Guests:

Uri Klarman (@uriklarman)
Mrinal Manohar (casperlabs.io)

Host:

Richard Yan (@gentso09)


The guests we have today have close ties to Ethereum. One is actively working on a solution to scale the 1.0 version. The other was an early investor in Ethereum.

In this episode, I learned about:

• An interesting layer-0 approach to improve the performance of Ethereum 1.0 as well as any layer-1 protocol;
• Disadvantages in layer-2 solutions with similar value proposition in scaling;
• Main benefits of upgrading from Ethereum 1.0 to Ethereum 2.0, besides the change from POW to POS;
• And other non-scaling goodies such as perspectives on M&A of public blockchains in a crowded space.

Be sure to also check out our previous episodes too, on Bitcoin’s store of value status, tokenization and smart contracts, DeFi, bitcoin halvening, China’s future in blockchain, POW vs POS, oligopoly vs multiplicity of public blockchains, and permissioned vs permissionless blockchain for enterprise usage.

If you would like to debate or want to nominate someone, please DM me at @blockdebate on Twitter.

Please note that nothing in our podcast should be construed as financial advice.

Source of select items discussed in the debate:

• Bloxroute: https://bloxroute.com/
• CasperLabs: https://casperlabs.io/
• MakerDAO Black Thursday event (collateral liquidation at zero dollars): https://medium.com/@whiterabbit_hq/black-thursday-for-makerdao-8-32-million-was-liquidated-for-0-dai-36b83cac56b6
• CryptoKitties clogging up Ethereum: https://www.coindesk.com/loveable-digital-kittens-clogging-ethereums-blockchain