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Episode: #7 April 13, 2020

Ether has some native mechanisms that contribute to its scarcity and value. David and Ryan explore these value mechanisms and compare/contrast them with money printer go brrrr.

This episode covers:

• 1. Scarcity mechanisms and fair games
• 2. Ether’s value mechanisms
• 3. How USD will fare vs. ETH

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----- Resources Mentioned:

• (Watch) Conway's game of life
• (Article) Ether is equity
• (Article) The Final Puzzle Piece to ETH's Monetary Policy

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   2. Ether is equity
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Ether has some native mechanisms that contribute to its scarcity and value. David and Ryan explore these value mechanisms, and compare/contrast them with money printer go brrrr

Episode: #6 April 6, 2020

Different Ethereum applications require different amounts of trust, depending on how each app is designed. This episode discusses how to think and measure the trustlessness of each app, and where the humans and computers meet. 

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----- Resources Mentioned:

• (Article) Ethereum will eat Wall Street
• (Article) Two Faces of Ethereum
• (Article) The Great Protocol Sink

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2. Evaluate protocols on the DeFi Trust Spectrum
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   • The Great Protocol Sink (Article)

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Ethereum applications live on a spectrum of trust. With humans at one end, and computers at the other, DeFi apps have different components of robots and humans.

Episode: #6

April 6, 2020

Different Ethereum applications require different amounts of trust, depending on how each app is designed. This episode discusses how to think and measure the trustlessness of each app, and where the humans and computers meet.

Episode: #5 March 30, 2020

Most people identify memes are internet images with text, or reaction gifs. Memes are much more than that; they are a tool for information transmission at the largest possible scale.  Memes are little packets of data that hop from brain to brain. They can transfer data across the globe and also across time!

Join David and Ryan as they explore the role that memes have in crypto, and some of cryptos best and worst memes!

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Episode: #5
March 30, 2020

Most people identify memes are internet images with text, or reaction gifs. Memes are much more than that; they are a tool for information transmission at the largest possible scale. 

Memes are little packets of data that hop from brain to brain. They can transfer data across the globe and also across time!

Join David and Ryan as they explore the role that memes have in crypto, and some of cryptos best and worst memes!

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• Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS")
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• Zerion - portal to your DeFi portfolio

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Episode: #4 March 23th, 2020

There are three asset "superclasses" - Store of Value - Capital Asset - Commodity Asset

Join Ryan and David as they explore the boundaries between asset types, and discover where Ether lies in relation to these three classes. 

Additionally, Ryan and David compare and contrast the economic and financial institutions that make up the world we know, and how they relate to these three classifications. 

Links mentioned in podcast:

• (Article) Ether: A New Model for Money
• (Video) Ether: A New Model for Money

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Episode: #4
March 23th, 2020

There are three asset "superclasses"
- Store of Value
- Capital Asset
- Commodity Asset

Join Ryan and David as they explore the boundaries between asset types, and discover where Ether lies in relation to these three classes. 

Additionally, Ryan and David compare and contrast the economic and financial institutions that make up the world we know, and how they relate to these three classifications. 

Links mentioned in podcast:

• (Article) Ether: A New Model for Money
• (Video) Ether: A New Model for Money

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Tools from our sponsors to go bankless:

• Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ "BANKLESS")
• Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards
• Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing
• Ethereal Summit - the most bankless crypto conference yet

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Episode: #3 March 15th, 2020

While the internet revolution is all about data, the crypto revolution is all about value. Scaling the internet is all about scaling data bandwidth, but scaling crypto is all about economic bandwidth. 

Join Ryan and David as they explore the concept of economic bandwidth and how it relates to crypto-systems.

Links mentioned in podcast:

• (Article) Ethereum is an emergent structure
• (Article) ETH and BTC are economic bandwidth
• (Article) The trillion dollar case for ETH
• (Article) ETH is irreplaceable
• (Dashboard) Economic Bandwidth metrics

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Episode: #3

March 15th, 2020

While the internet revolution is all about data, the crypto revolution is all about value. Scaling the internet is all about scaling data bandwidth, but scaling crypto is all about economic bandwidth. 

Join Ryan and David as they explore the concept of economic bandwidth and how it relates to crypto-systems. 

https://bankless.substack.com/p/ethereum-is-an-emergent-structure