Balaji Srinivasan has distilled 15 years of crypto experimentation down to a stark claim: after Bitcoin, only two core protocol breakthroughs truly matter--Ethereum for programmability and Zcash for privacy. In a wide-ranging appearance on Mert Mumtaz's "Accelerate with Mert" podcast, Srinivasan argued that the industry has already completed the "programmability era" and is now entering [...]