What podcasts say about Vik Sharma
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What Vik Sharma has said on podcasts
47 statements · 33 positive · 9 negative · 2 mixed · 3 neutral
Bitcoin protects ordinary people from centralized monetary manipulation.
“That's what Bitcoin has invented, right? To protect the common person from that, from a centralized manipulator.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 0:05
Bitcoin enables self-custody and permissionless global electronic value transfer.
“I can self-custody and I can transfer value electronically around the world without any third party, without any permission”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 0:35
Bitcoin enables self-custody and global electronic value transfer without intermediaries.
“the permissionless nature that I can self-custody and I can transfer value electronically around the world without any third party, without any permission”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 3:56
Bitcoin is the future of money or technology.
“I thought, you know, this is the future.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 4:53
Cake Wallet makes self-custody and cryptocurrency transfers easier.
“I wanted to make self-custody and transferring Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies easier.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 7:37
Much open-source code is not being reviewed by anyone.
“there's all this open source code out there that nobody's reviewing.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 10:02
Audits identified Cake Wallet issues that the team fixed.
“They gave some alerts to us as well, which was good, which we jumped on and fixed.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 11:03
The United States should not regulate advanced AI tools yet.
“it's too early to start regulating and thinking these tools can be dangerous.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 12:38
The administration’s AI regulation is a major mistake.
“I think it's a huge blunder by the administration”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 13:12
Restricting advanced AI limits competition, progress, and further development.
“once you start limiting and regulating It's not just the competition. It's also you're stopping progress and you're stopping further development”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 13:19
Restricting AI harms U.S. technological development and leadership long term.
“in the long run, it's very damaging to... our know-how, our development, our progress, our being a tech leader.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 13:48
Defending against advanced AI requires building more capable systems.
“we just have to keep building bigger monsters to fight the monsters we've created.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 15:14
Future tools will protect Bitcoin users from quantum computers.
“in the future, we will have the tools to guard ourselves against quantum computers.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 15:55
Quantum-resistant encryption can be implemented in Bitcoin.
“there's proposals and algorithms and quantum-based encryption that can be implemented into Bitcoin to safeguard that.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 16:00
Radar is a private messaging and decentralized payment alternative to Venmo or Cash App.
“I consider Radar a... private messaging slash decentralized payment alternative to like a Venmo or Cash App.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 18:24
Radar combines private messaging with decentralized permissionless payments.
“You have private messaging mixed in with decentralized permissionless payment.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 18:38
Radar is available on Android and iOS.
“It's totally live. Oh, so it's out there. It's live. It's live on Android and iOS.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 18:48
Radar is currently available on Android and iOS.
“It's live on Android and iOS.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 18:50
Radar and Signal users can communicate with each other.
“No, Radar and Signal can communicate with each other.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 20:04
Radar users can communicate with Signal users.
“Radar and Signal can communicate with each other.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 20:05
iMessage is highly private, subject to trust in Apple.
“iMessage surprisingly is very, very private”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 20:34
iMessage is highly private but Apple may retain control over it.
“iMessage surprisingly is very, very private, except the fact that Apple. could have control over it”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 20:34
iMessage is fairly private if users trust Apple.
“If you trust Apple, end-to-end, it's pretty private.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 20:51
Radar currently supports Bitcoin payments at enabled merchant terminals.
“you can do it today. You can walk in Radar where somebody takes a square terminal. They have the Bitcoin payment feature turned on. You can pay with Radar right now.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 24:00
Radar users can send money to one another.
“in Radar, you can. Send money back and forth to other radar users.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 24:13
Radar can send Bitcoin to external wallets.
“Or send it to an external wallet.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 24:18
China produces more than one billion tons of steel.
“China produces over a billion tons of steel.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 25:33
Modern rolling mills can produce ten times more than older mills.
“one mill could produce 10 times what the older mills.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 26:03
Steel tariffs can make scrap steel cheaper.
“the raw material becomes cheaper, which is scrap.”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 26:58
Steel tariffs can increase domestic steel producers’ profits.
“your profit increases actually in the steel industry”
Open the episode · Vik Sharma: Why He Built a Private Messaging App That Sends BitcoinListen at 27:06
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