The Importance of Data Integrity and Chain of Custody

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You can print out an image on screen and see the underlying floating point numbers.
Data collected from instruments is typically in the form of floating points or integers.
Hashing data individually makes it harder to fake.
Using merkle trees can group multiple data points together and provide a single hash.
Building a chain of custody for data can establish trust in society.

Balaji Srinivasan makes a return appearance to The Knowledge Project, this time to go in-depth on Web3, Crypto, and the state of the world today. Srinivasan offers his unfiltered thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of established democracies, the Russia-Ukraine situation, housing as an investment, education, legacy wealth, and which country he would bet on to dominate the future.

Srinivasan is the former CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols. He is also the author of the book The Network State: How To Start a New Country.

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