a16z Podcast: Five Open Problems Toward Building a Blockchain Computer
Do you sometimes wish you had been born in a different decade so you could have worked on the fundamental building blocks of modern computing? How fun, challenging, and fulfilling would it have been to work on semiconductors in the 1950s or Unix in the 1960s (both at Bell Labs) or personal computers at the Homebrew Computer Club in the 1970s or on the Internet browser at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (and later Mountain View, CA) in the 1990s?
Good news: it’s not too late. There’s a new computing platform being built today by a vibrant and rapidly growing cryptocurrency…
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