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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February 08, 2024Validator Tools and the Importance of Anonymity with the Bros
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features the Bros from Bro_n_Bro.
The Bro's from Bro_n_Bro had a wonderful conversation with #citizenweb3. They brought all the energy and with that, they discussed and covered a host of serious topics that form the foundation of what Web3 should be.
Bro_n_Bro's mission is simple: to support and develop a decentralized world. They strive to maintain the highest standards for security and performance as well as providing the most accurate data to our community. They will keep building for decentralization until it comes.
We spoke to The Bros about Bro_n_Bro and:
Building for decentralization
Validator tools
The importance of ease of use for adoption
Defining Network Health
A reality check for the Web3
Providing real values to the builders of the blockchain
Analytics and information
Should Cex validators exist
Foundation governance
Climbing the validator ranks
Anonymity
Weaknesses of Cloud hosting
How best to organise validators
Unseen contributions of OG Validators
Bridges
Challenges of helping a small validator grow
Cloud vs Bare Metal
Hertsinger driving validators to bare metal
The need for decentralized infra
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Special Guest: Bros.
Links:
Axelar
Akash
Cosmos
Hetzner
Osmosis
Restake
Stakefish
Evmos
...more
58min
February 06, 2024Druid Gatherings and Decentralized Things with Vladimir Understanding and Valentin Medniy
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Vladimir Understanding and Valentin Medniy from Posthuman. Their energy and enthusiasm is contagious, as they take you on a journey through all spheres of Web3.
Posthuman is a decentralized validator. In this interview they reveal that they have many more facets to their work. Their validator school does invaluable work with up and coming and prospective infrastructure providers and their work internationally at grass roots is also really positive. This conversation is eye opening to the various aspects that projects can have that we never get to see.
We spoke to Vladimir Understanding and Valentin Medniy about Posthuman and:
Distributed things
Trust in a trustless system
Conspiracy theories
Consensus struggles
The power of digital to amplify a message
What is true decentralization
The demands of running a validator
Community development
Druid gatherings
The journey from illustrations to validators
The importance of community in blockchain
Passion as a driver for Cosmos at the start
The importance of reputation
The importance of validator participation
Evangelism in Web3
Connecting people through education
Myths about Web3
Ecosystem development
Decentralize your life
Decentralized management
Reputation based systems
The need for cooperation over competition
Governance
Egos
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Special Guests: Valentin Medniy and Vladimir Understanding.
Links:
Cosmos Hub
Ethereum
Hearthstone
Interchain FM
Jack Zampolin
Juno
Magic the Gathering
Neutron
P2P
Sif Chain
Telegram
Vitalik Buterin
...more
1h 37min
February 01, 2024Cypherpunk, Gateway Drugs and Public Goods with Trigs
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Trigs from Kleomedes. Trigs and Citizen Web3 have a deep discussion the spirit of web3, how often the tech life chooses you and the importance of following your dreams.
Decentralization isn’t something that happens passively. Kleomedes is buidling their DAO to showcase the value of this decentralization through a reward system, funded by validator profits, that incentivizes community members to not only be delegators, but also active participants in governance, promotion, and development on the chains they secure.
00:00 -- 03:39 : Intro
03:39 -- 07:57 : Trigs explains his journey from traditional tech to web3 via stonemasonary.
07:57 -- 16:30 : The values of web3 that resonate with Trigs.
16:30 -- 25:15 : Kleomede' main strengths during the bear market.
25:15 -- 29:30 : Why bare metal?
29:30 -- 33:30 : Trigs gives his thoughts on KYC and regulation to create trust.
33:30 -- 36:54 : The dream that is a DAO
36:54 -- 40:29 : Trigs tries to explain the enigma that is Kleomedes
40:29 -- 44:40 : The foundation is transparency
44:40 -- 51:58 : Details of the Kleomedes DAO
51:58 -- 1:01:06 : The Blitz
We spoke to Trigs about Kleomedes and:
Decentralization
The dream of a DAO
Importance of consensus
Transparency to achieve neutrality
Replace discord
Why Web3
Values
Business development
Tech as a life choice
Choosing your own tomorrow
Cypherpunk
The KYC Challenge
The gateway drug for being a founder
The power of intention
Bare Metal vs Cloud
Is code law
Post apocalyptic DAOS
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Special Guest: Trigs.
Links:
Bitcoin
Cypherpunk
Dogecoin
Ethereum
Ethereum Classic
Galactica
Hetzner
Kleomedes
P2P
Steve Jobs
Stake Fish
The Walking Dead
...more
1h 2min
January 18, 2024Mission Statements and Karmic Motivation with Valters Jansons
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Valters Jansons, from KJNodes.
Valters gives us a breakdown of what brought him to Web3 and being a validator. He also tells us what is keeping him in the space, his motivations, values and future plans.
KJ Nodes are a team of DevOps engineers from Latvia, they are also Crypto enthusiasts and node operators in various crypto ecosystems. KJ Nodes Validator is committed to transparency and provides public information about their activities.
00:00 -- 03:14 : Intro
03:14 -- 10:32 : Valters gives his background and motivations for being a validator.
10:32 -- 12:40 : Defining the mission of Valters and KJ Nodes
12:40 -- 17:14 : Why Cosmos?
17:14 -- 19:48 : Comfort zones and growth.
19:48 -- 25:02 : Chain selection criteria.
25:02 -- 28:09 : Morality of tools.
28:09 -- 33:52 : Bare metal or cloud?
33:52 -- 37:56 : The power of great tools.
37:56 -- 44:21 : Ideas on improving user literacy in web3.
44:21 -- 49:57 : What is the best way to sort and present data?
49:57 -- 55:58 : Advice for validators on security.
55:58 -- 1:08:25 : The Blitz
We spoke to Valters Jansons about KJNodes and:
The importance of UX
Values in validating
Subjective morality
Growth vs security
Cloud or bare metal
Time as a resource
Validator Tools
NFT's
Fancy blockchains
Educational responsibility
Destruction as a path to knowledge
Documentation as the downfall of a project
The importance of UX
The economic health of small validators
The commitment needed to arrive at your destination in Web3
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Special Guest: Valters Jansons.
Links:
Agoric
Chris Goes
Cosmos
Cosmos SDK
Coinbase
KJ Nodes
KJ Nodes Services
Namada
Revolut
Silk Road
The Phoenix Project
...more
1h 9min
January 11, 2024Statism and the Secrets to Happiness with Derek Wills
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Derek WIlls, the Author of The Liberty Solution, Libertarian and Anarcho Capitalist. This conversation is an eye-opening journey, dealing with many unseen challenges facing humanity. Anyone who has an interest in freedom and knowledge can greatly benefit from the information contained in this interview.
The Liberty Solution is a book advocating for a bold return to individual liberty as the solution to America's current political and social problems.
00:00 -- 01:15 : Intro
01:15 -- 04:56 : Discussing Texas
05:56 -- 06:65 : The possibility of finding a political home.
06:65 -- 11:00 : Can you vote for positive change and are you in a cult?
11:00 -- 13:46 : How do we break the propaganda machine?
13:46 -- 17:00 : Derek discusses some foundational arguments in The LIberty Solution
17:00 -- 25:36 : Defining anarchy and perfection.
25:36 -- 33:31 : Derek outlines his mission on Twitter and his meme strategy.
33:31 -- 38:36 : Javier Mile, who is he and will he succeed?
38:36 -- 43:16 : Derek gives his thoughts on web3 and decentralization.
43:16 -- 59:57 : Reputation as a currency for a potential Libertarian future.
59:57 -- 1:10:55 : The Blitz
We spoke to Derek Wills about The Liberty Solution and:
Tools of state control
Stimulus cheques as a catalyst for the bull market
Web3 on a dark path
Defining Anarchists
The power of propaganda
State monopoly on violence
The secret to happiness
The rights of criminals
Libertarians in Texas
Accuracies of stereotypes
Statist Ideology
Taxation is theft
Utopia to Dystopia
Homeschooling as a vehicle for Anarchy
Memes as the quintessential philosophical tool
Inflation
The invalidity of social contracts
Anarcho Capitalism
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Special Guest: Derek Wills.
Links:
Anatomy of the State
Bitcoin
Buddhism
Douglas Adams
Edward Snowden
For a New Liberty
Glen Greenwald
Javier Milei
John Law
Karl Marx
Lysander Spooner
Lunux
Murray Rothbard
The Ethics of Liberty
The Liberty Solution
Zoroastrianism
Walter Block
What has the Government Done to Our Money?
...more
1h 11min
December 21, 2023Trustless Systems, Luck and VC's with Pavel Paramonov
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Pavel Paramonov, Senior Research Analyst at Dewhales Capital. He gives a fresh perspective on VC's and the role they play in helping to drive projects and act as canary's in the coal mine for users when researching potential projects.
Dewhales Capital, is a venture capital firm focused on defi, invests in early-stage protocols with the aim of fostering disruption and growth. They are comprised of experienced investors and industry insiders, the firm leverages its extensive knowledge and network to identify promising projects and provide them with strategic guidance. Transparency and on-chain visibility are core values for Dewhales, as they believe in building a more open and equitable financial system through informed investment and community engagement.
We spoke to Pavel Paramonov about Dewhales Capital and:
The power of persistence
Creating your own luck
Trustless systems
The myth of work-life balance in web3
Research Methodology
The power of Twitter
VC’s as a force for good
User responsibility
Discipline beating motivation
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Special Guest: Pavel Paramonov.
Links:
Arbitrum
Artemis
Blast
Blockless
Celestia
Chainlink
Cosmos IBC
Dewhales Capital
Ethereum
Farcaster
Foundry
Fusion
Gravity Bridge
Layer Zero
Lens Protocol
Lido Finance
Optimism
Paradigm
Pavel Durov
Polygon
Requiem for a Dream
Solana
Uniswap
...more
1h 1min
December 14, 2023Web3 Vibes, Community Building and Infrastructure with Dilan Asatekin
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dilan Asatekin founder at Imperator.co
Dilan delves into a wide range of topics and shows us the people and passion behind the providers of decentraliced infrastructure. Dilan also explains that you don’t choose the Vvlidator Life, the validator life chooses you.
Imperator.co aims to make staking easy.Their website states that they facilitate investors and token holders in securing proof-of-stake networks through non-custodial staking.
We spoke to Dilan Asatekin about Imperator and:
Why Web3
Mission goals
The power of luck
Betting on education
Importance of open source
Defining red flags
Decentralisation
Infrastructure
The secrets of community building
Web3 vibes
Chain selection criteria
Challenges of a fully remote team
Putting people into the light
* Why you would choose to be a validator
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Links:
Akash
Ethereum
Lido
Likecoin
Osmosis
Leap Wallet
Stake Fish
P2P
Monero
...more
51min
December 07, 2023Non Custodial Staking, Economics and the Recipe for Success with Guillem Ferrer
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Guillem Ferrer, from Dragon Stake
DragonStake is a blockchain security team specialising in non-custodial staking. The team operates validators on various high-profile Proof of Stake networks, such as Cosmos, Polkadot, Kusama, Kava, Avalanche, Evmos, and plans to expand to Ethereum in the future. The team actively engages with the networks it supports and aim to participate in testnets from their early stages.
Our guest Guillem Ferrer details how we went from initially being critical of Bitcoin, to actively trying to grow and promote Web3 education across platforms.
We spoke to Guillem Ferrer about DragonStake and:
The vision needed to see the future from a white paper
Proof of Stake vs Proof of work
The secret to community building
The barriers of entry to Ethereum validating
Non Custodial Staking
Values driving chain selection
Decentralization
How best to counter the reputation damage done by bad actors in web3
Economics
Aligning with the correct people as a recipe for success
The inevitability of regulation and why it may be a good thing
Testnets as a starting point for validators
Solutions to tribalism
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Special Guest: Guillem Ferrer.
Links:
Avalanche
Bitcoin
Cosmos
DAG Distributed Ledger Technology
Dragonstake
Ethereum
Evmos
Kava
Kusama
Lido
Game of Stakes
Polkadot
Polkastats.io
Will Smith
...more
57min
November 30, 2023Hardware, Data Centers and Life Cycles with Isaac Zarb
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Isaac Zarb, CTO and co- founder of Simply Staking
Simply Staking aims to offer self-managed, self-owned, secure. They also say that they are a Tier 3 data centre with immediate onsite access without the need for 3rd party or public cloud providers. They claim to offer maximum privacy and security, ensuring multiple layers of redundancy.
Our guest Isaac Zarb has had an interesting journey and we discuss many of his experiences. He provides insight on what it takes to start a data centre, what is at the heart of blockchain, as well as how important governance is. He also discusses how improved connectivity will eventually be the key in uniting the tribes in Web3 and the importance of testnets.
00:00 -- 01:21 : Intro
01:21 -- 09:52 : Isaac explains the start of his journey and the birth of Simply Staking
09:52 -- 13:00 : A discussion about the need for validator tools.
13:00 -- 20:37 : Isaac details how they set up the origial data centre and their expansion.
20:37 -- 24:44 : Isaac explains when they feel refurbished hardware is permissible.
24:44 -- 32:59 : Isaac gives his opinion on initial start up costs and hardware needed for a new validator.
32:59 -- 36:18 : Isaac explains how they select which networks they validate and the importance of testnets.
36:81 -- 39:42 : What is the goal and what are the values?
39:42 -- 43:09 : What should validators do with regards to governance and KYC?
43:09 -- 47:22 : Potential dangers of KYC for a validator and how ZK Proofs could solve it.
47:22 -- 55:56 : Isaac gives his opinions on tribalism.
55:56 -- 58:30 : Simply staking projects in the pipeline and the outro
We spoke to Isaac Zarb about SimplyStaking and:
What is the heart of defi
Data sovereignty
Risks and rewards of KYC
Dangers of cloud services for decentralization
Refurbished hardware
Tax compliance
How validators add value outside of providing nodes
Scalability for validators
Challenges of running a business through Covid
The importance of governance and voting with regards for validators
The pros and cons of Island life
The value of participating in testnets
The life cycle of projects and founders
Cloud vs Bare Metal
Origins of Simplystaking
Adapting projects to be profitable
Costs of launching a startup
True use case for NFT’s
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Special Guest: Isaac Zarb.
Links:
Agoric
Bitcoin
Chainlink
Entrypoint.zone
Ethereum
Hetzner
Keplr
Linux
Notional
Polkadot
Ruby
Solana
...more
59min
November 09, 2023Empathy, Wallets and Communication with Michael Messele
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Michael Messele, CEO and co- founder at The Pillar Project.
Pillar aims to be an open-source, community-run wallet that serves as a gateway to DeFi and NFTs. The platform aims to be an all-in-one place for tokens, decentralized applications (dApps), NFTs, and DeFi services for users. Pillar Wallet is powered by Etherspot. Etherspot is a multi-chain #ERC-4337 developer platform that provides solutions for dApps
Our guest Michael Messele has been involved in crypto for over a decade and has witnessed many cycles repeat themselves. Michael started his journey in traditional finance and was converted to web3 by the possibility of data sovereignty. Michael also gives us a superb explaination of the differences between web2 and web3. He also gives us his secret to success with startups and how he feels it is best to manage leadership structures.
00:00 -- 01:29 : Intro
01:29 -- 05:26 : Michael gives a brief description of his journey.
05:56 -- 13:00 : Are we still on track toward a decentralized world?
13:00 -- 19:46 : Michael gives his secrets to success, logevity in the space and leadership.
19:46 -- 25:57 : Trustless systems and levels of trust in organisations.
25:57 -- 28:46 : What made Michael choose Pillar?
28:46 -- 31:47 : Michael gives great defiitions for web1, web2 and web3
31:47 -- 42:36 : Diving into account abstraction and data soverignty
42:36 -- 48:36 : Michael gives his thought on balancing UX design and decentralization at Pillar.
48:36 -- 53:51 : What is stopping adoption of Web3?
53:51 -- 58:37 : The Blitz:
58:37 -- 1:00:04 : Outro
We spoke to Michael Messele about Pillar and:
Journeys in the Crypto Space
The secret's of successful leadership structures
Mass adoption
Trustless systems
Smart Wallets
Account abstraction
Empathy in leadership
The definition of Web3
Banking the unbanked
The importance of communication
Data sovereignty
Principles versus revenue
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Special Guest: Michael Messele.
Links:
Bitcoin
Emperor Tewodros II
Ethereum
Etherspot
Pillar Project
Satoshi Nakamoto
Three Arrows Capital
What is a smart wallet
...more
1h 1min

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