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AI systems are breaking an internet that was designed at human-scale — by making it cheaper than ever to coordinate, transact, and generate voice, video, and text that are increasingly indistinguishable from human activity. We’re already beset w
An evaluation of long-range attacks on proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains, where the validators leak historical keys to the adversary, with Valeria Nikolaenko (a16z crypto Research Partner). Valeria discusses approaches to mitigating these attacks and bootstrapping the blockchain from genesis without centralized checkpoints.