Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financial services to identity to the Internet of Things. In this podcast, host Laura Shin, an independent journalist covering all things crypto, talks with industry pioneers about how crypto assets and blockchains will change the way we earn, spend and invest our money. Tune in to find out how Web 3.0, the decentralized web, will revolutionize our world. Disclosure: I'm a nocoiner.

Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, NEAR co-founder and former Google AI researcher Illia Polosukhin joins the show to discuss the intersection of crypto and machine learning.

Show highlights:

whether Signature was shut down because of its crypto arm

whether banking crypto is riskier than banking other industries

how Balaji’s $1 million BTC bet is just highly effective marketing

whether the Fed is doing quantitative easing again

how the artificial intelligence industry has changed over the years

why Illia says that “open source always wins”

the intersection of blockchain technology and AI

whether a broken Tesla could become the world’s greatest investor

Hosts

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly

Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly

Guest

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of Near

Disclosures

Links

Signature and Banking

Unchained:

$4 Billion in Crypto Deposits Not Included in Flagstar Signature Deal

Was Signature Bank Actually Insolvent?

Regulators Close Signature Bank Following SVB Collapse

Jim Bianco on Why the Banking System Has Always Been Broken

Nic Carter: Operation Choke Point 2.0 Is Underway, And Crypto Is In Its Crosshairs

Arthur Hayes: Kaiseki

Balaji’s bet

Coin Edition: Balaji Bets $1M on Bitcoin Price, Says US Hyperinflation Is Underway

Artificial Intelligence:

Richard Sutton: The Bitter Lesson

Facebook: Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model

Stanford: Alpaca: A Strong, Replicable Instruction-Following Model

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