{"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":126,"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":"2026-08-01T18:19:55.817053+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a16z-crypto-show-5434524"},"episode":{"title":"The Story Behind RSA: The Invention That Secured the Internet (ft. Turing Award Winner Ron Rivest)","slug":"the-story-behind-rsa-the-invention-that-secured-the-internet-ft-turing-award-winner-ron-rivest","published_at":"2026-07-24T16:13:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a16z-crypto-show-5434524/the-story-behind-rsa-the-invention-that-secured-the-internet-ft-turing-award-winner-ron-rivest","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a16z-crypto-show-5434524","url":"https://web3-with-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/first-principles-ron-rivest-qooWB9Yg","audio_url":"https://mgln.ai/e/1344/afp-848985-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/bf52be5a-9faf-45fb-9bc3-bb4270ec53d9/episodes/25f3f42d-ece1-41a0-8acf-ce22e65c9769/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=bf52be5a-9faf-45fb-9bc3-bb4270ec53d9&awEpisodeId=25f3f42d-ece1-41a0-8acf-ce22e65c9769&feed=XPOpH7r4","summary":"Before the internet could become a place to bank or transact, it needed a way for strangers to know who they were talking to, and whether a message could be trusted. Turing Award winners Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman helped invent it. In this episode of First Principles, Rivest tells the story of how they developed RSA, the first practical public-key cryptosystem. Their breakthrough made it possible to encrypt information, verify identities, and authenticate messages across an open network without requiring participants to meet or exchange a secret in advance — laying essential groundwork for the secure internet and, decades later, blockchains.","meta_description":"Before the internet could become a place to bank or transact, it needed a way for strangers to know who they were talking to, and whether a message could…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3284,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a16z-crypto-show-5434524/episodes/the-story-behind-rsa-the-invention-that-secured-the-internet-ft-turing-award-winner-ron-rivest/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/the-story-behind-rsa-the-invention-that-secured-the-internet-ft-turing-award-winner-ron-rivest.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}