What Salim Ismail has said about Cryptography
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 15, 2026
Salim Ismail, Founder of OpenExO and author on exponential organizations, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Cryptography once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 15, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Ismail counters that blockchain's real value lies in solving the Byzantine generals problem, not in mathematical hardness alone.
“The big challenge, the big opportunity is the fact that we solved the Byzantine generals problem with the distributors ladder approach”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302 (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 50:20
Episodes
OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 1 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Salim Ismail and Dave Blundin discuss OpenAI's bulk math solutions, Anthropic's AI cruelty ban, Meta's Muse Wonder, virtual cells, BCIs and Elon Musk's quadrillion-dollar SpaceX claim.
Others on Cryptography
- Alexander Wissner-Gross · 2 quotes
Salim Ismail on other topics
- AI alignment · 2 quotes
- SpaceX · 1 quote
- Brain-machine interfaces · 1 quote
- Meta Muse Wonder · 1 quote
- AI welfare and moral status · 1 quote
- Nuclear transmutation of mercury into gold · 1 quote
- Bitcoin · 1 quote
- Project Meridian · 1 quote