How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem
The a16z Show
- Published
- July 10, 2026
- Duration
- 21:35
- Summary source
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- Last updated
- Jul 22, 2026
Discusses We're excited to share a special feed drop from The a16z Crypto Show. In the first episode of First …
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We're excited to share a special feed drop from The a16z Crypto Show. In the first episode of First Principles: The Scientific Roots of Blockchain Technology, Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham trace the decades of computer science research that laid the foundation for modern blockchains. Long before Bitcoin, researchers were studying one of distributed co…
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We're excited to share a special feed drop from The a16z Crypto Show. In the first episode of First Principles: The Scientific Roots of Blockchain Technology, Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham trace the decades of computer science research that laid the foundation for modern blockchains. Long before Bitcoin, researchers were studying one of distributed computing's hardest challenges: how independent machines can reliably agree on a shared state, even when some participants are faulty or maliciou