{"podcast":{"title":"a16z crypto show","slug":"a16z-crypto-show-5434524","podcast_index_feed_id":5434524,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/XPOpH7r4","website_url":"https://web3-with-a16z.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/3474b6a1-976c-4c75-8e63-e4ad3a3b354d/6d5e7801-f225-452e-9f3c-0df8a5e7f917/3000x3000/a16zcrypto-podcast-20-1.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Andreessen Horowitz","episode_count":123,"summary":"The a16z crypto show explores how decentralized networks are reshaping money, ownership, and the architecture of the internet. We go beyond the hype to look at what’s actually working, what isn’t, and what comes next as crypto continues to go mainstream and blockchains become core infrastructure. Each episode features conversations with founders, engineers, economists, policymakers, and researchers building at the frontier of finance, payments, AI, and distributed systems. We cover stablecoins and global payments, the tokenization of \"real-world\" assets, decentralized physical infrastructure, network design and governance, and the practical tradeoffs behind decentralization — along with lessons from past technology shifts. Produced and hosted by the a16z crypto team, the show combines reporting, analysis, and first-principles thinking to explain how crypto intersects with the economy and society — and why it matters now. Learn more at a16zcrypto.com. *** Posts should not be considered investment advice or an advertisement for investment services. Reposts of third-party content are not attributable to a16z; see disclosures for more information: https://a16z.com/disclosures/.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T04:18:31.628297+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a16z-crypto-show-5434524"},"episode":{"title":"Before Blockchains, There Was State Machine Replication (ft. Barbara Liskov and Tim Roughgarden)","slug":"before-blockchains-there-was-state-machine-replication-ft-barbara-liskov-and-tim-roughgarden","published_at":"2026-06-22T17:28:10+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a16z-crypto-show-5434524/before-blockchains-there-was-state-machine-replication-ft-barbara-liskov-and-tim-roughgarden","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a16z-crypto-show-5434524","url":"https://web3-with-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/barbara-liskov-Py20NhRh","audio_url":"https://mgln.ai/e/1344/afp-848985-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/bf52be5a-9faf-45fb-9bc3-bb4270ec53d9/episodes/85c0b65a-367f-4559-ba98-e5af50bdacc3/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=bf52be5a-9faf-45fb-9bc3-bb4270ec53d9&awEpisodeId=85c0b65a-367f-4559-ba98-e5af50bdacc3&feed=XPOpH7r4","summary":"Every blockchain today leans on replication ideas worked out in the 1980s, by a Turing Award winner who wasn’t thinking about how it might apply to money at all. In this episode of First Principles, a16z crypto Head of Research and Columbia professor Tim Roughgarden speaks with Barbara Liskov, MIT professor, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential computer scientists in programming languages, data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing. a16z crypto research partner Ittai Abraham joins the conversation.","meta_description":"Every blockchain today leans on replication ideas worked out in the 1980s, by a Turing Award winner who wasn’t thinking about how it might apply to money…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2146,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a16z-crypto-show-5434524/episodes/before-blockchains-there-was-state-machine-replication-ft-barbara-liskov-and-tim-roughgarden/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a16z-crypto-show-5434524/before-blockchains-there-was-state-machine-replication-ft-barbara-liskov-and-tim-roughgarden.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}