The Lion and the Shark: Divergent Evolution in Cryptocurrency Video

How does Ethereum compete with Bitcoin? What is the position of each system in the broader ecology of blockchains?

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:36 What is Ethereum/bitcoin and how do the two compare?
4:25 What the founder wants something to be is not always what that thing is
8:45 The lion and the shark
10:24 Fitness for purpose
11:46 What is Ethereum/bitcoin best suited for?

This talk took place on September 18th 2016 at the Silicon Valley Ethereum meetup in Mountain View, California: https://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/events/233988744/

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