Blockchains / Crypto / web3

a16z crypto show

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4.4 • 66 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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with @cdixon @alive_eth @tim_roughgarden @smc90 We set some context, quickly, into the connection between blockchains, crypto, and web3 – and offer some useful analogies, and more mental models, for thinking about a blossoming area of computer science in both theory and practice.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Web 3 with A6 and Z, a show about building the next generation of the internet from the team at A6 and Z.
0:11.0	That includes me, your host Sonal Joxy. This show is for
0:15.0	understanding and going deeper on all things crypto and Web 3, including through
0:19.0	offering occasional data readouts and insights directly from the leading scientists and makers in this space.
0:25.8	So we'll be diving deep the rest of the season into various topics ranging from auction
0:29.8	design and mechanics, NFT, security, to economics, zero knowledge, Security, Toeconomics, Zero Knowledge, Gaming, Decentralized Media, Infrastructure
0:36.3	Roadmaps and much, much, much more.
0:39.1	But in this second episode, we set some more context quickly into the connection between blockchains,
0:45.0	crypto, and Web 3 and offer some useful analogies and more mental models for
0:50.6	thinking about a blossoming area of computer science in both theory and practice.
0:55.6	Our guest today include Chris Dixon, founding general and managing partner at A6 and C
0:59.7	crypto, Olyaya, general partner and former Software Engineer and Researcher at Google X and Google Brain
1:05.7	AI and Core Developer on Tenser Flow.
1:08.4	And Tim Ruffgarden, head of research at A6insi Cryptone Professor in the computer science department at Columbia University who previously spent 15 years in the computer science faculty at Stanford and more.
1:18.0	We'll go deeply with him in the next episodes.
1:20.0	Just a reminder that none of the following should be taken as investment advice.
1:24.0	Please see a six and see.com slash disclosures for more important information.
1:28.0	We start out by talking about the key foundations of blockchain crypto and web 3
1:32.0	where analogies to the internet and more do and
1:36.0	don't apply and areas of interest. The first voice you'll hear is Chris's, followed by
1:41.3	Alize and then Tim's via Mobile.
1:47.0	Great, so let's just talk about what a blockchain is.
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