Article "United States: A Primer On NFTs And Intellectual Property"
by Jeremy S. Goldman
March 12, 2021
by Jeremy S. Goldman
March 12, 2021
Silvio Micali is a computer scientist at MIT, Turing award winner, and founder of Algorand.
Outline:
0:00 - Introduction
1:59 - Blockchain
4:56 - Cryptocurrency
7:45 - Money
11:59 - Scarcity
13:41 - Scalability, Security, and Decentralization
17:06 - Algorand
33:40 - Bitcoin
36:43 - Ethereum
38:14 - NFTs
41:38 - Decentralization of power
45:46 - Intelligent adaptation
48:28 - Leaders
51:35 - Freedom
54:34 - Privacy
57:18 - Bitcoin maximalism
1:01:04 - Satoshi Nakamoto
1:05:42 - One-way function
1:09:55 - Pseudorandomness
1:14:38 - Free will
1:16:43 - Will quantum computers break cryptography?
1:21:48 - Interactive proofs
1:28:41 - Mechanism design
1:36:08 - Favorite meal
1:39:21 - Book recommendations
1:46:18 - Advice for young people
1:48:52 - Fear of death
1:51:33 - Meaning of life
Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, has sold the most expensive digital artwork in history. It’s part of an explosion in the market for NFTs — tokens that prove ownership of things like digital art that you can’t even touch.
a16z General Partner Chris Dixon and Stanford Professor Dan Boneh explain why NFTs matter and how they are shifting power away from platforms and centralized services toward creators and users.
This video was recorded during a16z's NFT Summit, a conference featuring the best NFT builders and thinkers discussing the latest trends in NFTs, co-hosted with the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research.
Find all the talks from the NFT Summit here: bit.ly/NFTsummit
“60 Minutes+” correspondent Laurie Segall explores the new digital art era in her report on Mike Winkelmann, the artist known as Beeple, who made history with a $69 million sale of a digital piece of artwork. She also spoke with hip-hop artist Flo Rida about how he plans to profit off the craze, and turned herself into an Avatar using NFT technology.