Chris Dixon on Blockchains, AI, and the Future of the Internet

Conversations with Tyler | 23 April 2025 | 1h 02m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify

Interview with Chris Dixon about his book Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet. Suggests that the current internet, dominated by large platforms, has strayed far from its decentralised roots. Argues that the next era – powered by blockchain technology – can restore autonomy to creators, lower barriers to innovation, and shift economic power back to the network's edges. Discusses the economics of platform dominance, how blockchains merge protocol-based social benefits with corporate-style competitive advantages, the rise of stablecoins as a viable blockchain-based application, whether Bitcoin or AI-created currencies will dominate machine-to-machine payments, why Stack Overflow could be the first of many casualties in an AI-driven web, venture capital’s vulnerability to AI disruption, whether open-source AI could preserve national sovereignty, NFTs as digital property rights system for AIs, and more.