Sina Habibian

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Here is my conversation with @jimpo, cofounder/cto of Irreducible. Jim is a brilliant human being - he was one of the first engineers at Coinbase, went back to academia for a grad cryptography degree, is now making core contributions to zk. Here we talk about: - Binius as a proof system using binary fields - FPGAs, hardware, running a data center - the verifiable internet Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/49-jim-posen

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Here is my conversation with Michael Bentley, cofounder/ceo of Euler. This was a somewhat philosophical conversation about the history of defi, credit, mechanism design, Michael's phd thesis on natural selection, and more. I think Michael is a brilliant human being and I'm very happy we got to do this together. Hope you enjoy. intothebytecode.com/48-michael-bentley

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Another one of the yin/yangs with crypto and ai: Building with smart contracts is all about precision - you define rules that are to be executed exactly, everything is deterministic Building with LLMs is all about vibes - you define goals/guardrails and give the model freedom within them, everything is non-deterministic

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Here is my conversation with @jchervinsky, chief legal officer at @variant, previously at the blockchain association and compound. We talk about: - how US govt/regulation works from first principles - how crypto played a role in this election - how legislation could change with the new administration - how to use the DUNA for building protocols Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/47-jake-chervinsky

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Here is my conversation with @socrates1024. We talk about a simple idea with big implications: using TEEs to do web access control. We also talk about research, making progress by prototyping, and how Andrew used bitcoin to buy beef jerky in 2011. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/46-andrew-miller

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I'm planning to be at NeurIPS this week. Hit me up if you're around and want to meet.

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Here's my conversation with @quintus. TEEs are going to change block building, model training and inference, even make scifi autonomous agents a reality. We talk about the history, the architecture, and the roadmap for building TEEs with open-source hardware and supply chains. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/45-quintus-kilbourn

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Get in touch if you're interested in joining: intothebytecode.com/blog/agents

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TEE is the latest arcane acronym to take over the memosphere, kind of like NFT and LLM One would think these would have a harder time breaking through when there are alternatives like "secure hardware", "digital media", etc But I wonder if this actually works to their favor. It's probably that they're initially used as a term of art with a precise meaning. And then the rest of us coopt them because they sounds kinda technical and give us an appearance of knowing what we're talking about. And we spread the meme in the process

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Here is my conversation with @markus, cocreator/ceo of @ethos. We talk about how Markus started working on this project after graduating high school in Austria, how the open software/hardware stack works, and where all of this could be going from here. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/44-markus-haas

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Here is my conversation with @uma, cofounder/ceo of Succinct. We dug into the Succinct zkVM architecture - how they use STARKs, recursion, and other techniques for proving program execution - and made an attempt at unpacking the design without getting lost in the sauce. You can listen to the podcast here: intothebytecode.com/43-uma-roy

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Here is my conversation with Andrew Huang, Founder/CEO of Conduit. We talk about parallelized architectures for smart contracts + how we can scale sequencer throughput to 1 gigagas per second. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/42-andrew-huang

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Here is my conversation with @gakonst. We talk about Reth, how it’s architected under the hood, and how it could help build a scifi future where every laptop shares resources in a distributed network. We also talk about more personal topics around engineering management, feedback loops, and writing. I've known Georgios since we were part of a similar ETHResearch community getting into the space. I think Reth is one of the most important projects in Ethereum and am excited to help them build in the coming years. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/41-georgios-konstantopoulos

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I'm looking to start working with a producer for Into the Bytecode. $100 USDC if you tag or make a connection with someone I end up working with! @bountybot

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Get in touch here if you're interested: intothebytecode.com/p/producer

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In the same way that the 20th century really started in 1911-1918, the 21st century started in 2020-2023. The world is more in sync than before with the pandemic, markets, and social networks. There is more conflict inside countries and around the world. And technology is accelerating - we’ve passed the turing test and might be in the last period before some kind of superhuman intelligence. From my conversation with @vitalik.eth here: intothebytecode.com/40-vitalik-buterin

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I watched the Ethereum documentary last night. One of the themes that stood out to me was the resonance between nature and the internet worlds we’re creating. The trees in Marin. The infinite garden with its branches and evolution. Vitalik’s description of blockchains as digital life - once they’re seeded, they begin to grow without anyone being able to really control or stop them. Danny’s “I would either be working on this or I would be living in the woods”. It’s operating at multiple levels - there’s a way in which human beings end up reenacting nature, and there’s also something in the human psyche that resonates with this external form. Anyway, enough with the armchair philosophy... I loved the documentary and would recommend watching if you haven’t.

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I've recently become more interested in US political history and how the constitution setup a framework within which the next 250 years have evolved. This is my conversation with Eric Alston, faculty director at CU Boulder and researcher in the Comparative Constitutions Project, who patiently explained this all to me. We talk about how constitutions organically emerge from humans coordinating in large groups, presidential vs parliamentary systems, the balance between federal and state governments, and more. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/39-eric-alston

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