Zero Sum Games w/ Dr. Nicholas Weaver

Dr. Nicholas Weaver is a senior staff researcher focusing on computer security at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, and a lecturer in the Computer Science department at the University of California at Berkeley. In this first of two parts, Dr. Weaver goes beyond his work of network security and computer vulnerabilities to describe a more pernicious and detrimental aspect of finance: gambling, parimutuel betting and the broad category of zero sum games. But how does this tie in to our favorite industry? Find out more in part 2, where Dr. Weaver ties in the utility and usefulness of "Blockchain" and why the only remedy may be to burn it with fire! More about Dr. Nicholas Weaver: UC Berkley Homepage https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/nweaver.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/ncweaver Cryptocurrency: Burn it with fire! (Presentation, YouTube Video) https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2019/presentation/weaver Blog: https://www.lawfareblog.com/contributors/nweaver Follow me and my producer on twitter!   https://twitter.com/milner_aviv https://twitter.com/gordolven   My Twitter DMs are always open! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/when-the-music-stops/message