July 15, 2021· 57 min

Vlad Zamfir on the Dangers of Unstoppable Software and What People Get Wrong About Blockchains

Orality
Model
50%

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(2,457 words)
M:93%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,613 words)
M:28%
GuestVlad Zamfir(6,272 words)
M:29%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic52%
obviously, very, basically
Engagement66%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, like
Repetition100%
like (715x), know (192x), it's (110x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So, Tracy, obviously, we've be..., But, of course, like, when all...
Sound Patterns55%
61 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases2%
i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging7%
may, maybe, could
Passive Voice10%
was supposed, be tamed, be used
Abstract Nouns20%
investment, business, chase.com/business
Subordination9%
because, nonetheless, since
Sentence Length61%
Avg: 20.2 words/sentence
Word Complexity47%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers3%
according to
Impersonal Style34%
730 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
apply, obviously, lately

Description

Vlad Zamfir is something of a crypto legend. The researcher was early into Bitcoin, and he was part of the Ethereum Foundation before it launched. He's still an active researcher in the space, but he believes the people operating in it get some basic premises wrong. One of the basic premises that people preach is the idea of database immutability. He argues that, in order for crypto to become more influential, it needs to take governance seriously and find ways to be in compliance with generally accepted ideas about the law. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.