Do We Need Web3? — With Gavin Wood

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Gavin Wood is the co-founder of Ethereum and creator of Polkadot. He joins Big Technology Podcast from Davos for a discussion about whether we need Web3 — a new web built with blockchain technology. Joins us for a broad conversation on what inspired Wood to dedicate himself to the Web3, movement, how the technology works in practice, and whether the economic downturn may actually help the crypto movement.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Michael Kovnet, host of The Next Big Idea Daily.
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0:25.6	Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversations
0:39.5	of the tech world and beyond.
0:41.5	And we are coming to you from Davos this week in collaboration with the Web3 Foundation
0:46.1	and unfinished.
0:47.6	Our guest today is Gavin Wood, the co-founder of Ethereum and creator of PolkaDot.
0:52.2	We've had a handful of conversations about Web 3 on this show,
0:56.0	but I don't think any has been as in-depth
0:59.3	as the one you're about to hear.
1:00.9	Gavin, welcome to the show.
1:02.3	Thanks, having me on.
1:03.8	So you're the co-founder of Ethereum and Creator PolkaDot,
1:07.5	two of the most influential crypto projects that we have today.
1:12.6	And both of them challenged the current institutions.
1:14.6	And so I've heard two legends about you.
1:17.6	The first is that you decided to get into this after seeing the revelations from Ed Snowden.
1:24.6	The second is that you decided to make these moves after seeing the financial
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