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a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- ▶ 23:28 Chris Dixon I mean, Bitcoin have gone up a lot, but there's a lot of these things that have gone down in value, and it's very likely that an average person who's not spending all day on these things will lose their money, so if you're listening to…
- ▶ 30:04 Chris Dixon So like in Bitcoin, there's a, there's a, the, the miners through their hashing power vote, essentially vote on what solution they believe in.
a16z Podcast | Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services
- ▶ 2:02 Ben Horowitz So one of the things that's got, uh, kind of tremendous technological momentum is the, uh, uh, technology known as the blockchain and implementations such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
- ▶ 2:00 Matt Spence I mean, in the sense that look at some of the most interesting tech issues interact with, with policy, financial technology, medical technology, drones, driverless cars, Bitcoin.
a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
- ▶ 21:54 Frank Chen Our portfolio company, 21, is sort of right in the thick of this, right, which is how do you stand up an ad hoc agreement between an API and an API and like have the billing all work and, you know, Bitcoin might play a part in that, so.
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 0:31 Vitalik Buterin And people were also, for the first time, started starting to get excited about the Bitcoin's underlying technology. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:22 Vitalik Buterin And with Bitcoin, one thing that you could do is you could have a multi-sig wallet with the rules that say you need four out of seven keys in order to move any of the coins. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:08 Fred Ehrsam Vitalik, I think the, the backstory you tell is, is really important and about how this kind of organically grew out of Bitcoin. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:25 Chris Dixon In Bitcoin, you could build these applications at a higher level in the stack, and these things like Lightning Network, or I guess, or whatever, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:49 Chris Dixon And one other thing I observe is just looking at, like, you know, the Reddit forums, our Ethereum and our Bitcoin, that the, our Ethereum community seems, I would describe it as much more of a computer science developer community, whereas… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:48 Fred Ehrsam Um, so that, that's another sort of way of looking at maybe the Bitcoin community versus the Ethereum community at, at the moment, or even, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:39 Chris Dixon So when, when Bitcoin was coming up, people with Bitcoin projects would come to people like us, venture capitalists, to raise money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:05 Chris Dixon If I could just wrap it up by getting you guys to talk about your predictions for the next five, 10 years about Ethereum and Bitcoin. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 5:32 Marc Andreessen We've seen in financial technology, we've seen the rise of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, which is literally a distributed platform for, you know, for currency and for exchanging value.
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 1:21 Charlie Wurzel Money, or I got rid of my wallet, left it at home, and only used, you know, mobile apps and the internet, and started kind of going deeper and deeper into cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and eventually I went to Sweden and got a chip…
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 13:27 Balaji Srinivasan Something related to the Bitcoin slash Ethereum crowd funds that are happening now on the internet where you have, the regulatory stuff has to be worked out about that, but you do have a very large potential pool of capital that people can… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:43 Balaji Srinivasan So starting with maybe, you know, talk about Bitcoin and blockchain, then fintech more broadly. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:49 Balaji Srinivasan And what's awesome about it is, you know, we kind of think Satoshi read through The Sovereign Individual and actually made Bitcoin in part on that basis because the description of it is so lucid.
- ▶ 45:29 Balaji Srinivasan Remittances are, to Bitcoin, what VoIP was to the internet. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Banking on the Blockchain
- ▶ 0:14 Sonal Chokshi And we thought it'd be great to have William on the podcast because, you know, besides being a writer and investor in various Bitcoin and blockchain-related startups, him writing this book, it's actually one of the, probably one of the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:19 unnamed speaker A break in the Bitcoin community or in the, you know, cryptocurrency community around how to move forward. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:55 William Mougayar Because the blockchain, the Bitcoin blockchain, is all about public verification. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance
- ▶ 7:10 Mike Paulus New things like Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin
- ▶ 0:16 unnamed speaker And right there, I think this is interesting because you're not a Bitcoin provider. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:38 Adam Ludwin Well, Bitcoin was the first, uh, fully functioning digital asset the world has ever seen. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:37 Adam Ludwin And now to this debate, this question of, is it about Bitcoin or is it about the blockchain? 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:52 Adam Ludwin You don't, you don't, you may want Bitcoin. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:17 Adam Ludwin At the outset, they came to us, and the reason they came to us at the beginning was that our company chain, we started two years ago, and we launched a Bitcoin API for developers, so that it was very easy for software developers to build… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:49 Sonal Chokshi Let's lightning round a bunch of, um, myths and misconceptions, definitions, interesting things happening in Bitcoin and blockchain, but one to just start off because you mentioned, you know, database and your discussion about assets that… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:43 Adam Ludwin Shortly after Bitcoin gained popularity in 2012, when there were what were called altcoins. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:37 Adam Ludwin A colored coin is broadly understood as, um, layering an asset other than Bitcoin or a currency other than Bitcoin onto the Bitcoin network. 15 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne
- ▶ 0:43 Michael Copeland Byrne has been focused on the technology side of things ever since, pushing Overstock.com further into the cloud, as well as becoming the first major online merchant to accept Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:21 Michael Copeland 2014, you guys shifted to, to Bitcoin, right? 9 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
- ▶ 6:50 Chris Dixon Um, it's always worth reading, like the, the original Bitcoin paper. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:52 Benedict Evans And it's certainly possible that we could have, you know, whether it's Bitcoin or something else, a micropayment system of some kind or a subscription system of some kind that did work.
a16z Podcast | Making the Case for Permissionless Innovation
- ▶ 19:53 Adam Thierer And then I wouldn't want to forget about the world of cryptography and Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Crypto, Security, CS, Quantum Computing, and More with Our New Professor-in-Residence
- ▶ 21:35 Sonal Chokshi And, you know, one of the things that people talk about when they describe technologies like Bitcoin and the blockchain is about putting your trust in math versus another intermediary and actually letting that become a form of trust. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:21 Dan Boneh I think these are really, I mean, you guys are bringing up a really, really great point, that a lot of the security that underlies, not just Bitcoin, but really all of cryptography. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
- ▶ 0:04 Michael Copeland A few weeks back, A-sixteen Z's Chris Dixon and Mike Hearn talked about all things Bitcoin, including the issue that has all Bitcoin fans a bit on edge these days, how to scale the Bitcoin blockchain before capacity runs out. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14 Adam Back Sort of, Bitcoin over the last four years, there have been a number of protocol upgrades to add new features, to make Bitcoin faster, to make it scale better, and almost, you know, all of those have basically been backwards compatible. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:38 Adam Back There's an average transaction size, and the block size is one megabyte, and the block size is, you know, the block is a set of transactions that are processed by the Bitcoin network, and they happen approximately every 10 minutes, so that… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:20 Adam Back That's used in Bitcoin. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:32 Michael Copeland Alex, um, where, you know, of all these proposals, um, you know, where does your, your heart lie, or where does your Bitcoin lie? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:11 Adam Back I mean, so the other thing to understand is, um, not all Bitcoin transactions are happening on the blockchain. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:29 Michael Copeland The hard fork folks, do they just want to take their Bitcoin and play someplace else, essentially? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:02 Adam Back So, you know, the Bitcoin ecosystem is, is a kind of three-way balance between, ah, miners and people running auditors or full nodes, and many, many Bitcoin ecosystem companies run full nodes, full auditing nodes, and many power users run… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:55 Alex Morkos That's not how a system like Bitcoin works. 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
- ▶ 1:10 Michael Copeland The spread of optimization tools, privacy trends, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, Bitcoin, and killer robots.
- ▶ 15:20 Dan Siroker One of those technologies, uh, where that may be true today, is Bitcoin, and, and cryptocurrencies more broadly. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:43 Dan Siroker So we've talked about artificial intelligence, Bitcoin, virtual reality.
a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 0:10 Michael Copeland But in the latest fiscal meltdown in Greece, people started asking questions about whether a very new technology, Bitcoin and the underlying blockchain, could help. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:38 Christopher Mims Yeah, Brian, I just wanted to start with, you know, where your interest in Bitcoin is coming from. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:56 Brian Armstrong Um, that have something to do with Bitcoin, and, um, there's been about, well, let's see, there's about 6000 total to date, which is outpacing the number of GitHub repositories for other common payment systems like PayPal.
- ▶ 9:41 Brian Armstrong Um, you know, Chris, I, I know you wrote a lot about, um, Greece recently with, with Bitcoin and everything like that, and I was, I was just curious, how did you get, um, interested enough to go do some investigation into the Greece aspect… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:18 Brian Armstrong A lot of the focus historically has been on Bitcoin, on the price of Bitcoin, and it's because the early adopter use case of Bitcoin is all around it being a speculative asset. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 Christopher Mims You know, one of the things I talked about in my article for the journal was, look, uh, you know, Bitcoin doesn't make, uh, you know, like a difference to, to people in Greece right now. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:02 Brian Armstrong Chris, I'm curious, ah, what you've seen on the usability challenges around Bitcoin. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:53 Christopher Mims That are still linked to the main Bitcoin blockchain, such that any token on these quote unquote side chains can still be exchanged for Bitcoin, I think on a one-to-one basis, and the idea is, if you can have these side chains, you can… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:18 Christopher Mims Bitcoin is something that is easy to, uh, be derisive about because of its fluctuating price and good association with things like gold, but I think we're really at a turning point where even people like me, uh, who are fairly… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 32:29 unnamed speaker So for example, like with the UK embracing Bitcoin and being more thoughtful about FinTech, um, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Bitcoin's Growing Pains -- and Possibilities
- ▶ 0:04 Michael Copeland For an arcane protocol, Bitcoin has more than its share of drama. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26 Chris Dixon So let's, uh, let's start off talking about the state of Bitcoin. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:40 Chris Dixon And so now switching over to Bitcoin as a, um, you know, just kind of the, the broader applications, what's your take on sort of what's going on there? 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:57 Mike Hearn And by using Bitcoin, you can bypass all of that, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:31 Chris Dixon So where, where do you see the, the current state of, um, consumer adoption for Bitcoin and what, um, what will it take to, to help that, uh, continue to grow? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 Chris Dixon Um, so I, I personally am much more excited about the latter kind for Bitcoin. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:47 Mike Hearn And a lot of countries and, you know, it's, it, if you go to financial conferences and so on, if they're not talking about Bitcoin, a lot of them in the past have been talking about M-Pesa and saying, why is this so successful? 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
- ▶ 0:18 unnamed speaker So I just wanted to kick off with an article you wrote in the New York Times recently about what you describe as an experiment with Bitcoin happening, playing out in Argentina, um, where people are trading pesos for Bitcoin and vice versa… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:56 unnamed speaker Um, what about the environment there made Bitcoin take off? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 unnamed speaker Well, interestingly enough, Wences Cazares, who you talk about in the book and in the article, um, is from Argentina, and I know that inspired his interest in Bitcoin, but he wrote an interesting post recently on LinkedIn about why Greece… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 unnamed speaker Um, but yet so many aspects of the Bitcoin ecosystem are, in fact, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:31 unnamed speaker Well, I think it's interesting because one analogy that I've seen you use, and I'm, I feel like I'm a collector of Bitcoin analogies. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:06 Nathaniel Popper And so, if the government does away with that, if the government begins to deal with inflation, then the advantages of Bitcoin are going to become a lot less significant. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:38 unnamed speaker You paint a picture of a lot of different characters and interesting people involved with the evolution of Bitcoin. 10 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software and Overcoming the Randomness of Birthplace
- ▶ 12:43 Sten Tamkivi Like if you, if you wanted to build a, a, um, a company that operates drones and trades in Bitcoin while doing that and, uh, and maybe layer something, I don't know, stem cells into that mixer or something, it's very unlikely that you…
a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
- ▶ 0:20 Michael Copeland Look, the Wall Street Journal has the words Wall Street in it, and Wall Street hasn't been paying much attention to the world of Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:17 Sonal Chokshi So let's talk a bit more about people getting Bitcoin. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:57 Michael Copeland Push back a little bit on that because I think for most people, they're going to need to trust in the blockchain and Bitcoin miners and the whole system without really understanding how it works. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:41 Michael Casey I mean, and that is that, that is that how Bitcoin and the digital and digital money are challenging the global economic order. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:45 Michael Copeland How does Bitcoin address some of those failures? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:48 Sonal Chokshi I think it's interesting you talk about the broader audience that's interested in Bitcoin and the, and the framework for it. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 22:29 Michael Copeland Bitcoin. 12 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Guiding Startup Culture -- The Genius ISMs
- ▶ 25:38 Ilan Zechory Some people want to annotate the State of the Union and have commentary on it because it's an interesting primary text, but you know what secondary sources, uh, you know, if you look at the Newsweek article about the Bitcoin founder, for…
a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
- ▶ 0:09 Michael Copeland This discussion focuses on Bitcoin and how it can be extended beyond its use as a digital currency.
- ▶ 0:28 unnamed speaker Question number one, ah, I guess, ah, there are people who say Bitcoin is really blockchain one point zero.
- ▶ 2:26 unnamed speaker Dan, you are probably alluding to this, ah, given the, ah, you're looking at new capabilities of Bitcoin-like technology using blockchains. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:36 unnamed speaker You know, it seems to me that there's a couple of features of, uh, of a Bitcoin-like system. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 unnamed speaker So if, ah, Bitcoin continues to grow, do you think, um, the Fed might actually try to disrupt it at some point, at some, at some point? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:34 unnamed speaker Um, what I think I heard you say was that you think the scarcity of cryptocurrencies, as in Bitcoin, maybe one or two others in the, in the SETI state, comes from the existence of a network effect that there can be only one Facebook and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:06 Chris Dixon I think, I think to, to your, that's a great question, and it's like one of the biggest questions, I think, in the, in the Bitcoin community. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:55 unnamed speaker So, yeah, the question, um, everything that you showed, you didn't really touch on time at all, and that's the big thing about, uh, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies that bothers me, just the resolution time to guarantee that this transaction…
- ▶ 19:01 unnamed speaker The first is I wonder if you could comment upon the volatility of the value of Bitcoin and whether or not criminal or legal or regulatory challenges are really going to influence it a lot. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:32 unnamed speaker So, so Bitcoin has been around for a while, and, ah, it seems as the number of transactions, the daily transactions hasn't moved that much, the, you know, it hasn't really had the uptake, ah, over the time that it's been out, and, you… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:26 unnamed speaker I'm not an economist, but apparently you need some kind of healthy inflation rate for the economy to grow, and, you know, that's not really built into Bitcoin. 10 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 21:25 Marc Andreessen So for example, machine learning meets economics equals Bitcoin equals, you know, financial innovation.
a16z Podcast | Protecting Your Company from Itself: Why You Need HR
- ▶ 24:01 unnamed speaker Billion dollar Bitcoin flirts..
a16z Podcast | Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right Here
- ▶ 5:44 Balaji Srinivasan For example, even as like 12 months ago, even 18 months ago, people were calling Bitcoin an imaginary currency for crazy people on the internet.
- ▶ 10:27 Balaji Srinivasan I think there's also like a gear change that's happening in technology now where we, you know, social networks and games and the kind of fun stuff will always be there, but we do have a gear change where it is moving into drones and…
- ▶ 14:44 Balaji Srinivasan I think one of those things is probably going to be Bitcoin, like getting lots of people Bitcoin wallets, because you can deploy all kinds of software on top of that once they have Bitcoin wallets, so. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on Satoshi
- ▶ 0:13 Chris Dixon Um, however, uh, one of the topics is Bitcoin and, uh, knowing you and me, we should probably just talk about that since that's all we ever talk about. 9 times in the scene