Arthur Breitman is one of the co-founders of Tezos, a blockchain platform which provides smart contracts, has built-in governance system, and facilitates formal verification. Unlike the majority of blockchain platforms, it uses the delegated proof of stake consensus.
Prior to Tezos, Arthur worked at X (previously known as Google X), the self-driving car division. He comes with great knowledge of technology, blockchain, and programming. Don't miss out the opportunity and ask the questions.
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I understand that you are not a pro dapp guy. As per tezos philosophy there is no need for a token for every application. In a scenario there are apps built on protocol and use tezos for transactions what do you think is ideal tps in that case?
Hi Arthur. There is a group of at least 80 of us in a telegram channel who trust and believe in Tezos vision. Unfortunately majority of us have lost the password necessary to unlock the ICO funds. Is there any plans for all of us to work together for a satisfactory solution? Thank you and best of luck!
Sorry if it sounds lame. Let's say if there is a proposal and community has voted their choice for a protocol upgrade.now my question is does tezos dev team needs to code the change or the protocol some how magically self upgrades?
First of lots of love from India and thanks for the AMA
You have invested in starkware. Do you have any plans to collaborate with them to implement their tech on tezos protocol?
What ideas do you have for lowing the barriers of entry into blockchain/Tezos? Wallet addresses? Use cases? Marketing?
In what ways do you think tezos will be able to get a larger market adoption compared to its competitors?
Do you know if a portal is in the works for discussion or voting? Where will we vote? Will it be a signed transaction to specific addresses? Who sets the addresses? Last question; what do you think about defining the test time of a protocol improvement via the proposal? Some improvements do not need a long-term test (changing constants i.E.), others maybe need longer-term tests (Avalanche/Igloo/ZKP). A fixed test time, will slow down evolution imho.
You said at your recent (very good) Web3 speech that you are sceptical about interoperability. Can you explain why?
Coda protocol is open sourcing their code today. Can Tezos copy this now and become a succinct blockchain with smart contracts?
4 Weeks ago you said this: "'Im starting to get a better mental model of Tezos' proof of stake algorithm by the way, and am getting a new found appreciation for it. I'd like to start benchmarking it at 100x its current throughout, and I tend to think it would handle it gracefully. At this point, the limiting factor is more likely to be the current inefficiency of database reads and writes than in the logic of the distributed consensus itself." Did you do the benchmark ?
If you have read the recent paper Zexe: Enabling Decentralized Private Computation, do you believe this brand new primitive can or will be implemented anytime in tezos?
If Tezos would implement privacy in the same way as Zcash does. What would be the differentiator/advantage for Zcash compared to Tezos?
Hi Arthur - Thanks for this AMA. During your 5 reasons why Tezos rocks! talk, you mention that apart from currency, a decentralized ledger like Tezos is good for two things: Internet scale coordination (decentralized polities, cultural movements and DAOs) and pre-commitment to ecosystem openess.
Could you explain further what you mean by the former? What examples of internet scale coordination are being built on Tezos or would you like to see?
Hi Arthur,
If the lawsuit in the US would turn out to be negative for you, your wife or DLS (I hope not), how would that determine the potential success of Tezos? Can Tezos be stopped? Either by blocking funds, blocking ICO coin holders, directly impacting the blockchain or any other way?
If Bitcoin were to fail, what do you think would be the most likely scenario as to why. And by fail, I mean didn't become the primary store of value/money.
It's known that Kathleen is working to integrate Tezos into the gaming economy, but I'm interested as to what your focus will be for the upcoming years? Are you planning on making your own official proposals along side the community's?
If the Bitcoin inflation bug would have happened, what would the most likely scenarios that would have taken place? A fork and the teams fix the inflation bug? Or any other scenarios?
Tezos will get traction and adoption only if dApps aimed at the general market can attract the crowds. What is Tezos doing to attract and support large scale dApp projects?
What project are you personally most excited about on Tezos (existing or not)?
What do you think is better for tezoa between a token open standard model versus a model where xtz is being used as the only currencywithin the applications?
What is the No. of End-Users (Minimum and Maximum as Lower & Upper Limits) required for any Blockchain to Implement for any given Use-Case(s)? Please let us Know to Decide whether to use BlockChain or Not to build a Feature. THX. 🙏👍
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In prior interviews with Kathleen, you paraphrase the Paul Graham quote, saying Tezos isn't competing with other blockchains, it's "competing against no one giving a shit".
Why would anyone give a shit about Tezos? (apart from the 20,000+ activated contributors)