Protocol Labs

“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 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,…”

“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.”

“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…”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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 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, …”