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Linda Xie

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Scalar Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Linda Xie is a cryptocurrency investor and entrepreneur who co-founded the investment firm Scalar Capital and Bountycaster. Previously an early product manager at Coinbase, she is known for writing educational guides on crypto protocols, DAOs, and NFTs.

24statements → 22claims → 5claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 1.9/5average debate potential → 7said about them ↓

5 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 8 not checkable as stated how the 22 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 21 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 22 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 14 are resolved, and 8 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Linda argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Xie: Mitsubishi UFJ wrote a physical $9B check to Morgan Stanley in 2008
“So in 2008, Morgan Stanley needed an injection of capital to help prevent them from collapsing. So Mitsubishi U of J agreed to send this money, and they sent nine billion dollars, but it was a banking holiday in the US and Japan, and so they weren't actually a…”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 2:06 Beyond Cryptocurrencies

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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none yet certainty 3
95% certainty 4
100% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

259 words/min while actually speaking · 8.7 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Linda Xie: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,889 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Linda Xie said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Linda Xie: Decentralized networks can essentially replace entire corporations
“And you can essentially have networks replace entire corporations.”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 13:19 Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Xie: Decentralized applications are censorship resistant and cannot be shut down
“And we refer to these as decentralized applications, or dApps. And so these are applications that run on a decentralized network. They're censorship resistant and can't be shut down.”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 9:21 Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Xie: Smart contracts enable crypto networks to replace entire corporations
“So you can now have networks that replace entire corporations, which is fascinating.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 20:26 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Supported
Xie: Mitsubishi UFJ wrote a physical $9B check to Morgan Stanley in 2008
“So in 2008, Morgan Stanley needed an injection of capital to help prevent them from collapsing. So Mitsubishi U of J agreed to send this money, and they sent nine billion dollars, but it was a banking holiday in the US and Japan, and so they weren't actually a…”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 2:06 Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Assertion Supported
Linda Xie: Bitcoin mining farms consume electricity comparable to small nation states
“Mining farms where they're actually consuming as much electricity as some small nation states.”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 7:26 Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Assertion Supported
Xie: Centralized prediction markets failed due to regulation and corruption
“And we've seen prediction markets in the past. This is not a new concept. We've seen something like in-trade before. But they've actually been shut down. They've run into regulatory issues. The operators might have been corrupt. So, there's been a lot of issue…”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 9:56 Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Opinion
Xie: Augur's REP token model is an innovative decentralized oracle design
“So the way that Augur does it, I think, is really innovative. So Augur itself did a token sale, and they issued a bunch of tokens to the public, and these tokens are called REP. So now, these token holders are randomly selected to report on the outcome of thes…”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 10:49 Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Linda Xie: Crypto enables unprecedentedly fast experimentation in economic governance
“And what I'm most excited about, though, is you can experiment with new governance and economic systems at a much faster rate than you've ever been able to experiment with before.”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 13:39 Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Assertion Supported
Telegram raised $1.7 billion in its initial coin offering
“Telegram's ICO alone actually raised 1.7 billion dollars.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 11:58 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Insight
Xie: New technologies often find their first major traction through gaming
“Sometimes in new technology, you'll often see that the first things that really take off are things along gaming or toys.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 13:38 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Xie: Crypto lets users own identity without centralized platform control
“Something that's particularly relevant today with what we've been seeing with what's happening with Facebook is that you can now have people Own their own identity and reputation data without having this to be in the control of centralized parties.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 20:31 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Xie: Crypto enables unprecedented experimentation with new economic and governance systems
“The last thing that really excites me is that you can have users and developers experiment with entirely new governance and economic systems at a much faster rate than we've ever been able to experiment with before.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 20:44 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Supported
Xie: Venezuela's projected hyperinflation rate is set to reach one million percent
“Venezuela is going through hyperinflation, where the projected inflation rates are going to be one million percent.”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 2:55 Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Xie: Early digital currency attempts failed because of centralized structures
“So there were a lot of attempts at this, but they were all failing because they were centralized entities.”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 3:48 Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Assertion Supported
Bitcoin white paper never uses the word blockchain
“In the Bitcoin white paper never says the word blockchain, so I just want to make that very clear.”
Linda Xie Dec 15, 2018 ▶ 5:17 Beyond Cryptocurrencies
Assertion Supported
Mitsubishi UFJ hand-delivered a physical $9B check to Morgan Stanley in 2008
“Mitsubishi UFJ actually agreed to send them nine billion dollars, but since the money was needed urgently and banks were closed in the US and Japan, they actually had to write a nine billion dollar physical check and hand it in person to Morgan Stanley executi…”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 2:03 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Partly supported
Xie: Early digital currencies failed due to centralized control
“So these attempts at digital money actually ended up failing because there were centralized points of control.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 3:32 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Supported
CoinMarketCap listed 1,600 crypto assets with a $400B market cap in 2018
“So on a website called CoinMarketCap, there's 1600 crypto assets that are actually listed on there. And there's a total market cap of four hundred billion dollars.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 7:37 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Supported
Linda Xie: CryptoKitties drove Ethereum transaction spike in late 2017
“There was a huge spike at the end of 2017, early 2018 with the onset Of a decentralized application called CryptoKitties.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 12:22 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Supported
Linda Xie: Filecoin raised $257M in token sales
“Filecoin raised two hundred and fifty seven million dollars through private and public sales.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 16:14 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Supported
Linda Xie: Bitcoin and Ethereum are pseudonymous, not anonymous
“There's this misconception that Bitcoin and Ethereum are anonymous. Well, that's actually not true. They're pseudonymous, which means it doesn't use the real identity.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 18:18 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Supported
Chainalysis and Elliptic use machine learning experts to de-anonymize Bitcoin
“There's also services like Chainalysis and Elliptic, whose sole purpose is to de-anonymize networks like Bitcoin. So they have entire teams of machine learning experts to really try to trace some of these coins and what the identity is.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 19:08 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Supported
Ethereum founders raised $18 million in Bitcoin crowdsale
“The Ethereum founders raised eighteen million dollars in Bitcoin in an initial crowd sale.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 9:10 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Xie's family had property seized during China's Cultural Revolution
“And so during the Cultural Revolution my mom's side of the family actually had their home raided and had their property seized.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 0:52 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks

The other half of the tape: Linda Xie's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 7 times in 5 episodes on the a16z Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Sonal Chokshi 3Preethi Kasireddy 1People Pleaser 1

Every mention by year

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2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2018 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Beyond Cryptocurrencies Dec 15, 2018 12m

Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Linda Xie was played rather than Linda taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

EpisodeDateOn tapeWhat it is
An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks May 5, 2018 19m aired address
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