Podcast Episodes featuring Nick Szabo

Read_376 - Pascal’s Scams [Nick Szabo]

Bitcoin Audible - April 08, 2020 22:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
“Beware of what I call Pascal's scams: movements or belief systems that ask you to hope for or worry about very improbable outcomes that could have very large positive or negative consequences.” - Nick Szabo Another amazing piece from the Unenumerated blog by Nick Szabo that explains a class of...

Reboot - Shelling Out: The Origins of Money [Nick Szabo]

Bitcoin Audible - December 24, 2019 02:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
"The precursors of money, along with language, enabled early modern humans to solve problems of cooperation that other animals cannot – including problems of reciprocal altruism, kin altruism, and the mitigation of aggression. These precursors shared with non-fiat currencies very specific charac...

CryptoQuikRead_275 - Bit Gold [Nick Szabo]

Bitcoin Audible - July 25, 2019 19:32 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
There were many precursors to the Bitcoin system, but IMO, none came as close to correctly defining the problem, & solving the key issues of trust as Nick Szabo's Bit Gold concept.  Reading another great piece made available by the Nakamoto Institute, we read and discuss the incredible prescienc...

CryptoQuikRead_261 - The God Protocols [Nick Szabo]

Bitcoin Audible - June 19, 2019 19:59 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
"Imagine the ideal protocol. It would have the most trustworthy third party imaginable — a deity who is on everybody's side. All the parties would send their input to this god. God would reliably determine the results and return the output. In addition, God, being the ultimate in confessional di...

CryptoQuikRead_214 - Formalizing & Securing Network Relationships [Part 1 - Nick Szabo]

Bitcoin Audible - February 21, 2019 16:36 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
"... The movement from static to dynamic media promises to bring about a fourth cost revolution in the related areas of jurisdiction, trust, and security. Impacts on business will be felt in law, accounting, auditing, billing, collections, contracts, confidentiality, and so on: in short, the enti...

CryptoQuikRead_113 - The Dawn of Trustworthy Computing [Nick Szabo]

Bitcoin Audible - July 17, 2018 17:45 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
“It's actually the protocol (Nakamoto consensus, which is highly distributed) combined with strong cryptography, rather than just decentralization per se, that is the source of the far higher reliability and and much lower vulnerability of block chains.” - @NickSzabo4 Check out Szabo’s incredi...

CryptoQuikRead_111 - Genesis Files - With Bit Gold, Nick Szabo Was Inches From BTC [Aaron Van Wirdum]

Bitcoin Audible - July 13, 2018 17:58 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
The 4th in the excellent Genesis Files Series from Aaron Van Wirdum (@AaronvanW) and Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine). Today we read about BitGold and How Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4) was "Inches From Inventing Bitcoin." Check out the full article, the previous of the Genesis Files series, and ...

#244: The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency -- Nick Szabo

The Tim Ferriss Show - June 04, 2017 12:23 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 14.3K ratings
Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4) is a polymath. The breadth and depth of his interests and knowledge are truly astounding. He's a computer scientist, legal scholar, and cryptographer best known for his pioneering research in digital contracts and cryptocurrency. The phrase and concept of "smart...

Swizzle A Start-Up Story with Nick Szabo EP78

Social Strategy Podcast: The Best in Business, Wealth and Mindset - November 05, 2016 18:49 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Running at full speed and jumping to the next building across the rooftops.  Would you do This?  My next guess would totally do this in a heartbeat and has.  This fearless quality is one of the many things that sets my next guest Nick Szabo apart.  Jump to as Nick the COO of Swizzle shares … Con...