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AcquiredJuly 19, 2021
Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)
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Guest: CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)
We sit down with the hottest new protocol layer in crypto today: Solana, and its cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko, who is the CEO of Solana Labs. If you listened to our Ethereum episode or follow crypto even at a cursory level, you've likely heard of Solana and its ability to scale transactions thousands of times higher than Ethereum. And, unlike other so-called "ETH killers", Solana is doing so in production today with large and real applications. We dive into the project's history coming out of the 2017-18 crypto winter, how it works and what's ahead now that they've recently raised $314m (yes that is Pi $million) from a16z and Polychain Capital, with their native SOL tokens currently trading at a market cap around $10B (!).
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The City and the Stars
Arthur C. Clarke
“The speaker mentions reading 'The City and the Stars' by Arthur C. Clarke, relating it to the concept of a super connected world.”
Sentiment: Deep Dive
Trigger: super connected world
For: Science fiction enthusiasts and technology futurists
Key quote: “I'm reading The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke right now.”
The host mentions 'The City and the Stars' to illustrate a thought experiment about a highly interconnected world. They find the concept of such a world more intriguing than traditional discussions about currency and value.
ASIN: 0446677965
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