Innovation and Cryptocurrency: Leemon Baird : 481
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered what the algorithm of a flock of birds would look like? Well, today's guest has. Leemon Baird is the inventor of something you may not have heard of, the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm. He is the Co-founder and CTO of Swirlds Inc. and he has more than 20 years of tech and startup experience.
Leemon has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the Air Force Academy and as a senior scientist in a bunch of very cool labs. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals on topics that are near and dear to Dave Asprey's heart like computer security, machine learning, and mathematics.
Dave and Leemon draw some interesting and nerdtastic comparisons between cryptocurrencies and our own bodies, through a thing called quorum sensing.
So basically, Leemon is a badass with a big brain. Enjoy the show
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.6 | Today's cool fact of the day is that there is a new prime number over 23 million digits |
| 0:22.6 | long. |
| 0:23.6 | And why might you care about this? |
| 0:25.4 | Because prime numbers are cool. |
| 0:27.3 | And it turns out this one is 23,249,425 digits long, which is completely ridiculous. |
| 0:36.7 | And this is core math stuff that you might not hear about. |
| 0:40.1 | And what's cool about this is that this was found by an electrical engineer in Tennessee |
| 0:44.6 | using software provided by something called the Great Internet Merced Prime Search. |
| 0:50.1 | Why does this matter? |
| 0:51.1 | Because well, if you're looking at anything you have to do with cryptocurrency or cryptography, |
| 0:55.6 | prime numbers are very, very important for that stuff. |
| 0:58.5 | And I might be foreshadowing what we're going to talk about on today's show. |
| 1:03.7 | If you've been a long-term listener in Bulletproof Radio, we've never had an episode about |
| 1:09.6 | crypto or cryptocurrency or even some of the hard technology that's been the focus of my |
| 1:14.2 | career. |
| 1:15.4 | And what you're going to hear about today is a new company called Swirls. |
| 1:20.8 | And what they're doing is revolutionary in changing technology around. |
| 1:26.9 | And I want you guys to meet its inventor, but I also want you to understand exactly how |
| 1:33.0 | we got to be an inventor. |
| 1:34.2 | So this is a chance for us to dig in on a really smart guy's brain, learn something about |
| 1:39.1 | cryptocurrency if that's interesting for you. |
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