Sina Habibian Podcast
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Michael Nielsen on being a wise optimist about science and technology
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27 Mar 2025
This is my conversation with Michael Nielsen, scientist, author, and research fellow at the Astera Institute. Timestamps: - (00:00:00) intro - (00:01:06) cultivating optimism amid existential risks -
Jeffrey Quesnelle on Nous Research, large language models, and the human mind
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18 Mar 2025
This is my conversation with Jeffrey Quesnelle, cofounder of Nous Research. Timestamps: - (00:00:00) intro - (00:01:08) working with new technologies - (00:06:15) Nous Research origin story -
Alexander Long on Pluralis Research and protocol learning for frontier models
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25 Feb 2025
This is my conversation with Alexander Long, Founder & CEO of Pluralis Research. Timestamps: - (00:00:00) intro - (00:00:55) collaborative training - (00:09:49) economics of training - (00:13:10)
Jim Posen on cryptographic acceleration with Binius
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13 Feb 2025
This is my conversation with Jim Posen, the Cofounder and CTO at Irreducible. Timestamps: - (00:00:00) intro - (00:01:12) getting deeper into cryptography - (00:07:06) revisiting binary fields -
Michael Bentley on Euler, credit, and natural selection
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10 Jan 2025
This is my conversation with Michael Bentley, the cofounder and CEO of Euler and previously a dynamical systems postdoctoral research associate at Oxford. Timestamps: - (00:00:00) intro - (00:01:11)
Jake Chervinsky on regulations from first principles
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23 Dec 2024
This is my conversation with Jake Chervinsky, Chief Legal Officer at Variant, and previously the Chief Policy Officer at Blockchain Association and General Counsel at Compound Labs. Timestamps: -
Andrew Miller on TEEs, account delegation, research, and the early days in Bitcoin
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16 Dec 2024
This is my conversation with Andrew Miller who is working on product at Teleport, and is also Associate Director at IC3 and Board Member at the Zcash Foundation. Timestamps: - (00:00:00) intro -
Quintus Kilbourn on TEEs and Secure Hardware
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6 Dec 2024
This is my conversation with Quintus Kilbourn, researcher at Flashbots and currently working on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). Timestamps: - (00:00:00) - intro - (00:01:06) - what is a TEE -
Markus Haas on ethOS and building a crypto-native device
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29 Nov 2024
This is my conversation with Markus Haas, the CEO of Freedom Factory and cocreator of the dGEN1. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:00:28) - ethOS origin story (00:07:54) - the vision and values
Uma Roy on Succinct, STARKs, and zkVM architecture
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23 Oct 2024
This is my conversation with Uma Roy, cofounder and CEO of Succinct. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:00:57) - origin story (00:02:19) - SP1 architecture (00:09:43) - STARKs, FRI, and hash-based
Andrew Huang on Conduit and scaling onchain compute
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18 Oct 2024
This is my conversation with Andrew Huang, the founder and CEO of Conduit. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:00:42) - onchain and cloud compute (00:05:20) - parallel execution (00:09:08) - the
Georgios Konstantopoulos on Reth, engineering management, and feedback loops
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30 Sep 2024
This is my conversation with Georgios Konstantopoulos, General Partner and CTO at Paradigm. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:00:47) - iterating on rollups (00:07:52) - Reth architecture (00:25:44)
Vitalik Buterin on political philosophy in the 21st century
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20 Sep 2024
This is my conversation with Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:00:33) - the crypto lens on political philosophy (00:15:12) - the transition from the 20th to the
Eric Alston on the US constitution
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18 Sep 2024
This is my conversation with Eric Alston, faculty director at the Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder and research associate with the Comparative Constitutions Project. Timestamps: • (00:00) -
BaseCamp 001: Jesse Pollak (Base), Ben Leventhal (Blackbird), Julian Holguin (Doodles), Yele Bademosi (Onboard)
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13 Aug 2024
This is my conversation with Jesse Pollak (creator of Base), Ben Leventhal (founder/CEO of Blackbird), Julian Holguin (CEO of Doodles), and Yele Bademosi (cofounder/CEO of Onboard). Timestamps: •
Colin Armstrong: Paragraph, writing onchain
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1 Aug 2024
This is my conversation with Colin Armstrong, the founder of Paragraph. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:00:49) - Substack network effects (00:03:53) - new business models (00:15:32) - the content
Justin Glibert: from Economicus to Ludens
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16 Jul 2024
This is my conversation with Justin Glibert, CEO of Lattice and cofounder of 0xPARC. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:00:44) - digital physics (00:06:27) - changing physics + capitalism = theme
Jonny Mack: Hypersub, building for the crypto-native creator
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11 Jul 2024
This is my conversation with Jonny Mack, Cofounder of Fabric and Hypersub. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:01:05) - motivations (00:05:43) - pooled capital for shared ownership and upside
Stephane Gosselin: OneBalance, credible accounts and credible commitments
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24 Jun 2024
This is my conversation with Stephane Gosselin, cofounder of Flashbots, Frontier Research, and OneBalance. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:01:29) - sponsor: Optimism (00:02:34) - my existential
Molly Mackinlay: building Filecoin
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13 Jun 2024
This is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, and Research Development at Protocol Labs, and CEO at FilOz. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:01:59) - sponsor: Privy
Rish: building infrastructure with Neynar
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17 May 2024
This is my conversation with Rish, cofounder of Neynar, building infrastructure for Farcaster. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:01:51) - sponsor: Optimism (00:03:01) - the idea maze for Neynar
Sreeram Kannan: building the verifiable cloud
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8 May 2024
This is my conversation with Sreeram Kannan, founder at EigenLayer. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:01:21) - sponsor: Optimism (00:02:42) - the AVS economy (00:05:24) - blockchains separate trust
Doug Petkanics & Eric Tang: open video infrastructure
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6 May 2024
This is my conversation with Doug Petkanics and Eric Tang, cofounders of Livepeer. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:01:45) - sponsor: Optimism (00:03:55) - Livepeer origin story (00:11:54) - FFmpeg
Martin Köppelmann: AI agents as onchain actors
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26 Mar 2024
This is my conversation with Martin Köppelmann, cofounder of Gnosis. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:01:47) - sponsor: Privy (00:03:08) - Gnosis Pay as an onchain bank account (00:13:49) -
Varun Srinivasan: Farcaster, building a decentralized social network
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1 Mar 2024
This is my conversation with Varun Srinivasan - cofounder of Merkle Manufactory, the company building the Farcaster protocol and the Warpcast client. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:01:34) -
Rebecca Rettig & Michael Mosier: genuine DeFi as critical infrastructure
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20 Feb 2024
This is my conversation with Rebecca Rettig and Michael Mosier. Rebecca is the Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon Labs. Michael is cofounder of Arktouros and partner at Ex Ante. Timestamps:
Vitalik Buterin: making sense in a changing world
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9 Feb 2024
This is my conversation with Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:01:07) - sponsor: Optimism (00:02:17) - micro prediction markets, community notes, AIs as
Hart Lambur: UMA, Across, Oval, and MEV capture for protocols
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24 Jan 2024
This is my conversation with Hart Lambur. We talk about Hart's path in building UMA (an oracle using schelling points to bring data onchain), Across (an intents-based bridge connecting ETH/L2s), and
Jesse Pollak: Base, Coinbase's path to building an L2
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8 Jun 2023
This is my conversation with Jesse Pollak. He led retail engineering at Coinbase for many years — building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet. More recently, he is leading the development
Liam Horne: Optimism, and why scaling Ethereum matters
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2 Jun 2023
This is my conversation with Liam Horne, former CEO and advisor to Optimism Labs. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:00:59) - sponsor: Privy (privy.io) (00:03:35) - early influences, classmates with
Aya Miyaguchi: reflections on Ethereum and the Ethereum Foundation
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25 May 2023
This is my conversation with Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation. Timestamps: (00:00:00) - intro (00:01:20) - sponsor: Optimism (optimism.io) (00:02:32) - reflecting on early
Dan Romero: Farcaster, building a decentralized social network
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4 Nov 2022
This is my conversation with Dan Romero about Farcaster - a decentralized social network being developed as an open protocol. We talked about how product decisions in social networks have ripple
Jango & Nnnnicholas: Juicebox, programming internet-native organizations
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28 Sep 2022
This is my conversation with Jango (https://twitter.com/me_jango) and Nnnnicholas (https://twitter.com/nnnnicholas) from Juicebox (https://twitter.com/juiceboxETH) Protocol. Juicebox is a playful but
Nadia Asparouhova: on public goods & peer production
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31 Aug 2022
Nadia Asparouhova (https://twitter.com/nayafia) is an independent researcher. She previously wrote about her research on open-source communities in "Working in Public", and more recently, has been
Julien Niset: Argent, building on StarkNet, and a primer on account abstraction
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24 Aug 2022
Julien Niset is the cofounder and Chief Science Officer at Argent, a crypto wallet that's used and loved by many people in the crypto ecosystem. In this conversation, we talk about how Argent has
Pedro Gomes: WalletConnect v2, account abstraction, and building a communications protocol
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11 Aug 2022
Pedro Gomes (https://twitter.com/pedrouid) is the cofounder of WalletConnect, a communications protocol that enables wallets and apps to securely connect and interact. In this conversation, We talked
Josh Stark: the Ethereum Foundation & Atoms, Institutions, Blockchains
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14 Jun 2022
Here is my conversation with Josh Stark (https://twitter.com/0xstark). Josh has a long history in the Ethereum ecosystem going back to the early days of the community. He cofounded one of the first
0age: Seaport, and protocol development with OpenSea
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2 Jun 2022
0age is the Head of Protocol Development at OpenSea (https://twitter.com/opensea), and this was a conversation about Seaport (https://github.com/ProjectOpenSea/seaport), the new marketplace protocol
Charles St.Louis: Element Finance, and voting vaults as a primitive
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24 May 2022
Charles St.Louis (https://twitter.com/CharlieStLouis) is the COO at Element Finance, a protocol for fixed and variable rate yield markets and previously the governance architect at MakerDAO. In this
Henri Stern: Privy, building for data privacy and security
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19 May 2022
Here is my conversation with Henri Stern (https://twitter.com/henri_stern) who is building Privy (https://www.privy.io/). Henri was previously a research scientist at Protocol Labs and worked on
Matthew Chaim: Songcamp, immersive digital theatre
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5 May 2022
Matthew Chaim (https://twitter.com/matthewchaim) is building a laboratory experimenting at the edges of music and web3. It's called Songcamp (https://twitter.com/songcamp_), and right now they're
Simon de la Rouviere: cc0, derivatives, and bottom-up storytelling
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28 Apr 2022
Here is my conversation with Simon de la Rouviere (https://twitter.com/simondlr). Simon’s exploration of creative mechanism design through the years is documented on his blog
David Greenstein, Matt Masurka, & Vignesh Hirudayakanth on Sound.xyz and listening parties
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1 Mar 2022
Here is my conversation with David Greenstein (https://twitter.com/dgreenstein1), Matt Masurka (Gigamesh) (https://twitter.com/Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth (https://twitter.com/vigneshka), the
Mike Sall & Blake West: Goldfinch, uncollateralized loans in emerging markets.
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8 Feb 2022
Mike Sall (https://twitter.com/sall) and Blake West (https://twitter.com/_blakewest) are the founders of Goldfinch (https://twitter.com/goldfinch_fi), a decentralized protocol facilitating
Justin Glibert: Ember, and building onchain games.
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24 Dec 2021
The conversation on publishing today is the very first one I recorded for the podcast about six months ago. It's a conversation with Justin Glibert (https://twitter.com/justinglibert) about patterns
Phillip Wang and Nate Foss: Gather, and building the open metaverse
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25 Nov 2021
This is a conversation with Phillip Wang (https://twitter.com/flippnflops) and Nate Foss (https://npfoss.com/) two of the co-founders of Gather (https://www.gather.town/). Gather is a video chat
Tracheopteryx: Yearn, Coordinape, and pseudonymity
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4 Nov 2021
This is a conversation with Tracheopteryx (https://twitter.com/tracheopteryx) about the evolution of Yearn, Coordinape, and pseudonymity. Tracheopteryx has been a key leader in the Yearn Finance
John Palmer & Danny Aranda: PartyDAO, and shipping product as a DAO
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29 Oct 2021
This is a conversation with John Palmer (https://twitter.com/john_c_palmer) and Danny Aranda (https://twitter.com/daranda) about PartyDAO (https://twitter.com/prtyDAO) and PartyBid - the product that
