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The Penguin on Max is amazing. Highly recommend, especially if you’re a Batman fan.

My son said it was the best gangster drama on TV

New, practical ,on-chain public key infrastructure method from former @a16zcrypto intern Noemi Glaeser. 

tl;dr Registration Based Encryption (RBE) offers a new performance/trust/privacy tradeoff: more anonymity w/ less trust

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New, practical ,on-chain public key infrastructure method from former @a16zcrypto intern Noemi Glaeser. 

tl;dr Registration Based Encryption (RBE) offers a new performance/trust/privacy tradeoff: more anonymity w/ less trust 

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/registration-based-encryption/

Online platforms in web3 can allow us to design, test, and redesign political systems for online communities, organizations that will be an increasingly important part of the world in the future.

They can help us turn DAOs into a constitutional laboratories.

🔗: a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/the-web3-governance-lab/

We at @a16zcrypto have some pretty extraordinary resources to help you understand technologies fundamental to building in web3

My coauthor Ray used to say, "Royalty money is the best money," because it just kind of ... shows up ... for work you've already done, like magic! Here's one way we could achieve that same magic in web3:

My coauthor Ray used to say, "Royalty money is the best money," because it just kind of ... shows up ... for work you've already done, like magic! Here's one way we could achieve that same magic in web3: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/how-nft-royalties-work/

Books

New podcast episode covering what we're reading -- including picks from our latest summer reading list and evergreen recommendations as well -- as well as how we read, and why we read (religion, mythology, fantasy, infotainment, fiction vs nonfiction, and more).

w/ @smc90, @hackr, @stzinn, & Tim Sullivan
   
Tune in: https://link.chtbl.com/yA_BTHQP?sid=warpcast

Our new paper introduces the notion of “naysayer proofs,” where a verifier optimistically accepts a submitted proof without verifying its correctness.

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/new-paper-alert-naysayer-proofs/

One reason I love this paper is because it's a glimpse into how cryptographers think