Chronicles tech visionary Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum's community of builders as they fight for an open internet access | dG1fNzFEdEVrMWNGZGc
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00:00Our lives are increasingly on the internet.
00:06The way that these companies are abusing us is messed up.
00:09We have to change the trajectory.
00:16Okay, that's probably the bravest I've been around bugs in years.
00:19Metallic deuterium.
00:20He's the engineer recognized as the inventor of Ethereum.
00:24The blockchain movement's biggest celeb has become something like the philosopher Cain.
00:29Oh God, why are people listening to me? I'm just a guy.
00:37Metallic has been on a global campaign.
00:39Ethereum has the potential to disrupt the giants of the tech world.
00:42It could be used to build this new internet.
00:45They're saying this is the way the internet was meant to be.
00:48No one person can control it.
00:51We're building infrastructure that the whole world can enjoy.
00:54This internet god.
00:59Technologies very rarely stay the same as they are envisioned by their creators.
01:07It's just bat shit crazy out here.
01:09They want the fucking janitor to be at the same level as the person at the top.
01:12Not everyone in the crypto space is in it for the ideals.
01:15A lot of people really do just want to make lots of money.
01:18Currently, Ethereum uses something like the energy consumption of Argentina.
01:23Financial incentive is like a fire.
01:25Financial incentive is like a fire.
01:27You can use it to keep yourself warm or you can use it to burn your house down.
01:30Anyone who thinks they understand exactly where it's all going,
01:34they're lying to you or lying to themselves.
01:43This is an important set of upgrades that fundamentally improves what Ethereum can do.
01:48People seeking a deeper kind of democracy in this digital space.
01:52We need to be involved.
01:55There are some things that are worth making a stance over.
02:01It's this next evolution of coordination for humanity.
02:04There are hundreds of thousands of people across the world that are building things.
02:08We are seeing the resurgence of idealist dreams of the cyberpunk world in the 1990s.
02:17There is no off switch.
02:21You've created life.
02:25You've created the future.