Hi everyone, welcome to the A6&Z podcast. I'm Sonal. Today's episode is on crypto and the evolution of open source, and in particular, the idea of libraries, as in traditional open source versus services as with smart contracts and blockchain, which are open, permissionless, and more importantly, may address asymmetries between nights and weekends developers and entities with disproportionate resources.

What are the implications for developers, for creatives, for identity, for crypto finance, and more.

Devin Zougal guest hosts this conversation with Dennis Nazarov and Jesse Walden, the co-founders

in Media Chain Labs, which is acquired by Spotify in 2017. They draw on this past experience leading open source development

of a decentralized media attribution protocol for connecting creators to their audiences and consider

what could be different as crypto evolves. Both Dennis and Jesse are now with A6 and C Crypto.

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well with links and more on A6NC's YouTube channel. Hi, my name is Devin and I'm a software engineer

and writer based out of San Francisco. Today I'm talking to Dennis and Jesse about the evolution of open source and the evolution of crypto networks as well.

Dennis, you've written quite a bit about the dichotomy between libraries and services. Can you expand a little bit on that distinction for us?

Well, in crypto, you know, crypto has been kind of described as the natural evolution

of the open source movement that open source started as kind of an ideology and, you know,

a community with certain values that believed in software that should be openly licensed,

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