A16Z Crypto · 15 August 2026 · Industry Analysis

Before Bitcoin: The ideas that made blockchains possible

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A16Z Crypto's video series traces the intellectual foundations of blockchain technology through conversations with Turing Award winners, Nobel laureates, and computer science pioneers—exploring how distributed systems theory, cryptography, market design, and algorithmic game theory converged to make Bitcoin possible.

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