Citizen Web3 Podcast

Building Communities, Self-Hosting and Space Monkeys with Dymion

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This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dymion from ValidatorVN

Dymion describes the leap from crypto trading to validation as a challenging, sleepless journey of self-hosting, community-building, and exploration beyond the Cosmos ecosystem. Amid the struggles, they find solace in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1, embracing the beauty in perseverance.

ValidatorVN is a dedicated blockchain validator focused on secure, self-hosted infrastructure and organic community growth. Committed to exploring beyond the Cosmos ecosystem, they navigate the challenges of validation with resilience, technical expertise, and a passion for decentralization.

We spoke to Dymion about ValidatorVN and:
  • Monkey trying to go to space
  • Figure it out from scratch
  • One line of script everywhere right now
  • 100% new
  • Building a community organically
  • Pump and dump
  • Pain of self-hosting
  • Exploring outside the cosmos ecosystem
  • The wonderful experience of two continuous months with sleepless nights
  • Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1

    • Timestamps

    00:00 – 07:00 : Intro

    07:00 -- 13:05 : Overcoming fear of validation
    13:05 -- 17:03 : First, Community or Validator
    17:03 -- 19:30 : Goal
    19:30 -- 27:35 : Investing into test nets
    27:35 -- 29:18 : Slash protected
    29:18 -- 30:50 : Self-hosting
    30:50 -- 37:15 : Workarounds
    37:15 -- 38:26 : Concentrating on just one or not
    38:26 -- 41:15 : Selecting a chain
    41:15 -- 46:25 : Public or private

    46:25 -- 48:42 : The past three years
    48:42 – 52:19 : The Blitz

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