Ali Yahya
26 statements across 8 episodes · 11 bullish · 8 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 26, 2018 by Ali Yahya · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Jul 26, 2018 positive
Ali Yahya: Crypto combines open-source collaboration with free-market capitalism
“What's exciting about this new technology is that it brings together two of the most powerful forces in history. There's what makes science tick, say the free flow of ideas and the universal freedom for criticism and discourse about those ideas on one hand, an…”
Jul 26, 2018 positive
Ali Yahya: Expensive forks force consensus while preserving exit options
“It's good that it's expensive because it, it's good that it, it's hard to do that, Because it encourages the participants of a network to try to figure out their differences, but it's also very good that that always exists as a possibility, because you don't w…”
Jul 26, 2018 positive
Ali Yahya: Network forking acts as a governance mechanism of exit
“And what's interesting about forking is that that is, that in and of itself is a mechanism of governance. It's a form by which communities can decide to run a different experiment. It's a, in a sense, if you, if we go back to the analogy to cities, it's like s…”
Jul 26, 2018 negative
Jul 26, 2018 neutral
Ali Yahya: Bitcoin is organized around digital gold, Ethereum around technology
“But in the case of Bitcoin, or at least the later form of Bitcoin, the current Bitcoin, the shared meme seems to be fixed supply, store of value, digital gold. In the case of Ethereum, it's more of a meme around technology. Say we're building a technology, it'…”
Dec 16, 2018 bullish
Dec 16, 2018 negative
Dec 16, 2018 negative
Dec 16, 2018 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Yahya: Mapping Blockchain Addresses to Real Humans Is Crypto's Hardest Problem
“One of the hardest problems in the space is mapping cleanly one, ah, public key or address on the blockchain to an actual human being. So this is known as the civil problem. The problem that any one participant can create multiple addresses for themselves and …”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Yahya: High friction for hard forks encourages consensus and prevents lock-in
“It's good that it's expensive, because it, it's good that it, it's hard to do that, Because it encourages the participants of a network to try to figure out their differences, but it's also very good that that always exists as a possibility, because you don't …”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Yahya: Successful crypto networks emerge bottom-up from community collaboration
“They also tend to emerge in a bottom-up way. They're organized in a bottom-up way. And I think this is a trait that's common to a lot of the crypto networks that are most successful. I think Ethereum Bitcoin to a considerable degree emerged out of communities …”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019
Yahya: Bottom-up crypto networks endure longer by eliminating central failures
“Cities, like crypto networks, may have this property in common. They tend to live for a very long time because of their bottom-up nature. That makes them sort of more robust and more resilient. They have fewer central single points of failure.”
Feb 26, 2019 bearish
Yahya: Current blockchain governance systems will likely devolve into plutocracies
“Today's governance systems and sort of blockchains and crypto networks, the way that they exist today will likely devolve into plutocracy simply because the mechanisms for vote buying are so effective as you've described.”
Feb 26, 2019 negative
Yahya: Lack of identity mechanisms leaves crypto governance vulnerable to vote buying
“I think today, because we lack that kind of a mechanism, people end up gravitating towards this simple and somewhat, perhaps somewhat naive one coin, one vote model, which is vulnerable to this vote buying attack.”
Apr 19, 2019
Yahya: Decentralizing crypto networking is one of Web3's hardest problems
“It's very early because this is actually probably one of the hardest problems in the space to tackle. Like, how do you decentralize even the networking layer, the communication between different nodes, and to not have it depend On centralized internet infrastr…”
Apr 19, 2019 bearish
Yahya: Decentralized storage will not drastically cut costs for most uses
“So the reason that we need decentralized storage networks is not because they're going to reduce the price of storage by orders of magnitude. At least for most kinds of files and for most use cases, I don't believe that that'll be the case.”
Apr 19, 2019 positive
Apr 19, 2019
Jul 9, 2025 positive
Yahya: Blockchains invert tech history by giving software power over hardware
“It's a kind of technology that inverts the power relationship between the software and the hardware. Whereas historically, the hardware has always had power over the software because whomever controls the hardware can turn off the software or change it in some…”
Jul 9, 2025 negative
Jul 9, 2025 positive
Jul 9, 2025 bullish
Yahya: Financial Web3 use cases will precede consumer crypto adoption
“It's now much more clear that the kind of the more financial use cases are likely to happen first. Those will act as a legitimizing force for the rest of the space, and then the consumer use cases, which we still believe in, Will take longer.”
Jul 9, 2025 bearish
Yahya: Stablecoin regulation will commoditize Tether and USDC issuers
“It will, it'll, to some extent, commoditize the issuance layer because it'll be easier for new issuers To emerge and create their own stable coins that, that are also user, you USD denominated to the point that those new stable coins are somewhat fungible and …”