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Crypto Magnate Blows Up on Twitter for Straight Talk on Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

September 16, 2018

Ben Horowitz, co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, recently gave a compact explainer on the rise of bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency. Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Horowitz uses simple language and sticky analogies.

He concedes that cryptocurrency – as a sort of new “computing platform” – is slow and complex, but it has one revolutionary feature: trust. Horowitz says that this is what makes crypto super powerful.

“You don’t have to trust the government or Twitter and Facebook, or the other people even on the network. You just have to trust math. And that opens a very interesting world for developers because you can build new applications like money. Nobody’s every been able to program money before. Now you can. You can program law and contracts, and you don’t have to worry about a corrupt lawyer. You don’t have to trust a lawyer. You don’t have to trust a judge. You can program digital property. You can build art that only one person owns. You don’t have to trust a broker or somebody who might be faking it.” 

This is by far the most precise and hype-less description of the main benefit distributed ledger technologies bring, by @bhorowitz https://t.co/IK7xlXf0nB

— Nick Kurat (neek.eth) ?? (@NickKurat) September 14, 2018

“Not all ICO’s are bad; but every bad company has an ICO.” Brilliant @bhorowitz …

— Christopher Schroeder (@cmschroed) September 7, 2018

I really like this simple, straightforward discussion about what crypto/blockchain is and can be from @bhorowitz https://t.co/2uL0PSkMvl

— Michael Arrington ???? (@arrington) September 12, 2018

https://twitter.com/betashop/status/1040188656516915202

Ben Horowitz explains the rise of crypto #TCDisrupt pic.twitter.com/fTGndiKhcw

— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) September 10, 2018

But not everyone believes in the merits of crypto, or agrees that there are any merits at all. Even Horowitz’s explanation about trust being derived from math and game theory falls flat for crypto opponents.

https://twitter.com/Obelisk_FG/status/1041068722163572736

Not fair to the stupid people.

The crypto scam is great BECAUSE there are so many stupid people in it. Who else would pay $10 million to the miners every day, to run the worst payment service ever built? Without them, the price would be $0.

— Jorge Stolfi (@JorgeStolfi) September 15, 2018

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