Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum and Decentralized Platforms

Podcast via http://futurethinkers.org/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-decentralized-future/

Description

"Mike and I have been talking a lot about decentralized platforms on our podcast lately. In this episode, we invited Vitalik Buterin from Ethereum to talk about the applications and implications of this highly promising new decentralized platform.

Ethereum is meant to eliminate the middlemen in many industries. Based on the blockchain technology (that Bitcoin is also built on), what makes Ethereum different is that it has much broader applications – from finance (banking, payments, crowdfunding) to sharing economies (Uber and AirBnB-like platforms) to communications (social networks, email) to reputation systems (credit rating, seller rating on e-commerce sites) to governance, and much more. A platform like this can have massive implications on what the future looks like, and it can change the face of the global economy.

At the time of its initial campaign in mid 2014, Ethereum became the second most crowd-funded project in the history of the Internet. Currently still in development, the preliminary launch date is predicted to be around the spring of 2015.

We invited Vitalik Buterin to talk about Ethereum, its potential uses, pros and cons, and how decentralized platforms in general will affect our future." (http://futurethinkers.org/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-decentralized-future/)