The Ledger

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why aren't all 99 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

Assertion Contradicted
Dixon: Bill Gates's 1995 book 'The Road Ahead' omitted 'World Wide Web'
“The original version of Bill Gates's Road Ahead came out in 1995. It was talking about the future of computing and the word worldwide web did not occur in that book.”
Chris Dixon Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 30:56 Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
Assertion Partly supported
Dixon: Stanford's crypto course is its second most popular CS class
“Stanford has a blockchain cryptocurrency course for computer science undergraduates. It's the second most popular computer science course at Stanford. About 200 students and almost all of them at the end of the course build applications on Ethereum.”
Chris Dixon Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 37:40 Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
Assertion Supported
Dixon: $12B is currently being lent out across DeFi lending protocols
“And that currently, I think the current numbers, if you look today, there's something like twelve billion dollars, billion with a B in those protocols being lent out as we speak.”
Chris Dixon Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 42:00 Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
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