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Ed Felten

Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Felten co-founded Offchain Labs, the developer behind Ethereum scaling platform Arbitrum. He spent nearly three decades as a faculty member at Princeton University and previously served as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the White House.

What they said6 Shows1

Everything Ed Felten said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Assertion Supported

Felten: Bitcoin's 21 million supply cap is changeable by community consensus

“Right now the monetary policy is grow asymptotically to twenty-one million Bitcoins, but that could change by consensus of the community. That twenty-one million limit is not inherent mathematically. It's just a number that is hardwired into the currently used…”

Ed Felten Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:02 a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain

a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated

Felten: Bitcoin will become too large for traditional regulators to disrupt

“I think a lot of people in the sort of old school finance, finance and financial regulation world just think this whole thing is a bubble and will go away if they ignore it. I don't think that's true, and I think that as they wake up, they may start looking at…”

Ed Felten Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:51 a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain

a16z Insight

Felten: Smart contracts, DACs, and virtual corporations are fundamentally equivalent

“They're sometimes called smart contracts or virtual corporations, etc. I really just, first, first, these things are fundamentally equivalent to each other. And second, I prefer just to use the term mechanism, right?”

Ed Felten Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:01 a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain

a16z Insight

Felten: Displacing incumbent cryptocurrencies requires superior utility to overcome network effects

“I think it's the case that if you can convince the community that your new thing is enough better in, along some dimension they really care about, then there will be a space for your currency to get a foothold. Maybe something that existed before falls away, r…”

Ed Felten Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:27 a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain

a16z Assertion Partly supported

Ed Felten: Reputable businesses must report large Bitcoin transactions

“It's already the case that if you are a reputable business that deals with large Bitcoin transactions, those have to be reported to the government, or you're going to end up in behind bars pretty quickly.”

Ed Felten Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:56 a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain

a16z Prediction Held up

Felten: Bitcoin volatility will decrease as adoption and liquidity grow

“I think the exchange rate of Bitcoin will settle down if it grows. You get more liquidity in the market, and you get more sophisticated economic modeling of what the fair price is. And then I think the volatility goes down somewhat.”

Ed Felten Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:12 a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ed's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs	1	6	67% 2/3	full record on the a16z Podcast →