Deep Dive: Ethereum and Smart Contracts

This was an introduction to Ethereum lecture presented at the beginning of our Ethereum Deep Dive on June 17.

[Sheeeeshack]

You uploaded this for the public to listen to?? if yes, up the volume....

[robinmoudnib]

Great video, especially the explanation of Solidity. Thanks!

[ArchitGuptaxB]

A very nice introduction to blockchain and applications. Specially the technical usecases covered later (though i didnt quite grasp them, need to spend more time understanding).

[abstractapproach]

23:53 why not, curious. I think understanding thyis might help me grasp the concept.

[ArchitGuptaxB]

Just small comment, links to slides and handout are reversed.

[EstrellaViajeViajero]

That river example is awful. You shouldn't pay the company, you should pay the enforcement officials (like police). Otherwise the company saves money dumping pollutants into the river, then gets paid to clean them up. The people would be incentivizing private corporations to cause, then fix, their own problems while getting paid each way.

[pranjalmittal]

34:33 If DNS was on a smart contract and there was a fee to do dns lookups that would get very expensive very soon (due to the gas fees for each lookup).

[jonabirdd]

Is this really deep dive? More like a very basic intro, no?

[treeclimber]

The real-world prediction gambling sounds like it could easily lead to black market manipulation of events. By "incentivizing" certain outcomes, rather than just predicting it puts a financial benefit on certain results, which may not have otherwise existed, and thus would itself likely effect the outcome. I see positive use scenarios, but it also sounds dangerous, like something organized crime would thrive on. Although, such markets likely already exist in a less tracked format, and this at least has a ledger.

[killerkolibri]

Good content but...."Äähmmm eeehmmm aaahm"