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#168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum
Lex Fridman Podcast
The One-Way Function Is Fundamental to All of Life
The emergence of the complexity that we see around us seem to require the one-way function. It's surprising even in constrained situations, it's very difficult to prove anything. The sad thing about it... I don't know if it's sad, but it seems like we don't even have the mathematical tools to reverse engineer stuff. But there is also some portrait of the fact that it's difficult because it gives us a mystery to life. We've got to reach ... I mean, it's not so fun. Life is not a bit less fun.
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