#547: Balaji Srinivasan — Centralized China vs Decentralized World, The DeFi Matrix, Ascending vs Descending Trends, Bitcoin Mining as Energy Storage, Reputational Civil War, and Maximalism vs. Optimalism

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Hello, boys and girls. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show. My guest today is a repeat guest. His first episode on the podcast roughly a year ago was one of the most popular of the last year. His name is Balogy S Srinivasan. Who is Bology? Well, on Twitter, you can find him at Bology S. That's B A L A J I S. He is an angel investor and entrepreneur, formerly the CTO of Coinbase and general partner at Andrees and Horowitz. He was also the co-founder of Earn.com, which was acquired by Coinbase Council, which was acquired by Miriad, Teleport, which was acquired by Topia, and Coin Center. He has been named to the MIT Technology Reviews.

Innovators under thirty five, he's won a Wall Street Journal Innovation Award and holds a BS, MS, PhD in electrical engineering, and an MS in chemical engineering, all from Stanford University. Bology also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013, which reached a mere two hundred and fifty thousand. Plus students worldwide. The mirror is a joke, obviously. That is a large number. To learn more about Biology's most recent project, sign up at 1729.com. That's 1729.com, a newsletter that pays you. They're giving out Bitcoin, BTC, each day for completing tasks and tutorials. Subscribers also receive chapters from Bology's free book, The Network State. And I highly encourage you to check out Tim.blog slash B2. the letter B and two for show notes and timestamps for this episode. Feel free to jump around. It is an extensive and wide ranging and long episode. In the very beginning We dig into Afghanistan and its importance that lasts for the first, I would say, five to six minutes. And feel free also, if you want to listen A to Z, to just listen, listen, listen. If a subject is not of interest to you, chances are within a few minutes, we move on to a new topic and we cover a lot.

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