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Podcast: Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies
Episode: Karl Floersch: Plasma Cash and the Ethereum Roadmap
Description: Ethereum Foundation researcher Karl Floersch joined us to discuss the main projects to upgrade Ethereum: Casper, Sharding and Plasma. Karl has been playing a key role in creating a new and simpler specification for Ethereum sidechains called Plasma Cash. We discussed the evolution of the Plasma project and what Ethereum’s evolution in the coming years could look like.
Topics covered in this episode:
How Karl originally became involved in Ethereum
The role of Casper, Sharding and Plasma in the Ethereum roadmap
The problems with the original Plasma concept
How Plasma Cash provides a simple scalability so...