Journey to Blockchain with David Tse

In this episode, Anna and Guillermo chat with David Tse about his career and research spanning from early Networking, Mobile Networking, P2P, all the way up to his work on formalizing Blockchain systems.

Along the way, they touch on topics like 'The Price of Anarchy', David’s Prism work, his work with the Ethereum Foundation and his new project Babylon.

Here are some links for this episode:

• Episode 217: Information Theory & Blockchain with Sreeram Kannan
• The Price of Anarchy
• Babylon
• Prism
• Bram Cohen’s Twitter
• Everything is a Race and Nakamoto Always Wins
• Three Attacks on Proof of Stake Ethereum
• Ebb-and-Flow Protocols: A Resolution of the Availability-Finality Dilemma
• More of David Tse's Papers
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication - C. E. Shannon 1948
• Hidden Hamiltonian Cycle Recovery via Linear Programming
• Concentration Inequalities and Model Selection - P. Massart
• John Tsitsiklis Bio
• Fundamentals of Wireless Communication - David Tse 2005
• Qualcomm Website
• Cosmoverse Event Link
• Devcon Event Link

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