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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryptocoin OP 5 Aug 2022 \ on: 📺 Unchained Ep. 381 Why Kevin Zhou Believes Ethereum Will Have 3 Forks bitcoin
Kevin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Galois_Capital
ETH2
What is the Merge?: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/
Proof of Work Chain
Kevin’s analogy: https://twitter.com/Galois_Capital/status/1554053321165512705
Haseeb’s answer to Kevin’s arguments: https://twitter.com/hosseeb/status/1554163977806000128
Chandler Guo’s proposal: https://decrypt.co/106409/prominent-chinese-ethereum-miner-wants-to-resist-merge-create-fork
Kevin’s consulting offer: https://twitter.com/Galois_Capital/status/1553090706708856832
BitMEX researchers on the possibility of an Ethereum PoW chain: https://blog.bitmex.com/ethpow-vs-eth2/
CoinDesk article: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/03/who-will-mine-ethereum-after-its-gone
Poloniex’s announcement: https://twitter.com/poloniex/status/1555085757450272768
Justin Sun’s support of ETHW: https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1555112296006922240
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Show highlights:
🔹 how Kevin got started in crypto
🔹 what Galois Capital is and what its investment thesis is
🔹 why Kevin was more vocal than most about the possibility of the LUNA death spiral
🔹 whether Kevin made money out of the Terra collapse and what was his strategy
🔹 what the difficulty bomb in Ethereum is
🔹 the potential scenarios that could arise after the Merge
🔹 whether the public is not considering the risks of the Merge
🔹 how the fact that everybody was telling the same narrative about ETH made Kevin suspicious
🔹 how Chandler’s statement about forking Ethereum made it a lot more likely that it would happen
🔹 the groups behind the encouragement of a proof-of-work Ethereum chain
🔹 whether there is a value proposition for a Proof of Work chain
🔹 how Kevin used The Cryptopians to remember how the DAO fork went
🔹 what replay protection is and why it is important when forking a chain
🔹 why anyone would want to keep the difficulty bomb in a potential proof of work chain
🔹 Kevin’s predictions about the market cap of the potential Ethereum forks
🔹 how a proof of work chain of Ethereum would function without the biggest stablecoins like USDT and USDC
🔹 whether Tether is going to support Ethereum 2
🔹 why Kevin writes using metaphors related to history and gaming and 🔹 how those analogies relate to Ethereum
🔹 how Kevin wanted to “stick it” to the Ethereum Foundation by offering his services
🔹 whether Vitalik trolled Kevin on Twitter
🔹 whether Kevin will apply the same strategy he used with ETC after the DAO fork
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