Molly Mackinlay: building Filecoin

This is my conversation with Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, and Research Development at Protocol Labs, and CEO at FilOz.

Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 intro
- 00:01:59 sponsor: Privy
- 00:03:15 motivation
- 00:09:30 exabytes of network capacity
- 00:12:11 edge computing, bringing compute to data
- 00:14:26 the history of IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, Filecoin, FVM, L2s and IPC
- 00:20:08 designing incentives in Filecoin
- 00:25:11 designing the block rewards curve
- 00:27:28 progress through time
- 00:31:19 learnings from building production systems, 
- 00:34:15 EVM-compatibility, future-proofing and network upgrades
- 00:43:51 sponsor: Optimism
- 00:44:56 IPC, L2 scaling on Filecoin
- 00:48:55 architecting applications on subnets
- 00:54:12 business models on subnets
- 00:57:27 the interface between a subnet and the internet
- 01:04:41 FilOz as a public goods amplifier
- 01:07:10 opening up the Protocol Labs network
- 01:12:23 Edge Esmeralda, field building, neurotech, and education
- 01:21:04 outro

Links:
Molly Mackinlay - https://x.com/momack28
Protocol Labs - https://protocol.ai
Filecoin - https://filecoin.io
FilOz - https://www.filoz.org
InterPlanetary Consensus - https://www.ipc.space/ 
Textile Basin - https://basin.textile.io/ 
web3.storage - https://web3.storage/ 
Filecoin Virtual Machine - https://fvm.filecoin.io/ 

Thank you to our sponsors for making this podcast possible:
Optimism - https://optimism.io 
Privy - https://privy.io 

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Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice nor a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.