The Hashing It
Out podcast recently hosted Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin.
During the show, he explained how he would handle Ethereum’s creation
differently if he were building it now. 

Buterin acknowledged the
presence of a number of changes, both large and small, such as putting
more thought into gas costs for example. “We didn’t really do a good job
of setting those at the beginning,” Buterin said on the July 2 podcast interview.  


Buterin’s larger changes involve sharding and Proof-of-Stake


After
mentioning gas prices and other smaller alterations he would have made
from the start, Buterin took a look at some of the larger changes around
Ethereum. 

“We definitely did kind of underestimate how much time
it would take to finish a lot of the things that we didn’t start back
in 2015,” Buterin said, noting Proof-of-Stake, or PoS, and sharding as
the most sizable aspects. 

He added:


“Had we
known that it would end up taking us years, we probably would have
designed the roadmap differently and thought about what the different
teams would be working on differently and making a lot of decisions in
that regard in a very different way from how we are now, so, I think,
definitely a lot of regrets and wasted time in that regard.” 

The
blockchain expert also noted regrets and wasted time concerning several
other aspects around the technical side of the network, covering a
multitude of topics and concepts in the lengthy interview. 


Ethereum 2.0 en route 


Ethereum 2.0, or ETH 2.0, has been in the works for a while. Originally expected in January 2020, ETH 2.0 has faced a number of delays. A June 23 post from Ethereum’s blog showed that the team is still chugging away. 

Earlier this week, Buterin also spoke on Ethereum’s gradual scaling process for transactions.