Eureka Street Crypto Podcast: Recent Episodes
Eureka John
Take everything you think you know about crypto and poop it in the toilet. Shout between the stalls to your neighbor to show your support for their struggle. Light a match to cover up the Taco Bell token you bought earlier. Give a congratulatory hoot when you flush and finish. This is my anti-professional crypto channel. I‘m just a a barely sane dude who fell down the cryptocurrency rabbit hole. This channel is my fumbling attempt to communicate myself outside of my own head about my journey in the crypto space.
In this episode I look at the new Orange DID service by Microstrategy, and then talk about DID in general along with IQ.wiki and AI-driven IQGPT.
In this episode I speak about how tech innovation always starts with fun, much like the fart noise pages when the internet started. Then I go into memecoins on Degen chain and poke around things there.
In this episode 512 I spoke with Chris Eberle (DeFiGinger) on the current state of web3/crypto. We initiated the interview as a way to test multiple livestreams on Twitter, YouTube, and Unlonely.app, but it serendipitously turned into a great interview.
You can find Chris on his podcast through Crypto Sapiens at cryptosapiens.xyz
You can find him on X at: https://twitter.com/defiginger
Warpcast: https://warpcast.com/defiginger
Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/prigida/sapphire
License code: F0YYSLQIOOPWONKR
In this episode I am checking in on some projects I have been working on. One of the things I emphasize this week is how web3 content creation apps are bringing out the weirdness in the same way that public television and UHF did in the 80's and 90's.
In this episode I make my debut as an onchain and open source podcaster using a combination of vdo.ninja, OBS, Unlonely.app (using livepeer) and Hypersub. I will be minting these on Zora as well. Let's see how this experiment works!
In this episode I bring back Magic Mike on the show since his last appearance 2.5 years ago on episode 201.
We speak about the evolution of meme coins into "culture coins". These projects have transcended memes and now have cultural utility and social impact. Mike is a part of the funny, or vulgar, depending on your perspective BAWLS ONU culture coin community built in the Avalanche blockchain ecosystem.
On the surface level, BAWLS ONU is about as mature as a middle school football team, but underneath the hood, BAWLS is building a community for fun, for memes, for gaming, and for social impact into men's health.
Connect with Mike here:
X: @cryptoplayinc
website: www.thecryptoplayground.com
Connect with BAWLS ONU:
website: bawlsonu.com
X: @BawlsOnu
In this episode I speak with Devin Sawyer, one of the SciFi comic book series LegendsOfCypher.io. After a couple of decades in the banking industry, Devin went down the web3 rabbithole and found a world of opportunity to combine his passion for technology with his passion for SciFi and comics with a community of other web3 driven folks he met in a DAO.
The SciFi project Legends of Cypher creates a universe where Humanity faces a choice: a future where they are free to choose their own path — for good or ill — or the Centopoly, which offers its vision of peace and prosperity through the Metric. This is a modern play on the classic never-ending struggle between predestination and free-will.
This project is a culmination of two years of a collaboration between Devin, Crayons, and other web3 and SciFi dystopia enthusiasts who started with an idea and met consistently to build on this idea. It is now taking off into some amazing finished products with lots more coming.
You can participate and support this project by going to LegendsOfCypher.io and buying the comic books with traditional fiat money, or by buying the NFT which are a passport into the products and also in to many other perks now and into the future.
You can find the project on X (Twitter) at: @LegendsOfCypher
Good morning! Warning! This episode is pretty much a lLongwinded rant & ramble about the haters of the bDAO Arbitrum Proposal. I basically made this episode to help defend my BanklessDAO community against the hordes of numbskull crypto twitter haters who are criticizing the proposal some members of BanklessDAO made to the Arbitrum DAO. Artibutrum can either approve, deny, or approve with revisions. But that is their choice. Everything else is just noise. I am sure even some folks at BanklessDAO will be politely asking me to shut up after this vid saying "Thanks, but no thanks!". Lol
In this episode I interview Prince Jindal and Jung Won Kim, the Founders of Lantern Finance. Lantern Finance seeks to create a place for the non-technical crypto-interested person to safely land in the crypto space and be able to enjoy things like staking ETH securely without risk of exchange implosion, or on the other side have to have a high degree of technical knowledge.
We discuss lots of the basics like what the difference between custodial and non-custodial are, KYC and AML, and staking. If you are new to crypto, this is a great episode for you!
Sources:
lantern.finance
Twitter (X): @LanternFi
Good morning! I apologize in advance for the crappy quality and sound, but I am streaming from my hotel room in Houston. In this episode I discuss digital ID's both centralized and decentralized.
Sources:
https://mirror.xyz/brantly.eth/7nJZCqyvhbdTIfq4oSnNEjlUUyxS9sf3pTHcBNi8Te8
Join me in the morning before I start my day as I wake myself up to some baseless opinions and incoherent techno-babble. This morning I talk about DAO tooling, specifically JokerAce.xyz and how you can create contests, polls, and voting mechanisms for your DAO/online community. Then I talk about the web3 version of Twitter Spaces called Aburra.xyz and how Humpty Calderon ran a great Aburra space yesterday. Then covered Bitcoin Ordinals, Project Spartacus, Julian Assange, wikileaks, & the importance of blockchain in journalism
Sources:
https://jokerace.xyz/
https://aburra.xyz/
https://twitter.com/thedatadood/status/1722394070742638857
https://twitter.com/namcios/status/1711755333461254389
https://projectspartacus.org/
https://wikileaks.org/What-is-WikiLeaks.html
https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x804a1620638c4524c12a48f5c63e027df80ea201
Join me in the morning before I start my day as I wake myself up to some baseless opinions and incoherent techno-babble. This morning I talk about the concept of the Dark Forest of the internet and in crypto.
Sources:
https://archive.ph/kIIRX
https://zkga.me/
https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-survive-in-the-ethereum-dark-forest-f21c9eca4bfe
https://warpcast.com/
https://post.tech/home
https://txstreet.com/v/eth-btc
Good morning! I am trying to get back to doing morning livestreams on YouTube. This morning was a sort of test run. I think it worked ok. This episode has a little more rambling than usual, but that's because it is live and unedited!
Source:
https://safe.mirror.xyz/V965PykKzlE1PCuWxBjsCJR12WscLcnMxuvR9E9bP-Y
In this impromptu episode, I interview BanklessDAO OG and longtime Community Manager Above Average Joe and get his take on decentralized social media and friend.tech vs post.tech. Sources: https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-friend-tech-the-social-token-driven-decentralized-social-network Twitter: https://twitter.com/Abv_Avg_Joe friend.tech post.tech https://link3.to/posttech
Good evening! It is Saturday night and I am recording episode 500. I am Reflecting on the show, web3's use case, and on 0xSplits.xyz as a useful protocol and tool. I made a commemorative NFT for this show and minted 500 of them. It is pictured in the thumbnail. If you want one, you can buy it at this link:
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/103568090741043302832257112896710652972935950422799892755719525319265541423604/
Or you can watch and DM me the special phrase to get one free!.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/chippiNFT/status/1705187655779029337
https://twitter.com/IvanOnTech/status/1704800384110215423
https://www.0xsplits.xyz/
In this episode I ramble about Moloch, Metamask Snaps, Forta bots, and web3 journalism tools like reSee.it, and Permacast.app
Sources:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
https://twitter.com/reSeeIt
https://resee.it/
https://www.permacast.app/
In this episode, I talk about my creator's block and me finally creatign a new episode after about 6 months of nothing. I talk about some of the podcasts I am involved in and why I am starting back up. Then I transition over to Tornado Cash and how Roman Storm has been arrested and why this matters to us. I also show where we can go donate to help fight back against those that want to stop open source software development.
Sources:
https://www.chippicon.com/
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/08/30/tornado-cash-indictments-may-prove-to-be-just-a-localized-storm-after-all/
https://www.cyfrin.io/
https://ofac.treasury.gov/
https://peppersec.com/
https://donate.peppersec.com/
In this episode I explore a couple of niche apps. One is whal3s.xyz which is an app to easily create webhooks to give you notification for on-chain events. The other is mean.finance, a decentralized way to DCA (dollart cost average) your crypto investments away from centralized exhanges. Sources: https://www.whal3s.xyz/ https://mean.finance/
Good morning! In this episode I briefly cover a rough definition of the concepts behind decentralized ID. With the movement of our identities and lives into the digital space in the last 10 or so years, we have come to a fork in the road. Will all our info be centralized and as a result surveilled and controlled? Or are we doing to decentralize and make anonymous our information to maintain our sovereignty?
I define zk-proofs and then take a look at a project called Holonym.io that uses zk-proofs and a mixer to create an anonymous online digital passport.
Sources:
https://medium.com/1kxnetwork/towards-digital-self-sovereignty-the-web3-identity-stack-874d5e015bae
https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/e/disco/
https://www.disco.xyz/
https://www.orangeprotocol.io/
https://holonym.io/index.html
Good morning! In this episode I talk alot about AI and how our interactions with them will be based on what data we give the AI bots and what allowances they give us through their interfaces.
Sources:
https://advent.unlock-protocol.com/
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7013375376609464321/
https://undertherose.substack.com/p/what-is-the-point-of-making-intelligent
In this episode I ramble a bit about the recent great crypto crash and why I am still here. Then I poke around a fun web3 reputation tool called Noox.World.
https://noox.world/
In this episode I poke around Mastodon with Crystal Street from JournoDAO. Skip ahead to the 16:00 minute mark to jump ahead of my rambling to get to the part where I am speaking with Crystal
In this amazing interview I speak with Joshua Scigala about money, bitcoin, DeFi, Gold, inflation, usury, the founding of his Gold/BTC exchange Vaultoro.com and the new stablecoin project launch called TheStandard.io. A DAO-based project that creates over-collateralised stablecoins backed by Gold, Bitcoin and Ethereum. This lending platform will eliminate the interest model of lending and be an improved version version of DeFi inspired by MakerDAO. https://vaultoro.com/ https://www.thestandard.io/ https://twitter.com/JScigala
Here's another epic rant where I talk about the shilling in the crypto space, DAO motivations, decentralized journalism, data ownership and how our data is food for AI. Will AI be our masters forcing us into a predestined fate? Or will we control our data as the food for AI and thus be the owners of our own free will and destiny?
Sources:
cryptosapiens.xyz
journodao.xyz
re-public.io
joinvicil.com
Good morning! Happy to be finally making an episode for myself as it has been less frequent lately. Not a bad thing, just means I am busy helping other projects and DAO in the web3 ecosystem. This morning I wrap up The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Paypal, Celsius and the social credit system all in one big rant!
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
https://www.reuters.com/technology/hackers-steal-around-100-million-cryptocurrency-binance-linked-blockchain-2022-10-07/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paypal-policy-permits-company-fine-143946902.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3RhcnRwYWdlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM3rkx-OmaaTV_A-vW0gp08aoprMZmsuoRXmtZhB3AxTsJaY-tjU3JOVyoNLMnleDTJWq14TcgT4D9LdRIFAca_gobjNZQwVhGGg2v0K2CDy87xp5cwqMc09NgEnBNWcjg8Mpuo5R0AFvs7fXph_yOdbflMyWlR8j034RqinpsRy
https://slashdot.org/story/22/10/08/2234213/paypal-says-it-wont-fine-customers-2500-for-misinformation
https://lnkd.in/eTpWXGCn
In this episode I reflect on how journalism and web3 can get to know each other and the tools that journalists can use to apply web3 to the mass amounts of information being thrown at them. Web3 can help journalists with:
- Immutability
- Transparency
- New business models
- Community ownership
- Decentralization
- Security / Trustless Communications
Please don't take me too seriously. Do you own homework and see what works for you. Also my opinions do not reflect the JournoDAO as a whole. The JournoDAO is a diverse set of individuals, each with their own ideas and opinions.
Sources:
https://journodao.xyz/
https://factland.org/
https://mirror.xyz/
In this episode I speak with Mike Rabinovici on the subject of accredited investing. Is the status of being an accredited investor just another glass ceiling that perpetuates inequality and creates a glass ceiling? Or does it protect the innocent from all the scams that run rampant in the newly emerging web3 space? Mike sheds light on the terms and the current situation in the web3 space regarding this subject. We also zoom out and look at how this affects topics such as web3 ID and DAOs.
You can find Mike on Discord in the BanklessDAO server at ComeBackKid#3480
Twitter: @mikerabinovici
Good morning! Lately I have seen alot of talk and hype about the Cult DAO and the REVOLT 2 EARN protocol. The way it was describe to be was as an anonymous decentralized venture capital project. I barely know what venture capitalism is and what those people do. I have never had the luxury of having enough money or being around people with enough money to even have a conversation about venture capitalism. So I basically ignored it. But when Revolt to Earn came through Cult DAO as a way to independently help finance revolutionaries in a decentralized way outside of an impending social credit system, I began to pay attention and stated to understand. In this episode I fumble through the website and read some of the material that explain the ideology behind it. I do not really go into the tokenomics or technical specifics of it as that would have taken another entire episode to cover. Maybe I will make a follow up episode in the future on that type of stuff. But I wanted to at least get the Cult DAO name out there and let people know that there are others out there who want to build an alternate system and economy outside of the system of slavery that the elites want us in through their CBDC and Great Reset.
Sources:
https://cultdao.io/
https://wearecultdao.medium.com/a-declaration-of-the-independence-of-cyberspace-a-reminder-for-the-many-f3cc9a5f4596
https://revolt.cultdao.io/
https://cultdao.io/rvlt.pdf
https://cultdao.io/manifesto.pdf
https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/e/cult-dao/
Good morning! This morning I read an article written by Orca Protocol. The article defines and lays out the distinction between Socialware vs Trustware. This distinction brought a more philosophical question to mind for me. Are we trying to automate trust out of human organization? What will that mean for society? For our psyches? Is this automation of trust even good for us as humans? Is this another way that robots and AI are taking over our world rendering us helpless? As humans, do we NEED trust as part of life much like we need the seemingly valueless and impractical concept of beauty? I know the article was leading to a conversation about efficiency in DAOs but for me, it took me down a philosophical rabbit hole or questions about our very existence.
Sources:
https://orca.mirror.xyz/T70CmuhX95ubkw_JHOxSEy8d_EFeYXgtJnF13mPtaZE
https://hbr.org/2019/10/what-do-we-do-about-the-biases-in-ai
https://orca.mirror.xyz/dpNi9dL-ARddwhFYvBrQfM-SVoNyZkzQgA_KLaHZZ78
https://docs.orcaprotocol.org/docs/pod-basics/pod-basics
https://www.orcaprotocol.org/
Good morning! This morning I explore the concept of data ownership and biometric data that is gathered to create inferred knowledge. We are at the point where biometric passive data is being gathered in massive volume. All of this data is being processed by AI and machine learning algorithms. Inside these neural networks, even our best and brightest do not know what is going on inside the "brain" of AI. We just know the outcome is true. To me, this seems to bring us back full circle in the old faith vs science debate. We also are being conned into just giving away our data and, in essence, our souls and personalities to tech behemoths who are making billions from us while we get nothing except the ability to browse social media or play some stupid phone game in exchange. It's time to take back that data ownership, make money from our data if we would like and decide who gets to buy that data. All of this and more is what the folks at Re-Public.io are doing. Make data a common good again. Or in other words make data "Re-Public"!
Sources:
https://undertherose.substack.com/p/the-power-of-inference-biometric
https://twitter.com/saffronhuang
https://re-public.io/
Good morning! I woke up this morning to all types of news about Tornado Cash being criminalized in the United States. Tornado Cash is a tool people in crypto can use to mix their transactions with others to add a layer of privacy to their financial dealings. People should have every right to this privacy much like people in the 90's had every right to privacy on their computers when the government was trying to impose a clipper chip back door on everyone's PC's. Also, Tornado Cash is decentralized and open source. Open source code is free speech! The U.S. government decided to crack down on the privacy Tornado Cash offers as a tool. They have created a list of people who have used or use it to monitor them and penalize anyone who interacts with those on the list. Sounds a bit like like Big Red Mother Russia, right? Also, there are companies like Elliptic that can do chainalysis and uncover the trail of would-be hackers using Tornado Cash. So this isn't really about Tornado Cash, is it? Tornado Cash as a tool for money laundering is just the reason (excuse) to chew away further our dwindling rights to privacy.
In this video I follow a stream of consciousness about this topic.
Sources:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/08/crypto-mixing-service-tornado-cash-blacklisted-by-treasury-department-.html
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6949799581501030400/
https://decrypt.co/107030/crypto-leaders-decry-tyranny-of-tornado-cash-ban
https://hub.elliptic.co/analysis/the-100-million-horizon-hack-following-the-trail-through-tornado-cash-to-north-korea/
Good morning! This Saturday morning I reflect on why people, and often times even myself, can't stand crypto and web3. From rug pulls to bad user experience (UX) design, it seems like we have taken a step back in the name of lofty philosophical ideals of independence and financial autonomy. Web 2 is soooooo easy! But convenience is the tool of those who want total control and power. So how do we get around the difficulty that web3 and the desire for sovereignty bring us? This difficulty has let in the grifters and scammers to prey on those who are having difficulty learning the web3 language and interface. Well, first of all, we need to call it out and admit that we are chasing people away and turning people off with our smug commands to DYOR (do your own research)! After that, we need to figure out how we can make it so ANYONE can use web3. The steps are being laid and the article I read in the 2nd half by Samantha J. Marin of Bankless DAO states the problem and solution in the most accurate way I can think of. Thanks Samantha!
Sources:
https://freaksnguilds.com/
https://banklesspublishing.com/we-made-the-internet-hard-again/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-enforcement-action-charging-six-individuals-cryptocurrency-fraud
https://www.justice.gov/criminal-vns/crypto-enforcement
Good morning! This morning's conversation with myself entails mostly DAOs and DAO tooling. Specifically Notion, Dework, Gnosis, Parcel, and Utopia.
Sources:
https://gnosis-safe.io/
https://parcel.money/
https://dework.xyz/
https://www.utopialabs.com/
https://twitter.com/utopialabs_/status/1500987031534530562?s=20&t=xEDgf9xCAd0VLdMFX8eDRA
Good morning! In this episode I had a hard time making my thoughts come out of my mouth in a coherent manner, but I ended up talking about real estate on the blockchain, augmented reality, peeing in the backyard, the metaverse, and the kid's game MASH.
Sources:
https://www.metaverserights.com/post/crypto-backed-by-hard-assets-like-real-estate-will-succeed
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1550096545294458886
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(game)
Good morning! This morning I go poking around the Aztec Network website and blog. I talk alot about privacy and the account model on Ethereum standard vs the UTXO that Aztec and zk.money bring to the equation. Of course, all my usual rambling is thrown into the mix.
Sources:
https://aztec.network/
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/953.pdf
https://docs.aztec.network/how-aztec-works/privacy
https://zk.money/
https://www.element.fi/
https://twitter.com/jonwu_/status/1545173135367888896
https://twitter.com/CreativeJack/status/1547902789379952646
https://twitter.com/YtzBeno/status/1545513992512315393
Good morning! After rambling and beign side-track by the Island Boyz token project for a bit, (fast-forward to 10:00 min mark) I do a little DIY run-through of new L1 AI-driven blockchain called Libonomy ($LBY). This layer one blockchain uses a consensus engine called Aphelion that is driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning. The AI accepts nodes into the network, surveys the characteristics of the node and assigns them the most well-suited job inside the consensus network. This Aphelion consensus engine can be plugged into just about any blockchain. It's use in Libonomy is the first of its kind. This show is by far not a comprehensive look at Libonomy and Aphelion, but it is at least a start to get the word in your vocabulary and a place from which you can start your own research.
Sources:
https://libonomy.com/
https://libonomy.com/assets/pdf/white-paper-libonomy-v2.0.pdf
https://devopedia.org/aphelion-consensus-algorithm
https://libonomy.medium.com/what-is-libonomy-9ac79c3a9b30
https://twitter.com/Libonomy
https://twitter.com/CtyptoEtcNews/status/1543216526865891328
Good morning! This morning is a short, and easy episode. I mainly just wanted to test out a new audio configuration. I have been trying to troubleshoot the audio issue in the past several episodes and I finally think I got it all fixed. Anyway, this episode is about the old fake file extension scam/virus. This is a scam/virus that names a file a .pdf fil in the file name, but in reality the file is a .exe fil or .scr file. This was a common trojan horse virus method several years ago. It is now making a resurgence with artists and content creators entering into the web3 space. Be careful about people sending you zip files or pdf files to show you their portfolio, slide show, branding guidelines, etc... Even if you know the person, ask if they have opened the file on their machine and where they got the file.
Source:
https://twitter.com/Serpent/status/1540770171069276160
Good morning! This morning I go over a report by Trail of Bits commissioned by DARPA to look for vulnerabilities in crypto, specifically Bitcoin and Ethereum. A friend of mine brought this Trail of Bits podcast to my attention that talks about this report and the findings that Bitcoin and Ethereum are not as nearly decentralized as their communities claim them to be and go on to state lots of reasons why. I was a bit concerned as the podcast and the article did indeed work on me. However, I went on to find a counter-article by Swan Bitcoin that brought to light the incorrect and misleading claims made by Trail of Bits. I have it all linked below and I will let you decide. But I will ask you, who has the greater motive for crypto to be found incompetent? It ain't the crypto community.
Sources:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/pentagon-finds-concerning-vulnerabilities-on-blockchain/
https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fd11235b3950c2c1a3b6df4/62af6c641a672b3329b9a480_Unintended_Centralities_in_Distributed_Ledgers.pdf
https://www.trailofbits.com/
https://trailofbits.audio/episodes
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/02/09/sp020922-the-future-of-money-gearing-up-for-central-bank-digital-currency
https://digitaltech.com/data-center-alley-why-70-of-internet-traffic-flows-through-ashburn-virginia/
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/fact-check-darpa-funded-report-on-blockchain-centralization/
https://twitter.com/BTC_Archive/status/1542126740843241473
Good morning! This morning is all about Mt Gox. Apparently the entities behind the Mt Gox hack implosion settlement have announced that they will be releasing 150k BTC onto the market beginning in August. What does this mean for BTC and the market? Is this a Black Swan event or a buying opportunity? But first of all, what is Mt Gox? The crypto world has a ton of internal jargon and significant events that have happened that no one else really knows about and when we talk about it, it can be hard for outsiders to understand. So in this episode I give a brief history and definition of Mt Gox.
Sources:
https://www.bitcoininsider.org/article/174382/150000-btc-could-flood-market-mt-gox-creditors-set-receive-repayment
https://thenextweb.com/news/a-brief-history-of-mt-gox-the-3b-bitcoin-tragedy-that-just-wont-end
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox
https://thebitcoinnews.com/one-billion-dollars-worth-of-bitcoin-to-flood-market-courtesy-of-mt-gox/
https://www.outlookindia.com/business/celsius-network-continues-to-be-in-eye-of-storm-faces-lawsuit-from-former-employee-news-207835
Good morning! This morning I talk about a smorgasbord of topics including CBDC's and the elimination of anonymous digital cash and their "absolute control". All for our protection, of course. Voyager Digital going completely Chapter 11 on us. Then, for some positive innovation news, Lens Protocol has allowed BankelssDAO members to be whitelisted for their web3 social media NFT handles/profiles.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/AtomicDEX/status/1542201191240712193
https://cointelegraph.com/news/voyager-digital-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-proposes-recovery-plan
https://lens.xyz/
https://www.lensfrens.xyz/eurekajohn.lens
Good morning! In this episode I end up talking alot about 0xSifu and how he was welcomed back to the Wonderland community after being expelled several months ago. Not only was he welcomed back, but he got a proposal passed to pump $25 million into his project Sifu Vision that he launched while in exile. Sifu Vision uses the $SIFU token to track the portfolio of 0xSifu. There's not much more to it. Regardless of the past of 0xSifu, he knows how to make money, so those who trust in this will buy the SIFU token. It appears that Wonderland community has trust in this as well.
Sources:
https://sifu.vision/
https://www.theblock.co/post/155433/wonderland-passes-vote-to-invest-25-million-in-sifu-vision?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
https://sablier.finance/
Good morning! This morning I explore a meme I found on LinkedIn that showed a Venn Diagram composed of web3, crypto, and blockchain. The meme was meant to visualize the three separate entities that are yet blended together. A holy trinity of sorts. With people making distinctions between web3 and web 3.0, I thought this meme was interesting; especially when you throw AI and iOT in there. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on these things!
Sources:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6949622866598391808/
https://thenextweb.com/news/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-screw-web3-my-decentralized-internet-doesnt-need-blockchain
https://inrupt.com/solid/
https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/it-strategy/news/web-three-dystopian-nightmare-future/
https://www.w3.org/
Good morning! This morning I woke up at 5:30 am with the burning desire to explain the differences between web3 and web 3.0 and some of the history and function of both (said noone ever). Well that's exactly what I do in this episode, except it is not some organized survey of both. It is, rather, a crash-up-derby of an event with topics, questions, and answers all over the place. Have fun listening and making sense of it all!
Sources:
https://www.reworked.co/information-management/why-web3-and-web-30-are-not-the-same/
https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/it-strategy/news/web-three-dystopian-nightmare-future/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-screw-web3-my-decentralized-internet-doesnt-need-blockchain
https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6BR9DrmUQA
Good morning! This episode ended up being mainly about Coinbase. Goldman Sachs slapped a "Sell" rating on $COIN. Is Coinbase doomed to slide into insolvency with this downward crypto draft we are having? Is all of this manipulated by the institutional investors to kick out the amateurs and bring in the big players with regulatory certainty? Will Goldman Sachs knock down the price of Coinbase and come in an come in and scoop it up cheaply later? Binance seems to be gaining BTC activity while Coinbase is proportionally losing it. Coinbase seems to be in big trouble. However...
Mastercard has just adopted crypto into it's system and is calling Coinbase the place "designed to make crypto more accessible and help the NFT ecosystem keep growing, innovating and bringing in more fans."
So which one is it? What are your thoughts? Either way, now is not the time to be letting your money sit on centralized exchanges. Get your crypto off exchanges and into private wallets!
Sources:
https://twitter.com/BTC_Archive/status/1541723806124883969
https://twitter.com/LitecoinNow/status/1539956864133332992
https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/coinbase-stock-slapped-with-sell-rating-by-goldman-sachs
https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2022/simple-nft-purchasing-on-nft-marketplaces/
Good morning! This morning I go through a CryptoSlate article that coevrs the current issue of Bancor freezing their impermanent loss protection service. This service, along with their tempting rewards are why many people jumped participating into Bancor's DEX LP's in the first place. Two of these participants are most likeley Celsius and 3AC who are going through a death spiral themselves. Their death spiral is possibly causing havoc on Bancor's liquidity along with an anonymous large shorter of the BNT token. Bancor is shutting off deposits and pausing impermanent loss protection while they strategize how to best resolve the situation. Is this all a shell game or an honest and ethical pause? You decide for yourself!
Sources:
https://cryptoslate.com/whats-going-on-with-bancor/
https://twitter.com/hasufl/status/1538774433359441920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1538774433359441920%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcryptoslate.com%2Fwhats-going-on-with-bancor%2F
https://home.bancor.network/ https://blog.bancor.network/?gi=744b99dc45ce
****Note: I said Ford S10. I meant Chevy S10! But I think you got the idea hopefully.
Good morning! First up until the 12:00 minute mark, listen to me ramble on about Celsius and how they are being investigated. I received an e-mail from the Texas State Securities Board asking me to complete a survey on my dealings with Celsius. Sounds like they are in hot water. I hope I am not. Probably not, but hey, something to consider. Then, around the 12:00 minute mark, I get into the Polkadot Ecosystem and attempt to do a 30 minute overview of Substrate and the Polkadot Ecosystem in my own janky way.
Sources:
https://www.ssb.texas.gov/
https://www.parity.io/blog/what-is-substrate/
https://www.parity.io/blog/substrate-in-a-nutshell/
https://www.shawntabrizi.com/substrate/what-is-substrate/
https://cointelegraph.com/blockchain-for-beginners/what-is-polkadot-dot-a-beginners-guide-to-the-decentralized-web-3-0-blockchain
https://cointelegraph.com/news/3-reasons-why-polkadot-could-be-the-next-altcoin-to-hit-a-new-all-time-high
Good morning! As I meander around on my morning news dump, I talk about the recent Harmony Horizon Bridge hack of over $100 million. The hack was not a smart contract exploit, but instead, was an exploit of the private keys of a multisig wallet. I explore this hack and talk about foundational crypto concepts along the way.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol
https://medium.com/harmony-one/harmonys-horizon-bridge-hack-1e8d283b6d66
https://etherscan.io/address/0x0d043128146654c7683fbf30ac98d7b2285ded00
https://chat.blockscan.com/start
https://decrypt.co/103736/harmony-plunges-10-as-horizon-ethereum-bridge-hacked-for-100-million
https://blockworks.co/defi-cross-chain-horizon-bridge-hacked-for-100m/
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/24/harmony-blockchain-crypto-hack/
Good morning! This morning I speak about voting in DAOs. DAOs have notoriously low participation in voting as well as people that just speculate on the governance tokens. This has been an issue lots of communities have been trying to solve. This issue even applies to the large-scale apathy we see in our nation-wide voting today. In this episode I go over a prototype of a voting system being developed by Re-Public.io. The idea is that a DAO gives the members voting tokens that are non-transferable soulbound tokens. In order to claim these tokens, they must be delegated. What makes it original, is that on top of needing to be delegated, you can delegated to someone based on proposal topic and to a person who specializes in that topic category. For example, if I know Keith is good at software development, and a proposal is about a a proposed software upgrade, I am going to delegate my votes to Keith on that proposal because I don't know jack squat about software.
Hopefully this type of liquid democracy can wrangle people from apathy or just speculation back into the voting process.
Sources:
https://journodao.xyz/
https://re-public.io/
https://re-public.io/blog/fixing-dao-governance-because-we-have-to/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/liquid-de/
Good morning! Normally, I don't pay attention to what's going on with the Tron ecosystem and especially not the USDD decentralized stablecoin. In fact, I had never even heard of it until a few days ago. But with all the fear whipped up from the collapse of the Terra ecosystem, there are now rumors that Tron could do the same thing. I saw the Tron TKN token jump to #13 in the market-cap rankings and it piqued my curiosity. So here I am beating the Tron bush for some news and seeing what will fly out at me.
Sources:
https://decrypt.co/103338/trons-usdd-stablecoin-still-hasnt-recovered-its-dollar-peg
https://news.bitcoin.com/usdd-continues-to-trade-for-under-1-tron-dao-reserve-insists-stablecoin-has-not-depegged/
https://watcher.guru/news/same-but-different-trons-usdd-not-like-terras-ust
https://defillama.com/peggedassets/stablecoins
Good morning! In this episode I take a gander at Gitcoin Grants and a couple of projects I donated to using a concept called quadratic funding. It is a way to donate to make sure that everyone's vote/donation matters. There is more weight put on the amount of different people donating to a project than one large donor. This way, large donors are not able to manipulate outcomes just because they have to cash power. There is a pool of funds donated by larger organizations that match individual contributors. when lots of little contributors donate a little bit to a project, that project receives more of the pool funds than if one single large rich and powerful contributor put in one large donation. It is a cool way to make doing a little turn out to be alot.
Sources:
https://gitcoin.co/
https://gitcoin.co/grants/5187/crypto-sapiens-podcast-gitcoin-grants-proposal
https://gitcoin.co/grants/4972/journodao-using-web3-to-upgrade-journalism
https://wtfisqf.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEHv-dE4xl8
https://finematics.com/
Good morning! This Monday morning I get up from my wife prodding me in my side to stop sleep-talking about crypto and go downstairs to flip on the YouTube and make a show about it. I talk about mining Ethereum with my crappy little GPU's and how I am using them to mine BTC as the result. One thing I love about the crypto space is the ingenuity.
Sources:
https://trex-miner.com/
https://github.com/trexminer/T-Rex/releases
https://2miners.com/
https://2miners.com/blog/how-to-get-payouts-for-ethereum-mining-without-fees/
Good morning! This morning I just wanted to hop on and do a video talking about all the FUD going on lately in the crypto market. Hold strong. Don't forget why we are here. Not to get rich quick, but to be financially independent anchors for our families and for those who rely on us.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/NewsAsset/status/1538511946521235458
https://cointelegraph.com/news/human-rights-activists-take-aim-at-privileged-crypto-critics-in-letter-to-congress
https://cointelegraph.com/news/community-fires-back-at-anti-crypto-letter-sent-to-us-lawmakers
https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/against-crypto.html
https://cointelegraph.com/news/banking-uses-56-times-more-energy-than-bitcoin-valuechain-report
Good morning! This morning I am discussing DAO, web3 work, equality, and getting paid for your work. I highlight Brandon0x's path to DAO's and I got the chance to speak with Infinite Homie who is a fellow BanklessDAO member who has taken the reigns in operations for CryptoSapiens and the Podcast Hatchery. She provided some valuable insight into reality vs the theory when it comes to DAOs.
Sources: https://twitter.com/brandoncnolte/status/1538023709704740865
https://twitter.com/brandoncnolte/status/1496326971592220672
https://twitter.com/infinitehomie
https://opolis.co/
https://banklessdao.substack.com/
Good morning! This morning I talk about my current state of unemployment due to my decision to quit my stable mundane job and jump into the crypto space at the worst possible time in the history of crypto. I take this opportunity with everything that is going on with the market crash and with the Celsius collapse to learn all about rehypothecation and what that long word means! Hey, I'm just paying my tuition to the school of hard knocks! It will be worth it in the end.
Sources:
https://www.altcoinbuzz.io/cryptocurrency-news/product-release/celsius-network-game-over-for-cel/
https://www.bankrate.com/loans/home-equity/hypothecation/
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rehypothecation.asp
Good morning! I finally carved out some time to do a Eureka Street episode. In this episode I talk about how event though the market is down, crypto and web3 are still as strong as ever. The market is just shaking out all the chodes and crappy projects in the space. Then Jack Dorsey claims that web3 will die and that web5 is where it's at. Web5 is a decentralized internet and identity layer that will sit on top of Bitcoin. Is that even bitcoin anymore? Or is he trying to force bitcoin to become ethereum now?
Sources:
https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1535792869868552192
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jack-dorseys-tbd-presents-bitcoin-based-decentralized-web5
This is the third video in partnership with OpenCurrnt.io. I this video I go over what knowledge sharing is and some of the basics and differences of the web 2.0 social media algorithms vs the newer web3 approach. Web3 solves the contributor rewards issue, the centralization issue, and give the user the opportunity for governance on the platform. Web 2.0 just gathers your data and curates your data based on emotive response to capture your attention and then sell that attention to advertisers. OpenCurrnt.io is seeking to fix all of these issues.
Sources:
https://steemit.com/faq.html#What_is_Steemit_com
https://www.altcoinbuzz.io/reviews/altcoin-projects/uptrennd-overview-the-one-up-social-media/
https://www.publish0x.com/
https://gm.xyz/
https://opencurrnt.io/about.html
Good morning! This morning I read an article by Vitalik Buterin where he explores the concept, use cases and issues of soul bound tokens. I completely love the idea of being able to hold your college transcripts and degrees in your wallet as a non-transferable NFT. I love that the issuer does not retain permanent control over that data. However, there needs to be privacy a burning mechanism by the owner of the NFT. Otherwise, the soulbound token could have deep dystopian implications.
Sources: https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/01/26/soulbound.html
https://thedefiant.io/vitalik-soulbound-tokens/
https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/10/31/cities.html#citydao
https://city.mirror.xyz/oOOqyUpr7VdgDxLbywwk-DS3mUxdQ18o6OvGrWsvKeY
https://kleros.io/
This is the second video in partnership with OpenCurrnt.io where I go over some of the fundamentals of web 3.0. In this video I take a look at the concept of a DAO and how it got started. Then, I move on to how OpenCurrnt.io is creating their own version of a DAO. OpenCurrnt.io is a platform that is seeking to help people monetize and collaborate with others in a decentralized way that cuts out the centralized web 2.0 middleman.
Sources:
https://www.investopedia.com/tech/what-dao/
https://medium.com/@OpenCurrnt/the-complete-guide-to-daos-exploring-opencurrnt-cd1b2ecf1b5a
https://www.theinfinitemachinemovie.com/
https://medium.com/swlh/the-story-of-the-dao-its-history-and-consequences-71e6a8a551ee
https://opencurrnt.io/
https://opencurrnt.io/pdf/OC_Lightpaper.pdf
https://opencurrnt.io/pdf/OpenCurrnt_Whitepaper.pdf
In this episode I talk about the latest update from The Infinite Machine Movie. This upcoming movie originated from a book written by Camila Russo called the Infinite Machine. It puts the history of Ethereum in story format and describes all the main actors in the origins of Ethereum. It was received wide success in the crypto world. It is now going to be made into a Hollywood film with Free Scott Productions being the company that will make it. They are the same company that made Aliens, Gladiator, and Blade Runner, so you know it will be a blockbuster. The difference is, is that this movie will be funded with NFTs to remain true tot he web 3 space from which it originated. This allows audience participation at many levels of the film.
Sources: https://www.theinfinitemachinemovie.com/
https://wagmam.theinfinitemachinemovie.com/
https://nft.encantos.io/canticos
Good morning! In this episode 457, I read an article titled "Local Journalism is the Blockchain Security Model for Politics and Culture" written by Keith Axline of JournoDAO.xyz. He explains how the current model of journalism has become overtaken by a 51% attack by big business and corporations and decentralization is the key to bringing back unity and protecting local community values in journalism.
Sources:
https://journodao.xyz/blog/local-journalism-is-the-blockchain-security-model-for-politics-and-culture/
https://journodao.xyz/
This is the first video in partnership with OpenCurrnt.io where I go over some of the fundamentals of web 3.0. Quite often in my morning show videos I find myself spending a large amount of time explaining basic concepts for the audience and it seems to take a really long time to get to the point. I know I am guilty of rambling anyway, as that is just the way I am, but I thought it would help to make some video specifically covering the basics. OpenCurrnt.io is a platform that is seeking to help people monetize and collaborate with others in a decentralized way that cuts out the centralized web 2.0 middleman.
Good morning! This morning I attempted to look at the whole Bored Ape phenomenon. I gave my limited perspective on them. Personally, I don't understand all the fomo about this NFT project and the new metaverse launching around it, but what do I know? People seems to be paying big bucks to be a part of it. What do I know? Guess I'll just go clock in at work.
Sources:
https://thedefiant.io/bayc-ape-the-otherside-and-kodas-everything-you-need-to-know/
https://boredapeyachtclub.com/#/home
https://medium.com/nswap/everything-you-need-to-know-about-otherdeed-for-otherside-and-kodas-16108ba13849
https://deasilex.com/otherside-metaverse/
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/05/04/the-yuga-labs-catastrophe-could-have-been-prevented/
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutchauction.asp
Good morning! This morning I ramble on about DeFi, Layer 1 vs layer 2 and then finally manage to make it to the topic of the layer 2 airdrops from Optimism and Hop Protocol.
Sources:
https://hop.exchange/
https://portal.arbitrum.one/
https://ethereum.org/en/layer-2/
https://medium.com/stakingbits/optimism-op-airdrop-is-coming-what-you-need-to-know-f982b0e282e2
https://app.optimism.io/governance
https://app.hop.exchange/#/airdrop/preview?token=ETH
Good morning! It is a casual morning for me. There is nothing really specific I highlight in this episode as I gloss over an article that talks about 7 key takeaways of Sergey Nazarov of Chainlink's interview with Ash Bennnington. It leads me to tangents and anecdotes.
Sources: https://chainlinktoday.com/seven-key-takeaways-from-sergey-nazarovs-sxsw-fireside-chat-with-ash-bennington/
https://twitter.com/wef/status/1519119185422524416
Good morning! Please excuse my long rant in the beginning. But hey, I do get alot of influence from morning radio shock-jock DJ's! I just needed to get fired up this morning to start my day. This morning I reflect on climate change, bitcoin mining FUD, power baseloads, energy districts, stranded energy, MintGreen.co green mining company, "green" Bitcoin and what that could look like.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/wef/status/1519119185422524416
https://twitter.com/mintgreenhq?lang=en
https://mintgreen.co/
https://mintgreen-blockchain.medium.com/north-vancouver-to-be-worlds-first-city-heated-by-bitcoin-7c4389822fd1
https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Baseload_power
https://investableuniverse.com/2021/10/14/mintgreen-digital-boiler-bitcoin-municipal-heating-north-vancouver/
https://compassmining.io/education/mint-green-bitcoin-mining-podcast
https://gam.ai/
In this episode I interview Tom O'Malley, Founder of OpenCurrnt.io and CEO of Currnt.com. Here we discuss the knowledge gap and how to close it using web 3.0. An example of the knowledge gap is the disparity between the traditional institutions and the ground level of innovation that happens with everyday people in the online communities. How do you tap into the info that some person in an online community knows and be able to curate that knowledge to be used for product development and market research? Web 3.0 allows the creators of that knowledge to be able to share while still owning their ideas. OpenCurrnt.io is creating a platform to be able to facilitate this knowledge-sharing economy by allowing innovators to form DAOs and tokenize their ideas. In this interview Tom explains this very well.
Discord:
https://discord.gg/MTRBY5Nk
https://opencurrnt.io/
https://opencurrnt.io/pdf/OpenCurrnt_Whitepaper.pdf
https://currnt.com/
Good morning! This morning I ramble gloriously. I talk about Elon Musk and Twitter, decentralized and web 3 media, the word cheugie and the "cheugieness" of the .com URL's and where the .xyz domains came from to save the internet from "cheugieness".
Sources: https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/28/wtf-is-xyz/
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/25/its-elons-twitter-now-so-whats-next/
Good morning and happy SaTURDay! This morning I ramble on about how I am doing until the 14:42 mark. Then, I eventually get tp the point and talk about NFT and how they can be used for community gating, building, and special access to secret and paid content. I take a surface-level look at NFTPortal.xyz and Unlock Protocol.
Sources:
https://www.nftportal.xyz/
https://blog.nftportal.xyz/early-access-period/
https://moonbirds.xyz/
https://opensea.io/collection/proof-moonbirds
https://unlock-protocol.com/
https://unlock-protocol.com/blog/mintgate-unlock-case-study
https://www.mintgate.io/
https://bakery.fyi/bakery-nft/
https://www.supercast.com/
Good morning! This morning I spend my usual time rambling and I end up looking a little bit at the Compass Mining website as I learn a bit about Bitcoin miner hosting services and different types of Bitcoin mining. One subject I am really interested in is how proof of work miners are making steps to optimize mining for lower energy usage. With the incredible amount of FUD attacks being put out against Bitcoin and proof of work mining, I think it is important to look at the side being attacked and try to find the pros and cons and grey areas on both sides.
Sources: https://compassmining.io/education/how-bitcoin-mining-hosting-works/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/stranded-no-more-bitcoin-miners-could-help-solve-big-oil-s-gas-problem
In this episode I speak with the team at The Cafe DAO. This DAO seeks to take DAOs beyond the screen of web3 and implement the structure into the form coffee shops. Coffee shops have for centuries been the place where new ideas and experimentation have happened and the pattern continues here with this team exploring different options and ways of thinking when doing business. Can a brick and mortar business really be run as a DAO with a flat structure with code at the center instead of in a traditional top down hierarchical manner? Is this just another way of doing a collective, collab, or coop? What are the legal implications? We discuss these topics among many others in this quick 40 interview!
Sources:
https://discord.gg/86QwftJa
Twitter: @TheCafeDAO
https://www.thecafedao.com/
Good morning! The whole subject of Celsius Network now only allowing accredited investors to earn on their platform has led me down a rabbit hole of ways the wealthy establishment perpetuate systematic financial discrimination and exclusion. This ends up driving those without the means to be "accredited investors" who would love to move upwardly financially into bubble frenzies and risky bucket-shop like projects and activities where they end up being further manipulated and oppressed. It has been truly fascinating to read about all the way people try to move upwards and the way that those established work to keep them down.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C7NGaAUrcE
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bucketshop.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo5414939.html https://kroisos.io/was-there-ever-a-tulip-fever/
https://www.zdnet.com/finance/blockchain/i-bought-bitcoin-from-paypal-heres-what-happened/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/l6xsi1/robinhood_is_a_dirty_bucketshop_they_claim_to/
Good morning! This morning I talk about Celsius Network and Coinjoin. Celsius is a centralized crypto lending and savings platform. Basically a crypto bank that gave good interest rates for storing your crypto on there and allowed user to use their crypto as collateral for a loan. Those days are now over for the unaccredited investors. All good things come to an end and time to move on in my view.
Then, the conversation with myself led to Coinjoin and the need for privacy in light of the regulation, which in turn led to doing a quick look at Samourai and Wasabi wallets.
Sources: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/12/celsius-bans-us-non-accredited-investors-from-earning-crypto-rewards/
https://compassmining.io/education/why-the-bitcoin-mining-debate-is-so-dysfunctional/
https://coinjoin.io/en
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/coinjoin.asp
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/data-anonymization.asp
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/08/06/a-battle-between-bitcoin-wallets-has-big-implications-for-privacy/
https://samouraiwallet.com/
https://wasabiwallet.io/
Good morning! This morning I study a little more about what the RPL token actually does in Rocketpool. Then I got hung up on what a rebase token is, so I did a search on that definition of rebasing and found out there are two very different uses of the word. One use is in tokenomics to describe an elastic token. The other is in programming to describe the combining of two branches in a development project. Nerdy, but interesting stuff!
Sources: https://medium.com/rocket-pool/rocket-pool-staking-protocol-part-3-3029afb57d4c
https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-is-a-rebaseelastic-token/
https://www.juststartinvesting.com/what-is-token-rebasing/
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lido
Good morning! This morning I talk about staking ETH on Rocketpool and Lido and some of the differences and similarities.
Sources:
Newsletter: Bankless HQ
Newsletter: Crypto Pragmatist
https://lido.fi/
https://rocketpool.net/
https://medium.com/rocket-pool/rocket-pool-staking-protocol-part-3-3029afb57d4c
https://wento.co/rpl/
Good morning! This morning I start with some Tweets about ways people are doing some guerilla Bitcoin education in schools and also another one from Frank Chaparro who highlights the bankers ignorance of crypto amid their criticism of it. Then, I go into the ERC-4626 standard and talk about what it is and why it is amazing. I am really looking forward to see how all this can streamline and standardize DeFi to make it explode once again!
Sources: https://twitter.com/MikeCLCS/status/1511503047981248517
https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1511376124063977477
https://twitter.com/iearnfinance/status/1511444220850184197
https://bowtiedisland.com/erc-4626-the-most-important-standard-youll-never-notice/
https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4626
https://cointelegraph.com/news/yearn-finance-advocates-for-the-adoption-of-erc-4626-tokenized-vault-standard
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/01/13/erc-4626-defis-newest-money-lego/
Good morning! If you wanna get to the part where I talk about all the bonds and stuff you can skip to about 12:40 mark (yes, I rambled on that long). I look at the basics of bonds, interest rates, yield curves, inflation, and how it all relates to crypto.
Sources: (Should have been your high school economics teacher, instead it's a Tweet)
https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh/status/1510804019790626817
https://twitter.com/coinbitsapp/status/1509199799320522762
https://twitter.com/vishalinvests/status/1504172581745741824
Book: Tony Robbins - Money
Good morning! This morning I do my usual rambling bit at the beginning and then I go poking around the very useful tool IO discovered called dexscreener.com. This is a tool that lists all pair on tons of DEXs and blockchains and ranks them. It Could give a person hours of informative entertainment. Then, I zero in on Zero Money. I don't know much about this new protocol, but it is funny. They take all the assumptions about what a crypto project and DAO should want to be and does the opposite. The are a completely centralized, dictatorship. Holding the token does nothing but loses value, and there is zero team allocation. I went and claimed my Zero token to see what will happen. You can go get your too until April 9, 2022. For what? I dunno.
Sources: https://dexscreener.com/
https://sifu.vision/
https://www.thezero.money/
https://blog.levxdao.org/introducing-zero-money-125b513c6fc9
https://twitter.com/LevxApp
Good morning! In this episode I rant a bit as I talk about Ripple donating money Greenpeace to lobby to try to change Bitcoin's code. Regardless of what I think about proof of work vs proof of stake (I like both), it is impossible to just throw money at Bitcoin and tell some people to "just change it". They clearly do not understand how Bitcoin works and how it was designed specifically to counteract this type of activity. So there is a $5 million donation to Greenpeace that could be used to help fight real pollution just going down the drain. What a waste. Anyway, when you watch this video, you will know where I stand. I don't hate the Earth and I am not a wasteful person. I just believe everyone should have financial freedom and autonomy from the corner of slavery we are being pushed into by the WEF using climate change as their mascot.
Sources: https://cryptonews.com.au/ripple-co-founder-launches-5-million-campaign-to-change-bitcoin
I got the pleasure of having Nutellalicka on my show for an interview to talk about his crypto career and how he came to found Tokel.io. Tokel is an NFT and Token generation platform built in the Komodo ecosystem. I spend some time getting to know Nutellalicka and then talk about some of the philosophies and features of the Token platform. This is a very high level and light-hearted interview for people wanting an airbrushed look at what Tokel. I appreciate Nutellalicka humoring my most amateur of questions at times!
What is Tokel?
Create build and trade NFT. Tokenize your business on the Tokel chain. Tokel Platform reaps the benefits of tokenization or the use of a tokenization or the use of a token economic model. Create equity based tokens, security tokens, debt issuance tokens or asset backed tokens. Other token use cases include charities looking to tokenize and utilize a public ledger for donations, crowdfunding organizations, as well as video game development projects looking to capitalize on token economics or gamifying NFT's.
Sources:
https://tokel.io/
https://tokel.io/tokeltalk/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/platform-strives-to-bring-businesses-and-individuals-the-future-of-tokenization
https://tokel.io/TokelPaper1stEdition.pdf
https://twitter.com/TokelPlatform
https://medium.com/@tokel-platform/
https://explorer.tokel.io/
Good morning! This morning I poke around the XDAO platform and learn about multisigs, quorums, Robert's Rules of Order, Voting rights vs investment rights and several other concepts that I was foggy on before.
Sources:
https://www.xdao.app/
https://blog.xdao.app/what-is-xdao-69c427ce046b https://docs.xdao.app/guides/for-dao-creators/create-a-dao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert's_Rules_of_Order
https://github.com/ArturVargas/avalanche-DAO
Good morning! This morning I just basically reflect on the market a little bit and talk about various topics including helping my parents rearrange their crypto funds and getting your funds off of Paypal, the movie Free City and decentralization, my new skateboard podcast and other stuff. Just a Monday to get the week started.
Good morning! This morning I ended up getting sidetracked and basically was all over the place. I talked about and showed a specific Discord scam in my DM's. Then I showed the process of hunting (aka: staking) my Freaks in the P2E game Freaks N' Guilds.
Sources:
https://app.freaksnguilds.com/hunting
Good morning! I have been doing alot of experimenting with my audio and visual. This show is my sandbox to test things out, so you may notice lots of technical difficulties. This morning was one of those mornings where I had alot of technical difficulties, so I patched together what I could. This show is all about imperfection and the learning process and I am trying to demonstrate what real people go through when trying to make a production. The stuff you see on TV is all manufactured by lots of people. So when you begin to think TV is reality, think again. My shows try to demonstrate the actual reality. This morning I meditate on Moloch and DAOs for the most part.
Good morning! IDEX Intern jumps on the show with me this morning and we go all over the place with topics. Do not cite us for inaccuracies as we are just conversing and having a good time getting the crypto out of our system before the day starts!
Good morning! This morning I talk a bit about the JournoDAO and how they are trying to revitalize Journalism through web3. Then I go into the latest project release of 0xSifu, Sifu's Vision. Would you invest in the $Sifu token which tracks in real time his portfolio earning? Kind of a crap shoot, but I just may do it.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/JournoDao
https://journodao.xyz/
https://thedefiant.io/sifu-interview-wonderland-new-venture/
https://thedefiant.io/frog-nation-cfo-quadrigacx/
https://thedefiant.io/sifu-launches-token/
https://sifu.vision/
Good morning! There is so much packed into this episode. Dolly Parton dropped her new NFT album and poster at the SXSW Austin City Limits show. This is the first album of 48 album drop that are including an NFT and blockchain technology. I start off by exploring her NFT. Then I go into the tech behind this NFT using Eluv.io and the Content Fabric Blockchain. Then I find many similarities between Eluvio and Theta Network and I am now beginning to tie them together. Are Theta Network and Eluvio in competition or cooperation? If this is cooperation, it seems extremely bullish for Theta holders!
Sources:
https://www.sxsw.com/news/2022/dolly-parton-to-live-stream-first-ever-sxsw-performance-with-blockchain-creative-labs/
https://welcometodollyverse.com/dolly
https://live.eluv.io/
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eluvio-launches-content-fabric-for-internet-video-distribution-300911549.html
https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-News/MGM-Partners-with-Eluvio-Content-Fabric-for-Next-Gen-Delivery-145109.aspx?utm_source=related_articles&utm_medium=gutenberg&utm_campaign=editors_selection
https://eluvio.medium.com/nfts-on-the-eluvio-content-fabric-87ea1cecfeb
https://teddit.net/r/theta_network/comments/o42sfo/eluvio_vs_theta_against_or_complements_theta/
https://www.reddit.com/r/theta_network/comments/pdg3j1/eluvio_vs_theta/
Good morning! This morning I start off with my usual rambling, and then I get into trying to explain some play-to-earn gaming. I specifically am looking into a new game called Freaks N' Guilds,. It all seems like a fun way to do finance and investing. Games have caused a newfound entry-point and excitement for the world of finance for a new generation.
Sources:
https://freaksnguilds.com/
https://twitter.com/freaksNGuilds/
https://opensea.io/collection/celestial-keys
Good morning! After some introductory banter, I talk about web 3.0 and how it is not exactly centralized. There is still quite a bit of centralization left over in "decentralized" web 3.0 platforms. Do we really need another layer 1 blockchain? CUDOS says yes! That is because we do not need to think of these blockchains as competing, but as complementing each others in much the same way that cities all have their own unique characteristics and cultures. CUDOS takes up the mission of decentralizing cloud computing as it's main mission.
Sources:
https://www.cudos.org/about/
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/03/26137433/what-exactly-is-this-web-3-0-and-why-does-it-matter
https://www.cudos.org/blog/why-decentralised-compute-is-web3s-next-frontier/
https://www.cudocompute.com/
Good morning! This morning I interviewed an Austin, TX. based improv artist and crypto trader. We explore both improv and crypto concepts and find the intersection between them both. Lots of conceptual and meta conversation was had in this morning's philosophical interview!
Good morning! If you like to listen to my more rant-filled episodes, well, you're in luck! This morning I was feeling particularly ranty as I talk about Shiba Inu's DoggyDAO and then move on to read a thread about Joe Biden's Executive Order of Cryptocurrency. Enjoy!
Sources:
https://u-today.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/u.today/shiba-inu-devs-announce-doggy-dao-launch?amp=&_gsa=1&_js_v=a8&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16452366537849&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fu.today%2Fshiba-inu-devs-announce-doggy-dao-launch
https://twitter.com/JackNiewold/status/1501599351243780099
https://cryptopragmatist.com/sign-up-twitter/
https://www.youtube.com/c/DigitalAssetNewsDAN
Good morning! This morning I mull over some topics that have been on my mind lately. Namely censorship. I have been learning more and more about the hierarchy of Ethereum, Metamask, and Infura and how this relates to censorship. We recently see Venezuela being censored to using MetaMask due to local regulations. Infura and Metamask are both pointing the finger at each other. What this does is opens up a slippery-slope to censorship and being anti-censorship is what crypto is supposed to be about. I try my best to explain this issue so you (and me) can better understand what is going on.
Sources:
https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-infura
https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1499423160957034496
https://bitcoinist.com/metamask-infura-clarify-connectivity-problem-solved/
https://leofinance.io/@belemo/infura-censorship-and-crypto-politics
https://zycrypto.com/decentralized-metamask-and-infura-under-fire-for-cutting-off-users-in-certain-sanctioned-regions/
https://infura.io/
Good evening! Not too long ago I discovered that my neighbor Ben is into NFTs. Not only that, he is an NFT whale! He sat here in my office and showed me some really cool NFT alpha as we spoke about crypto, NFTs, and play-to-earn gaming.
https://etherorcs.com/
https://freaksnguilds.com/
Good morning! This morning I jump online with fellow BanklessDAO mate iSpeakNerd. He has a great understanding of crypto and crypto gaming and really enjoyed speaking to him about the space. He breaks down the play-2-earn space apart form all the buzzwords surrounding it and makes it easy to understand while also looking down at the practical space from a high level philosophical point-of-view. Really enjoyable conversation!
https://twitter.com/iSpeak_Nerd
https://twitter.com/iSpeak_Nerd/status/1502334460972261376?s=20&t=YKRScvHF8gAu1dakLfQmxA
In this episode, I get the opportunity to interview Keith Axline of RePublic.io and Re-Public DAO. We bounce around the philosophical to the practical in this eye-opening interview. We have data all around us. As a result of being alive, we are creators of data. How to we measure that data and how much that data is worth to the companies that wat to buy it? What is the price we will put on our privacy? Once we own and control our data, we can make the terms and set the price on who uses our data and how they use it. The data economy in inevitable. How will you navigate it? The Republic.io app gives us to tools we need to be able to navigate this new data frontier!
Join their Discord to learn more! https://discord.gg/y3RY2Rsssr
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kaxline
https://twitter.com/republicdao
re-public.io
Good morning! This morning I am just basically corning you and rambling about Andre Cronje going into "retirement", or more like anonymity. In my usual way I go on streams of consciousness (basically rambling) and find myself on tangents. But hey, you listened!
Sources:
https://twitter.com/milesdeutscher/status/1500506831583645702
https://twitter.com/JackNiewold/status/1500866073272500232
https://twitter.com/michaelfkong/status/1500654223712833543
https://twitter.com/storming0x/status/1500519425514029056
This afternoon I was lucky enough to have fellow DAOPlanet and Bankless member Aaron0x come over and jump in a freestyle interview with me in my house. Excuse the audio, but the interview was really fun. We talked all about web3, DAOs, Data, Opolis, and crypto in general. Was my first time to ever have someone share this side of the screen with me!
Good morning! I woke up at 4:00 am with an insatiable desire to talk crypto and explain the Near Protocol (said no one ever, except me). So here it is. Enjoy!
Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/t6ylta/dai_interest_rate_is_now_015/
https://near.org/
https://aurora.dev/
https://explorer.near.org/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-is-the-near-protocol-and-how-does-it-work
https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-near-protocol
https://rainbowbridge.app
https://wallet.near.org/
I wanted to celebrate my 420th episode with an interview with a DAO friend of mine Elija Spina (Flowscience). I got to know Elija in Denver and got to learn about his projects and interests and thought that the rest of the world needs to know about what he is doing.
He is allowing growers, researchers, and anyone to be able to upload their cannabis data to the open source, decentralized, data marketplace on the blockchain to help people be able to share and monetize their data. He has created Cannabis Genomes DAO which has a gathering place in discord for all like-minded people to gather, share information and foster community. There is much more to cannabis than what you see portrayed in comedies and Elija really brings the benefits to light. This was a great interivew!
Sources:
Twitter: @flow_science
cannabisgeno.me
https://deltaleaflabs.com/
Good morning! This morning I talk about Discord and some of the ways peopple are customizing it and creating bots for Discord that helps DAOs to function in a platform originally made for gamers. Then I go further into the space talking about how websites and news outlets are using NFTs as membership tokens instead of paywalls that collect all your info.
Sources:
https://top.gg/
https://unlock-protocol.com/
https://www.daomasters.xyz/
https://bakery.fyi/
https://thedefiant.io/
Good morning! This morning I got a friend in the crypto space to actually get up early with me on a Saturday. He is a New Orleans-based artist so we are in the same timezone so it works out great. We talked about audio/visual stuff, web3, Aavegotchi, and DeFi. Was a great convo and I learned alot about the Aavegotchi space!
Sources:
https://www.zimteemo.com/
https://twitter.com/ZombieShepherd
https://aave.com/
https://aavegotchi.com/
Good morning! This morning , after some banter, I look at two of my current favorite projects. They both have to do with decentralized journalism. They use NFTs in different ways to create their media platforms. One as a website and/or API with gated NFT access, and the other that makes the news via livestream as a daily NFT you can buy and have dropped in your wallet on a daily basis!
Sources:
https://bakery.fyi/
https://twitter.com/CroissantEth
https://goodmorningnews.club/
https://opensea.io/collection/good-morning-news
Good morning! This morning I talk some about privacy and the need for privacy especially as we move into a completely digital world. I read a thread about why a person would want privacy. Then I take a look at the Tornado Cash website.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/0xcacti/status/1493342299832520706
https://tornado.cash/
Good morning! This after my usual introductory ramblings, I go on to ramble about Automated Market Makers (AMM's). I explain what they are and compare them to order books. I also talk about liquidity pools (LPs) and impermanent loss some. I talk about Uniswap and Clipper Exchange.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1495901654872383499
https://clipper.exchange/
https://docs.clipper.exchange/how-clipper-works
https://www.shipyardsoftware.org/journal
https://github.com/shipyard-software/market-making-whitepaper/blob/main/paper.pdf
https://github.com/shipyard-software/market-making-whitepaper/blob/main/paper.pdf
https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-is-an-automated-market-maker-amm
https://mvpworkshop.co/blog/order-book-vs-amm-which-one-will-win/
https://uniswap.org/
Good morning! In this episode I talk some about token approvals and unlimited spending. All of this is in light of the hack 3 days ago of Opensea.io at exactly the time Opensea was presenting at ETH Denver. It would not be too far off to say that the hack was planned exactly that way.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/isotile/status/1495234649970421760
https://etherscan.io/tokenapprovalchecker
https://revoke.cash/
https://ethallowance.com/
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-protect-your-ethereum-wallet?utm_source=url https://ethallowance.com/
Good morning! This is my first episode back from Denver and comfortable in my own home office studio. I give a little recap on my time in Denver and some of my experiences (I am sure I will be recapping for the whole week). I also browse through one of the project being presented at DAO Denver that is centered around incorporating DAOs as legal entities in the Marshal Islands. MIDAO.org and one of the first DAOs, Shipyard Software, that has been incorporated there.
Sources:
https://daodenver.org/
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/02/15/how-the-marshall-islands-is-trying-to-become-a-global-hub-for-dao-incorporation/
https://www.midao.org/
https://www.shipyardsoftware.org/
https://www.shipyardsoftware.org/post/shipyard-dao-marshall-islands
Good Evening! My stream this morning crashed halfway. I tried again this evening and it crashed as I was wrapping up. So I will keep this version. I talk about Denver, Blockbuster DAO, Metamask and My Ethereum Wallet merging, and lots of other crap.
Sources:
https://www.myetherwallet.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Metamask/comments/nkma6c/question_regarding_combining_wallets/
https://metamask.io/
https://decrypt.co/91637/consensys-acquires-mycrypto-plans-merge-ethereum-wallet-metamask
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/01/consensys-acquires-ethereum-wallet-mycrypto-plans-to-merge-it-with-metamask/
Good morning! Apologies for the audio quality. I don't have my normal mic with me this morning. I also thought I was screen-sharing and I wasn't. Rough go this morning! This morning I livestream from my hotel in Denver before I go to do setup at DAO Denver 2022. www.daodenver.org I get into a thread that is a bit of a case study on social engineering and how to look out for it. Social engineering to me just basically seems like a fancy work for being a con artist!
Sources: https://twitter.com/thomasg_eth/status/1492663192404779013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
Good morning! In case you have been under a rock in the crypto world you must have seen the headlines depicting spicy images of the female rapper Razzlekhan who has been arrested for the possession of the $3.6 billion Bitfinex exchange hack. Well, that's not all there is to it. I dig into the Bitfinex exchange and the LEO token a little bit so you know more than just the sensational "female rapper stole BTC" headlines with a spicy photo tell you.
Sources:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitfinex-backed-leo-soars-to-record-high-on-supply-crunch-expectations
https://www.bitfinex.com/
https://leo.bitfinex.com/
https://www.bitfinex.com/wp-2019-05.pdf
https://twitter.com/JackNiewold/status/1491197012037218304
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitfinex-cries-fraud-as-crypto-capital-executive-indicted-by-us
https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/1491113981477490689
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-ifinex-settlement/bitfinex-tether-owner-pays-18-5-million-fine-to-settle-nyag-cryptocurrency-cover-up-charges-idUSKBN2AN1NM
Good morning! Pardon my enthusiasm, but this episode I spend the entire time talking about the trip I am taking to Denver next week to attend DAO Denver and ETH Denver. I'm driving there from Austin. I'm going to be a helping hand at DAO Denver and attend ETH Denver. I don't have a hotel, no concrete plans except to check in at the venue where I will be volunteering. I will be walking around with a recording device and interviewing people. So if you see me, say hi! Let me ask you a few questions for the recorder. If you skate, let's go hit up some spots! If you feel so inclined, go donate to DAO Denver so we can refund the tickets and pay for this event.
Sources:
https://daodenver.org/
https://juicebox.money/#/p/daodenver
https://twitter.com/DAODenver/status/1491655156143833091
https://www.ethdenver.com/
Good morning! This morning I talk about DAODenver and how they are using Juicebox.money app to raise funds in a Kickstarter sort of way, and then I read and article written by Andre Cronje titled "Not so smart contracts" that is a reflection on code automation vs human involvement. I found this especially interesting in light of current events in the web 3 space which seem to have more human involvement than web 3 should allow.
Sources:
https://www.daoists.xyz/
https://daodenver.org/
https://juicebox.money/
https://andrecronje.medium.com/not-so-smart-contracts-8c9ab4368d21
In this episode I get the chance to interview DAO aficionado Adam Miller of DAOPlatforms.io. He has spent a large amount of time exploring different DAO platforms and tooling and is happy to share his finding with us here!
Good morning! This morning I give my little rundown on the recent Wormhole bridge hack from a few sources. I find hacks and the exploits in the crypto space fascinating and what the community does to try to make things better. This is all uncharted territory and it seems like no matter how much we try to automate and make things predictable and flawless, there is always something that pops up. With innovation, comes exploitation!
Sources:
https://portalbridge.com/
https://docs.wormholenetwork.com/wormhole/faqs
https://wormholenetwork.com/ https://decrypt.co/91962/crypto-bridge-wormhole-replenished-after-hack-320m-ethereum
https://cointelegraph.com/news/wormhole-token-bridge-loses-321m-in-largest-hack-so-far-in-2022
https://www.altcoinbuzz.io/cryptocurrency-news/spotlight/the-wormhole-hack-what-is-the-future-of-cross-chain-bridges/
https://www.investopedia.com/crypto-theft-of-usd320-million-wormhole-hack-5218062
https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/rwojtk/ama_we_are_the_efs_research_team_pt_7_07_january/hrngyk8/
Good morning! This morning I start out with my usual ramblings and then end up exploring zero knowledge proofs, SNARKs, STARKs, Solidity vs Cairo, and the Trusted Setup Ceremony.
Sources:
https://www.quant.network/pr-announcements/overledger-2-1-7-release?utm_content=buffercd9b5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
https://coincodecap.com/snarks-vs-starks-difference
https://twitter.com/pseudotheos/status/1488788039895814144
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoTechnology/comments/a738am/understanding_trusted_setup_with_zksnarks/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-crazy-security-behind-the-birth-of-zcash#toggle-gdpr
https://www.coinbureau.com/education/zcash-ceremony/
https://blockonomi.com/zero-knowledge-proofs/
https://minezcash.com/zcash-trusted-setup/
https://www.cairo-lang.org/cairo-for-blockchain-developers/
https://medium.com/yagi-fi/provable-vs-composable-computation-or-why-cairo-will-supersede-solidity-6b00e69bfc9e
https://github.com/l-henri/starknet-cairo-101
Good morning! It took three tries for me to get this episode done as I dealt with audio issues and kids barging in. But I get it done! This episode covers alot of the recent controversy about Daniele Sesta and his involvement with 0xSifu, now that it has been exposed that 0xSifu is none other than longtime criminal Michael Patryn. This is the issue about being anon in the crypto space, you never know who you're going to end up working with and even liking and trusting. That's fine and all, but then, what if you are in charge with that partner, several hundred million dollars worth of assets? I explore this dilemma in this episode.
Sources:
https://thedefiant.io/frog-nation-wonderland-fate/
https://medium.com/@Ground_Zero/extraordinary-rise-and-spectacular-fall-of-wonderland-and-dani-sesta-2b5627426231
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/wonderland-founder%3A-im-here-to-fix-this-and-make-it-all-back
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/the-strange-tale-of-quadriga-gerald-cotten
https://www.exitscam.show/
Good morning! This morning I talk about data privacy and the metaverse. It seems this war has been going on for centuries and this is just another battleground.
Sources:
https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/28/metaverse-vs-data-privacy-a-clash-of-the-titans/
https://iapp.org/connect/data-privacy-day/
https://nordvpn.com/lt/blog/metaverse-survey/
Good morning! In this episode 400, I step back and look at some of the more macro ideas around crypto regulation and collaborative economies. I am inspired by an article I read by Tamara Helenius on and introduction of collaborative economics and what it means to have the average person have a say, not just in political decisions, but in community economic decisions. Are the common people just too stupid as the decision makers have been gaslighting us to think? No. we can and should have control over the monetary policy of our own resources and communities.
Sources:
https://medium.com/commonsstack/a-non-violent-revolution-against-technocracy-53388b123936
https://twitter.com/AndrejCibik/status/1487445432074653700
https://thenationalera.com/with-the-advent-of-pavia-metaverse-arrives-on-the-cardano-blockchain/
Good morning! This morning I say happy birthday to my Dad who has inspired me to take risks, take the hits and always get back up on my feet. I am inspired to always explore the new stuff out there and the whole paradigm shift in blockchain happening from monolithic to modular is happening right now during this "terrible bearish market" action we are having right now. Everyone is so focused on price that people seem to be oblivious to this amazing technology being made right now. I take a look at a project called Celestia that is using the modular approach from the beginning for it's blockchain design. I am obviously not a pro or an authority, but I try my best to summarize it for you. Please read the article below about it! I don't do it justice.
Sources:
https://medium.com/@__Coeus/celestia-the-foundation-of-a-modular-blockchain-world-95900fe2cfb0
https://celestia.org/
https://twitter.com/CelestiaOrg
Good morning! This morning I rant about the news of Elon Musk challenging Mickey D's to take Dogecoin as it's currency. I am sure it would be just as substantial as it's burgers. Then I remember that Vitalik is joining Doge as an advisor and that one of the Doge founders Billy Markus is rejoining the project. Will Doge become legit? Who knows? Maybe so with Blackrock now entering the crypto space with it's filing for a blockchain/Bitcoin focused ETF coming into the space. Is this a good thing or bad thing?
Sources: https://coingape.com/breaking-elon-musk-bets-mcdonalds-to-accept-dogecoin-doge-as-payment/
https://walletdab.com/dogecoin-doge-gets-serious-by-bringing-on-vitalik-buterin-to-its-foundation/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-trillion-asset-manager-blackrock-102000488.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
https://blockworks.co/blackrock-files-for-crypto-etf/
Good morning! Just like the title says, lots of rambling. It's what I do. I wake up and speculate on the market, on life, on technology, on people. I spout off uneducated and biased opinions. But hey, at least I have questions and don't just jump off the cliff like the rest of the lemmings. In this episode I guess I would say the main subject matter is Ethereum and the the Merge. The Ethereum Foundation does not want people to use the terminology ETH1 & ETH2, but to instead use execution and consensus layer. They want this for several reasons. The most clear to me is scam prevention!
Sources:
https://blog.ethereum.org/2022/01/24/the-great-eth2-renaming/
https://etherscan.io/nodetracker
https://twitter.com/arjunbhuptani/status/1485616379906646024
https://twitter.com/ChrisBlec/status/1485776209598418945
Good morning! I took the weekend off from making vids and come back this Monday with some talk of layer 2 solutions like SNARKS and STARKS. I don't do the best job explaining them, but I at least have fun digging into it! Sources:
https://swagtimus.substack.com/p/starknet-roundup-1?r=dswbt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://hackernoon.com/zk-rollups-3-cryptocurrencies-to-explode-in-2022-and-2023
https://mirror.xyz/pseudotheos.eth/_LAi4cCFz2gaC-3WgNmri1eTvckA32L7v31A8saJvqg
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/nu60ic/the_big_four_smart_contract_rollup_chains/
https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/12/06/endgame.html
https://polynya.medium.com/?p=b7ecbb773f40
Good morning! This morning I talk about some of the basics. Like how many validators/nodes do various blockchains have? Or how centralized is the blockchain that you love? In the beginning I explain some of the basics of Bitcoin and the consensus mechanism. Then, I take a look at several blockchain explorers and check out their validator/node count.
Sources:
https://bitnodes.io/
https://glassnode.com/
https://staking.harmony.one/validators/mainnet
https://explorer.ark.io/delegates
https://explorer.avax.network/validators
https://etherscan.io/nodetracker
https://solanabeach.io/validators
Good morning! This morning I kick off the day with lots of questions about crypto mining, the climate crisis, energy usage, and the new movements such as regenerative finance that are popping up to try to work on these things. I am doing lots of research trying to figure out where I stand on all of this stuff and I don't know yet, so bear with me. Also, I found that TIME magazine is jumping into the web 3.0 game on it's website. At least is the NFT game selling their "TIME pieces".
Sources:
https://decrypt.co/90643/intel-energy-efficient-bitcoin-mining-chip
https://www.terra.do/
https://climatecrypto.xyz/
https://nft.time.com/
https://time.com/connect-crypto-wallet/
Good morning! Of course I have to immediately think of what a 12 year old boy would think. I read an article that talks about AI generative art and how some people think this will turn into the "next big thing" in the NFT world. Read along with me and see if you agree.
Sources:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-generative-art-predicted-to-be-next-trend-for-nft-sector https://www.eponym.art-ai.com/
https://art-ai.com/
https://opensea.io/collection/eponym
Good morning! I spend this morning talking mostly about Coinbase. I start with an overview of Coinbase and the difference between Coinbase exchange, Coinbase PRO and Coinbase Wallet. Then I get into an article I found that was retweeted by Jack Dorsey that talks about how the VC-backed coins that get listed on Coinbase have actually performed terribly against Bitcoin and Ethereum. Many people think a project has "made it" when it gets listed on Coinbase, but the author seems to prove that this is not the case. Anyway, alot of people say web 3.0 is for giving "the little man" a chance, but it actually is seeming to cause problems for the liquidity of Bitcoin, as the amount of little men that web 3.0 is actually freeing is pretty insignificant. Interesting thesis. Sorry it took a really long time to get to the point in this video
Sources:
https://startupsandecon.substack.com/p/you-dont-own-web3-a-coinbase-curse
https://www.coinbase.com/
https://blog.coinbase.com/goodbye-toshi-hello-coinbase-wallet-the-easiest-and-most-secure-crypto-wallet-and-browser-4ba6e52e4913
https://pro.coinbase.com/ https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Coinbase-and-Coinbase-wallet
https://www.investopedia.com/crypto-com-vs-coinbase-5188428
Good morning! Remember that quadratic formula you were forced to memorize in high school? It's ok, most people don't either. But finally you can start to see why it may have ben important. With our voting and funding system geared towards the rich and powerful, this little farmer's formula is the key to democratizing voting and funding of public goods and I'm going to try to mansplain it for you. Gitcoin Grants is also using this formula to help fund public goods as well.
Sources:
https://gitcoin.co/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-quadratic-voting-shaan-ray-mba/
https://thedefiant.io/gitcoin-quadratic-funding/
https://wtfisqf.com/?grant=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1&grant=10&grant=5,5&grant=10&match=1000
https://ethresear.ch/t/pairwise-coordination-subsidies-a-new-quadratic-funding-design/5553
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06421.pdf
Good morning! This morning I play a couple of clips from Crypto Sapiens podcast in Humpty's interview with the founders of Genomes DAO. Like Ancestry.com and 23andme.com, GenomesDAO provides a service to analyze your genetic information to give you fun, useful, and interesting data about yourself through your genome data. However, unlike the other two, GenomesDAO give you a vault all your own to store and provide access to whoever you want to have that data. You can earn GENE token through the allowance of access or you can keep it all to yourself. Your data, your choice! I highly recommend going to Crypto Sapiens Podcast and listening to the whole episode yourself!
Sources:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MqYn64m0e4n1owXVkjhfw
https://genomes.io/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/02/social-media-giants-monetise-anger-and-trolling-is-the-result-a-crackdown-is-welcome
https://nft.genomes.io/
Good morning! This morning I start off with a thread by Leah Wald, who makes some comparisons between the bear market cycle of 2018 and the current market dip we are in. Alot of this comparison made me want to take it way back to 1993 and go back to the original reason we are all here in this crypto space. This space started because of people's desire for privacy in this digital space. As technology develops and becomes more powerful, so do the powers that govern. The cypherpunks worked hard to try to develop technology to preserve the freedoms and privacy of every individual in this digitization of reality. NFT's and the metaverse are cool and all, but what good is it if we have zero privacy or freedom. So I did a reading of The Cypherpunk Manifesto.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/LeahWald/status/1482019640960290821
https://academy.bit2me.com/en/who-is-eric-hughes/
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/cypherpunk-manifesto/
https://twitter.com/token3conomy/status/1481868075343523850/photo/1
Good morning! This morning I decided to poke around in the Oasis. I have been hearing people mention to me that I should check out Oasis. So I decided to go ahead an give it a gander this morning and see what's up with it. Oasis features a modular style proof-of-stake blockchain that has TEE's (trusted execution environment) built in for privacy. In this increasingly surveilled metaverse that is developing around us, I am all for more privacy. I also like the modular aspect of the blockchain using Paratime layers for execution. Oasis seems to have some growing to do, but it looks good so far!
Sources:
https://oasisprotocol.org/
https://oasismonitor.com/
https://docs.oasis.dev/oasis-network-primer/#scalable-private-defi
https://medium.com/oasis-protocol-project/oasis-mainnet-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-privacy-and-scalability-25379d152122
https://yuzu-swap.com/
https://www.personal.ai/
https://medium.com/oasis-protocol-project/defi-is-coming-to-oasis-introducing-yuzuswap-the-1st-decentralized-exchange-on-oasis-the-50k-68193e63f31f
https://wormholebridge.com/
Good morning! I tried to do a video focusing on the Boba Network, but I also ended up spending lots of time talking about the basics of layer 1's a nd layer 2's and the scalability trilemma. In the last third of the video, I actually get around to talking about OMG Network, ENYA.ai, and Boba Network. Boba seems to have a good solution and a good ecosystem.
Sources:
https://cointelegraph.com/blockchain-for-beginners/a-beginners-guide-to-understanding-the-layers-of-blockchain-technology
https://omg.network/
https://boba.network/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-integrates-with-plasma-sidechain-to-reduce-load-on-ethereum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tKyhA4QzE
https://www.enya.ai/
Good morning! This morning I read an article that talks about French Bank Societe Generale using DeFi protocol MakerDAO to take out a $20 million loan. This may not seem like much for a bank, but the fact that a TradFi bank is using DeFi for the first time is huge. It is also the first time real world assets, such as houses are put on-chain in an official capacity. It will be interesting to see what happens after this once this seal has been broken.
Sources:
https://medium.com/bankless-dao/brick-and-mortar-banks-begin-to-build-on-chain-de0e78413fc2
https://makerdao.com/
https://www.societegenerale.com/en
https://www.coingecko.com/en
https://coinpaprika.com/
Good morning! This morning I talk about layer 2 ranking websites and what layer 2's basically are. Then I talk about the awkward appearance Wal-Mart has made in the metaverse. Just like early auto manufacturers called the car the horseless carriage, is Wal-Mart making the same type of comparison by bringing the brick and mortar tore tot eh metaverse to try to relate?
Sources:
https://defillama.com/
https://defipulse.com/
https://l2beat.com/
https://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/01/05/facebook-walmart-and-how-companies-shouldnt-set-up-in-the-metaverse/
https://app.metagamehub.io/
Good morning! Yup. It's Monday. I start by talking about Kazakhstan unrest as the source of the Bitcoin dump. Then I talk about reality TV "star" selling her farts in a mason jar, who will now be switching to the NFT market. Hooray for NFT credibility! Then I talk about Reimagined.Fi as another new DeFi 3.0 platform.
Sources:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/kazakh-government-resigns-shuts-down-internet-amid-protests-causing-bitcoin-network-hash-rate-to-tumble-13-4
https://www.insider.com/reality-star-made-200k-fart-jars-selling-them-as-nfts-2022-1
https://www.reimagined.fi/
https://reimaginedfi.medium.com/
https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-bullshit.html
Good morning! This morning was a basic general rundown of lots of crypto projects. First, I get on an unintentional rant about Cardano. Then I talk about what this OSMO token I see that has been pumping is. I also learned what the Sunflower game is and how it has been clogging up the Polygon blockchain. I end it with a list of top NFT wallets.
Sources:
https://www.analyticssteps.com/blogs/6-top-nft-wallets-2022
https://osmosis.zone/
https://thedefiant.io/sunflower-game-causes-polygon-fee-spike/
https://dappradar.com/rankings
Good morning! This morning I barely crawled my ass out of bed to do this episode. So this episode is super short compared to all my others. I wanted to make sure I remained consistent to my everyday show grind. I spend the show following up on the Bitcoin NFT that Vlad Costea of The Bitcoin Takeover podcast made. I said I would get one from the dispenser he set up at xchain.io. I really was super easy. Now a new world of Bitcoin NFT's has been opened up to me!
Sources:
https://bitcoin-takeover.com/bitcoin-nfts-on-counterparty-and-how-to-get-or-create-your-first-one/
freewallet.io
https://xchain.io/asset/BTCTKVRPODSX
Good morning! With DAO's projected to the the big buzz work of 2022, I decided to take you on a little $2 tour through DAO-land and show you some tools that DAO can use. I talk abotu Discord vs other platforms, Gnosis Multisig Wallet, Parcel.money, Snapshot, and Coordinape.
Sources:
https://discord.com/
https://gnosis-safe.io/
https://parcel.money/
https://snapshot.org/
https://coordinape.com/
https://colony.io/
https://aragon.org/
https://daohaus.org/
Good morning! This morning I read a couple of articles about about Samsung incorporating an NFT marketplace into their new TVs. This coincidentally happens to come just after Theta CEO Mitch Liu happened to make a trip to Samsung in Korea to talk about NFTs with them. I am not trying to overdose on Theta hopium, but it all sounds very interesting. Then, I dig into the new EIP-2981 NFT standard that bakes in royalty payments at the protocol level. To be honest, I thought it was already baked in the ERC-721 token, but I guess I did not understand it fully. The royalty payments have been taken care of at the marketplace platform level. So if an NFT was created on one platform and sold on another, then the royalty may not apply.
Sources:
https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2981
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-unveils-its-2022-micro-led-neo-qled-and-lifestyle-tvs-with-next-generation-picture-quality-and-range-of-cutting-edge-personalization-options
https://cointelegraph.com/news/samsung-announces-nft-platform-for-smart-tvs
https://twitter.com/Jimakos13/status/1478356789812936704
https://zora.co/
https://twitter.com/NewsAsset danteachescrypto.com
Good morning, again! I did a double-header this morning and did an interview with Jameswmontgomer.eth and Ivanlozada.eth. They are both fellow BanklessDAO members. They have been working non-stop developing a "Gov-Bot" that will help to automate governance in DAOs. This bot will start out automating the process for role elections. In Discord, and in DAOs in general, this process can be cumbersome and centralized. This bot is a great start at putting more of the "Autonomous" in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Great conversation!
Good morning! This morning I do a quick rundown of DeFi 3.0 and Farming-as-a-Service (FaaS). This is by no means professional coverage of this concept or these projects. I just wanted to take a look and see what's up with this new buzz word I keep seeing on Twitter, and well, here you go!
Sources:
https://twitter.com/doc_oral_crypto/status/1476285784005255172
https://www.mchain.capital/
https://www.reimagined.fi/
https://www.ccfdao.com/
https://scarychain.capital/
https://crosschaincapital.finance/
Good morning! Thsi mornign I was going to be talking about Gnosis multisig wallets and how to use them for your DAO, but then I got side-tracked like I oftentimes do and started talking about Andre Cronje, which led to a thread about Fantom chain he retweeted on his feed. I ended up reading and commenting on the thread. Obviously, I am bullish on Fantom!
Sources: https://twitter.com/AustinBarack/status/1478206147756711938
https://fantom.foundation/blog/announcing-370m-ftm-incentive-program/
https://defillama.com/chain/Fantom
https://twitter.com/AndreCronjeTech/status/1477253656986722307
https://app.spiritswap.finance/
Good morning! This morning I had the opportunity to interview Bitcoin Takeover Podcast creator Vlad Costea. We talk about Bitcoin, Bitcoin NFT on Counterparty, Romania during communism, wallets, evangelizing Bitcoin, the lightning network, and lots of other stuff in this long form interview. We also do a give away an hour into the show. I had a great time and I really appreciate Vlad coming onto the show with an open mind and heart.
Sources:
https://bitcoin-takeover.com/bitcoin-nfts-on-counterparty-and-how-to-get-or-create-your-first-one/
https://xchain.io/tx/8cc161ad2fb5037d9ab3dd9200b1a7b4ed0af39ddd199533a4410ae950a96f4c
https://freewallet.io/
Good morning! This morning's episode is basically me reading through and commenting on a Twitter thread about ten predictions for web 3.0 in 2022. I end the episode talking about the Zora FNT marketplace protocol.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/ianDAOs/status/1476968037681041411
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3JuLLSsEJQ
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/16/crypto-driven-marketplace-zora-raises-2m-to-build-a-sustainable-creator-economy/
https://cryptonews.com/news/competition-is-increasing-for-opensea-with-ftx-us-and-zora-in-the-ring.htm
https://zorb.dev/ https://zora.co/manifesto
Good morning! This morning I start off 2022 by minting a breadstick! Never forget to have fun in the crypto space! That is why I got into it in the first place. I came across a spoof account that allows anyone to buy an "Olive Garden" branch franchise NFT. You can even mint the unlimited breadsticks that come with soup and salad. Almost every American has an Olive Garden in their suburb and grew up to associate that with Italian food. It is no wonder that these mock franchises are now selling for up to 10 ETH! However, the real parent company of Olive Garden (Darden Restaurants) is firing back with a cease and desist letter to Open Seas Legal team. Non-Fungible Olive Garden has sent a letter back to appeal to Darden Restaurants to "...discuss this like family over a plate of Ziti Al Forno..." at an Olive Garden of their choosing. Somehow, I don't think the old folks at Darden are going to really understand the concept of the NFT images being unable to take down from the blockchain! Good luck to the lawyer having to explain that!
Sources: https://twitter.com/NFOGtweets/status/1476742404631789571
https://nonfungibleolivegardens.com/
https://zora.co/collections/0xfEe84e716845ec7423c863fc72881804F8BD8441
Good morning! Happy New Years Eve! This morning I reflect on what open source and being decentralize means in the context of safety, security, and data ownership. How does this relate to the social graph? Is 2022 the year for the Digital ID? What does this mean? Will it bring us all under enslavement? Or will it free us from the centralized web 2.0 tech overlords and allow us to own our own data? I lean towards personal freedom and no top down control, however, I try not to get too carried away and leave my mind open for technological innovation. This show is all about learning and questions. I ask lot of them in this episode.
Sources:
https://openzeppelin.com/
https://mirror.xyz/gasdao.eth/AwZGIpiVuIOkcwUaKqn4ZdcI4MetmYmvVdnuZsNZlaQ
https://etherscan.io/address/0x111111111117dc0aa78b770fa6a738034120c302#code
https://cyberconnect.me/
https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-an-nft-as-your-ens-profile-avatar-3562d39567fc
Good morning! The day before yesterday I received another air drop! I got an airdrop of $GAS tokens! Although the amount I received cost just as much gas to claim them, I was still stoked. I am stoked to see what this GAS DAO and these $GAS tokens will be doing. They will be giving the most active Ethereum users and developers a voice in the EIP proposals, they will be going towards a revision of Open Zeppelin that will work towards making revisions that will reduce gas in the smart contract code. They will be making cool PFP NFT's, and they will bring in GAS refunds on staking. Overall, I like to see good advancements like this. Of course they are adjusting as they go along, but that is humanity. Then, I go into the Decrypt article covering the 5 most impressive altcoins of 2021. Good list in my perspective!
Sources:
https://twitter.com/0xGasDAO
https://mirror.xyz/gasdao.eth/AwZGIpiVuIOkcwUaKqn4ZdcI4MetmYmvVdnuZsNZlaQ
https://www.gasdao.org/
https://mirror.xyz/gasdao.eth/oK-twc7QGL1Vi5kMiiGNCYzH3ZsqkLZsMd_FUFxJqc4
https://decrypt.co/88777/terra-shib-ohm-axie-most-impressive-altcoins-2021
https://www.metagamehub.io/
Good morning! This morning I start off by just rambling and reflecting on the development of web 3.0 from it's beginnings in web 1.0. Then I move on to a thread about Avalanche and read a blog post about some of the features of Avalanche. It's not a thorough explanation of Avalanche or even a very good explanation, but it is my morning reflection, so take it for face value.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/kevinsekniqi/status/1475900530908188683
https://medium.com/avalanche-hub/why-avalanche-avax-has-the-potential-to-be-an-incredible-store-of-value-8ef6e68cbb60
Good morning! This morning I talk about some of the harsh realities in the crypto space. We love the freedom. We love the bounty and seemingly free flow of money and opportunity at times. However it all comes at ta risk. There is a lot of personal responsibility and accountability that comes with that freedom and opportunity. I came across a confession from an anon on crypto-Twitter about how he/she got snagged in a honeypot scam. This person does not seem to be an amateur, so if they can get lured, so can you. I then look at an article on Coin Telegraph that outlines what a honeypot is and how to use or avoid them.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/devinsawyer/status/1475622830846980103
https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-is-a-honeypot-crypto-scam-and-how-to-spot-it
https://tokensniffer.com/
https://poocoin.app/
Good morning! It's Monday and I wanted to cover something a little fluffy and nostalgic. I do some morning crypto rambling until the 13:12 min mark where I talk about a fun Twitter thread about the formation of the Blockbuster DAO. The fact that it caught my eye and brought lots of nostalgia to me alone seems to be a good reason already as to why this could be successful. I can only imagine all the other people that can smell that place upon seeing the green and yellow logo. The name "Blockbuster" is already very fitting for web3.0, don't ya think?
Sources: https://twitter.com/BlockbusterDAO
https://www.retaildive.com/news/blockbuster-is-trapped-in-brand-limbo-will-it-ever-get-out/609054/
Good morning! This morning I take you down to Avalanche. I go back down the DeFi Kingdom road, but this time I look at how DeFi Kingdom is expanding outside of the Harmony blockchain to the Avalanche blockchain! Crystalvale will be a new DeFi Kingdom opening up in the AVAX world. In anticipation I moved some crypto-assets over to Avalanche and bought some Jewel token to set up shop and add some Jewel/AVAX liquidity to the DEX pools in Pangolin. I found that t he two major DEX's on Avalanche are Trader Joe and Pangolin. I read an article that compares them just to learn a little bit more about them. I wonder what is going to happen to the Avalanche DEX ecosystem once the Crystalvale Marketplace DEX gets thrown into the mix!
Sources:
https://cryptocrier.substack.com/p/why-i-sold-my-axies-for-defi-kingdoms?r=fusfp
https://defikingdoms.com/
https://defikingdoms.medium.com/introducing-the-crystalvale-realm-defi-kingdoms-is-coming-to-avalanche-d0730ba54b63
https://coingape.com/pangolin-vs-trader-joe-avalanche-dexs-compared/
https://quickswap.exchange/
https://app.relaychain.com/#/cross-chain-bridge-transfer
https://pangolin.exchange/
https://traderjoexyz.com/#/home
Good morning! This morning I woke up to an $SOS airdrop. I am not sure what this means. I did the math and it's small, but hey, maybe it will be worth something soon enough. We will see. I never underestimate the power of DAOs and the crypto community. Then I go into the DeFi Kingdom and poke around in the world and explain a little bit about the JEWEL token, the marketplace, the garden and the heroes. There is so much you can do in this game and if finance games like this existed back in early 2000, I would be rich by now!
Sources:
https://www.theopendao.com/
https://twitter.com/angyts2/status/1474617307968118785
https://twitter.com/fabdaRice/status/1474605851142930435
https://defikingdoms.com/
https://defikingdoms.medium.com/meet-our-bards-videos-articles-more-e9e3496276f1
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxT7OGqs9InIA2uTLofWcrQ
https://www.harmony.one/
https://superbid.io/
Good morning! Some crypto friends yesterday told me about DeFi Kingdoms and I thought that I should go give it a look as the way they described it, it sounds like a really fun and profitable Play-2-Earn game in the GameFi world. I went to the website to give it a look and realized that it was on the Harmony One blockchan. I was like "Oh man. another blockchain rabbit hole to go down." So I started looking up some Harmony fundamentals and how to bridge to Harmony. I did not want to use a centralized exchange like Binance or Crypto.com and transfer my dollars into the crypto space because I am low on cash, so I wanted to figure out a way to transfer some WETH I had on Polygon to Harmony. It took me on a quest. Or in more modern terms, in a superhighway interchange spaghetti bowl.
Here was my sequence of actions:
1) Swap WETH to WONE on Quickswap
2) Use RelayChain.com to bridge WONE from Polygon to Harmony
3) Use SushiSwap to Unwrap WONE to ONE on the Harmony blockchain.
It took alot of trial and error to figure this out by trying Multichain.org, Anyswap.exchange, bridge.harmony.com On top of that, I had to end up buying a little bit of ONE token on crypto.com because I did not have any Harmony in my wallet to do the swap from WONE to ONE in SushiSwap, and I could not find a faucet I trusted.
So in the end, I never got to play DeFi Kingdom in this episode. I will save that for tomorrow on Christmas. It was an interesting road getting there though!
Sources:
https://defikingdoms.com/
https://medium.com/dehive/how-to-change-your-rpc-in-polygon-8d6d76719313 https://medium.com/harmony-one/harmony-polygon-bridge-is-live-with-anyswap-eff1ad605065
https://explorer.harmony.one/address/0xcf664087a5bb0237a0bad6742852ec6c8d69a27a
https://app.relaychain.com/#/cross-chain-bridge-transfer
https://multichain.org/
https://quickswap.exchange/
https://sushi.com/
https://www.harmony.one/
Good morning! I spend alot of time on Crypto Twitter. It is a double-edged sword, but you can learn alot of amazing things and meet some really cool people. One of these people is IDEX Intern who has been watching my little show for a while now. He has always been a strong supporter and given me some cool tips and insights. He has been going under another Twitter account, but recently got hired by IDEX Exchange where he is working in their Marketing dept. He was nice enough to come on the show and banter with me for over an hour about tons of different topics.
Good morning! This morning I bring up a topic that has been on my mind. Does the future include multiple layer 1 blockchains? Or will one blockchain rule them all? Many ETH maxis will tell you that Ethereum will be the base-layer for all of crypto and that the world will run on a variety of layer 2 solutions. They say that all the other layer 1 "monolithic" blockchains will fall to their doom. However, at the same time, you see lots of dapps like Aave using any blockchain that has sufficient liquidity and reaping handsome rewards for being open-minded to many other blockchain solutions. Which perspective will be the victor in the end?
Sources:
https://newsletter.defitimes.io/p/go-multi-chain-or-ngmi?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
https://uniswap.org/
https://aave.com/
https://ens.domains/
Good morning! As the title says, Ooga ooga! I aped in on Dope Wars PAPER and the Infinite Machine Movie NFT collection. I finally found a P2E game I think I will actually play. With 8-bit LoFi versions of all my favorite 90's rap playing through the WinAmp player, I browse through the DopeWars.gg website and see that I can get all the OG computer game radness without Mom picking up the phone from the other room and ruining my 12 hour download. This p2E is built on Ethereum and Starkware! The first of it's kind! Then, I move on to The Infinite Machine Movie collection. Finally, Ethereum history has made it to the big silver screen. They are funding their movie in true Ethereum form as well by the sale of the limited edition NFT. These NFT's will let you be interactive and participate in the movie. It also lets the fans get directly involved and support their favorite projects and have some sense of ownership in the project's success.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/FightinFlix
https://dopewars.gg/
https://twitter.com/TheDopeWars
https://www.theinfinitemachinemovie.com/
https://mint.theinfinitemachinemovie.com/
https://rainbow.me/
Good morning! This morning I start out looking at the newly updated TXStreet.org website. This website has always been one of my favorite visualization tools for crypto and the current crypto traffic. It is a great teaching tool as well to help people visualize blocks, gas, and why fees are sometimes high. Then, I start asking myself questions and coming up with theories that I know nothing about and end up on some website that talks about how crypto is and should be reported in company financials. First off, I know NOTHING about accounting, so I don't know how I ended up on this website or topic. Second, I don't know who Foot Noted Analyst is and I did not like their conclusion. But hey, what do I know? This is exactly the point of this show; to stumble on random stuff and the audience goes on this unpredictable ride with me.
Sources:
https://txstreet.com/
https://www.footnotesanalyst.com/bitcoin-the-financial-reporting-challenge-for-investors/
Good morning! I had a hard time yesterday explaining bonding curves and donation systems that I decided to use yesterday as a shaky foundation and build on it some more. In this episode I review the concept of bonding curves and then go into augmented bonding curves and how the Token Engineering Commons and the Commons Stack come into play with all this. Basically the Token Engineering Commons and the Commons Stack help communities build blockchain donation and governance systems that will help communities directly address the specific needs and interests of any particular community instead of having to rely on some gigantic corporate or govt endorsed charity to come in at a snails pace to try to solve a local organizations issues. TEC and Commons Stack are the tools that allow this to happen.
Sources:
https://tecommons.org/
https://commonsstack.org/
https://medium.com/giveth/the-commons-stack-scaling-the-commons-to-re-prioritize-people-and-the-planet-fdc076aec4eb
https://giveth.io/
https://medium.com/@simondlr/saving-the-planet-making-it-profitable-to-protect-the-commons-50393906fe22
https://medium.com/@simondlr/tokens-2-0-curved-token-bonding-in-curation-markets-1764a2e0bee5
https://medium.com/@abbey_titcomb/crowdfunding-the-commons-d590238d8c3c
https://medium.com/linum-labs/intro-to-bonding-curves-and-shapes-bf326bc4e11a
https://blog.relevant.community/bonding-curves-in-depth-intuition-parametrization-d3905a681e0a
Good morning! This morning I verbally fumble with some new concepts of donating I have never heard before. When you donate to the grocery store clerk, that money just basically disappears. But what if it didn't? What if it became an actual investment and you got to see the change first hand? With the blockchain these previously conceptual ideas become an objective reality. I try my hardest to articulate the concepts of bonding curves which leads to augmented bonding curves. I did not get to augmented bonding curves yet as I was struggling trying to visualize what just bonding curves are. But I will make it to augmented bonding curves. This video is me trying to do my homework.
Sources:
https://giveth.io/
https://medium.com/commonsstack/the-augmented-bonding-curve-part-1-a-web3-way-to-fund-public-goods-7c9d1a871ae2
https://twitter.com/thegrifft/status/1471310023783555077
https://medium.com/@abbey_titcomb/crowdfunding-the-commons-d590238d8c3c
https://tecommons.org/
https://commonsstack.org/
Good morning! Somehow I manage to fly over entire rabbit hole worlds of topics this morning as I talk about everything from what DeFi 2.0 is, to a bunch of various different OHM forks on various blockchains, to getting into Fantom and talking about Hashgraph, Lachesis, DAGs, aBFT, and then I spend a little time reading comments comparing Hedera Hashgraph and Fantom. Is Fantom susceptible to a lawsuit by the big, bad Hedera?
Sources:
https://hectordao.com/
https://app.hectordao.com/#/stake
https://wiki.rugdoc.io/docs/how-to-connect-metamask-with-the-fantom-network-ftm/
https://fantom.foundation/
https://fantom.foundation/ftm-staking/
https://fantom.foundation/lachesis-consensus-algorithm/
https://coinguides.org/fantom-network-metamask-ftm-chain/
https://www.paypervids.com/fantom-ftm-vs-hedera-hashgraph-hbar/
https://www.reddit.com/r/hashgraph/comments/lp1xdf/hedera_hashgraph_vs_fantom/
https://hazelcast.com/glossary/directed-acyclic-graph/ https://101blockchains.com/hashgraph/
Good morning! I got a little bit on a rant this morning talking about grifters. When you first approach the crypto world, you may be overwhelmed by all the different opinions and way to approach it. Whether it be by mining, trading, DeFi, DAO, NFTs, or Metaverse Gaming. There seems to be something for everyone. However, there are always grifters and scammers that come around and try to take advantage of those new people. They pose as professionals and usually try to present some simple easy, but unknown projects, tokens, NFTs or steps that will give you advantage. All you have to do is buy a seat at their conference (online or in person), or buy their book, or subscribe, or whatever. There are, thankfully, good people out there in the crypto-Twitter space and beyond that want to help you find your niche. I look at 5 ways to make it without technical skillz in this space written by Coopahtroopah. If you know of some good web 3 related tweet threads turn them in to Chair @vrycmfy
Sources:
https://wiki.metagame.wtf/docs/playbooks/how-to-make-it-without-technical-skills
https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1470197861413441539
https://twitter.com/vrycmfy/status/1470929535352848386
Howdy folks! I just got off the horn with pseudo-anon Chair from NFTP.fun aka: Rainbow Rolls. Rainbow Rolls is a project that has highjacked the degenerate and debaucherous NFT movement where people are dropping insane amounts of money on jpegs for clout and speculation. Rainbow Rolls is turning that movement on it's head by incorporating the potty jokes that we all love and using the proceeds from the NFT sales to go toward public goods like wiping away medical debt. Rainbow rolls see themselves as De-Flusionary ASS-ets that are a fun way to help others. NFT's and and the blockchain are opening up an entire new world for the non-profit space and poroviding much needed transparency and access for smaller non-profits to get funding without tons of middlemen. Later in the interview we start to drift towards some of Chair's favorite NFT projects and games along Aavegotchi talk. Who knows? Maybe there is some alpha there for NFTP.fun! It was a fun interview until his cat crashed the party and needed it's kinship leveled up.
Sources:
https://nftp.fun/
https://twitter.com/rainbow_rolls
https://twitter.com/vrycmfy
https://ripmedicaldebt.org/
https://giveth.io/
https://gitcoin.co/
https://aavegotchi.com/
Good morning! This morning I begin by talking about some of the latest MGH DAO developments regarding staking. Staking on Polygon has been available for a week, and now staking on Ethereum is becoming available! I talk a bit about MGH DAO and why I am attracted to it. Then, I go into some of the legal questions surrounding the creation of a metaverse as a whole as this subject is really fascinating to me. We all collect data as info. What happens when that data becomes currency? How and by who is that data collected? What are we allowed to do with it? Can we live and eat with that data? Who is allowed to create and own that data in metaverse? Who owns the data created by AI bots/NFTs in the metaverse? What are the overarching governance/engineering mechanism in the metaverse? How is this regulated? So many questions. For those fearful of a metaverse Matrix-style dystopia, don't worry, we are still far away from being trapped in pods and fed through a tube. Sources: https://app.metagamehub.io/ https://metagamehub.medium.com/mgh-staking-on-ethereum-4f3bfe01005c https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/12/01/live-work-play-legal-metaverse-preparing-new-online-existence/id=140614/ https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/legal/legal-metaverse/ https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/a-brief-overview-of-the-metaverse-and-9541020/ https://alethea.ai/
Good morning! This morning I present a straight up variety show. I start off with a scam alert that actually had me convinced for a second early this morning. It was in Discord as an imposter pretending to be announcing a Hop Protocol airdrop. They are getting clever folks and they keep up with the current news and trends. Watch out! Then I talk for a while about the Song A Day DAO and Jonathan Mann with his Song a Day project. I love the idea of this project. It hits close to home for me. Go take a look at the link below and join the DAO if you feel moved by it. Then I talk about how Facebook just took an Instagram handle from someone because, well, they can. In web 2.0, that name is not your property. That's the beauty of web 3.0, it becomes yours.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/songadaymann
https://songaday.world/
https://twitter.com/LiJun_Ontology/status/1470593636253712384
Good morning! This morning is a bit rushed as I overslept but I wanted to get something done for the day. I take quick looks at GALA and DESO. GALA is a decentralized blockchain gaming platform that I have seen jump the ranks on Coin Gecko lately. I did ape in and buy some. Let's see where this one goes. It seems to have some good content and good partners and there is lots of hype around it, so let's see what happens. Then there is DESO. I was wondering what happened to all the hype around BitClout from last March. Well, now I know. The Founder "Diamondhands" has come out from being anon and seems like he wants to move past BitClout calling it an experiment and move forward with decentralized social media using the blockchain technology underneath BitClout to create an assortment of open source decentralized apps that sit on top on the DESO blockchain. I am hopeful for them as I would love to see someone topple the current web 2.0 social media giants. Sources: https://app.gala.games/ https://www.deso.org/ https://decrypt.co/81380/bitclout-deso-blockchain-diamondhands https://docs.deso.org/
Good morning! This Sunday morning is all about NFT's and things you can do with them. You can put them up for grabs, you can sell them on multiple markets, and you can fractionalize them and sell them in itty bitty pieces. Sources: https://sudoswap.xyz/#/ https://www.genie.xyz/ https://www.nftfy.org/
Good morning! This morning I start out slow, but things begin to heat up when I play the Bankless HQ video I did a double-take on yesterday. I heard David from Bankless reading a Tweet from Jack Niewold that absolutely rails on Cardano and calling it nothing more than a Ponzi Scam. Jack, and David, I think, bring up many valid points. I have also had some negative experiences with Cardano and it is not on the top of my preferred blockchains. However, to be fair, there are alot of great people in the Cardano community. I think Ethereum, Cardano and many other blockchains, share in the mission to help people circumvent the current banking and credit system to allow the average person financial freedom and to use financial tools only designated for the wealthy. I highlight a cool project from the Cardano community that seeks to bridge the divide between the communities through some pretty rad NFTs.
Sources:
https://wallet.kukai.app/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9_VrWvnme8&t=1274s
https://twitter.com/JackNiewold/status/1466823469564248068
https://angelbabyhitsquad.com/
https://cnft.io/
Good morning! Why am I this alive and excited at 5:34 in the morning? I have no idea. But I am laughing hard at the way the big brands and congress are each attempting to relate and understand the crypto space. From Facebook, Pepsi, and Budweiser encouraging each other with the WAGMI meme to Congress talking about the dangers of Mongoose Coin, I just am barely hanging on here folks. This is too much. Is this mainstream misinterpretation the end of subversive crypto? Where will the subversion happen next?
Sources:
https://gm.xyz/
https://twitter.com/Ry_Hawthorne/status/1469102148474441738
https://decrypt.co/87904/congressional-hearing-spawns-mob-mongoose-based-meme-coins
I was given the opportunity to interview two people deep in the decentralized digital identity world. Many people are not knowledgeable or concerned about what digital ID and ownership of personal data brings. Or, they may bring their set-in-stone pre-conceived notions and beliefs about digital ID being used for surveillance and/or enslavement. This eye-opening interview took many of the bits and pieces I knew about decentralized ID and reputations systems and put them together for me in a cohesive whole. We are entering into an inevitable digital world, it is up to us to protect our data and our sovereignty over that data. Humpty and Philip explain how Ontology and Bright ID are helping to shape this realm, and working to bring awareness to the importance of decentralized ID for just about everything in our near future.
Sources:
https://www.brightid.org/
https://twitter.com/BrightIDProject
https://twitter.com/UBIpromoter
https://ont.io/
https://twitter.com/OntologyNetwork
https://twitter.com/humptycalderon
Good morning! I started this episode with absolutely no plan and wanted to see where it would take me. I landed on web 3 music, art , and NFTs. There is alot happening in this space right now and I am barely scratching the surface. I read a post by n1k.eth on the gm.xyz web 3 social media platform about fans being rewarded for early artist discovery through NFTs, which leads me to some tangent about being at an early Marilyn Manson show back in 1994. Then I look at Mike Shinoda's web 3 music NFT project called Ziggurats. I am not a fan of Linkin Park, but this project looks amazing! It is on the Tezos blockchain, where I see lots of really good artists flocking to nowadays that the Ethereum blockchain costs too much.
Sources:
https://gm.xyz/c/web3music/c100aaae-9946-4cb2-bae3-360b625c2337
https://hen101.xyz/
https://modern.finance/episode/artist-spotlight-linkin-parks-mike-shinoda-is-dropping-ziggurats/
https://audius.co/3lau
https://royal.io/
https://wallet.kukai.app/
https://ziggurats.xyz/
Good morning! This morning I do a little rundown of Abracadabra Money to try to help myself and hopefully you, understand what Abracadabra.Money is and does. This is not an "official video" or even some kind of educational tool. It is just me rambling about this project trying to get my own head wrapped around it and verbalize it. Once I got past the way the term "Magic Internet Money" must sound to outsiders, I dug in and found the tool to be extremely useful and a great way to maximize some interest-bearing tokens that would otherwise just be sitting around in your wallet!
Sources:
https://abracadabra.money/
https://medium.com/abracadabra-money/abracadabra-spell-and-magic-internet-money-a563637ce92e
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1447323151256403971.html
https://yearn.finance/#/vaults
https://curve.fi/pools
https://app.sushi.com/stake
Good morning! This morning I go really deep and end up with a really long episode about Moloch, DAOs, human coordination failure, monarchs, and democracy. It gets pretty intense, so try to understand and listen with an open mind.
Sources:
https://daohaus.club/
https://www.molochdao.com/
https://medium.com/odyssy/moloch-primer-for-humans-9e6a4f258f78
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Good morning! Crypto is a weird space. It is growing and expanding and there is tons of uncertainty. I try to keep an open mind, laugh, have fun, and at the same time be aware of the risks involved and the scams out there. The first half of the video is fun and focused on CryptoTittiesNFT.com. It is an NFT project that give a large percentage of the proceeds to breast cancer research. Then, I go in for a reality check and look at the recent BadgerDAO hack where $120,000 million was stolen due to a front-end exploit. I cover some basic things to watch out for in Metamask and also talk about how the insurance company is not wanting to cover the attack. I hate to say it, but the Bitcoin maxis are right on the risks of wrapping your Bitcoin, and here is a prime example of why.
Sources:
https://cryptotittiesnft.com/
https://opensea.io/collection/crypto-titties-collection
https://badger.com/products/badger-bridge
https://twitter.com/CryptoCatVC/status/1466380960648380419
https://revoke.cash/
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/2/22814849/badgerdao-defi-120-million-hack-bitcoin-ethereum
https://thedefiant.io/badgerdao-hack-insurance-payout/
Good morning! This episode was full of info. First, I start off by answering some questions some people have had about my production process and how I find time to put out so much content in such a short amount of time. Then, I found a great Tweet that talks about a scenario in which you can give the scammers a taste of their own medicine and scam them back by taking their ETH gas. Finally, I highlight the Free Ross Ulbricht Genesis NFT Collection that is now on auction on Superare. With proceeds from this NFT, they are starting a donor-advised fund called Art4Giving, dedicated to relieving the suffering of the incarcerated and their families.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/depression2019/status/1465737323484573700
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethdev/comments/7x5rwr/tricked_by_a_honeypot_contract_or_beaten_by/
https://twitter.com/ClemencyForRoss/status/1466185453913231361 https://freeross.org/genesis-collection
https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/ross-ulbricht-genesis-collection-30841
Good morning! This morning I cover two different projects that are both redefining and pushing what it means for their respective industries to be in the web 3 space. Louie C Rhymes is the NFT Rapper. He creates generative art and music NFT's for his project, but the NFT don't stop there. The music has no middleman, and the funds go toward building and empowering a community of artists. As an NFT holder you can become part of that community, giving you voting rights and the ability to receive community rewards. Then, with all this independence that NFTs, crypto, and DAO sare giving, people are leaving their corporate jobs in droves. This begs the question, "what about benefits, and taxes, and all the stressful and boring stuff that comes with being independent. Opolis is a tokenized employment commons that is designed to take care of those payroll and benefits for you. It is not just a service, by holding $WORK tokens you have ownership in the governance of Opolis and you have the power of community behind you.
Sources: https://www.hiphopheads.io/
http://connect.opolis.co/bankless-blitz/
https://opolis.co/
https://opolis.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/White-paper.pdf
Good morning! This morning I have a topic docket full of web 3 NFT platforms and use-cases. From the big Hollywood silver screen to hip-hop music to a new web 3 style social media platform, web 3.0 is permeating into all modern culture. Most aren't even aware of it yet!
Sources:
https://zycrypto.com/ethereum-is-about-to-hit-the-big-screen-with-the-development-of-a-blockbuster-about-its-origins/
https://twitter.com/worldofethereum/status/1465804914622353412
https://www.hiphopheads.io/
https://nftp.fun/
https://akasha.ethereum.world/social-app/feed
https://www.stonercats.com/
https://www.madrealities.xyz/
https://gm.xyz/
Good morning! This morning I begin with my usual charts and ramblings about the crypto space. I somehow digress to talking about wrapped Bitcoin and end up on Badger DAOs Bitcoin bridge page for my first time ever. Then I explain how to set up a Metamask RPC. Then I get into a reading of John Barlow's "A Declaration of Cyberspace". I end with reading snippets of Timothy May's "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto". Truly an episode narrated by a Golden Retriever. Squirrel!
Sources:
https://badger.com/
https://www.eff.org/fr/cyberspace-independence
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/crypto-anarchist-manifesto/
Good morning! The common theme between these two very different projects, is they are both working to reach the everyone. Including those thought to be out of reach and out of touch. Human DAO is launching it's token on December 1, 2021 with a mission to equip the low to no income people of the world with the tools/P2E characters necessary to dive into web 3.0 games like Axie Infinity to earn income for themselves and their communities. Theta is creating a system of decentralized Content Delivery Networks (CDN) to replace CDN's like Cloudflare and Fastly to bring those CDN right into your neighborhood and in your home. This will enable ultra fast video streaming to meet the current and future demands of games, and the metaverse as it grows exponentially in size. Is all of this a good thing? Is this overreach? What it is will include AI? As always, I try to present some ideas and let you take it from there.
Sources:
https://medium.com/@TheHumanDAO/degen-meets-do-good-92cd80ffba2e
https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/11/19/is-theta-crypto-going-to-make-you-richer/
https://medium.com/theta-network/theta-network-an-essential-infrastructure-for-metaverse-development-2cf78f1c1e04
https://decentral.games/blog/decentral-games-partners-with-theta-network-to-expand-metaverse-livestream-events
Good morning! This morning I highlight an article written by @eaglelex_eth. In his article he brings to light the issues with the general assertion that "Code is law" in the crypto space and dev world. While we all want to reform the current system that is rife with systematic oppression and segregation, what happens if we completely replace it with code? Does this open the door for new types of attacks and/or a dehumanization of the law? Does this set into motion a Moloch-style mechanism that goes on auto-pilot and leads humanity into destruction? Lots of these light-hearted questions are going through my head on this happy Sunday morning!
Sources:
BanklessDAO Newsletter November 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/eaglelex_eth
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
https://medium.com/cryptronics/the-5-most-common-smart-contract-vulnerabilities-738de4fae3ba
Here is an excerpt from a past show: I connect dots like a crazy person between Alcor, cryonics, Hal Finney, Satoshi Nakamoto, and the speculation that Hal Finney is Satoshi Nakamoto who will return back to earth. Are we in the time of tribulation before the savior returns to bring order to the Earth through approx 1.1 million BTC mined in the early days? Was Hal Finney the real Satoshi Nakamoto? Of course, none of us reading this today will be alive in 2140, but it is fun to speculate.
Sources:
https://www.alcor.org/
https://kriorus.ru/en/news/How-cryonics-and-cryptography-are-related-Hal-Finney-CryoGen
https://decrypt.co/34810/how-many-bitcoin-does-its-inventor-satoshi-nakamoto-still-own
https://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/
https://decrypt.co/10975/what-if-satoshi-nakamoto-suddenly-returned
I get a little technical and try to understand what EVM is, and then how WASM is the next step in the evolution of a decentralized virtual machine. Just when I begin to understand some of the basics of Ethereum, here they go already kicking it up another notch! I also talk about some of the super fundamentals like what is a compiler, what is Turing complete, etc... Many of us have not had the chance to sit in classes that talked about this. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my terribly loose style and way of trying to externalize this stuff.
Sources:
https://medium.com/momentum6/the-war-on-virtual-machines-wasm-vs-evm-8e68f9d53ef4
https://www.parity.io/blog/wasm-smart-contract-development/
https://webassembly.org/
https://blog.cosmos.network/announcing-the-launch-of-cosmwasm-cc426ab88e12
https://cosmwasm.com/
Good morning! This morning I cover a slew of different topics and projects. I give a basic rundown of all the stuff I did yesterday while the ETH gas prices were (relatively) cheap. I picked up some good .ETH domains, I transferred some ETH to Polygon, and I staked some stuff. I also talk about Avalanche chains, Polygon Bridges, LP token yield aggregators, Flote.app NFT drop, Adamant Finance Arbitrum airdrop, and other random stuff.
Sources:
https://flote.biz/were-building-this-ship-together-announcing-flotes-plank-owner-nft-series/
https://adamant.finance/ https://hop.exchange/ https://ens.domains/
Weird subject combo today - It was a bit of a random show. I have had a Cardano NFT stuck in my Atomic wallet that got somehow bundled in there when I was trying to take some profits on my ADA tokens. It make it impossible to move and has been stuck there since last July. Really frustrating, but I found a fix a couple of days ago with ccvault.io. Then, I talk about a really amazing music-biology project I learned about through someone who was randomly talking about their background in a DAOists open DAO hour where people talk about DAO and life in general. She stumbled in and began talking about her project YYYRecords.com and the project on there which fuses living stem cell tissue from the musician grown in a petri-dish and connects it to a computer interface that connects to a synthesizer. The reactions of the living tissue to sound waves produced by drumming create music on the synth! She was talking about combining this innovation with NFTs and tokenization. Amazing stuff!
Sources:
https://ccvault.io/
https://www.reddit.com/r/atomicwallet/comments/qm51ik/problem_cardano_nft_stuck_in_atomic_wallet/
https://yyyrecords.com/artists/cellf/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-vk5QWRsg&t=161s
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14794713.2016.1161954
Good morning! Yay! Let's have fun talking about the scalability trilemma and modular blockchains! Said no one. Ever. But I actually had fun talking about it when making this podcast. Sources:
https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1462452996785119234
https://polynya.medium.com/processors-blockchains-modular-is-revolutionary-ded01824b603
In this episode I go deeper into the concept of MetaFi with Camilo Echeverri, and Nicholas Weber of the MGH DAO (metagamehub.io).
This is the first episode of the Metaverse Thinktank series in conjunction with the founders of the MGH DAO (metagamehub.io). In this episode we cover the basics of the Metaverse.
You never know what you may get when you jump on my morning video blog. This morning I decided to do a reading of an article by David Phelps entitled, "The Internet as Religion". As I dive further into my study of DAOs and participate in DAOs I am finding may of the points he brings up in his article to ring very true. I did not want to just talk about it or read snippets, as I would not capture the whole essence of the piece. So, I just decided to read the whole thing.
Sources: https://davidphelps.substack.com/p/the-internet-as-religion
https://twitter.com/divine_economy/status/1453480950059474946
In this interview I get to talk about two of my favorite things: skateboarding and crypto! When I was a little hood rat kid, I would make halfpipes out of tape, scissor, and shoe boxes. I would also make my own little fingerboards to skate these homemade dream skateparks with. Now in today's digital worlds a group of skaters are taking this concept to the metaverse and building NFT skateboards with all the attributes, and the skatepark in the metaverse where skaters call all go hang out on a rainy day in the meat-space. Anyway, I loved being able to sit down with these guys and get to hear fist hand what they are doing! Website: sk8verse.xyz Twitter: @sk8verse
For this interview, I had Dan Thomson the Marketing Lead of Insurace.io join me from the big crypto conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Excuse the background noise as he was right n the middle of the event and was kind enough to take some time in his busy conference schedule and call back home tot he United States to talk to me. Insurace.io is a software protocol for decentralized insurance for the Decentralized Finance world. Are you worried about venturing into that DeFi platform that your friends have been telling you about?
Contract audits are already becoming necessary, however, with insurance, you can pretty much guarantee that you will not suffer a tremendous loss by entering the DeFi space. Both individuals and institutions are catching on to crypto and it will be interesting to see where the insurance sector develops in this space. With Insurace, you will have that firm footing you need to explore the space freely. https://www.insurace.io/
Ivan (Twitter: Ivanlozada.eth) and I got up early in the morning to have a virtual crypto breakfast together and talk about all sort of crypto stuff including the banking system, NFT's, and virtual community. It was a light-hearted and fun conversation. Was a great way to start the day!
I have a great conversation with Brynn Huxtable about his home country South Africa, his crypto journey in general, his position with Marketsquare.io, and Marketsquare.io as a platform. Marketsquare.io seeks to be one-stop information source for crypto projects to be able to show who/what they are in an easily digestible and accessible format. In combination with Ark Blockchain, Marketsquare.io is striving for interoperability in the crypto-space to advance web 3.0 as a whole.
In this episode He is an early listener of my show and has provided some really great feedback and insight. He also has his own YouTube channel and uses the CallIn app to have public discussion about crypto projects/concepts. In this interview, Crypto Chemistry provides some great insights on crypto in general, technical chart analysis, VCs and project accelerators, and the Cosmos ecosystem.
I interviewed EZ of Rug Zombie. He explains the levels and nuances of rug pulls in a way that anyone can understand. He also explains some of the concepts and goals for the Rug Zombie project. Rug Zombie is the DeFi clean up crew to help someone recover their dead assets, but also quickly becoming much more than that with gameplay aspects being built in. Keep an eye on this project as it is blending yield farming, NFTs and gaming together!