Crypto World
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
We Live to Build 
the a16z Podcast
2 statements about Crypto World, every show
Weisbrot: Crypto cycles follow a pattern of money grabs, crashes, then utility
“The first time anything happens in the crypto world, it's like a money grab and then there's a crash. And then people start to think about what it could actually be used for. And while that's being built, people are already moving on to the next money grab, ri…”
Shirley: Fiat and crypto conflict over transaction reversibility, enabling fraud
“That the traditional fiat world of finance and the crypto world of tokens, they do not play nicely with each other. One of them has a presumption that every transaction is undoable. The other has the presumption that no transactions are undoable. And that open…”