"In this episode we discover a new blockchain being developed partly in Switzerland.
It combines technical elements of bitcoin (Utxo model and proof of work) with others from Ethereum, (smart contract expressiveness) and adds a twist with sharding to provide for many more transactions per seconds.
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02:20 Basics: What is Alephium, and the political idea behind it
07:53 Why do we need another blockchain
11:07 Technicals, stateful UTXO, proof of less work, blockflow
28:21 Attracting developers
32:45 Running a full node
34:31 Why Switzerland
36:13 Roadmap
37:44 Rapid fire questions
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Alephium: A new blockchain combining the best of Bitcoin and Ethereum