Into the Bytecode

Here is my conversation with @gakonst.

We talk about Reth, how it’s architected under the hood, and how it could help build a scifi future where every laptop shares resources in a distributed network.

We also talk about more personal topics around engineering management, feedback loops, and writing.

I've known Georgios since we were part of a similar ETHResearch community getting into the space. I think Reth is one of the most important projects in Ethereum and am excited to help them build in the coming years.

Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/41-georgios-konstantopoulos

Get in touch here if you're interested: intothebytecode.com/p/producer

“There’s definitely a certain idealism to wanting to create and deploy large scale mechanisms based on principles that try to benefit all of humanity. That kind of stuff generally happens if there’s goodwill and if there’s a mood of people that are tired of fighting” - VB

“The plurality idea I tried to emphasize is we really want to focus on connecting people that would otherwise not be connected” - VB

I've recently become more interested in US political history and how the constitution setup a framework within which the next 250 years have evolved.

This is my conversation with Eric Alston, faculty director at CU Boulder and researcher in the Comparative Constitutions Project, who patiently explained this all to me.

We talk about how constitutions organically emerge from humans coordinating in large groups, presidential vs parliamentary systems, the balance between federal and state governments, and more.

Podcast here: intothebytecode.com/39-eric-alston

BaseCamp 001 was the first time the Base community has come together in-person. I recorded four conversations there -- with @jessepollak of @base, @benleventhal of Blackbird, Julian Holguin of Doodles, and @yele.eth of Onboard.

I think there's a good chance we'll look back on this period as a historic moment in time, and hope these conversations give a sense for what folks are building and also capture some of the magic of being there in Idyllwild.

Full podcast here: intothebytecode.com/38-basecamp

Had an insight dovetailing from what @sinahab said in this episode:

The reason we can't figure out why people mint things is because there is no one reason

Crypto natives mint because it's one of the purest expressions of being an early adopter. It's also the same reason normies *don't* mint

Fantastic episode btw

Here is my conversation with @colin.

We talk about the economics of writing online, the higher ARPUs in crypto, building for the crypto-native niche or a general audience, wallets vs emails, moving with focus and urgency, and more.

Full conversation here: intothebytecode.com/37-colin-armstrong

Here is my conversation with Justin Glibert, cofounder of Lattice and 0xPARC.

We talk about autonomous worlds, digital physics, agency and violence on the internet, homo economics vs homo ludens, and reading weird books.

Full conversation here: intothebytecode.com/36-justin-glibert/

Here is my conversation with @nonlinear.eth.

We talk about Hypersub, pooling capital with shared ownership and upside, the computer and the casino, and what it means to be a crypto-native creator.

Full conversation here: intothebytecode.com/35-jonny-mack/

Here is my conversation with Stephane Gosselin.

Stephane was cofounder of Flashbots and is now working on OneBalance. We talk about how blockspace is abundant and UX is the bottleneck, and how OneBalance organizes the interaction between accounts/applications to solve for this

intothebytecode.com/34-stephane-gosselin

Here is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay.

Molly is the head of engineering, product, research at Protocol Labs and has worked across projects like IPFS and Filecoin. We talk about IPC (a new framework for recursive L2s), incentive design, building, and more.

intothebytecode.com/33-molly-mackinlay

Here is my conversation with @rish.

We talk about the idea maze for Neynar, how it is architected under the hood, his cofounder relationship with @manan, and how companies become extensions of their founders.

intothebytecode.com/32-rish-neynar

Here is my conversation with @sreeramkannan.

We talk about rollups as web servers, AVSs as SaaS, and EigenLayer as the cloud - and we work through the ramifications of this for the architecture /economics of the web.

intothebytecode.com/31-sreeram-kannan

Here is my conversation with @dob.eth and @ericxtang.

We talk about video's increasingly important role on the internet, the impact of generative AI, and how Livepeer is able to provide a 90% cost improvement over cloud services by putting excess compute capacity to work.

intothebytecode.com/livepeer

Here is my conversation with Martin Köppelmann, cofounder of Gnosis.

I have a lot of respect for Martin as someone who has consistently pushed the frontier forward. Here we talk about using a safe as one's primary bank account + AI agents as onchain actors.

intothebytecode.com/29-martin-koppelmann/

Here is my conversation with @v.

We talk about the Farcaster protocol, sufficient decentralization, learnings from Coinbase, and more.

Hope you enjoy!: intothebytecode.com/28-varun-farcaster

I've been thinking about the first topic here -- AIs as players in micro prediction markets.

Scott Alexander wrote about this recently also: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/mantic-monday-21924

Hello world!

Setting this up as a home for Into the Bytecode, and as a scratchpad for thinking about the future together.