Sina Habibian

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Here is my conversation with Michael Nielsen. We talk about technology as a source of leverage and our increased capacity for both upside/downside. I've learned a lot from Michael's thinking over the years and it was an honor to do this together. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/52-michael-nielsen

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1/ Announcing our latest round of funding led by Ribbit Capital. Thank you to our users and our customers for enabling us to bring crypto rails to everyone, everywhere. We’re excited to keep building with you.

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Here is my conversation with Jeffrey Quesnelle, cofounder of Nous Research. We talked about the history of neural networks, modern model architectures, parallels with the human mind, and how we each think about finding meaning in this new world. This was one of my favorite conversations in recent memory. Full podcast here: intothebytecode.com/51-jeffrey-quesnelle

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Here is my conversation with Alexander Long, Founder/CEO of Pluralis Research. We talk about frontier models, what it takes to get a new foundation model off the ground, and how protocol learning could be the way to do this in the open internet. Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/50-alexander-long

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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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the carrot vs the stick

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MegaETH is like this

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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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haha yea, i thought that too. it's actually interesting none of these examples had a token (at least to start) - uniswap, flashbots, succinct, farcaster.

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2024 was the first year we started working on Gitwallet. It’s been a year full of listening, learning, and experimentation. We shipped a TON of product and helped hundreds of developers set up shop on their path to independence. Fun fact: that name came from an idea to create “an ethereum wallet for every repo”. The product changed but the name stuck (for now 😉)

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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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1/ Introducing server wallets 🌐 Building on our experience serving thousands of developers across millions of users, we're opening access to our embedded wallet cryptosystem This means app backends can create/manage wallets via APIs so you can power money movement at scale! https://www.loom.com/share/e324de82c23c4cdb80ab71fa232a4eaf?sid=ba5333ce-d412-4f17-8680-18dc5543e53f

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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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