Protocol Labs

“So recently Turkey decided to block Wikipedia and it was very easy for them because all they had to do was intercept, you know, the connection between all Turkish users and the Wikipedia servers outside of Turkey. And so that was like very trivial blocking, bl…”

“But I think today we can We can make a much more effective system by just using currency to mediate that exchange of value.”

“A huge chunk of the ideas for IPFS were already discovered long before, and they were just not implemented in a way that people could use them. And it was up to us to take these ideas that have been around for 1020 years, and then put them in such a form that …”

“Really I think, like, the only option was either, ah, university or Google, and in the university case, it would have been killed in, in the, you know, publish or perish world where, like, hey, this is way too ambitious. Focus on this, like, one little thing, …”

“I think this kind of tech is stuff that Google might be interested in funding from the perspective of Google funds a lot of protocols and funds a lot of research, but it also kind of runs counter to basic Google positions around, you know, data, control of dat…”

“I think we have, like, this massive addiction to human readable naming where it shouldn't be used in a lot of places because it brings in a whole bunch of baggage around, hey, now you need a consensus system. Now you need, like, a network stack. Now you need, …”

“If you want to participate in the Filecoin consensus and maintain the Filecoin blockchain what, what's counted is not your CPU raw power as your influence over the consensus, but rather the amount of storage you are providing to the rest of the network.”

“And I would argue that it's easy to roll out a website today because you're, We're working on top of decades of centralized engineering, whereas we haven't had the same level, deep level of engineering on the peer-to-peer side.”

“That kind of funding model allows people to remain very close to the actual protocol layer and to think deeply about the protocol itself and its concerns without having to think about a product or a service on top. So this is precisely what protocol apps' busi…”

“IPFS is not something that we plan to monetize directly. Like, IPFS is a large scale infrastructure project That happens to be at a layer where you should not put money in.”

“I'm kind of bothered by the fact that in crypto, right now, you're seeing the normal issues with capital flood in, which is that if you're a speculator that has a lot of capital, you can afford to get much greater rewards than the people that actually build th…”

“The main selling point of Coinless will be, ah, decreasing the amount of work for token sale creators and creating a network that focuses on finding really high signal projects, right?”

“The other case is, hey, like, if there's some really popular piece of content, and suddenly it gets replicated to tons of people, now the DOS attack gets way harder, right? Like, now, now you have to DOS, Thousands of people. And so it's not fundamentally, in,…”

“You could have a room full of people with laptops open on Slack or on a Google Doc, and they can't work together because their supercomputers, which again, like, let's be clear here, like, these computers are more powerful than, like, all of the computers on t…”