Dr. Steven 'SEVEN' Waterhouse is an active investor and builder in the crypto / web3 space with 11 years of experience. Dr. Waterhouse is currently CEO and co-founder of Orchid Labs, advisor to various projects including RiscZero and Squid Router, and is CEO and co-founder of Nazare Ventures, a new fund focused on crypto and AI, highlighting his ambition to contribute towards the digital landscape of the future. He was recently CTO & Venture Partner at Fabric Ventures and was previously a partner at Pantera Capital from 2013 to 2016. He served on the board of Bitstamp during this period.

Dr. Waterhouse holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Cambridge with a focus on speech recognition and machine learning. At Cambridge, Dr. Waterhouse received the Isaac Newton Prize for outstanding Ph.D. research and represented Cambridge in the rowing and water polo teams.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Introduction to Orchid Protocol
- Ensuring decentralisation as AI and Web3's convergence grows
- DePINs
- Technology and innovation
- Privacy in the digital age
- Building blocks for a freer internet
- Integrating on-chain privacy
- The fight for internet freedom
- Probabilistic nano-payments
- The role of Digital Resource Networks (DRNs)
- Sensorship

Orchid
Website: www.orchid.com
X: @OrchidProtocol
Discord: discord.gg/GDbxmjxX9F

Dr. Steven Waterhouse
X: @deseventral
LinkedIn: Steven W.

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