Balaji Srinivasan: Prove Correct, Not Just Go Direct
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We don't just want to go direct. |
| 0:03.0 | We want to prove correct. |
| 0:06.0 | In a sense, what the blockchain is, |
| 0:07.0 | is like an armored car for information. |
| 0:09.0 | We can transport that information on chain. |
| 0:12.0 | So easy to verify, difficult to fake, |
| 0:15.0 | becomes a critical thing in any system that deals with strangers, |
| 0:18.0 | which is lots of systems. |
| 0:20.0 | Literally, fake photos almost justified some crazy war on Brazil in the Atlantic. |
| 0:24.9 | The point is to trust us. |
| 0:26.9 | The point is to not have to trust us. |
| 0:29.4 | The point is to have system by math that anybody can look at. |
| 0:36.4 | And the reason that they would trust what we're doing is they don't have to trust what we're doing. |
| 0:40.2 | They can cryptographly verify it, put out your own opinion, but prove the facts. |
| 0:46.8 | Okay. And how do we prove the facts? Cryptography. Mathematics. That's a property of all human |
| 0:51.7 | beings, not some New York Media Corporation. |
| 1:01.0 | As the cost of creating content approaches zero, the cost of verifying it is rising just as fast. The result is a growing breakdown in trust across media, hiring, and online communication, |
| 1:07.0 | as synthetic content floods systems that were never designed to handle it. |
| 1:14.7 | In response, a new stack is emerging built on cryptography, |
| 1:17.5 | omtchain data, and verifiable records. |
| 1:20.7 | Instead of relying on institutions to assert truth, |
| 1:23.4 | these systems aim to make truth provable. |
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