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The a16z crypto show explores how decentralized networks are reshaping money, ownership, and the architecture of the internet. We go beyond the hype to look at what’s actually working, what isn’t, and what comes next as crypto continues to go mainstream and blockchains become core infrastructure. Each episode features conversations with founders, engineers, economists, policymakers, and researchers building at the frontier of finance, payments, AI, and distributed systems. We cover stablecoins and global payments, the tokenization of "real-world" assets, decentralized physical infrastructure, network design and governance, and the practical tradeoffs behind decentralization — along with lessons from past techno...
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- The 'Useless' Theory Behind Modern SNARKs (ft. Gödel Prize Winner Noam Nisan)
- How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Were Invented (ft. Co-Inventor and Turing Award Winner Shafi Goldwasser)
- Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: Why America Needs CLARITY
- How AI is Changing the Way We Build Companies (ft. Guy Wuollet and Noah Citron)
- The Story Behind RSA: The Invention That Secured the Internet (ft. Turing Award Winner Ron Rivest)
- Why auction design matters (ft. Nobel economist Paul Milgrom)
- Why markets fail — and how to fix them (ft. Nobel economist Alvin Roth)
- Leslie Lamport on the Science of Distributed Systems
- Before Blockchains, There Was State Machine Replication (ft. Barbara Liskov and Tim Roughgarden)
- How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem (ft. Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham)