PoolTogether Community Podcast

We’re pumped to have BraveNewDefi on the Podcast! BraveNewDeFi is a member of the PoolTogether Treasury Working Group and Marketing Lead for Nexus Mutual.

Warning: Please note that nothing in this podcast is financial advice and is for informational and educational purposes only. Crypto and digital assets are unregulated, risky and you could lose some or all of your investment.

This episode is packed with information about how you can get covered against smart contract failure & exchange hacks through Nexus Mutual.

And not only can you get covered, you can provide coverage too! Nexus Mutual is run entirely by its members. And all member decisions are recorded and enforced by smart contracts on the Ethereum public blockchain.

It’s a great way to participate in a community that works to keep crypto safe.

We discuss:

* The most covered protocols by Nexus Mutual

* Various hacks covered

* What is not covered (Exclusions in the cover wording)

* How to cover your investment

* How to join the Nexus Mutual community

* How to cut your premiums in half!

* No loss marketing with PoolTogether

We have CryptoTexan from IndexCoop on the episode next week.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pooltogethercommunity.substack.com

We have a special guest today, none other than blakeburrito, a long-time PoolTogether Community Member now at Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS)

Warning: Please note that nothing in this podcast is financial advice and is for informational and educational purposes only. Crypto and digital assets are unregulated, risky and you could lose some or all of your investment.

We cover a lot today including:

* blakeburrito’s involvement with PoolTogether DAO including the forming and running of the Grants Committee

* What is EPNS and what is the mission and the value they are bringing including potential use cases

* How can non-coders really understand smart contracts using Etherscan - why this is important and should you learn Solidity?

* The American Dream - property ownership and how can that be served crypto style

* How to find projects early and to get involved

* The importance of making and keeping connections within the Web3 space - there is a real person behind each profile image

* Resources to explore to learn more about DeFi and Web3 including rabbithole.gg, Kris Kay, Questbook and more

* blakeburrito’s own journey after losing his long-term job during the pandemic

* The advice Blake’s Uncle provided him which he uses to this day

* The hope that a Web2 company will go Web3…

* The criticality of strong and healthy Governance to have healthy functioning protocols

* And more…

We have BraveNewDefi of Nexus Mutual coming up next week.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pooltogethercommunity.substack.com

Welcome to Episode #3 of the PoolTogether Community Podcast where today we feature Leighton Cusack, the PoolTogether Inc CEO and Co-Founder of the Protocol

This podcast is now available at Apple Music, Spotify and Stitcher if you would like to listen on your streaming device or wherever you usually access your podcasts.

This is a fun podcast exploring many areas of Crypto and DeFi:

* The area of focus for PoolTogether in 2022

* Which other protocols Leighton is involved with including Compound and PleasrDAO

* The main trends for DeFi and Crypto in 2022

* Importance of Wallets such as Zapper and Rainbow to increase consumer adoption

* His adventures with NFTs

* Why he sold his Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT for just 2 ETH (current floor around 70 ETH)

* UniSocks and how he was involved with this

* Loss-less funding for art and charity causes such as Juicebox

* Thoughts on Music NFTs

* How and Why Leighton would like to onboard President Biden into Crypto

We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode. We will be exploring some other protocols in coming weeks including Ethereum Push Notification Service, Nexus Mutual and Index Co-Op amongst others.

Look out for the next PoolTogether Community Interview on Friday.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pooltogethercommunity.substack.com

Welcome to the second episode of The PoolTogether Community Podcast featuring DeFi Educator supreme - Kris Kay!

Firstly, thanks to @Tim for the amazing new PoolTogether intro!

Kris Kay has a fantastic DeFi Wealth Bible Course which already has 16,000 to 17,000 people enrolled and will help you and your friends and family be able to onboard and educate yourselves within crypto and DeFi.

Show Notes including

* Why it is important to have at least 51% of your portfolio in Bitcoin and Ethereum

* Using the Index products available from Index Co-op

* Why DeFi Blue Chips such as Compound, AAVE, Curve Finance are the next “cool” thing

* How Kris is earning passive income with Decentral Games and how you can start with its Play 2 Earn poker game

* OpenSea Decentral Games ICE Poker Wearables

* Why Kris is bearish on Cardano (ADA)

* How to be rational in an irrational market

* The Synch Thesis within DeFi

* What Kris thinks will be big in 2022

* DeFi Projects Kris finds interesting e.g. Olympus DAO and Olympus Pro

* How Kris has onboarded many people to deposit into PoolTogether

* And more!

Follow Kris on Twitter and YouTube

And, please remember to visit PoolTogether to deposit into v4!

Important Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast and related content is financial advice. Please do your own research. The podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. Crypto and digitial assets are unregulated, risky and you could lose some or all of your money if you choose to invest.

We hope you enjoyed today’s podcast. We are looking to improve with every podcast to give you the best listening experience and value we provide to you.

You can listen live each Wednesday at 1.30pm EST on the PoolTogether Live Voice Channel as well as joining in the chat and ask your questions on the #PT Community Podcast thread.

We will be returning on Friday with another Community Interview.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pooltogethercommunity.substack.com

Welcome to the first episode of The PoolTogether Community Podcast!

We are making a change. We will still have The Richard Show which features Oops and Richard and their fantastic chats through the Random Channel.

This is now the launch of The Pooltogether Community Podcast which will feature guests from both inside the PT Community e.g. Oops today, Kris Kay and more.

We will also be having guests from outside the Community and from other protocols e.g. Nexus Mutual and more.

The aim is to explore all areas of crypto - from general crypto investing, DAOs, DeFi, NFTs and more - as well as touching on PoolTogether.

The aim is to see how this grows and what is of the most interest. If you would like to listen live, you can do this on Wednesdays at 1pm EST on the PT Live section of the official PT Community Discord.

With this being said, let’s get onto today’s fantastic episode with Oops:

We cover so much in this episode:

* How Oops found out about NFTs back in 2016 and everything will become a token

* His adventures in handing out physical POAPs at various NFT and crypto events - see the beautiful images created by his sister

* How to onboard your friends and family into Crypto using Banano.cc

* Find out your Degen DeFi Score - connect your wallet and find this out

* Alchemix’s 12 days of XMas NFTs

* Add .xyz to the end of any .eth address to see the NFTs that wallet holds

* Music NFTs are the future. Explore more at

* Sounds.xyz

* Audius for Music NFTs

* Coopahtroopah’s Twitter

* Explore PoolTogether’s exploration of working with NFTs

* The future is in lossless crypto funding for artists and creative people

* And a lot more besides

Here are the other POAPs which Oops handed out at various events

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pooltogethercommunity.substack.com