a16z crypto show
a16z crypto, Robert Hackett, Sonal Chokshi · 129 episodes with transcripts
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.
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https://spoken.md/podcasts/1622312549/episodes \
| jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
| while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
[ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
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-o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
sleep 0.34
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Example Transcripts
- How Crypto Is Rebuilding Finance From First Principles
- 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)
- How Stablecoins Are Reconfiguring the Financial System | ft. Eddy Lazzarin and Sonal Chokshi
- The end of ads? AI agents are about to change how we buy
- How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer
- Why Solana keeps getting faster — and what's next (ft. Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder)
- Vitalik Buterin vs Beff Jezos: AI Acceleration Debate (E/acc vs D/acc)
- AI Is Changing the Internet. What Does It Mean for Creators? (with Justin and Michael Blau)
- The Emmy Built on ETH: Emily Yang aka pplpleasr on the Future of Storytelling
- AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?
- Why Tokenize? Fidelity on Onchain Assets and the Next Phase of Adoption
- When Bots Have Bank Accounts: The Rise of the Agent Economy (With Sean Neville, Catena Labs)
- From Eater to Blackbird: Ben Leventhal on Restaurants, Loyalty, and Rebuilding Payments
- Bridge CEO Zach Abrams: Stablecoins Are The Next Platform for Money
- Why Privacy Will Be the Biggest Moat in Crypto
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