Crypto Culture and Convention

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[00:02:02] - [First question] - How he built such a robust technical background in his career that lead him to crypto 

[00:04:42] - The trade off between compliance and privacy and his take on it writ large

[00:07:27] - Whether or not people have given up on the idea that privacy of transaction matters 

[00:11:17] - The current technical framework for what exists in privacy today for crypto

[00:14:07] - Defining a zero knowledge proof and explaining the process to do one 

[00:18:55] - The public ledger incentivizing other economic models and the ways crypto will be used for in the future that might not be what we imagine today 

[00:20:14] - People want to experiment but doing so can involve blind risk unless they’re familiar with the space 

[00:22:00] - Reversible transactions and why they’re harmful 

[00:26:37] - Opensea’s flagging involvement and whether or not we’ll have a cash-like layer built on top of the irreversible chain   

[00:29:26] - Minimizing crypto purchas risk and protecting participants with a transaction cooling process or holding period 

[00:32:46] - The ways in which law and culture shape each other 

[00:34:14] - Examples of how culture affects crypto in ways that laws don’t yet 

[00:36:31] - DeFi protocol hacks and how the culture should handle that kind of behavior 

[00:40:49] - His thoughts on the current takes of trying to bring regulation by enforcement to the crypto space

[00:42:33] - What he would do about regulation with SBF’s wealth, power, and influence

[00:43:18] - His current area of focus is lately and what he enjoys doing the most 

[00:46:50] - What he’s most excited to see built in the next six months and six years