Citizen Web3 Podcast

By serejandmyself

Exploring blockchain decentralization and the Web3 universe for over 5 years, through in-depth, hour-long conversations with builders, thinkers, and contributors—founders, validators, node operators, ... more

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Citizen Web3 Podcast episodes:

June 08, 2023Scammers, Evolution and DeFi design with Chad Barraford
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Chad Barraford A Core Dev from THORchain a decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol that allows users to swap assets between blockchain networks. THORChain is a settlement layer that facilitates swaps between Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Cosmos Hub, Dogecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin.
We spoke to Chad about THORchain and:
Early AI and their uses
Crypto as a vehicle for furthering human rights and empowering the people.
A 10-hour work week
Problem solving in computational science
The birth of THORChain from a hackathon
Identifying and solving hair on fire problems
Unique Web3 lending
Shifting the Web3 lending paradigm
The Origins of The Twitter Spam Assassin
The importance of separating money from state
Defining a scammer in Web3
Challenges around scalability
Learning through a freedom of exploration and building on past failures
When does a Defi design become too dangerous?
The imperative of the Crypto community to explore
Honesty as a lynchpin of ethical development
Bare metal for security
Evolution of automobiles and protocols
Tax mistakes
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Special Guest: Chad Barraford.
Links:
Apple Script
Bitcoin
Canto
Carl Sagan
Cosmos
Do Kwon
Elon Musk
Hotstuff
IOTA
Jack Zampolin
Lightning Network
Litecoin
Omniflix
Pale Blue Dot
Pocket Network
R Studio
Skyy Network
Steve Jobs
Tendermint
Terra
THORChain
...more
49min
May 25, 2023Web3 Governance, the Free Market and Challenges with Gregory Markou
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Gregory Markou, AKA GregTheGreek, ex Eth core dev and co-founder and CPO at ChainSafe a blockchain R&D firm, specializing in protocol engineering, cross-chain interoperability & web3 gaming
On their website ChinSafe claims that their mission is to enable the world's systems to run on decentralized infrastructure.
We spoke to Greg about Chainsafe and:
The importance of product development strategy
Gaming
The importance of self care
Visions of the future for the interchain
The journey from traditional education to being a founder in Web3
Traditional banking's failures as a catalyst for adoption
Bias and objectivity in Education
Knowing when to hand over the reigns of power
What does Web3 mean to Greg and ChainSafe
Is there enough product development in blockchain
Providing the tools for the next generation of devs
What is missing in Web3?
How free should the free market be?
Goerli ETH and moral quandaries
Challenges for Testnets
Opinions on Governance and multisigs
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Special Guest: Gregory Marco.
Links:
Aave
Bitcoin Lightning
Chainsafe
Cosmos
Cosmos SDK
David Ansermino
Ethereum
Firm
Gitcoin
Go
Goerli
Jorge Izquierdo
Juno
Lodestar
Makerdao
Near
Parallel
Polkadot
Red Hat
Richard Moore
Ruby
Runescape
Rust
Stake Fish
Stu Peters
...more
53min
May 11, 2023Privacy Semantics, the Conception of Law and Money with Chris Goes
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Chris Goes, founder of the Anoma project, A blockchain protocol that is "Intent- centric", privacy preserving and decentralized.
On its white paper Anoma descirbes itself as "a unified architecture for full stack decentralised applications"
We spoke to Chris about Namada and:
Privacy and it’s importance and in governance
Polycentric conceptions of law
What do people want or not want out of money?
How money is embedded in cultural context
How semantics could lead to dystopia
Semantics vs syntax
Dangers of gradient decent
The nature of money
Solutions to shortcomings of blockchain governance
Democracy
Social equilibrium using technology
Consensus
Anarchism
Motivation
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Special Guest: Chris Goes.
Links:
Adrian Brink
Aleo
All in Bits
Anoma
Circles Project
Cosmos
Cosmos SDK
DYDX
IBC
Informal
Interchain Foundation
John Law
Moxie Marlinspike
Signal
Sunscreen
Stakefish
Tendermint
The End of Finance
UniSwap
ZKproofs
...more
55min
April 27, 2023Trust, Borrowing and Stablecoins with Bojan Peček
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Bojan Peček, Operations Manager of Liquity a decentralized borrowing protocol buid on Ethereum.
On their Website Liquity asserts that you can draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral. Loans are paid out in LUSD - a USD pegged stablecoin.
We spoke to Bojan about Liquity and:
The value of traditional education in Web3
Freelancing
The upside of the financial crisis for Web3
The future of stablecoins
People as currency
The catalysts for mass adoption
Points of failure in projects
How trust is earned and lost in finance
How secure are multisigs really?
How borrowing is structured on Liquity versus other platforms
Startups
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Special Guest: Bojan Peček.
Links:
Alexey Pertsev
Binance
Bitcoin
BRICS
Chainlink
ChatGPT
Chicken Bonds
Circle
Decentralland
Edward Snowden
Ethereum
Frame
IMF
Jesse Powell
Kraken
Llamaswap
Lido
Liquity
Makerdao
Midjourney
Monolith
MtPelerin
Telegram
Tornado Cash
Olympusdao
Paxos
Upwork
...more
52min
April 13, 2023Wallets, Adoption and Fintech with Pedro Gomes
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Pedro Co- Founder of Wallet Connect a Dapp that enables wallets and apps to securely connect and interact.
On there website they discribe themselves as an open source protocol for connecting decentralised applications to mobile wallets with QR code scanning or deep linking.
We spoke to Pedro about Wallet Connect and:
The darkside of fintech
Pedro's participation in the hackathon where Cosmwasm won
Are there connections between physics, sociology, and web3?
What is considered a crypto wallet?
Focusing on mobile dapps vs desktop dapps
How does wallet connect help the industry move forward?
How will account abstraction as proposed by Vitalik Buterin improve web3?
Should the developers take responsibility for the user's errors?
The balance between what needs to be on or off chain
Should everything be decentralized?
The cost to decentralize vs the benefits it brings
How do we get people with older technology to web3?
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Links:
Account Abstraction
Binance
Bitcoin
Bitshares
Blowfish
Coinbase
Cosmos
Cosmwasm
Crypto Wallets
Decentralized ID
E-Commerce
Ethereum
Ethereum Denver
Frame
Fintech
Full node
Gemini
Grafana
Javascript
Kraken
Neo-Bank
Open-Source
Paypal
Smart Contracts
Solana
Steemit
Stripe
Tendermint
Twitter
Urbit
Wallet Connect
Web3
...more
58min
March 30, 2023Censorship Resistance, Adoption and Storage with Benjamin
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Benjamin Co-Founder of Permacast, Arweave news and Decent Land.
Permacast Allows Podcasts to Upload and host their episodes for a one time fee that according to their website will be stored on chain for at least 200 years
Permaweb News is a Community-driven news organization covering Arweave and web3 in general
Decent land is a set of web3 social protocols for identity, DAO governance and social networking built on Arweave
We spoke to Benjamin about [Permacast, Decent land and:
Benjamin's Journey to Web3
The importance of developing DAO tooling.
Agnostic chains?
The current state of Web2 & Web3.
Web2 incentivization
Should decentralization be the end of everything?
Decentralized front-ends
Permacast and how it works.
Why Arweave and not IPFS?
Storage permanency.
Interoperability and composability.
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Special Guest: Benjamin.
Links:
Activity Pub Protocol
Arweave
Arweave Name Services
Arweavenews
Astro DAO
Aurora
Cosmos
Decent.land
Decentraland
Decentralized IDs (DIDs)
Ethereum
Evmos
EVM
Facebook
Instagram
Ledger
Mastodon
Medium
MIT
Mirror
Monero
MySQL
Near
Odysee
Open License
Open Source Software
Paywire
PeerTube
Permacast
Pleroma
Polygon
PostgreSQL
RSS Feed
Spotify
Steemit
Telegram
The Cathedral and the Bazar
Twitter
Youtube
...more
50min
March 13, 2023Tribalism, Cosmos and Tutorials with Denis Fadeev
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Denis Fadeev Creator of Ignite an easy-to-use CLI tool for creating and maintaining sovereign application-specific blockchains built on Cosmos.
According to their docs Ignite offers everything you need to build, test, and launch your blockchain with a decentralized worldwide community. Ignite CLI is built on top of Cosmos SDK, the world’s most popular blockchain framework. Ignite CLI accelerates chain development by scaffolding everything you need so you can focus on business logic.
We spoke to Denis about Ignite and:
His goals
Building a blockchain
Tutorials and documentation
His passion to build for Developers
Working remotely
The role of the CosmosHub
Tribalism in crypto
Motivation to keep on building
The evolution of Cosmos and the potential for future Hubs
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Special Guest: Denis Fadeev.
Links:
Celestia
Cosmos
Cosmos SDK
Cosmos hub
CosmosJS
Cosmoverse
Gaia
Ignite
Layer 0
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Stride
Tendermint
...more
42min
March 01, 2023Organised Censorship, the Society and the Truth with Jae Kwon
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jae Kwon the Founder of Cosmos and Tendermint, and Creator of Gno.land a platform to write smart contracts in Gnolang (Gno).
Cosmos is described as an ever-expanding ecosystem of interconnected apps and services, that connect using IBC, the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol. This innovation enables you to freely exchange assets and data across sovereign, decentralized blockchains.
The Tendermint (now called Ignite) consensus framework is a proprietary Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant (BFT) Proof-of-Stake (PoS) infrastructure that allows the Cosmos Hub and its underlying blockchain “network of networks” to function.
We spoke to Jae Kwon about Cosmos and:
Censorship proof systems
Organised censorship
The role of the ICF and it's shortcomings
Listen to your gut when trying to determine truth
Misleading naratives
Distilling truth from collective
Factors enabling division
The power of censorship
Division in society is intentional
Decline of humanity and who is responsible
The fork in the road of humanity, where we either unite and strive or stay divided and oppressed
Discourse is the solution to the divisions that are destroying the world
Factions in religion and true Christianity
How did Jae Kwon get to blockchain?
The Power of Semantics
Defining a true Metaverse
ad hominem attacks to discredit voices speaking out against a preferred narrative.
Languages in smart contract systems
Shortcomings of CosWasm
Power of Gno as a tool and programming language and what need it solves
Better Tools will solve problems for the blockchain
Who is trying to keep us subjugated?
The things that are hidden need to become known
The difficulties of building social media platforms on the blockchain with an attractive user experience
The power of History and how we seem to not be able to learn from it
Financial Crisis as a social catalyst for change
Power dynamics of the world
The economic and governmental systems are captured
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Special Guest: Jae Kwon.
Links:
Agoric
All In Bits
Avalanche
Bahahism
Bitcoin
Bostrom
Cosmos
Cosmos SDK
Cosmwasm
Dither
Emin Gün Sirer
Ethereum
Gnoland
Go
ICF
Isaac Asimov
Revelations
Solidity
Sunny Aggarwal
Steve Jobs
Steemit
Tendermint
Tim Berners
The Chosen
Virgo
...more
52min
February 22, 2023Privacy, Drone Strikes and Systemic Corruption with Jaya Klara Brekke
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast Jaya Klara Brekke, CSO at Nym Technologies - a decentralized privacy system, working on infrastructure at the network and application layers.
On their website Nym states that they are developing the infrastructure to prevent data leakage by protecting every packet’s metadata at the network and application layers. Nym is also combining a mixnet with a blockchain node reputation and reward system.
We spoke to Jaya about NYM and:
Decentralization and its origins
Trust
Nym providing privacy at the network layer
Should we try to save people who do not want to be saved
Privacy as a fundmanetal right
Pain as a catalyst for change
Greed and how it seeps into systems and corrupts them
Criminal activity
Drone strikes
Motivation
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Special Guest: Jaya Klara Brekke.
Links:
Aztec
Coswasm
Cypherpunk
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
George Carlin
Manta
Meredith Whittaker
Nym
Secret Network
Tor
Tornado Cash
Universal Privacy Alliance
Zcash
...more
52min
February 15, 2023The New Web, Wrong Funding and Product Market Fit with Chris Castig
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Chris Castig, author of The Decentralized Generation: Seven lessons for staying digitally literate in a Web3 era and Co- Founder of Console.xyz, an open source web3 crypto chat built with Ethereum.
According to their website, access to Console comes with a suite of tools to grow your community, empower your most dedicated members, co-own assets, create events, docs, roles, token-gated channels and more.
We spoke to Chris Castig about Console, and:
The definition of a bad or malicious bot
Should bots or will bots have a measure of personal rights in the future?
How Craig plans to remove bad bots from the space
Humans can also be bots
The dangers of taking too much or the wrong funding
Working too long without a customer
The Golden Billion and how their wants are overrepresented
Onboarding new users
Product Market Fit
Education
Digital Identity
Motivation
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Special Guest: Chris Castig.
Links:
Biocoin
Cambrige Analitica
Elon Musk
ENS
Kevin Kelly
Paul Graham
The Matrix
Metamask
Madesafe
Out of control
Protocol Labs
Stuart Brand
The Clock of the Long Now
The Lean Startup
Urbit
...more
42min

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