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From YouTube: Alex Van De Sande // An Ethereum Interview Series
Description
We sat down with Alex Van De Sande, Mist Team Lead at the Ethereum Foundation, to speak about the Mist browser, blockchain technology, and the future of Ethereum. This series focuses on trying to explain Ethereum to a non-technical audience.
A
Names,
Alex,
honest
and
I
am
one
of
the
first
employees
of
the
GM
foundation.
Actually
after
they
made
the
crowd
sale,
so
I
was
into
Bitcoin
for
a
long
time
and
I
was
very
excited
about
Bitcoin
and
I.
Think
you
kind
of
get
into
Bitcoin
into
stages.
Right
first
I
discovered
that
it
was
this
crazy
coin
that
has
no
government
and
that
they're
exciting
enough
and
then
I
started
learning
about
what,
if
all
the
things
it
could
do
and
then
I
learn
about
smart
contracts
capability
and
then
I
got
really
hooked.
A
And
then
ichiran
came
along
I
read
the
white
paper
and
I
very
excited
I,
say:
okay,
that's
that's
very
cool!
That's
something!
I
want
to
be
involved
with
and
I
started,
just
contact
being
part
of
the
community
starting
contacting
the
devs
and
helping
them,
and
there
weren't
many
people
around
the
designer,
and
then
they
start
kneading
I
started
helping
them
and
they
kind
of
needed.
My
help
messing
us
up.
They
I
I
started
helping
them
with
presentations
if
they
needed
a
penetration.
A
Design,
I
would
help
them
and
then,
at
some
point,
I
found
I
downloaded
the
their
first
proof
of
comp
proof
of
concept,
client,
which
was
called
lf0
and
I
I
could
I
could
immediately
see
the
potential
and
I
could
merely
understand.
This
is
very
cool,
but
the
interface
looked
like
an
airplane
cockpit.
It
was
terrible,
it
was
unusable
and
you
had
had
to
read
like
home
manual
in
order
even
to
understand
where
to
start
to
use
the
interface
and
then
I
am
a
UX
designer
and
I
wanted
to
help
them.
A
So
I
started
like
just
standing.
I
made
a
completely
redesign
of
it
and
it
was
in
my
opinion.
It
was
very,
very,
very
forward-thinking
and
very
different
and
I
sent
it
to
them.
They
they
contact
me
ask
if
you
want
to
talk
and
then,
when
I
started
talking
to
them,
what
they
told
me
that
the
problem
with
my
work
isn't
that
what
I
was
look
I
was
like
doing
something.
It
was
very
hard
and
just
just
too
far
away.
A
It
was
I,
wasn't
looking
far
away
enough
and
that
they
were
not
just
building
a
smart
contract
browser.
Just
like
I
was
building
I
had
designed
them
as
more
contract
browser.
They
were
literally
looking
building
something
that
could
be
the
basis
of
new
style
of
internet,
a
new,
a
new
new
world
wide
web,
and
then
at
first
I
was
a
little
bit
skeptical
and
but
then
I,
the
more
I
talked
to
them,
and
the
more
I
I
started
talking
with
people
involved.
A
The
more
I
realized
that
they
were
actually
doing
this,
and
at
some
point
that
was
in
early
2014
and
at
some
point
they
had
the
crowd,
sale
and
money
started
coming
in
and
with
money
they
could
store
paying
paying
salaries
to
all
the
volunteers,
with
we're
just
helping
them
at
that
point.
What
it
even
does
is
that
instead,
it
actually
manages
the
resource
where
you
don't
need
the
bank,
where
the
software
itself
holds
the
money.
The
software
itself
holds
the
property.
A
The
software
itself
holds
your
shares,
your
tokens,
your
gold,
your
whatever,
and
if
you
only
release
that
money-
and
you
only
move
that
money
according
to
the
rules
that
everyone
had
agreed
upon
before,
meaning
that
now,
if
you
want
to
build
a
bank
or
a
company
or
make
a
trade
or
or
or
or
anything
like
that,
you
can
trust
the
network
to
handle
the
money
for
you
and
I.
Think
that's
fantastic!
If
you
think
about
for
governments,
for
example,
and
for
I,
think
that's
that's
fantastic!
For
transparent
governance!
A
There
are
a
lot
of
governments,
they
want
to
be
transparent
and
want
to
say
that
they
are
transparent
and
what
they
do
is
that
they
spend
the
money,
and
then
they
put
the
money
on
some
sort
of
publicly
affects
about
database
to
show
the
are
transparent.
It's
even
reverse
that,
where
you
put
the
money
on
a
transparent,
publicly
accessible
database
and
then
in
order
to
spend
the
money
before
you
spend
the
money,
you
have
to
comply
to
the
rules
agreed
on
the
database.
A
So
if
you're
a
government,
then
you
put
the
money
on
the
database
and
let's
say
that
you
had
agreed
that
that
money
will
be
decided
by
an
elected
official
or
by
some
some
person
on
the
executive
team
or
under
a
vote
that
will
take
seven
days
for
it
to
vote,
and
then
you
made
a
veto
from
those
and
that
guy
had
a
veto
power.
You
build
any
structure
you
want
and
how
you
decide
how
the
money
is
spent
and
only
after
you
follow
the
strict
Luo
rule
of
love.
A
Oh
the
strict
rule
of
law,
of
how
that
process
should
go
then
time
that
money
can
move.
That
means
that
there
cannot
be
a
single
cent
of
money
that
can
be
spent
in
you
know,
manner
that
is
outside
the
rules.
You
cannot
like
bend
the
rules.
You
cannot
pay
someone
to
ignore
the
rules
for
a
little
bit.
The
rules
were
there
and
once
you've
put
the
rules
and
put
the
money
on
the
rules,
it
will
follow.
Those
rules
that
you
want
them
to
follow.
A
And
then,
one
year
later,
I
see
that
people
are
able
to
build
much
richer
interfaces
using
the
functionalities
that
we
had
built
one
year
ago
and
I
think
that's
that's
wonderful,
so
I
really
I
really
see
mist
as
being
almost
a
proof
of
concept
or
a
prototype.
That
shows
what
we
believe
should
be
the
architecture
of
the
web
of
the
future,
which
is
an
architecture
where.
A
You
keep
your
pro,
you
keep
your
private
data
private,
where
you,
you
have
your
private
data.
You
are
in
control
of
your
own
private
information,
it's
not
stored
by
a
compare
corporation
like
Facebook,
it's
not
and
and
then
so
right
now,
the
way
the
web
works
is
Facebook
or
Google.
They
they
handle
everything
right.
A
They
handle
your
private
data,
they
handle
your
private
information
and
you
go
to
them
and
they
offer
your
services,
and
since
there
is
no
money
on
the
internet
right
now,
the
only
way
you
actually
pay
for
those
services
or
via
eyeballs
and
advertising.
So
in
the
end,
everything
that
they
beaut
they
need
to
serve
their
actual
clients,
which
are
advertisers
and
shareholders
and
the
way
we
are
building
the
MIS
architecture.
A
You
keep
that
on
the
blockchain,
so
NIST
is
really
a
way
of
us
showing
where
we
believe
the
architecture
should
go
where
how
the
web
should
be
should
be
built
and
I
think
mist
can
be
a
and,
if,
if,
in
the
future,
other
browser,
vendors
and
other
projects
inspire
themselves
and
mist
to
build
something
similar
to
that.
I
would
be
very
happy.