001 Herding Byzantine Generals with Vishnu Seesahai

Vishnu Seesahai is a systems architect, mathematician, and former indie film actor. In addition to that, he is a martial artist and he served as a fight choreographer in several films. 01:33 – “Zombie Strippers” and film production 04:00 – Getting into bitcoin mining 10:37 – Decentralized finance 17:15 – Cyber attacks, the energy marketplace, and quantum money 22:38 – Mining costs 30:00 – Why proof-of-work is better than proof-of-stake 35:45 – Decentralized vs centralized authority 41:20 – What is the Fediverse? 42:18 – Elon Musk, space exploration, AI, and workplace racism 47:05 – Technological unemployment (aka robots that will steal our jobs) 49:48 – UBI, Central Bank Digital Currency, and moving money 54:16 – The future we got is not the one we were promised Follow Vishnu's podcast appearances: https://en.padverb.com/vishnuseesahai KMO: https://en.padverb.com/kmo