cryptocurrency protocols

4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2018 by Lily Liu · across every show →

Everything said about cryptocurrency protocols, oldest first

Jul 15, 2018 positive
Opinion
Liu: Quasi-religious devotion was necessary to keep crypto alive
“There are a number of, I mean, it's almost religious how people kind of feel about their particular protocol or their sort of, or their project which in a way has been necessary in order to breathe life into the space and to keep it going from in 2008 until wh…”
Lily Liu Jul 15, 2018 ▶ 3:30 An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code
Dec 21, 2018 positive
Prediction Held up
Armstrong: Crypto won't have one dominant protocol, but several competing standards
“I think, ah, you know, now I think of it as a slightly different mental model, so it's not TCP IP that's one protocol to rule them all. There's gonna be a couple of these, you know, like Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or GIF, JPEG, PNG, if you wanna use an intern…”
Brian Armstrong Dec 21, 2018 ▶ 13:00 Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Carlson-Wee: Almost no live crypto protocol has formal governance
“And right now, in pretty much every live system, there isn't a clear governance model. There's no formalization around how decisions are made or executed.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:20 a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
Carlson-Wee: Polychain invests exclusively in crypto protocols, not company equity
“So Polychain is an investment fund that invests exclusively in cryptocurrency protocols. We do not invest in the equity of private or public companies at all.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:57 a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
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