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S11 E5: The Public Internet Bottleneck: Rebuilding the Physical Routing Layer for High-Performance Blockchains with Austin Federa, Co-Founder of DoubleZero

Austin Federa has a non-traditional path into the blockchain world. In college, he studied political & environmental science, and economics. Interestingly enough, those studies map a lot to the blockchain first principles. He was seriously looking to do his PhD, but fell out of love with that space, and joined NPR as a journalist for a while. Then, of…