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The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1 Sep 27, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:59 Eddie Lazzarin And that's kind of what Satoshi meant, you know, when he was talking about the banking system failing, 3 times in the scene

Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future Aug 1, 2025 · 1 mention

Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities May 2, 2024 · 1 mention

The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:44 Balaji Srinivasan They had the idea of finding a currency, but the fundamental issue, you know, which Satoshi later put a finger on, but it wasn't obvious was decentralization. 3 times in the scene

Product Zeitgeist Fit and the Next Big Thing Dec 9, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:14 D'Arcy Coolican In the comments section, Satoshi embedded a message about the financial bailouts, and whether they meant it as a commentary on the financial system and all the injustices, I don't know.

Security and Privacy for Crypto with Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aug 29, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

The Architecture of Crypto Innovation Aug 29, 2019 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 1:47 Neha Narula Well, in 2008, a shadowy figure known only by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, ah, answered this question, at least for the field of financial payments.
  • ▶ 2:04 Neha Narula Satoshi released a white paper on the internet in late, and I think that the most important sentence of the paper is right there at the very, very beginning in the abstract. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:04 Neha Narula Because you see, what happened was Satoshi had this really great democratic design for how Bitcoin should work. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Voting, Security, and Governance in Blockchains and Cryptonetworks Feb 26, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:48 Phil Dayan When Satoshi released his white paper in O-Nine, and academics first started looking at Bitcoin and its success and its rise, and asking, like, what is actually the interesting lesson to be learned here from what we've been doing for the…

a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:55 Chris Dixon Maker is running, it's just code out in like this world computer, no one controls it, including the software developers who made it, like it's running, it's doing its thing, it's liquidating contracts if they're under collateralized, it's…
  • ▶ 7:06 Sonal Chokshi And if you think about it, like, there is a prophet like Satoshi Nakamoto, a Bible, the Bitcoin white paper, there are factions and sects, there is a holy object like the Genesis block, there's a belief, there's rituals, mining.
  • ▶ 30:36 Brian Armstrong So in December, 2010, I ended up reading the Bitcoin white paper that was written by Satoshi Nakamoto.

a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:15 Ali Yahya There's like the idea of proof of work, uh, based consensus, like Nakamoto consensus could be that river basin along, around which like people converge, communities emerge, and then the development of Ethereum is kind of like a, it's…

a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:59 Chris Dixon That's right, and it all came from, it literally is, I think the best way to think of Satoshi's original paper is nine pages of incentives.

a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:18 Chris Dixon Satoshi's white paper, which basically is a set of incentives, and they work so well,

a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:14 Fred Ehrsam The primary example being Satoshi comes along in 2009 drops a nine page white paper, which is effectively an incentive structure into the world.

a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond Jan 2, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 10:06 Fred Ehrsam You know, it was born into existence in Satoshi's white paper and actually worked right, right away as a production network. 5 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

a16z Podcast | Banking on the Blockchain Jan 2, 2019 · 6 mentions

a16z Podcast | Bitcoin's Growing Pains -- and Possibilities Jan 2, 2019 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:09 Michael Copeland There is, of course, the mystery surrounding its anonymous founder, or founders, Satoshi. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:36 Mike Hearn So a long time ago, uh, when Satoshi was still in charge of the Bitcoin project, he added, um, a quick hack to the code, basically kind of a clutch, which, uh, limited Bitcoin's capacity to process transactions. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:36 Mike Hearn It uses features in the Bitcoin protocol that Satoshi put there right from day one. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter? Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 16:12 unnamed speaker I agree, and I think it's interesting because the entire theme of what you've been talking about, and in your book as well, is about the role of people and the players behind this ecosystem, and one debate that I've seen play out, and that… 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on Satoshi Jan 2, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 10:55 Chris Dixon So, uh, so last topic we'll talk about just because it's in the news is, uh, Newsweek's article on Satoshi. 8 times in the scene

Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon Dec 21, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:26 Brian Armstrong So, you know, you know, in 2010, um, I was home for Christmas visiting my parents, and I happened to read the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper for Bitcoin, and I think I just saw it on Hacker News one day.
  • ▶ 15:17 Chris Dixon I have a Satoshi white paper on my wall in my office, if you ever come to my office.

Beyond Cryptocurrencies Dec 15, 2018 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:25 Linda Xie So, Satoshi Nakamoto, uh, the founder of Bitcoin, who no one knows, could be man or woman, group of people, that's kind of one, one of the lures of Bitcoin and keeps it very decentralized. 5 times in the scene

Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:12 Katie Haun Satoshi's white paper was in 2008, but if you think about when people started really hearing more and more about Bitcoin, it was substantially later, and even those of us who were in the government or some more mainstream institutions, you… 2 times in the scene

Crypto and Decentralization: Building Blocks Jul 26, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:09 Chris Dixon That's right, and it all came from, it literally is, you see, I think the best way to think of the Satoshi's original paper is nine pages of incentives.

An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture Jul 15, 2018 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 4:27 Elizabeth Stark Um, and this pseudonymous individual group or group of individuals named Satoshi Nakamoto released this paper to the world to basically no fanfare. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:30 Elizabeth Stark I mean, the Satoshi White Paper, exactly. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:23 Chris Dixon And then instead of, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, it's whatever Vitalik in front of Congress or something or Satoshi
  • ▶ 37:28 unnamed speaker Satoshi owns a major chunk of the Bitcoin equity. 7 times in the scene

An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks May 5, 2018 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:06 Linda Xie There was a key breakthrough in digital money when Satoshi Nakamoto released Bitcoin in 2009. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:00 Linda Xie A key difference to Ethereum is that the founders are actually known and active in the community, whereas Satoshi isn't known and we're not really sure if Satoshi is even active anymore.

Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs Dec 9, 2017 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 6:54 Alex Rampell There was a paper that came out in 2008 by a pseudonymous individual named Satoshi Nakamoto. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:21 Alex Rampell Uh, Satoshi Nakamoto came out with this thing in 2008. 6 times in the scene
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