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" AIs are only as good as the data they are trained on. And while many of the tech giants working on AI, like Google and Facebook, have open-sourced some of their algorithms, they hold back most of their data. "
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" AIs trained on open data are more likely to be neutral and trustworthy instead of biased by the interests of the corporation who created and trained them. "
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Data
" As with early internet startups, some token models don't make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes and 100 failures, so we shouldn't be surprised when some fail. "
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" At GDAX, we want to see new protocols and their tokens flourish. "
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" At the end of the day, what's going to make bitcoin successful is more people making more interesting things, just like the beginning of the Internet. "
People
Beginning
Day
" Bitcoin has a core technological innovation: The ability to publicly verify ownership, instantly transfer that ownership, and do so without the need for a trusted third party. "
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Party
" Bitcoin is inherently international, and one of its great promises is it enables cross-border payments in a more efficient way. "
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More
" Bitcoin is valuable as a currency because of the economic efficiencies the bitcoin network is already creating as transactions flow over it. As with the Internet, more applications will flourish which will make the bitcoin network, and thus bitcoin as a currency, valuable. "
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" Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership. "
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" Blockchains are digital organisms. As organisms evolve through changes in their DNA, blockchain protocols evolve through changes in their code. And like biological organisms, the most adaptive blockchains will be the ones that survive and thrive. "
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Blockchain
" Developer mindshare is the most important thing to have in digital currency. "
Currency
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Important
" Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full-fledged computer. "
Bitcoin
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Language
" Ethereum may make monetary policy decisions like, 'Let's do 1% inflation to support the ongoing development of the Ethereum protocol.' A token built on Ethereum might want to do the same. "
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Decisions
Support
" Ethereum will be a first-class citizen on Coinbase. "
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Ethereum
" Everything will be tokenized and connected by a blockchain one day. "
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One Day
Blockchain
" Forks often arise from differences of opinion in the direction of a project. And tokens are increasingly a mechanism for voting on changes to their protocols. Since the point of a fork is to try a new path, the new fork may not want to port all of the prior holders opposed to trying the new path the fork was created to take. "
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" For the foreseeable future, I'm all about building blockchain-based decentralized services. "
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Decentralized
" I'd guess blockchains will be the full-blown backbone of virtual worlds - the system for currency, assets, identity, even governance - before doing the same in the 'real world.' Which is where I think we will end up in the real world eventually; it's just a matter of which goes first and how long until it's the case for both. "
End
Identity
Doing
" If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don't keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure you use encryption. If you lose your computer, your bitcoins are lost forever. "
Going
Forever
Lose
" I think it's fundamentally a good sign that more and more professional traders and market makers are providing liquidity to the whole ecosystem. It allows people to move much larger quantities of digital currency more quickly than they would if that were not the case. "
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People
" I think the whole narrative of blockchain without bitcoin will amount to very little. "
Very
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Blockchain
" Just as the Internet brought the cost of disseminating information down by an order of magnitude, bitcoin brings the cost of transferring ownership down by an order of magnitude. "
Ownership
Internet
Information
" Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel where the strongest versions survive. "
Run
Survive
DNA
" Make no mistake - Ethereum would never have existed without Bitcoin as a forerunner. That said, I think Ethereum is ahead of Bitcoin in many ways and represents the bleeding edge of digital currency. "
Think
Edge
Ahead
" Not having sub-governance would be like anyone who owns USD being able to walk into a Google shareholder meeting and voting without owning Google stock just because Google shares happen to be denominated in USD. "
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Voting
" OpenAI is doing important work by releasing tools which promote AI to be developed in the open. Compute power is largely produced by NVIDIA and Intel and still relatively expensive but openly purchasable. Blockchains may be the key final ingredient by providing massive pools of open training data. "
Work
Data
Doing
" People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk. "
Against
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Need
" Private funding was one of the first methods used when MIT funded Bitcoin core developers Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, and Cory Fields in 2015. "
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Fields
" Public crowdfunding still suffers from a tragedy of the commons problem. Everyone will want the benefit of the crowdfunded efforts but is incentivized to sit on the sidelines and hope others chip in. "
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" Redistributing tokens is a balancing act. In most cases, forks probably want to keep ownership for users constant so users have at least the same incentives to use the new fork as the historical one. "
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