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Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks | Lex Fridman Podcast #181

Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks | Lex Fridman Podcast #181

Recommended on this episode

BookRecommended

Chainlink 2.0 white paper

Sergey Nazarov / Chainlink

“i found to be a great overview”
“check out the chain link 2.0 white paper that i found to be a great overview of their technology and vision it's 136 pages but very accessible”— Lex Fridman
BookRecommended

Plato's dialogues (Protagoras and Gorgias)

Plato

“had a very big impact on me”
“one of the things that had a very big impact on me were plato's dialogues and particularly protagoras and gorgeous as as some of the two initial ones”— guest
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives (Parallel Lives)

Plutarch

“have had a very large impact on me”
“biographies have had a very large impact on me um you know plutarch's greek and roman lives after i read plato i started reading a bunch of stuff”— guest
BookRecommended

Vanderbilt biography (The First Tycoon)

T.J. Stiles (inferred)

“one of the most impactful ones”
“probably one of the most impactful ones that i can remember recently is around uh vanderbilt and so vanderbilt was this guy”— guest
MediaRecommended

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Paramount (inferred)

“i really seem to like more and more”
“one of the shows that i really um seem to like more and more for some reason is uh star trek not the old star trek star trek like the next generation”— guest
MediaRecommended

Star Trek: Voyager

Paramount (inferred)

“i really seem to like more and more”
“star trek like the next generation and voyager yes and um deep space nine and all those”— guest
MediaRecommended

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Paramount (inferred)

“i really seem to like more and more”
“star trek like the next generation and voyager yes and um deep space nine and all those”— guest
MediaRecommended

Baldur's Gate II

BioWare (inferred)

“some of the happiest travel experiences of my life”
“i'm glad at boulder's gate yeah we built ballers gate 2 and and all those uh arena daggerfall morrowind and all the elder scrolls games”— host
MediaRecommended

Diablo II

Blizzard Entertainment (inferred)

“really fulfilling those are some of the happiest travel experiences of my life”
“at the time when i played elder scrolls and baldr's gate and diablo ii and at the time i thought maybe that was a waste of time”— host
MediaRecommended

The Elder Scrolls (Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind)

Bethesda Softworks (inferred)

“really fulfilling those are some of the happiest travel experiences of my life”
“all those uh arena daggerfall morrowind and all the elder scrolls games and um yeah the things that don't necessarily fit”— host

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

Mixicles paper

Sergey Nazarov / Chainlink

“we actually did an entire paper about this that we presented at stanford in february of last year uh something called mixicles”— guest

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

MediaReferenced

The Matrix

The Wachowskis (inferred)

“and then the matrix movie actually came out of these papers and then these ideas made its way it made their way into the public consciousness”— guest
MediaReferenced

The Terminator

James Cameron (inferred)

“everyone saw the terminator movie right everybody kind of saw the terminator movie in the 90s and it was like this is really scary”— guest
ProductReferenced

Tesla

Tesla (inferred)

“we saw somebody build a smart contract that allows the rental out someone to rent out their tesla right so it allows the tesla api to give someone else access”— guest
ProductReferenced

Cash App

Square (inferred)

“what is the uh company square i think it comes up out of nowhere really with cash app and they have bitcoin on cash app”— host