Everything Dan Boneh said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency to achieve working adoption
“This is the first cryptocurrency that's actually seems to work, that's actually been, being adopted.”
Blockchain is the first publicly available, append-only database
“The thing that we're excited about Bitcoin is, A, the, obviously, the currency, but what's more interesting is even the block applications of the blockchain, right? It's the first time when we have sort of an append-only database that's kind of you can put thi…”
Bitcoin exchange solvency can be proven without trusted auditors
“The beauty of Bitcoin is that you need no trust in third parties. And this proof of solvency can be done without, ah, any expense, any payments done to a third party.”
Mt. Gox insolvency would have been detected earlier with ZK proofs
“If Mt. Gox had run this protocol, their problems would have been detected much earlier than they were.”
Verifying 1% of balances exposes corrupt crypto exchanges
“It's enough to, say, one percent of the customers check, If the exchange cheats and actually does not include people's obligations, you know, if a small number of fraction of the, ah, ah, customers actually check that the proof is valid, a, ah, a corrupt excha…”
Boneh notes Hal Finney envisioned crypto trading cards in 1993
“Even in 1993, Hal Finney wrote a blog post, believe it or not, in 1993, Wrote a blog post about crypto trading cards, right?”
Boneh notes companies are enabling borrowing against NFTs as collateral
“If you own an NFT, you can borrow against that NFT as collateral. Basically, you can mortgage your NFT, and already we're seeing some companies doing that.”
Boneh: Computer science is now the largest major at Stanford University
“The computer science major at Stanford is, is exploding in the sense that we are now the largest major on campus and it's continuing to grow.”
Boneh: Computer science is a top-two major for women at Stanford
“It's kind of interesting that we're even the largest either largest or second largest major for women on campus. So if you literally count number of women, computer science is now either the largest or the second largest on campus.”
Boneh: Only 6% of Gmail users had enabled second-factor authentication in 2018
“There was just a paper published last summer that claims something like six percent of Gmail users.”
Generating a solvency proof for 500,000 customers takes 10 minutes
“So the exchange will take 10 minutes to generate the proof.”
Intel AES round execution will drop to two cycles within two years
“In two years, it's gonna get down to two cycles.”
Bitcoin market capitalization has stabilized around $3.5 billion
“Today the, you can see that in the last six months or so, things have kind of stabilized, and market capitalization is around three and a half billion.”
Dan Boneh
the a16z Podcast 7