum the freedom to experiment
• why Bitcoin Cash shows that offering scaling with no community isn't enough to take market share
• why he supports diversity and inclusion efforts in the space

 

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Episode links: 

Andreas Antonopoulos: https://aantonop.com

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/aantonop

 

Andreas's tweet storm: https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/1292877311570857990?s=20

Summary of the debate: https://www.coindesk.com/how-much-ether-is-out-there-ethereum-developers-create-new-scripts-for-self-verification

 

Andreas's video on the Lion and the Shark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0x6CtD8iq4

 

Links from news recap:

https://unchainedpodcast.com/from-0-to-500m-to-0-in-48-hours/