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Andrew 'Zyori' Campbell
Sam Withers is an Australian content creator that entered the crypto world in 2016. He is an avid gamer and bullish on the future of blockchain gaming. A large part focus of his focus is on the Illuvium ecosystem.
Sam joins Zyori to reconnect after two years since their last conversation to talk about the latest in Crypto Unicorns, Axie Infinity, and Illuvium. They discuss the mechanics of each that make them viable in the next cycle!
M. Shadows (aka Shadows.eth) is the lead singer for the popular metal band Avenged Sevenfold (A7X) and founder of the Deathbats Club, powered by a 10k NFT Collection on Ethereum. Shadows first got into Ethereum in 2016 and was quickly excited by the potential of smart contracts. He was early in trading CryptoPunks and is […]
Henry the Grape is one of the Council members for CyberKongz, a popular NFT project on Ethereum and Polygon. Henry joins Zyori on this podcast to talk about the history of Kongz, what makes the Kongz community different, and the current state influencers in web3.
TIMESTAMPS:
6:35 The history of CyberKongz
17:25 Everyone thinks their community is the best
22:30 Structure around CyberKongz LLC
33:50 Marketing in web3 (Can it work?)
42:45 Zyori talks about THICK SKIN on the internet
45:45 Perspective on web3 foundation
50:37 How do we fix a broken culture with NFTs?
1:00:45 Final thoughts: TRY TO BE MORE HUMBLE!
Dan Benson is an American actor who is best known for his role as Zeke in the Disney Channel TV series called Wizards of Waverly Place and as the voice of Ethan from Rick and Morty.
Today Dan makes a full time living from his OnlyFans account, which he manages himself. Despite being a straight man, most of his online audience is gay men. He is also a gamer and big time fan of Dota 2.
In this podcast he breaks down the transition in his career and answers Zyori’s direct questions about making adult content from home!
TIMESTAMPS:
1:55 Dan says Hi
4:20 Twitter’s open porn policy
8:10 Leaked nudes
16:20 Being a “child” actor on Disney
28:16 Maintaining fame isn’t money
37:00 Esports is improv, no fundamentals
45:50 What’s it like making gay content as a straight guy?
58:00 Web3 payment rails for adult content creators
1:14:40 How was voice acting as Ethan on Rick & Morty?
1:20:50 Outro
We’re in the portion of the market cycle where the reality checks are rolling in. A Post-merge dip, metaverse FUD, and blockchain censorship. At least the bad actors are being flushed out. 🗑️ TIMESTAMPS:6:13 – Post-merge 12:10 – Decentraland FUD 18:12 – Metropolis 21:55 – Blockchain censorship 32:38 – Do Kwon on the run 40:14 […]
After 7 years in the making, it is finally upon us. We cover everything you need to know about a distributed engineering feat like no other. This is it, this is the big one: The Merge. TIMESTAMPS:2:17 – What is […]
Big moves, bigger conferences, and the biggest of hacks: Andrew and Kevin return from a long break to recount the saga of the 2022 market cycle. TIMESTAMPS:1:05 – Crypto conferences 14:25 – Recapping since January 25:28 – Quantifiable vibes 32:34 […]
The amazing OhhShiny joins Zyori to chat about getting into NFTs, starting The OhhShiny Show, the parallels of poker to real life, NFT regrets, and much more in this return of the Zyori Plus One Podcast! TIMESTAMPS:00:54 Going from online connections to physical connections 3:47 NFTs and personal relevance 8:33 The OhhShiny Show 15:18 History […]
New, programmable money means new terms for new financial maneuvers. This week, we discuss the difference between blockchain staking, single asset staking, liquidity providing and farming while ultimately realizing that words are hard. TIMESTAMPS: 4:57 – What is staking 8:25 – network staking vs single asset staking 17:00 – Tokenomic complexity 22:05 – Staking is […]
Nobody said decentralization would be easy. This week on the TNB, we’re asking the important questions: How will gaming DAOs function? Can community be airdropped into existence? Will Microsoft’s vision for the metaverse align with ours? Will web3 resurrect Blockbuster and RadioShack? TIMESTAMPS:6:10 – Building towards decentralization 12:00 – Web 2.5 business model 19:34 – […]
Trent and Zyori come together for the first time since TI to catch up on their latest adventures in Axie, Dota 2, Iceland, and babies!
This week’s edition of TNB is about surviving the tumultuous seas of crypto 🌊. Maybe your jpegs have already seen the other side of the 🌙, maybe they’ve been totally obliterated by right click savers ☠️. Either way, let’s bring in the new year with some final takes on trial and tribulation! TIMESTAMPS:3:40 – GameFi […]
T-Panda is an esports commentator from Finland recently finished his thesis on toxicity with specific focus on how it relates to gaming. He joins Zyori for an interesting conversation about mental health, adults being toxic, alcoholism, and cryptocurrency! TIMESTAMPS:04:44 Being A Gamer Guy 23:00 Talking About Toxicity 50:20 Adults Being The Toxic 1:06:00 About MoonShine […]
The gang breaks down the latest trend in token distribution- airdrops. What are airdrops? What are protocols just sending us free money? Is this actually the model of the future? It’s all here in episode twenty. Timestamps: 2:19 – Ethereum Name Service 6:00 – ENS Airdrop 12:52 – What is an airdrop? 19:07 – Past […]
NFT NYC offered the full spectrum between an awkward art gallery, an exclusive skyscraper shindig, and a literal yacht party… it really just depended on which token communities you belonged to. Community is the latest killer app. TIMESTAMPS: 1:07 – NFT NYC 7:50 – Bored Ape Yacht Club 12:00 – Token gated communities 20:45 – […]
SHIB’s meteoric rise causes the gang to question the fabric of their monetary reality. What does it mean now that the top 🐶 has been dethroned? Why can’t we have just a single dull week in crypto? TIMESTAMPS: 0:50 – Lisbon 8:26 – SHIB flipped DOGE 🐶 14:00 – Ponzi games 20:45 – Holders 27:00 […]
If the future of blockchains is multi-chain, then the future is already here… it’s just not evenly distributed. This week it’s all things side chains, layer 1s, layer 2s, cross-chain interoperability and collecting NFTs betwixt.
Ready or not, climate change is here. One of the most common and valid criticisms of crypto is the electricity it demands and the environmental impact of that consumption. For an industry that prides itself on building global coordination tools, will any of it matter if the globe catches fire in the process? This week, […]
The Block buds are back from break and brimming with bits about bytes. This edition of 0x is all about Crypto Conventions and con artists. TIMESTAMPS:3:55 – NFT NYC 6:29 – MCon 12:50 – Blockchain to the masses 20:50 – Scaling is hard 28:35 – Marketing spend 33:19 – Empowering artists 40:36 – Navigating innovation […]
What? The New Blocks is evolving! Introducing 0x episodes: A more raw and timely crypto news format. 0x episodes are less about on-boarding crypto newcomers and more about discussing the newest of the blocks. This week, we talk about the latest swelter: JPEG Summer 🔥. TIMESTAMPS: 1:44 – JPEG summer 9:00 – Top sellers 21:12 […]
New regulation is rolling down Capital Hill and it’s headed straight for crypto. Did the Senate just attempt to ban the entire industry? What are regulators missing and why does regulation have to be this hard? TIMESTAMPS: 2:43 – The Infrastructure Bill 6:37 – Regulation in trusted systems 12:25 – Centralized crypto regulation 16:08 – […]
Trent & Zyori sit down for a catch up after 5 weeks away, covering missed news about Blizzard, Amazon’s MMO, and real life qualms before diving into Patch 7.30 and Trent’s BINGO card. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 6:05 Empathizing with Valve as a Game Dev 10:55 Blizzard is now a husk of it’s former self 18:20 […]
If you’ve experienced the blockchain superhighway, you’ve probably noticed, the tolls add up quickly! What if you could whip around these same roads, but for only fractions of a penny? This is the future vision for blockchains, and if you know where to look, it’s already here today. Today, we merge into the fast lane […]
Pop some corn and kick up your feet by the ocean fire. Today, we’re rounding out the 15th episode with a culmination of everything we’ve learned over The New Blocks series. We’re talking stable coins, DAOs, AMMs, yield farming NFTs, and DeFi protocols. This episode couldn’t fit another 3-letter acronym if we tried. Decentralized Finance. […]
Trent and Zyori reconvene after a month to discuss the latest, including: The International 10 moving to Romania, TI10 regional qualifiers, Team Secret x Axie, WePlay Animajor, and Bo Burnham’s Inside. TIMESTAMPS: 0:45 TI10 to Romania in October 10:45 Team Secret tweets about Axie Infinity 20:20 TI10 Qualifiers 28:45 MrAvo+ the GOAT 33:50 Trent the […]
Today, the fam squad discusses trading, swapping, and exchanging with the help of automated market makers. Will this new design for non-custodial commerce change the way we exchange? In this episode, we’ll discuss how every day DeFi users are beginning to eliminate the extractive 3rd party bankers we’ve grown so accustom to. TIMESTAMPS:0:48 – Special […]
Aleksander Larson, known as Psycheout86, is the COO and co-founder of Axie Infinity and it’s parent company Sky Mavis. He has a long history as a competitive gamer and follower of esports, with only 8,000 hours logged in Dota 2. At Axie Infinity, he’s played a key role in developing the foundation of the Axie […]
This week, the DeFi apprentices are feeling the full force of a true, crypto-market swing. On a week as red as this one, what topic is more fitting than stable coins? There is massive global demand for monetary stability. Let’s learn about a few wildly different approaches to meeting it. TIMESTAMPS: 4:21– What are stable […]
Trent and Zyori finally connect to podcast about the second season of DPC, the wildcard format, Alliance / OG 6th man coaching scandal, predictions for the Kiev Major, and rewatch old videos from the first Summit.
The class graduated from Blockchain 101 and we’re moving on to Blockchain 102. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, are the building blocks for a new kind of company, institution, and an alternative to traditional hierarchical governance. Whether you’re an ape on Wall Street Bets or you’re helping to coordinate the decentralized alternative to the FED, […]
Sebastian Park is an esports investor and builder that has experience managing Dota teams, working as VP of Esports for the Housten Rockets, and now a venture partner at Bitkraft. He recently took part in launching the Esports Certification Institute (ECI), an education program for folks looking to enter the esports industry. The launch was […]
Today, the gang proves first hand that you don’t need to be a genius to understand smart contracts. These new building blocks will fundamentally alter the way humans work together and collaborate. It’s time to roll up our sleeves, pull up a keyboard, and start programming the open, public goods of tomorrow. TIMESTAMPS:0:00 – Intro […]
Mateus Cysne, founder of SG Esports in Brazil, and CHiNa, SG team manager, join the podcast to talk about the history of SG, their struggles as a team in Dota, working with EllaLink, and the pain associated with team bundles being totally ignored.
For episode 10, the gang finally sits down to have the talk about the bulls and the bears. Growing up is awkward and blockchains are no exception. Grab a juice box as we flip through the year book and explore crypto’s prepubescent years, mood swings and embarrassing moments included. TIMESTAMPS:2:03 – Banks vs crypto 5:40 […]
Bowie and Zyori interview the position 4 player from Thunder Predator, Joel Mori “MoOz” Ozambela, who recently had a stand out performance at the Singapore Major. He talks about playing on low ping, some tricks to Earth spirit, success despite not having a coach, the difference between playing in NA vs SA. TIMESTAMPS:0:57 How was […]
Trent and Zyori talk about the second season of DPC that starts on April 12th. They cover the live updates of roster shuffles and preview the teams of each region. TIMESTAMP:3:10 Theeban qualifies for NA Div 2 6:00 Roster Changes 13:17 OG League of Legends play troll 16:17 EU/CIS Roster Changes 20:50 SA/NA Roster Changes […]
The squad comes to a consensus about consensus mechanisms. Who runs the blockchain? What is trust collateral and which one is best? How many new blocks do we really need? Join in as we peel back the next layer of the crypto-onion. TIMESTAMPS:1:30 – What is a node? 4:39 – What is a consensus mechanism? […]
Brax has been a full-time Dota 2 competitor since 2012, with experiences playing both in China and North America. Although soft-spoken at times, Brax and Zyori dive deep into recent issues in the Dota scene, like: player conduct, regional bias, match-fixing, and covid. Warning: not for the faint of heart. TIMESTAMPS:0:50 What’s it like playing […]
The buds are talking altcoins: past, present, and future. What makes a project interesting or valuable? What does it mean for a blockchain to fork? Whose fork is it anyway? All of this and so much more in this week’s edition of The Block Heads. TIMESTAMPS:2:18 – What is an altcoin? 4:08 – Forking 9:45 […]
Zyori and Bowie talk about Thunder Predator’s stand-out performance so far at the Singapore Major, who are currently 8-0 in the group stage.
Trent and Zyori talk about recent issues in NA/SA then focus in on the Singapore Major coming up in 10 days. They go through each phase of the major and talk about potential outcomes in great detail, before lamenting about team bundles that still haven’t been released. TIMESTAMPS: 1:20 Racism recent events 10:45 EPIC Season […]
What the heck is an NFT??? The gang dives head-first into one of the first truly mainstream use-cases for crypto. Grab your top hat skin and your monocle token, today we’re appraising fine, digital art. TIMESTAMPS: 2:00 – What is an NFT? 8:40 – Recent NFT Sales 16:28 – NFTs in gaming 23:08 – Where […]
Panda from team No Ping comes on to talk about his recent suspension from the BTS Americans event for using racist slurs in a public matchmaking game, just 4 days after another player was suspended for the exact same thing. Translations by Avo+. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Zyori Intro 2:13 Bowie Intro 4:35 Zyori responds to 2019 […]
MrAvoPlus is a well-rounded Dota 2 commentator that creates content both in English and Spanish. During the first season of DPC he covered multiple regions, in multiple languages and has a unique perspective on the game. In this long form interview, the boys breakdown the latest drama with Aretes and talk about the cultural difference […]
Sunbhie is currently the coach for Team Fnatic, that has recently qualified for the Singapore Major. He has a long history as one of the early players competing in Korea and then became a full time coach in 2016. He helped lead Team Secret to seven top-3 finishes during his tenure and has no shortage […]
Leostyle is the 25-year old mid player for team Thunder Predator that recently qualified for the Singapore Major. He comes on the show to talk about the DPC Season, training conditions at Thunder Predator, and recovering from carpal tunnel. TIMESTAMPS: 1:23 How does it feel to be going to Singapore Major? 2:52 Any special requirements […]
The gang talks about crypto custody. Ownership. How does owning crypto differ from owning something like a stock? This episode is all about different types of exchanges and wallets, and the risks associated with each. TIMESTAMPS:3:33 – Bronze League – Speculation 5:44 – Gold League – KYC/AML 10:05 – Platinum League – Advanced trading 12:35 […]
North American DPC host, Dakota Cox, joins the show to exchange notes about coverage in the Americas! The three gents talk about the most contested heroes, cross-regional match-up hype, and the POKEMON MOBA! TIMESTAMPS:2:28 Trent’s Take on NA vs SA 12:52 Wild Card Concept 18:24 Cross Region Dota at Singapore Major 25:49 Most Contested Heroes […]
Lelis from team Quincy Crew just qualified for the Singapore Major as second place in North America. A brasil player that’s been crossing regions, Lelis shares his perspective on the current league, living with EternalEnvy, and playing as a sponsor-less team. TIMESTAMPS:0:36 MVP Mercedes trade-in 3:23 Does Lelis care about Dragon’s Blood 7:10 Switching from […]
AK focus in on Ethereum and cover the fundamental aspects of it’s function as a virtual computer. They explore this idea that “code is law” and explain the basics of initial coin offerings (ICO’s) and digital asset scarcity. TIMESTAMPS 1:18 – Ethereum is a virtual computer 3:19 – Vitalik Buterin’s whitepaper 5:31 – What can […]
Gwen Montgomery is a full-time twitch streamer that was able to launch her broadcasting career by going viral on twitter earlier this year. Candid in her approach as a transgender woman, Gwen’s “From pro gamer to e-girl” tweet caught the attention of major influencers and jumpstarted her fanbase. In this episode, she talks about how […]
This interview is focused on the latest drama surrounding 0-900’s disqualification for the SA DPC Lower Division. Jericho is the primary player accused in the situation and speaks about what happened. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 1:54 What happened, from Jericho’s perspective 5:14 Insider information: why risk it as a player? 9:03 How rampant is match-fixing in […]
Energy is in the air as Trent & Zyori revel about the recent Dota 2 Anime crossover with Netflix. They talk about the hardcore nature of Dota’s fanbase, improving at games during lockdown, transparency in player salaries, and New Year’s Resolutions. TIMESTAMPS:0:00 Dragon Knight Anime 8:07 What the Show means for Dota World Building 11:35 […]
This episode of SADPP focuses on the business side of South American Dota, featuring a lengthy, in-depth interview with Beastcoast CEO, Grant Zinn. Beastcoast is currently the only North American team organization operating successfully in the South American Dota space, and now their investments in player infrastructure and behind-the-scenes content has set them way ahead […]
Jackie Mao is a long time Dota 2 player that has played in multiple regions and even owned his own team organization. EternalEnVy holds the record for the most professional games played that last more than 60 minutes- a chaotic mastermind that lives his life mostly in the moment. In this episode, EnVy gets introspect […]
The fellas dig deeper into what makes the blockchain so important and what it looks like under the hood. When should the Byzantine Generals attack the city? Does Charlie really have $5,000 to send to Denise? All of this will be answered and more on a blockchain near you. TIMESTAMPS:0:00 – Intro: Tesla buys Bitcoin […]
The mid player from lower division squad Team Incubus, mini, joins the show to talk about his team’s results, the failures of third party tournaments in SA, 444 passing away, and analysis of the week 3 standings in South America. Follow our guest: http://twitter.com/minidotaa TIMESTAMPS:1:14 Loss vs SG, Problems with Closing 2:51 Aiming for The […]
Trent and Zyori talk about the latest in DPC with a special focus on North & South America. They tackle Arkosh Gaming, prize distribution, Dota GOAT, coaches in China, and the dark horse in SEA.
TIMESTAMPS:
4:00 The League Structure
7:26 The Arkosh Mystery
10:03 Bottom Dollar for The Bottom Tier
17:40 The Quality of Matches for DPC
24:00 Drama in the DPC
29:58 DPC Work Dynamic
37:00 Who is the Dota GOAT?
43:33 Tundra Esport, New Money in the Dota Economy
47:27 Dota Streaming Ecosystem
54:23 China DPC, The Old Guard Coaching Scene
1:02:32 SEA DPC, Dark Horse, Hype Games
1:06:50 Fewer Games, More Prep Time
1:09:54 Steam Game Fest & Crypto