Your hosts David and Phil Ngo take Episode 12 to talk more about blockchain! More specifically, Paypal now allows U.S. customers to spend their crypto and Visa pilots settlements with digital dollar stablecoin USDC on Ethereum! So this leads us to, what is Ethereum? Phil Ngo explains what Ethereum is, how it is different from Bitcoin and what it's capable of doing. It's the second largest blockchain by market capital and pioneered smart contracts. Learn about what kind of cool things like NFTs are being built in Ethereum and how you can participate!   

Shownotes:   

Visa utilizes Ethereum (USDC) to settle transactions: https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/blog/bdp/2021/03/26/digital-currency-comes-1616782388876.html   

Paypal allows U.S. customers to spend crypto at millions of merchants: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-paypal-exclusive-idUSKBN2BM10N   

What is Ethereum?: https://ethereum.org/en/what-is-ethereum/    

Tim Farris Show Episode 504 with Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum): https://tim.blog/2021/03/08/vitalik-buterin-naval-ravikant/   

Bankless Podcast Episode 57 with Justin Drake (Eth2 Researcher): http://podcast.banklesshq.com/57-ultra-sound-money-justin-drake

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