Liam Horne: Optimism, and why scaling Ethereum matters

This is my conversation with Liam Horne, former CEO and advisor to Optimism Labs.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:00:59) - sponsor: Privy (privy.io)
(00:03:35) - early influences, classmates with Vitalik in Waterloo
(00:08:31) - Ethereum's potential and why scalability matters
(00:10:06) - learning from Jeff Coleman
(00:17:23) - defining a common language
(00:21:06) - importance of community in Ethereum
(00:26:34) - hackathons lead to progress
(00:31:36) - collaboration as a core ETH value
(00:38:30) - humility and collective learning
(00:47:27) - building a public good
(00:53:07) - building Optimism with Ethereum values
(01:09:27) - sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io)
(01:17:41) - decentralization is a journey
(01:20:59) - staying true to your principles
(01:32:51) - building something new is difficult
(01:36:28) - Jing Wang
(01:42:10) - Georgios Konstantopoulos

Links:
University of Waterloo - https://uwaterloo.ca/
(Almost) Everything you need to know about Optimistic Rollup by Georgios Konstantopoulos - https://www.paradigm.xyz/2021/01/almost-everything-you-need-to-know-about-optimistic-rollup
ETHGlobal - https://ethglobal.com/

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
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