Inside The Cryptocurrency Revolution | VICE on HBO




Bitcoin’s emergence as a global digital currency has been as revolutionary as it has been erratic. But while fledgling investors obsess over every fluctuation in the cryptocurrency market, nation-states are more interested in the underlying blockchain technology and its ability to revolutionize how business is done on the internet and beyond. VICE’s Michael Moynihan travels to Russia with Vitalik Buterin, inventor of the ethereum blockchain, to get a front-row seat to the geopolitical tug of war over Internet 3.0.

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  6. Yea if you want to prevent that brain drain problem you need to offer more liberties, reduce corruption and so on. Then those in power would have to go and the country would prosper..yea lets just put some bubble gum on that leak, we got this.

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  8. ethereum is currently transitioning from a proof of work model, to a proof of stake model. For now it will be half/half but I don't exactly know what the future hodls. In my eyes, mining ETH is getting obsolete if they plan on rolling out a 100% proof of stake ethereum network in the future, if proof of stake proves better.

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  10. I love the fact that right here, you have Vitalik Buterin, the most likely candidate to be decentralized global dictator in ten or twenty years time. The most unassuming character, but maybe just the right person for the job.

  11. The Russians and their allies are probably counting on being able to throw enough money at Ethereum mining together to mount a 51% attack against it.

  12. Ask yourselves, why would they include Vitalik in these awkward eating moments in this video? Vice does these things on purpose to help shape your opinion. They are very good at doing hit pieces disguised as an unbiased documentary.

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