Into the Bytecode

This is my conversation with Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:00:33) - the crypto lens on political philosophy
(00:15:12) - the transition from the 20th to the 21st century
(00:24:29) - sponsor: Splits
(00:25:12) - the dimensions of uncertainty
(00:46:14) - the duality between being idealistic and effective
(00:58:46) - outro

Links:
Vitalik Buterin on X - https://x.com/VitalikButerin
Vitalik Buterin on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth
Vitalik Buterin on making sense in a changing world - https://www.intothebytecode.com/26-vitalik
Vitalik Buterin on retroactive public goods funding - https://www.intothebytecode.com/1-vitalik-buterin-karl-floersch-retroactive-public-goods-funding

Thank you to our sponsor for making this podcast possible:
Splits - https://splits.org

Into the Bytecode:
Sina Habibian on X -  https://twitter.com/sinahab
Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Into the Bytecode - https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

This is my conversation with Eric Alston, faculty director at the Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder and research associate with the Comparative Constitutions Project.

Timestamps:

• (00:00) - intro

Links:
Eric Alston - https://x.com/incompleterules
Eric Alston on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-alston

Thank you to our sponsor for making this podcast possible:
Splits – https://splits.org

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter – https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster – https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes – https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer:
This podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

This is my conversation with Jesse Pollak (creator of Base), Ben Leventhal (founder/CEO of Blackbird), Julian Holguin (CEO of Doodles), and Yele Bademosi (cofounder/CEO of Onboard).

Timestamps:

• (00:00) - intro

Jesse Polak - https://x.com/jessepollak

Base - https://www.coinbase.com/, 

https://x.com/base

Ben Leventhal - https://x.com/benleventhal

Blackbird - https://www.blackbird.xyz/,

https://x.com/blackbird_xyz

Julian Holguin - https://x.com/jholguin 

Doodles - https://www.doodles.app/,

https://x.com/doodles

Yele Bademosi - https://x.com/YeleBademosi

 Onboard - https://www.onboard.xyz/,

https://x.com/OnboardGlobal

Into the Bytecode:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab

Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab 

Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com 

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

This is my conversation with Colin Armstrong, the founder of Paragraph.

Timestamps:
(00:00:00) - intro
(00:00:49) - Substack network effects
(00:03:53) - new business models
(00:15:32) - the content layer and the economic layer
(00:21:18) - sponsor: Privy
(00:22:34) - mechanisms to think about as a writer
(00:29:32) - markets and social networks as forces of chaos
(00:33:42) - building for the crypto-native vs the general audience
(00:40:43) - emails vs wallets
(00:48:23) - ARPU is higher in crypto
(00:51:52) - algorithm for finding product-market fit
(00:57:10) - sponsor: Optimism
(00:58:15) - focus + urgency
(01:02:51) - learnings from Google
(01:07:58) - creating is fulfilling
(01:11:35) - outro

Links:

Colin Armstrong on X - https://x.com/colinarms

Colin Armstrong on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/colin

Paragraph - https://paragraph.xyz/

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:

Optimism - https://optimism.io

Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab 

Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab 

Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

This is my conversation with Justin Glibert, CEO of Lattice and cofounder of 0xPARC.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:00:44 digital physics
- 00:06:27 changing physics + capitalism = theme parks
- 00:16:12 objective functions are political
- 00:22:53 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:23:58 individual agency
- 00:27:25 violence on the internet
- 00:39:17 monoliths
- 00:47:24 sponsor: Privy
- 00:48:40 value systems
- 00:58:34 homo economicus and homo ludens 
- 01:10:50 Emissary’s guide to worlding
- 01:16:55 reading weird books
- 01:28:49 outro

Links:
Justin Glibert - https://x.com/justinglibert 
Lattice - https://lattice.xyz/ 
0xPARC - https://0xparc.org/ 

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io 
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab 
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab 
Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com 

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

This is my conversation with Jonny Mack, Cofounder of Fabric and Hypersub.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:05 motivations
- 00:05:43 pooled capital for shared ownership and upside
- 00:09:24 the computer and the casino, the purist and the tourist
- 00:13:59 sponsor: Privy
- 00:15:15 $higher, memecoins, cashflow, headless brands
- 00:24:38 STP, Hypersub, minting time
- 00:32:29 onchain memberships are legible
- 00:40:55 creators are multi-dimensional
- 00:46:21 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:47:25 a network of networks
- 00:53:11 authentic communities
- 00:59:31 the difference between punk and hip hop, revenue vs GDP
- 01:06:41 building in public is native to the medium
- 01:16:15 outro

Links:
Jonny Mack - https://x.com/_nonlinear 
Hypersub - https://hypersub.withfabric.xyz/ 
Fabric - https://withfabric.xyz/ 

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io 
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab 
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab 
Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com 

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

This is my conversation with Stephane Gosselin, cofounder of Flashbots, Frontier Research, and OneBalance.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:29 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:02:34 my existential question about crypto
- 00:07:13 global consensus is the problem
- 00:14:27 architecting a new system
- 00:21:56 OneBalance and Credible Accounts
- 00:29:39 credible commitment machines
- 00:34:20 sponsor: Privy
- 00:35:35 the user issues permissions for solvers
- 00:37:06 the trust model
- 00:42:20 the CAKE framework and the Credible stack
- 00:47:59 privacy
- 00:54:54 global consensus blockchains and LLM foundation models
- 00:58:55 a company is a mirror on your state of being
- 01:08:26 having a strong why 
- 01:17:46 outro

Links:
Stephane Gosselin - https://x.com/thegostep
OneBalance - http://onebalance.io
Frontier Research - https://frontier.tech/

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io 
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab 
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab 
Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com 

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

This is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, and Research Development at Protocol Labs, and CEO at FilOz.

Timestamps:

- 00:00:00 intro

- 00:01:59 sponsor: Privy

- 00:03:15 motivation

- 00:09:30 exabytes of network capacity

- 00:12:11 edge computing, bringing compute to data

- 00:14:26 the history of IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, Filecoin, FVM, L2s and IPC

- 00:20:08 designing incentives in Filecoin

- 00:25:11 designing the block rewards curve

- 00:27:28 progress through time

- 00:31:19 learnings from building production systems, 

- 00:34:15 EVM-compatibility, future-proofing and network upgrades

- 00:43:51 sponsor: Optimism

- 00:44:56 IPC, L2 scaling on Filecoin

- 00:48:55 architecting applications on subnets

- 00:54:12 business models on subnets

- 00:57:27 the interface between a subnet and the internet

- 01:04:41 FilOz as a public goods amplifier

- 01:07:10 opening up the Protocol Labs network

- 01:12:23 Edge Esmeralda, field building, neurotech, and education

- 01:21:04 outro

Links:
Molly Mackinlay - https://x.com/momack28
Protocol Labs - https://protocol.ai
Filecoin - https://filecoin.io
FilOz - https://www.filoz.org
InterPlanetary Consensus - https://www.ipc.space/
Textile Basin - https://basin.textile.io/
web3.storage - https://web3.storage/
Filecoin Virtual Machine - https://fvm.filecoin.io/ 

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io 

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com 

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

This is my conversation with Rish, cofounder of Neynar, building infrastructure for Farcaster.

Timestamps:

- 00:00:00 intro

- 00:01:51 sponsor: Optimism

- 00:03:01 the idea maze for Neynar

- 00:12:46 exit, building blocks, and monetization models

- 00:17:20 how Neynar is architected

- 00:21:52 handling Frames Friday

- 00:25:04 scaling infrastructure by mapping requests to resources

- 00:35:05 sponsor: Privy

- 00:36:25 taking good risks as a startup

- 00:41:55 iteration and planning ahead, breadth vs depth-first search

- 00:45:36 the channel protocol spec

- 00:51:26 why build Frame Studio

- 00:56:55 companies become extensions of their founders

- 01:05:53 working on the Base team

- 01:10:28 having a tight feedback loop with users

- 01:15:18 cofounder relationship with Manan

- 01:19:25 outro

Links:

Rish - https://warpcast.com/rish

Neynar - https://neynar.com

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:

Optimism - https://optimism.io

Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:

Twitter -    / sinahab 

Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab

Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.

This is my conversation with Sreeram Kannan, founder at EigenLayer.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:21 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:02:42 the AVS economy
- 00:05:24 blockchains separate trust and innovation
- 00:16:53 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:18:02 specialized services and SaaS on EigenLayer
- 00:24:50 rollups are open verifiable web servers
- 00:41:35 rollup economics and business models
- 01:55:14 the transition from academic to builder/operator
- 01:06:38 impact per unit action
- 01:10:26 outro

Links:
Sreeram Kannan - https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan
EigenLayer - https://twitter.com/eigenlayer

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io
Privy - https://privy.io

Into the Bytecode:
Twitter -  https://twitter.com/sinahab
Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab
Other episodes - https://intothebytecode.com

Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.