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    the gangly 27 year old ethereum founder has  a vision for humanity's future that goes far  

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    beyond making a quick buck on cryptocurrency so  what's actually on vitalik buterin's to-do list  

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    bringing down the nation-state halting climate  change and even curing death itself can he pull  

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    it off join us today as we man the barricades and  ask how vitalik buterin might lead a revolution

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    the flame of revolution was first ignited in  vitalik buterin's heart during the russian  

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    canadian software developers early teens i happily  played world of warcraft from 2007 to 2010. the  

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    young billionaire recently wrote on his blog then  one day blizzard removed the damage component from  

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    my beloved warlock's siphon life spell i cried  myself to sleep remembers vitalik on that day i  

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    realized what horror's centralized services  bring the following year vitalik's software  

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    developer father introduced his crestfallen son  to a potential solution to the scourge of central  

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    authority bitcoin vitalik was already great at  maths able to add large numbers in his head preeta  

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    naturally fast as a child one of his favorite toys  was microsoft excel so the blockchain sat very  

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    well with him despite enrolling in a full program  of advanced courses at canada's university of  

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    waterloo during 2012 vitalik simultaneously spent  30 hours of his week on assaulted crypto projects  

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    something had to give so vitalik dropped out of  college and dedicated his life to ethereum most  

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    people only know of ethereum as an alternative to  bitcoin certainly it is an alternative to bitcoin  

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    and so much more besides when satoshi nakamoto  first devised the bitcoin blockchain he or she  

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    deliberately employed a limited programming  vocabulary largely for reasons of security  

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    conversely when vitalik set about creating  ethereum his intent was to make his new blockchain  

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    programming language touring complete that is to  say versatile and capable of running elaborate  

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    secondary applications less a simple transaction  ledger more a fully fledged online platform  

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    vitalik buterin's revolutionary new framework  followed the utopian ideal of peer-to-peer  

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    interaction proposed by satoshi nakamoto and took  it beyond straightforward commerce ethereum users  

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    would have a free arraign to recreate all sorts of  applications or haul corporations on the ethereum  

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    chain if you were so minded you could build an  entire facebook style social network or a private  

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    stock market to date diverse ethereum projects  abound from so rare which recreates the excitement  

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    of fantasy football leagues to serious endeavors  like seville which leverages cryptography to  

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    protect journalism against censorship and the  erosion of professional standards why is all this  

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    important to vitalik because the blockchain takes  trust as a service away from big powerful legacy  

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    institutions like banks and hands it back to the  community that's quite revolutionary in itself  

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    still salty about his little warcraft man vitalik  told wired magazine i saw everything to do with  

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    either government regulation or corporate control  as just being plain evil and i assume that people  

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    in those institutions were kind of like mr burns  sitting behind their desks saying excellent how  

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    can i screw a thousand people over this time  revolution is inevitable you see because helping  

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    the little guy in vitalik's view necessarily  means extracting authority from those who  

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    currently exercise it power is a zero-sum game he  told cnbc if you talk about empowering the little  

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    guy as much as you want to couch it in flowery  terminology you are necessarily disempowering the  

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    big guy personally i say screw the big guy they  have enough money already as well as his uncanny  

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    intellect akali describes vitalik as a genius  alien our favorite revolutionary is not afraid to  

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    start beef he's very publicly called out bitcoin  evangelist craig wright as a fraud and a scammer  

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    for claiming to be the real satoshi nakamoto and  traditional real-world institutions are already  

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    starting to recognize his important work with  visa jp morgan chase ubs and mastercard investing  

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    significant sums in ethereum projects during  2021. vitalik has not only engineered a platform  

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    for new kinds of interactions nfts of course  and newfangled dows or decentralized autonomous  

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    organizations he is also uniquely blessed with the  ability to communicate this stuff indeed one of  

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    his first gigs in the crypto space was co-founder  and lead writer on the influential bitcoin  

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    magazine vitalik's ability to express difficult  concepts in layman's terms has done much in itself  

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    to advance the crypto cause and to this day he  maintains an active blog covering his pet projects  

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    and interests with remarkable wit and clarity  for a software dweeb at least to say nothing of  

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    the fact vitalik speaks fluent russian having  spent the first years of his life in chechnya  

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    and english and mandarin he learned mandarin  apparently in just a few months vitalik is also  

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    quite the philanthropist he told lex friedman he  thinks wealth for wealth's sake is a spiritual  

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    dead end and on a whim donated a billion dollars  in crypto assets to indian kovid 19 relief efforts  

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    last year among his most revolutionary wheezes is  the idea that nation-states are long past their  

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    prime countries he writes are inefficient and  slow-moving it's easier to find a single city  

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    where there is public interest in adopting any  particular radical idea he claims in a recent  

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    blog than it is to convince an entire country  to accept it so charter cities think places  

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    historically along the lines of hong kong or dubai  are the future of innovation says vitalik and the  

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    next generation of hong kongs and dubai's will be  underpinned by the flexibility and nimbleness of  

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    the ethereum blockchain reno nevada has already  explored blockchain technology making nfts of  

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    public art funding dows by renting out empty  state-owned properties and even running casino  

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    games on blockchain-based random number generators  beyond such shallow gimmicks blockchains can  

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    improve governance in important ways blockchains  are by their very nature transparent so government  

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    fraud and collusion would be harder to pull  off because all the business of state would  

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    be carried out in the open if you think that  sounds far-fetched you're in good company  

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    although he describes himself as an intellectual  hipster metacontrarian vitalik buterian is the  

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    ultimate pragmatist quite happy to admit when  he's wrong and intrigued by the countless human  

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    muddles and compromises he's been forced to make  on his unexpected journey to becoming a leading  

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    tech seer as we speak vitalik is working around  the clock to move the ethereum blockchain to  

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    a proof of stake mechanism rather than the  environmentally catastrophic proof-of-work  

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    technology he now admits was a huge mistake  amazingly for such an important figure in the  

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    world of crypto he's skeptical about the recent  nft craze i personally cannot relate he recently  

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    told lex friedman to this concept of spending  a lot of money on a thing when there's no clear  

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    understanding why it would maintain its value i  cannot understand the psychology however vitalik  

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    is keen on the woo-woo notion of eternal life and  has invested serious time and capital promoting  

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    organizations like the sens research foundation  he thinks everybody should read philosopher  

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    nick bostrom's fable of the dragon tyrant which  basically mocks our society's daft assumption  

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    that death is inevitable i hope the concept of  seeing your parents and grandparents die will  

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    disappear he recently said in the same way the  concept of getting lost in a city disappeared  

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    after the invention of the smartphone well even  if this brainy articulate ultra wealthy firebrand  

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    doesn't live forever there's a good chance his  revolutionary ideas will what do you think will  

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    vitalik rage quitting warcraft be the butterfly  flap that sets off the revolutionary typhoon  

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    let us know in the comments and don't forget to  subscribe for more rabble rousing tech content

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The example sentences of MUDDLES in videos (1 in total of 1)

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Use "muddles" in a sentence | "muddles" example sentences

How to use "muddles" in a sentence?

  • I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.
    -David Lean-

Definition and meaning of MUDDLES

What does "muddles mean?"

/ˈmədl/

noun
untidy state.
verb
To cause confusion through interference.

What are synonyms of "muddles"?
Some common synonyms of "muddles" are:
  • confuse,
  • jumble,
  • disarrange,
  • disorganize,
  • disorder,
  • disturb,
  • scramble,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.