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Commodore is the Co-Founder of Krause House, which is a community of basketball enthusiasts and fanatics that aims to buy an NBA team someday. Krause House is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) governed by a community of fans, basketball lovers, and purists. Together, they will write the consensus rules that will bring the first fan-governed team to the NBA. The collective of ambitious contributors whose goal is to own an NBA team describes the underlying mission of DAOs in its purest form: Difficult by one, achievable by many. Krause House will allow their members to participate in decisions affecting the operating procedures of a National Basketball Association (NBA) team including but not limited to general management, ticketing, merchandising, and partnerships.

This is Episode 18 of our CityDAO Podcast series. Today’s guest is Ryan Mueller, who is a Compliance Specialist from Phantom Compliance. Together with our CityDAO Pod Host @memebrain, we will explore various topics within the realm of doxing, compliance, regulation, and rug pulls in the crypto, NFT, and DAO space. Here’s some background on Ryan and his company, Phantom Compliance.

Ryan is the founder and CEO of Phantom Compliance. He has been active in online payments for 18 years, predominantly in an investigative/risk management role. He is highly knowledgeable and his specialties include fraud investigation and prevention, underwriting of new application risk, policy generation, compliance, managing third-party requests for information, and cryptocurrencies. Specializing in compliance, Ryan lends his expertise to the online-commerce field and high-risk environments.

Jonathan Hillis is the co-founder of CabinDAO, an online and IRL community using blockchain technology to help creators make a living online. After spending his younger years building technology products in Silicon Valley, he relocated back to Austin, Texas amidst the pandemic. There, he built a container home on the property, which is considered as the first “node” in the CabinDAO network. Jon invited a group of people, along with his future CabinDAO co-founder, Zakk Fleischmann, to stay in the container home cabins. This is where they hatched the idea of CabinDAO.

The CabinDAO core community resides in Discord and reaches the public through Twitter - @CreatorCabins. The vision of CabinDAO is to build a decentralized city for creators. Cabin is an experiment in the future of cities: decentralized physical nodes tied together by a shared culture, economy, and governance structure.

With the conclusion of the initial CityDAO Council 30-Day term, it has been an exciting week for us. There were 21 citizens who were elected and put up their time to work relentlessly on building up the official CityDAO charter. Currently the CityDAO Charter draft is undergoing its review. And gracing our show for today is Alex, who is one of the 21 citizens elected as a CityDAO council and has completed his term along with the other council members. For this episode, we are going to tackle the issue of post council reflections, affordable housing, forming charters in DAOs, the definition of ownership within the context of a DAO, and many more. Aside from being actively involved in CityDAO, Alex is an architect and he is currently building a fire station.

Today on our CityDAO Podcast, we have Senator Chris Rothfuss from the State of Wyoming. Chris Rothfuss is the Senate Minority Leader of the Wyoming Legislature. He was first elected in 2010 and represents Senate District 9 in Laramie, Wyoming. Senator Rothfuss co-chairs the Wyoming Blockchain Select Committee and serves as the ranking member of the Education Committee and the Minerals, Business, and Economic Development Committee. Also, one of his sponsored bills is the Wyoming Stable Token Act.

In addition to his legislative responsibilities, Senator Rothfuss is an advanced technology consultant and a visiting Professor for the Honors College at the University of Wyoming. He holds a BA in International Studies and an MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wyoming; an MS in Applied Physics and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington.

Welcome back to our CityDAO Podcast and our guest for today on our Citizen’s Series Episode is Favian. He is one of the most recently elected CityDAO council members who has finished his 30-day term. This episode tackles more interesting topics and issues within a DAO such as the processes of creating a charter in a DAO, the finalization and impact of the CityDAO charter, and the start of Favian’s VanlifeDAO.

Aside from being a part of CityDAO and contributing much of his time to the CityDAO council, Favian is enjoying his day job as a Civil Rights Litigation Attorney in Washington State. He represents people against governments or companies that did not do the right thing. He is also a van lifer, which means that he is fully living in his van and has been on the road for a year. Favian is a huge evangelist of van life and he is in the process of starting VanlifeDAO.

Today on our CityDAO Citizen’s Series, we have Filiblaster, one of the recently elected CityDAO council members. He is an active CityDAO community member who is also involved in the political realm. In this interview, Eric and Filiblaster talk about national politics, operating a DAO within the existing legal framework or outside of it, national states in contrast to anarchy, and the role of curiosity within a DAO and how it plays out. This episode is full of brilliant ideas and visions about CityDAO and it also has some discussions and debates regarding contrasting views.

Please check out our CityDAO Discord channel and join the conversations, give your own opinion, or create a new subject for other members to discuss and debate on. You can also listen to our past episodes and find more interesting stuff that our previous guests have talked about..

Once again, we present another recording from our CityDAO discord channel with Fortunata as our special guest. She is from Argentina and she is a lawyer who has in-depth knowledge about the legal aspects and legal issues of DAOs and the Web3 space. Fortunata is also an ambassador for Surge, which is a female-led organization focused on educating and securing women’s place in Web3. If you want to connect with our guest speakers and ask questions, feel free to join us on our CityDAO Discord channel.

This is the fourth episode of our Citizen’s Series. This series of episodes give all CityDAO Citizens, an opportunity to get to know each other a little bit more and have a more meaningful discussion about topics and ideas that can’t be explained fully in our discord server. If you’re still not a part of the CityDAO Discord Server, please join today and freely pick a channel of your choice. We are overjoyed to inform everyone that our CityDAO Discord has grown from 7,000 to 33,000 people, which is truly amazing.

Our guest for today is David, a CityDAO Citizen who has also been elected as one of the CityDAO Council. He is a lawyer who has spent a lot of time in China. Some of the main issues and topics that Eric and David talked about in this podcast are education, voting, the concept of CityDAO University, space as a concept, redefining a city, David’s vision for CityDAO, and many more.

Welcome again to the third episode of the Citizen’s Series here in the CityDAO Podcast. The Citizen’s Series is where citizens of CityDAO become a guest on this show and we get to know them a little bit more. Based in Bangkok, Thailand, Elmo is a very active CityDAO citizen who can usually be seen at our CityDAO discord channel. If you want to participate more and connect with Elmo or other CityDAO citizens, please visit our discord channel. Elmo has been recently elected as one of the CityDAO Council Members and he was the most voted candidate during the election. Aside from being a CityDAO citizen and council member, Elmo is a freelance tutor teaching high school students in Thailand.

One of the greatest things about CityDAO is that it has a diverse geographic location of its citizens, which means that people from all across the world can own legally enforceable governance rights over this piece of land that we purchased in Wyoming. This is the first time that it has happened at this level and everyone in CityDAO is very excited to be a part of this project.