Explaining the Ethereum Merge

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[00:02:08] - [First question] - The history leading up to the Ethereum merge

[00:06:00] - A high level overview of proof-of-work compared to proof-of-stake

[00:13:26] - Critical arguments he’s heard that have merit and are worth debating

[00:17:19] - How staking worked before the merge and how it’ll work afterwards and allow retail traders to participate more easily 

[00:23:51] - Control of governance and decision making power when staking is outsourced

[00:28:49] - How far away we are from being able to stake directly from our wallets

[00:34:22] - Ways to think about and calculate the interest rate impact post-merge

[00:36:58] - Liquidity of staking and ease of access to deposit and withdraw tokens

[00:38:14] - An Ethereum fork and why so many participants are shorting Ethereum today

[00:43:49] - What would happen to unique and serialized NFTs in a network fork 

[00:47:53] - How conversations have gone between him and institutional players about the coming changes to the network

[00:51:34] - What he’s most excited to see built in the next six months and six years