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Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 15:08 Max Levchin Uh, when, so I, I read the original Bitcoin paper and thought, wow, that's a really clever way of solving the business in general problem. 2 times in the scene
How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- ▶ 8:09 Grant LaFontaine And he, the guy goes, I'll sell it to you for a Bitcoin. 5 times in the scene
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 53:10 Balaji Srinivasan And, um, Zotel is a Zcash powered mobile wallet, um, that is basically fully encrypted Bitcoin. 14 times in the scene
How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
- ▶ 2:27 Owen Jennings Um, and I think that's flowed through Twitter, Square, Cash App, Bitcoin, etc.
- ▶ 20:33 Owen Jennings Your cash app should look really different from mine, and the reason why, it's like, okay, well, I get my paycheck in the cash app, and I'm super into Bitcoin.
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 1:06:09 Marc Andreessen Um, and, and the number of VCs that we talked to between call it, you know, the release of the Bitcoin white paper in 2009 to the beginning of the crypto war in 20, 21, who just basically said, oh, we're not gonna do crypto.
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 11:26 unnamed speaker You can speculate on a few of these other things and, uh, uh, Bitcoin and, and, and other, uh, uh, coins.
- ▶ 20:09 unnamed speaker Like if you, you, you look at the number of consumers that were, you know, signing up to invest or signing up to take a loan or signing up to buy a Bitcoin or whatever it was.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 22:34 Jonathan Swanson It's not gold or Bitcoin or Nvidia clusters.
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 30:10 Vlad Tenev I mean, even when Bitcoin dropped below a 100,000 a few days ago, it was just, uh,
- ▶ 1:00:03 Vlad Tenev So Bitcoin's gonna go up and that somewhat worked, but it's a little bit indirect.
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 46:41 unnamed speaker You know, if you think about nailing the video game tailwind, VR, Bitcoin mining, obviously AI now, um, you know, one thing that, or one of the things that Jensen talks about today is robotics, AI factories.
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 17:45 Chris Dixon And so I got into that kind of a while ago and that's how I got into originally like into Bitcoin, you know, as I just followed those people and I found it was one of those things where it sounded kind of silly at first.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 1:15:12 Balaji Srinivasan Um, for example, JR police in Colorado is, is friendly to like accepting Bitcoin for payments there, or, uh, you have, you know, somebody who's posted about AI
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 8:00 Balaji Srinivasan Uh, Bitcoin is the network.
- ▶ 1:13:14 Balaji Srinivasan And Satoshi implemented Bitcoin, right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:19 Balaji Srinivasan Bitcoin increases that because it actually says once you can get consensus on who owns what BTC, you can also get consensus on who owns what stocks, what bonds, what Ethereum, smart contracts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:54 Balaji Srinivasan That's the thing about the Bitcoin blockchain. 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 30:10 Balaji Srinivasan It can't fake a Bitcoin private key.
- ▶ 1:01:15 Balaji Srinivasan Can you make a map of Bitcoin?
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
- ▶ 1:19 Ali Yahya So actually, it's, it's quite interesting, because if you go back all the way to 2009, when the original Bitcoin white paper was published, uh, the first line, or it was one of the first few lines of the paper, describes Bitcoin as a… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:00 Arianna Simpson One interesting thing, though, is that stablecoins, at least us who are in the industry full-time, have been thinking about for, like, years and years, because I remember talking about them in, like, 2017, 20 18, and I think there was…
- ▶ 33:33 Ali Yahya Um, and I think that that misconception comes from Bitcoin, from Bitcoin trying to be money and 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:54 Erik Torenberg Maybe Ali, can you give a bit of an update on kind of the smart contract platform wars as a, as an outsider or someone who's paid attention, you know, at certain times and not at certain times, what I've sort of heard or gleaned is, hey,… 4 times in the scene
Founders, Media, & Memes: a16z’s Strategy for the Future | a16z LP Summit 2025
- ▶ 32:23 Marc Andreessen You know, there is this way you can, you can spread tasks out across the internet, and there's these systems like Bitcoin and BitTorrent, and our partner Vijay years ago had a system called Folding at Home for doing protein folding… 3 times in the scene
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 9:32 Chris Dixon But the second order effect is now, like, crypto is an example, like, like, if you didn't have social media, think about it, someone would come up with Bitcoin, and.
How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance
- ▶ 12:42 Ian Cinnamon Should have done it with Bitcoin.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 1:34 Chris Dixon Um, and so, first of all, that's what it is, because I think a lot of people don't, you know, they think of it as Bitcoin or meme coins or something, and so that's fundamentally not what, what, what it is to me, or I think to the kind of…
- ▶ 21:54 Chris Dixon Like Bitcoin is something that couldn't have existed before social networking, right?
Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire
- ▶ 1:39 Marc Andreessen And, um, it has, uh, it has, it did not create, but it has, um, uh, um, sort of, uh, uh, sum it into being a meme coin, um, that is not worth three hundred million dollars, um,
- ▶ 16:53 Marc Andreessen Um, and so specifically, um, at a certain point, it decided that it had a Bitcoin wallet, um, that it actually didn't have, but it became convinced that it did. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:07 Marc Andreessen You know, Bitcoin and Dogecoin and all these other things.
Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
- ▶ 17:49 Mark Casey You know, uh, bad scenario for human liberty for central bank digital currencies if they can, can surveil all your money, and control all your money, and censor all your money, and cancel all your money, uh, as happens in certain… 8 times in the scene
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 31:53 Ben Horowitz Then, as we've tried to get laws passed, so, you know, there's this thing called SAB one 21, which the SEC put in place, which is a crazy rule, uh, which says, if you custody, if you hold somebody's crypto assets, so if I have some… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:01 Marc Andreessen Um, we will defend the right to mine Bitcoin.
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:37:16 Ben Horowitz Uh, I, I remember when, when we made the coin base investment, I guess Bitcoin, which was the, the, the one cryptocurrency at the time was, I don't know, it was some number of hundreds of dollars and everybody 2 times in the scene
AI, Robotics & the Future of Manufacturing
- ▶ 34:44 Ben Horowitz Campaigning against crypto because of the like Bitcoin mining, which is like tiny, tiny, tiny compared to what people are using on AI now.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 10:02 Marc Andreessen Um, Bitcoin is an example is done that way.
- ▶ 41:58 Marc Andreessen It's Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
Regulating Crypto in the Name of National Competitiveness
- ▶ 4:40 Emily Choi Who often come in to Coinbase and, and buy Bitcoin, and then they become exposed to all different parts of the crypto economy.
- ▶ 7:06 Emily Choi Um, and, you know, even Hamas, like, I, I think in like, 20, 22, 23 announced that they were no longer gonna be accepting Bitcoin because it was too traceable. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:20 Ben Horowitz Coinbase, uh, you guys started out, and when we invested, I believe you were, you were basically a Bitcoin exchange. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Ben Horowitz So, we've, there's been a tremendous amount of news about the, uh, Bitcoin ETF, and, um, you mentioned that, uh, most of them are at Coinbase, and so what does it mean for Coinbase? 4 times in the scene
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 11:39 Chris Dixon Bitcoin obviously has more of a, you know, kind of the anti-government right-wing spin.
- ▶ 30:47 Chris Dixon First, you know, Bitcoin has been around that long, but Ethereum, which really generalized the ideas of Bitcoin and, and, and built a blockchain that's a general computing platform, that was 2015. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:35 Ben Horowitz Uh, Bitcoin and Ethereum are going down. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:32 Marc Andreessen You know, non blockchain, central managed, uh, uh, digital currencies in, in competition with systems like Bitcoin and Ethereum and, and, and other, uh, uh, crypto web three things.
- ▶ 59:51 Chris Dixon And there's generally agreement that things like Bitcoin are commodities because it's decentralized enough. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:00 Chris Dixon Um, in America, fifty million people, um, have crypto and mostly Bitcoin.
- ▶ 1:18:10 Marc Andreessen Um, uh, so Zach, Zach Pandell asks, um, what is your perspective on Bitcoin specifically at this point in its history?
- ▶ 1:29:59 Chris Dixon Um, I think that the, to Balaji's point, I mean, Balaji, I think calls it more BTC, and I think that, I think there's more of a political. 4 times in the scene
AI Hardware, Explained.
- ▶ 0:04 Guido Appenzeller Who would have thought that my gaming PC and my Bitcoin miner would eventually become a good AI engineer.
- ▶ 6:46 Guido Appenzeller Who would have thought that my gaming PC and my Bitcoin miner would eventually become a good AI engine, yeah?
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 24:38 Salim Ismail Bitcoin leveraging other people's compute power to do the nodes.
Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse
- ▶ 56:22 Neal Stephenson Bitcoin was the first layer one chain. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:55 Neal Stephenson Now, there's a, again, for people who are not crypto dorks, I should explain that old school Bitcoin uses, um, a system, underlying system called proof of work.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 28:48 Balaji Srinivasan Monocoinist is like the, uh, let's the Bitcoin maximalist or a maximalist of any one 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:52 Balaji Srinivasan Instead, what people do is they put pound X, you know, like pound BTC or, you know, pound this movement, pound that movement in their bios. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:39 Balaji Srinivasan It's basically like, like Bitcoin maximalists in a sense are devotional content. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:21 Balaji Srinivasan Or El Salvador, Bitcoin's a national currency there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:49 Balaji Srinivasan You're ending the fed or exiting the fed and replacing with Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:50:34 Balaji Srinivasan And this V-III combines aspects of both, just like Bitcoin combined aspects of both digital gold and fiat currency, right.
Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
- ▶ 22:15 Steve Wozniak You know, when Bitcoin was young, I like things that don't, don't add up and necessarily make sense. 3 times in the scene
Why Technology Still Matters with Marc Andreessen
- ▶ 32:43 Marc Andreessen Um, so as a good example, Crypto Web Three has been going through this for the last 10 years, right, which is, you know, Crypto Web Three, Bitcoin was, was greeted early on, Ethereum was greeted early on as, like, this can't possibly work,…
Scaling Up Blockchains with Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- ▶ 1:41 Ali Yahya The biggest misconception in crypto continues to be that crypto is really just about cryptocurrency, that, uh, Ethereum is really just the silver to Bitcoin, the Bitcoin's gold, and that it's really all about just like payments or digital… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:05 Alex Gluchowski (Alex G) Uh, and, uh, I, this was a great intro, a very, very good analogy, and I would like to extend it with, um, uh, you know, like for me, the blockchains that when I first learned about Bitcoin and later Ethereum and more powerful way to, to… 4 times in the scene
Why DAOs Matter for Digital Art
- ▶ 2:05 People Pleaser And so, uh, this actually goes beyond just slapping on an ETH logo or putting a three D Bitcoin into my pieces, but
NFT Uses for Today (and Tomorrow)
- ▶ 4:53 Devin Finzer If you look, if you actually zoom back and you think about kind of the beginning of Bitcoin and, and all of the kind of crazy wave that we saw in 2017 with financial assets, that was really this trend of tokenizing all of the finance…
Social Tokens for Creators Explained
- ▶ 1:51 Kevin Chou And they were really excited in long time, you know, Bitcoin and other crypto enthusiasts.
- ▶ 16:49 Kevin Chou I'm personally, and the way that we've, we've shaped Rally is to follow in the footsteps of Bitcoin and Ethereum.
The Future of NFTs
- ▶ 5:55 Dan Boneh So I think that the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains are going to be with humanity now forever, you know, in the year 3000, you know, the era of Futurama, we're still going to be looking at the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:36 Chris Dixon We started with Bitcoin.
"Crypto Startup School" Documentary
- ▶ 4:15 unnamed speaker I learned about Bitcoin in 2013, but it wasn't the currency that interested me at all. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:05 Andrei Anissimov So it's a contract that synthetically simulates payoffs from Bitcoin mining. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:51 Meta Katari Bitcoin was made during the 2008 recession.
- ▶ 26:38 Tina Zhen We shipped a prototype during the program and plan to launch a Bitcoin having specials contract on mainnet through this mobile first simple interface in May.
Gamers are Entering a New Era of Monetization
- ▶ 0:25 Kevin Chou Now, when one thinks about blockchain, one may think about Bitcoin, or perhaps these days, Libra.
- ▶ 9:21 Kevin Chou Blockchain, and Bitcoin in particular, invented a way for a person to truly own a nebulous digital asset, and they don't need to depend on a government or financial financial institution to say that they own that asset.
Imagining Our Future Through Tech
- ▶ 9:52 Frank Chen Now, the fans can get paid instantly for giving this feedback, and that you can, they can choose to get paid in a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or Libra, or they can also choose to get paid in influencer coin.
- ▶ 11:44 Frank Chen Once the orders start coming in, the supply chain will get rewarded and they too can choose to get paid in Bitcoin or influencer coin.
Blockchain in War Zones
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Pruden I ended up reading the Bitcoin white paper, and I was completely captivated because what I read to me represented an opportunity to use this technology to address some of those underlying issues that I've witnessed during my military…
- ▶ 0:53 Alex Pruden How did you go from Baghdad to Bitcoin?
- ▶ 12:37 Alex Pruden So this was on my mind right around the time I learned about Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 13:49 Chris Dixon If 20 years ago, someone invented Bitcoin, you'd have like a couple New York Times articles quoting some Yale economists.
- ▶ 29:28 Chris Dixon Like, it's still not quite there, but it's very, very close, and the, if you, if you go, and same with the crypto blockchains, like, it's slow, and Bitcoin has its issues, and everything, it's not quite there.
- ▶ 34:27 Chris Dixon Now that getting that message out, like it is very hard, um, because there's a lot of like negative, uh, uh, I think misunderstandings around, you know, going back to Bitcoin and crypto in general, and like, it's actually like a very kind…
Product Zeitgeist Fit and the Next Big Thing
- ▶ 5:05 D'Arcy Coolican And if you don't believe me, look at the Genesis block of Bitcoin.
Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley
- ▶ 37:06 Ben Horowitz You hear that, you need to take Bitcoin, Venmo, something else, don't take that certified check.
Decentralized Applications: What's Now, What's Next
- ▶ 3:10 Arianna Simpson Whereas, um, as was mentioned earlier, Ethereum can process about 15, Bitcoin about seven, and that's kind of under ideal conditions.
- ▶ 5:03 Arianna Simpson So the Lightning Network was initially conceived of as something that could help scale Bitcoin by basically creating these bi-directional payment channels. 2 times in the scene
Taking Crypto Beyond Volatility: Stablecoins
- ▶ 2:06 Sep Kamvar The example that I like, I love to give here is, um, the first purchase in Bitcoin was in 2009, and it was for a pizza.
- ▶ 4:46 Sep Kamvar They wanted to get in and out of Bitcoin reasonably quickly, um, but it was difficult to get in and out of Bitcoin when you had to convert to dollar, wire it to a bank account, and then wire it back.
Security and Privacy for Crypto with Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- ▶ 3:54 Zooko Wilcox So when Satoshi Nakamoto was inventing Bitcoin, he tried to figure out how to add encryption into it, and he couldn't figure it out.
- ▶ 4:49 Zooko Wilcox But when Bitcoin came along, it still wasn't practical.
- ▶ 8:46 Zooko Wilcox Zcash is just like Bitcoin, except that 4 times in the scene
The Architecture of Crypto Innovation
- ▶ 1:59 Neha Narula The answer was a new form of digital value transfer called Bitcoin.
- ▶ 2:53 Neha Narula So, uh, early the next year, Satoshi released running code, and people started running what is now known as the Bitcoin blockchain. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:14 Neha Narula Because what came out of Bitcoin is a new way of thinking about how to build systems. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:53 Neha Narula In 1999, 10 years before Bitcoin, an algorithm called Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus was formulated at MIT by Barbara Liskoff and her student Miguel Castro, and interestingly enough, though industry didn't really take this… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:09 Neha Narula What we saw with Bitcoin was a new type of environment. 3 times in the scene
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