Inside the Ethereum Meetup

My name is Anna Rose and I am the co host of a podcast called Zero Knowledge. We talk about decentralized things including some Ethereum things.

I'm Alessandro, I'm out of Italy based in Zurich and I run a small VC called Kaizen vc. My name is Eric Lamason White. I'm the co founder of Pareto Network which is a financial content marketplace built on the Ethereum blockchain.

It's Peter Van Grinsven, I'm the CEO of Ntitle. Ntitle is a bcommerce project. Bcommerce blockchain commerce for gaming.

So I'm Daniel Christini, I work for Cryo Solutions. We build enterprise solutions for companies and we're like blockchain agnostic.

My name is Federico Malvezzi, I'm a founder and managing director at aitcoin. We transparency into the charity and profit sector using blockchain.

My name is Ellen, I work at MME Legal Tax Compliance and I'm kind of a project manager.

I work for one of the dapps obviously and we want to take an active role in the space.

I found a lot of interesting people from different countries and different businesses coming here so I just wanted to network and get to know more about the people around the ecosystem, learn more about.

Evolutions of Ethereum and to be part of the community.

Well of course I wanted to learn things about what's going on in the community. Today there was a great meeting with Vitalik about the economics of gas costs and afterwards there was discussion on the governance of smart contracts, government of the blockchain and all these subjects are important for the future.

One question to Vitalik, One question to Vitalik.

Nothing.

Oh gosh. I mean I'll just ask him how.

He is, what he thinks could be great project we could do together to bring more and more of a social impact projects into the blockchain.

What is his biggest worry in making sure that this actually becomes a real world phenomenon right now? It's not to the masses yet and it's not something adopted by users. How do you get adoption?

I probably would leave his time to him.

Why did he decide to be vocal about EIP999 to air yesterday and not when it exploded?

I think interoperability of blockchains will be key. Ethereum, we grew up with Ethereum personal experience into the blockchain started because of Ethereum.

Bitcoin is a currency, Ethereum is a platform.

Bitcoin surely is a safer bet because it's a very unique positioning. I heard the other day that 94% of all projects are built on Ethereum. So it's also certainly not going to go away.

You know, there was one story when I got in touch with Bitcoin and Ethereum. I asked a colleague to give him an idea and he said, you know, Bitcoin is just bad, like a stupid idea.

Go to Ethereum, they can coexist. They are completely different systems and they completely serve different purposes.

I mean, I'm biased but Ethereum, I think that what you really need to look at is where the developer communities live. And currently in Ethereum there's, I think, I don't know what the exact newest number is but in the range of 30x more developers, maybe 30,000x. I mean it's some huge multiple more developers in Ethereum than in Bitcoin. And I think that's just a natural part of the fact that Ethereum has much more to offer developers.

Oh, I don't know the answer to that.

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