Consensus Distributed Highlights-Here's What You Missed

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Virtual Consensus: Distributed summarizes a five day pivot to a fully virtual format with 22,000 attendees and over 300 sessions. Highlights include the real time reaction to the bitcoin halving, claims that ethereum 2.0 has live testnets and an optimistic roll-up >1000 tps demo, a Falcon Discover project to seed a data network, debates that decentralization is gradual not binary, and a charity fundraiser that raised money and ran live performances for COVID‑19 relief.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:40Yves Mersch European Central Bank, Member of the Executive Board
3. 1:03Michelle Phan EM Cosmetics Founder and Digital Streaming Pioneer
4. 1:38Tyrone Ross 401 Financial Consultant and Entrepreneur
5. 2:43MINI Tyler Winklevoss
6. 3:22Dovey Wan Primitive Ventures
7. 4:30Vitalik Buterin Ethereum Creator

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