What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Popliano. Most of you know me as Pomp.

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

Ryan Shea is the co-founder of Blockstack, a new internet for decentralized apps.

In this conversation, Ryan and I discussed freedom of speech,

manipulation of user data in the digital world, how decentralization can improve the internet,

and how governance will evolve in the digital age. Ryan is well-read and refreshingly intelligent.

There are many great takeaways in this one, so I hope you find it as valuable as I did.

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and do not reflect the opinions of Morgan Creek Digital or Morgan Creek Capital Management.

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inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an

expression of his opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes only. All right, guys, here

with Ryan Shea. Welcome. Thank you for coming to spend some time with this thank you so much so

absolutely we'll we'll try to keep this under two hours all right so for people don't know

let's just go through kind of your background where'd you grow up you know high school what

your interests all that and then we'll get into some of the later years sure Sure. So I grew up mostly in Seacoccas, New Jersey.

I was actually my parents moved around quite a bit.

When I was younger, I was born in White Plains, hopped around New Jersey a little bit, Connecticut,

New York.

But I went to Seacoccas High School.

I was very interested in science, mathematics,

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