Kosala Hemachandra, CEO of MyEtherWallet, Talks About ETH 2.0 and More! - Ep. 31
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In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Kosala Hemachandra, CEO of MyEtherWallet. Bobby interviewed Kosala on the background of MyEtherWalllet, its business model, his thoughts on ETH 2.0 and Layer 2, their experience with phishing attacks, as well as MyEtherWallet’s future plans. [00:00:02] Intro [00:01:07] Introduction of MyEtherWallet [00:05:28] MyEtherWallet’s business model [00:10:55] Thoughts about Layer 2 and ETH 2.0 [00:17:39] Thoughts on multi-chain [00:19:51] MyEtherWallet’s Chrome extension [00:21:59] Stories of phishing attack [00:30:19] How big is MyEtherWallet team? [00:33:00] Plans for MyEtherWallet for the next few years Quotes from the episode: “There are a ton of like actual Layer 2 solutions that I prefer, and we are actually in talks with some of them on integrating them to MyEtherWallet and MEW wallet and all of our other products.” [00:11:56] “There're like 1000, 1500 people will just go and report spam the Chrome extension. And then Google, without knowing anything, they'll take down the extension. And now these phishers will put up a different extension with the same name. So unfortunately people do download these like fake extensions.” [00:20:12] “So we will always be open source, trustworthy and be the nexus point of Ethereum. That's where I want to be, we want to be as the whole team." [00:33:48] Links MyEtherWallet - http://myetherwallet.com/ CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/ Social Media MyEtherWallet: https://twitter.com/myetherwallet https://t.me/myetherwallet CoinGecko: https://twitter.com/coingecko https://t.me/coingecko
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