Hashing It Out recently hosted Vitalik Buterin, and Buterin talked about how he would handle Ethereum’s creation differently if he were building it now.
Buterin’s interview on Hashing It Out was on the July 2nd podcast interview – he acknowledged the presence of a number of changes, including gas costs, as an example of what he would do differently.
“We definitely did kind of underestimate how much time it would take to finish a lot of the things that we didn’t start back in 2015,” Buterin said, noting Proof-of-Stake, or PoS, and sharding as the most sizable aspects.
He added:
“Had we known that it would end up taking us years, we probably would have designed the roadmap differently and thought about what the different teams would be working on differently and making a lot of decisions in that regard in a very different way from how we are now, so, I think, definitely a lot of regrets and wasted time in that regard.”
Buterin also talked about regrets and wasted time concerning other aspects of the Ethereum network.
Ethereum 2.0, or ETH 2.0, was originally expected in January of 2020, but has been constantly delayed. Buterin spoke earlier this week regarding the network’s gradual scaling process for transactions.
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