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Fred Ehrsam
American
Businessman
Bitcoin
Digital
Internet
Ownership
Think
Will
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Everything will be tokenized and connected by a blockchain one day.
Fred Ehrsam
Day
Will
Blockchain
Everything
One Day
Connected
Make no mistake - Ethereum would never have existed without Bitcoin as a forerunner. That said, I think Ethereum is ahead of Bitcoin in many ways and represents the bleeding edge of digital currency.
Fred Ehrsam
Mistake
Bitcoin
Digital
Edge
Think
Ways
Would
Never
Bleeding
Make
Make No Mistake
Without
Said
Existed
Forerunner
Currency
Represents
Ethereum
Many
While it may seem scarier in the earlier days, I think ultimately the blockchain creates a safer world.
Fred Ehrsam
World
Blockchain
Think
Seem
Days
Safer
Ultimately
May
While
Creates
Earlier
Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full-fledged computer.
Fred Ehrsam
Bitcoin
Language
Programming
Programming Language
Computer
Taken
Calculator
Ethereum
Turned
As with early internet startups, some token models don't make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes and 100 failures, so we shouldn't be surprised when some fail.
Fred Ehrsam
Internet
Will
Sense
Every
Startups
Minor
Some
Fail
Failures
Make
Surprised
Huge
Hit
Models
Successes
Token
Early
Ethereum will be a first-class citizen on Coinbase.
Fred Ehrsam
Will
Citizen
Ethereum
Coinbase
To create an open protocol which helps coordinate resources towards a common goal, the resources need to be known at some level in the same way a lot of of data on the web needs to be public for it to be traversable and useful.
Fred Ehrsam
Needs
Resources
Way
Some
Web
Data
Open
Towards
Known
Protocol
Goal
Lot
Same
Common
Common Goal
Which
Public
Create
Useful
Helps
Coordinate
Level
Need
Private funding was one of the first methods used when MIT funded Bitcoin core developers Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, and Cory Fields in 2015.
Fred Ehrsam
Bitcoin
First
Van
Developers
MIT
Private
Methods
Fields
Used
Funding
Core
Public crowdfunding still suffers from a tragedy of the commons problem. Everyone will want the benefit of the crowdfunded efforts but is incentivized to sit on the sidelines and hope others chip in.
Fred Ehrsam
Hope
Problem
Will
Sit
Others
Benefit
Sidelines
Everyone
Still
Tragedy
Efforts
Want
Public
Commons
Chip
Suffers
The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.
Fred Ehrsam
Car
Challenge
Revolution
Kicked
DARPA
Make
Off
Autonomous
Grand
Desert
Traverse
Scaling is multidimensional. Different methods address different things.
Fred Ehrsam
Address
Scaling
Methods
Different
Different Things
Things
I'd guess blockchains will be the full-blown backbone of virtual worlds - the system for currency, assets, identity, even governance - before doing the same in the 'real world.' Which is where I think we will end up in the real world eventually; it's just a matter of which goes first and how long until it's the case for both.
Fred Ehrsam
World
Matter
Will
Long
First
Before
Think
Worlds
Virtual
Guess
Backbone
System
Case
Both
Until
Identity
How
Real
Doing
Governance
End
Up
Same
Goes
Currency
Just
Where
The Real World
Real World
Which
Even
Eventually
Assets
Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel where the strongest versions survive.
Fred Ehrsam
Natural
Evolution
Run
Parallel
Mutations
Strongest
Through
Selection
Allow
Like
Versions
Survive
Just
Where
Experiments
Us
Natural Selection
Organisms
Multiple
Lets
Biological
Redistributing tokens is a balancing act. In most cases, forks probably want to keep ownership for users constant so users have at least the same incentives to use the new fork as the historical one.
Fred Ehrsam
Ownership
Constant
Cases
New
Most
Balancing
Least
Historical
Same
Fork
Forks
Want
Act
Use
Incentives
Users
Keep
I think the whole narrative of blockchain without bitcoin will amount to very little.
Fred Ehrsam
Bitcoin
Will
Blockchain
Think
Without
Narrative
Very
Little
Whole
Amount
The Internet had a core innovation that made it valuable: The ability to disseminate data over a distributed network in a way that was significantly cheaper than the prior methods.
Fred Ehrsam
Innovation
Internet
Valuable
Made
Disseminate
Way
Distributed
Ability
Data
Network
Had
Cheaper
Over
Prior
Methods
Than
Core
Sales conducted on-chain through smart contracts couldn't really be done before Ethereum, which is why they are a newer concept. I think this style will become the most common over time.
Fred Ehrsam
Time
Smart
Will
Style
Become
Before
Think
Through
Over
Most
Concept
Sales
Contracts
Done
Common
Which
Ethereum
Really
Why
People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk.
Fred Ehrsam
People
Too
Markets
Risk
Mere
Protect
Very
Often
Legitimate
Against
Far
Themselves
Derivatives
Businesses
Associate
Need
Speculation
The ability to easily buy and sell Bitcoin has been a really key factor in accelerating Bitcoin adoption.
Fred Ehrsam
Buy
Key
Bitcoin
Easily
Has-Been
Ability
Adoption
Factor
Accelerate
Been
Sell
Really
I think it's fundamentally a good sign that more and more professional traders and market makers are providing liquidity to the whole ecosystem. It allows people to move much larger quantities of digital currency more quickly than they would if that were not the case.
Fred Ehrsam
Good
People
Digital
Think
Market
Sign
Would
Case
More
More And More
Good Sign
Ecosystem
Quantities
Makers
Were
Providing
Quickly
Than
Liquidity
Currency
Move
Much
Professional
Whole
Larger
Fundamentally
The Internet will continue to be valuable so long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring data. Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership.
Fred Ehrsam
Bitcoin
Internet
Valuable
Will
Value
Long
Ownership
Data
Remain
Most
Continue
Efficient
Same
Transferring
Mechanism
Bitcoin is inherently international, and one of its great promises is it enables cross-border payments in a more efficient way.
Fred Ehrsam
Great
Bitcoin
Promises
Way
More
Enables
Efficient
Inherently
Payments
International
The fundamentals of the token model are valuable and powerful. They allow communities to govern themselves, their economics, and rally a community in powerful ways that will allow open systems to flourish in a way that was previously impossible.
Fred Ehrsam
Impossible
Valuable
Will
Economics
Community
Rally
Way
Ways
Systems
Allow
Open
Powerful
Govern
Model
Themselves
Communities
Token
Flourish
Fundamentals
The best engineered organisms can outpace others, even if they start smaller or later.
Fred Ehrsam
Best
Others
Later
Smaller
Organisms
Engineered
Even
Start
AIs are only as good as the data they are trained on.
Fred Ehrsam
Good
Data
Only
Trained
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