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Eric Schmidt: belief

7 Nov 2018 Conversations with Tyler Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live)

“I think the most interesting stuff that’s going on are the beginning of execution on top of blockchain, the most obvious example being the capability of Ethereum.”

— Eric Schmidt

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Speaker
Eric Schmidt
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
7 Nov 2018
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…And what do you think that technical use will prove to be? What problem is it there to solve? Well, today, blockchain is a great platform for Bitcoin and other currencies, and it’s a great platform for private banking transactions where people don’t trust each other. I think the most interesting stuff that’s going on are the beginning of execution on top of blockchain, the most obvious example being the capability of Ethereum. And if Ethereum can manage to figure out a way to do global synchronization of that activity, that’s a pretty powerful platform. That’s a really new invention. The painter Cezanne.…

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