Why Kevin Zhou Believes Ethereum Will Have 3 Forks After the Merge – Ep. 381

Kevin Zhou, co-founder of Galois Capital, comes to talk about the possibility of a Proof of Work chain on Ethereum after the Merge, the LUNA death spiral, how he plans to play the Merge, and much more… 

Show highlights:

• how Kevin got started in crypto 
• what Galois Capital is and what its investment thesis is
• why Kevin was more vocal than most about the possibility of the LUNA death spiral
• whether Kevin made money out of the Terra collapse and what was his strategy
• what the difficulty bomb in Ethereum is
• the potential scenarios that could arise after the Merge
• whether the public is not considering the risks of the Merge
• how the fact that everybody was telling the same narrative about ETH made Kevin suspicious
• how Chandler’s statement about forking Ethereum made it a lot more likely that it would happen
• the groups behind the encouragement of a proof-of-work Ethereum chain
• whether there is a value proposition for a Proof of Work chain
• how Kevin used The Cryptopians to remember how the DAO fork went
• what replay protection is and why it is important when forking a chain
• why anyone would want to keep the difficulty bomb in a potential proof of work chain
• Kevin’s predictions about the market cap of the potential Ethereum forks
• how a proof of work chain of Ethereum would function without the biggest stablecoins like USDT and USDC
• whether Tether is going to support Ethereum 2
• why Kevin writes using metaphors related to history and gaming and how those analogies relate to Ethereum
• how Kevin wanted to “stick it” to the Ethereum Foundation by offering his services
• whether Vitalik trolled Kevin on Twitter
• whether Kevin will apply the same strategy he used with ETC after the DAO fork

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Kevin

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Galois_Capital

ETH2

What is the Merge?: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/

Proof of Work Chain

Kevin’s analogy: https://twitter.com/Galois_Capital/status/1554053321165512705?s=20

Haseeb’s answer to Kevin’s arguments: https://twitter.com/hosseeb/status/1554163977806000128?s=20

Chandler Guo’s proposal: https://decrypt.co/106409/prominent-chinese-ethereum-miner-wants-to-resist-merge-create-fork

Kevin’s consulting offer: https://twitter.com/Galois_Capital/status/1553090706708856832?s=20

BitMEX researchers on the possibility of an Ethereum PoW chain: https://blog.bitmex.com/ethpow-vs-eth2/

CoinDesk article: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/03/who-will-mine-ethereum-after-its-gone/

Poloniex’s announcement: https://twitter.com/poloniex/status/1555085757450272768?s=21&t=jkjNGieNXdY5SgT2e9xhoQ

Justin Sun’s support of ETHW: https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1555112296006922240?s=21&t=jkjNGieNXdY5SgT2e9xhoQ