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Off the Chain, simply the best podcast in crypto. Let's kick this thing off.

Muni Bali is the co-founder of Blockstack, a new internet for decentralized apps. In this conversation, we discussed the problems with today's internet giants,

why you should care about decentralization,

and what scares him about the future built on a blockchain.

Muneb is incredibly thoughtful and has many unique life experiences.

It was great learning from him, and I hope you enjoyed as much as I did.

Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek Digital. learning from him and I hope you enjoyed as much as I did.

Anthony Pompliano is a partner in Morgan Creek Digital.

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All right, Meneve, ready? Let's do this.

So for those that don't know, why don't you just go through some of your background,

and then we can kind of talk through how you got into the crypto space.

Hey, everyone. I'm Muneb, co-founder of Blockstack.

So I have a PhD in distributed systems from Princeton University.

Before entering the space, I basically worked in distributed systems.

For those who don't know what that is, these are the people who have built, you know,

a lot of the computer networks out there or the data centers that resulted in cloud computing.

And even if you go back all the way to the 90s,

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