The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

clear all ✕

why aren't all 2 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

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
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Pre-1993 PCs and Macs lacked built-in TCP/IP support
“Computers, PCs and Macs up until 93, 94 didn't even come with TCP IP built into the computer, built into the operating system.”
Marc Andreessen Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 40:44 Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,000 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.