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Austin Federa · 178 episodes with transcripts

When it comes to blockchain, the thing people talk about most — the price — is actually the least interesting part. Crypto conversations are too often about who’s up and who’s down, what to buy and what to sell, and today’s drama on Twitter.

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Building the Bitcoin Equivalent for AI Inference Compute with David and Daniil Liberman (Gonka)

September 22, 2026

Austin Federa (0:05)

David, Daniil, welcome to Validated. This is a type of episode we've been trying to do for a while and trying to find the right people to dive into it more.

As everyone knows, as you know, the audience knows, the rise of AI and compute networks has been fast and profound. It has changed most major manufacturing sectors very quickly, just in terms of the AI datacenter build out. Crypto is sort of for a long time tried to play in this market. There's distributed AI…

David Liberman (1:51)

Companies can easily change their statements.

Google promised all of us back in 2004 that there never will be an ad in the main feed of search query.

Daniil Liberman (3:10)

In the very beginning, we ourselves considered, should we build a decentralized frontier lab? Should we build a technology which will allow training of open source, truly open source, completely open source, open, not just open weighted as Chinese models and some of the American models, but with open pre-context…

And because there would need to be a revenue behind it, revenue is clearly not in building the models themselves, but in providing the service out of these models. So the revenue would come from the inference. That was our conclusion around three years ago, that eventually there cannot be other paths, but the path…

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