Square I

Cooper came from the music business and developed a passion for crypto as he traveled around the world creating content for artists at music festivals. He comes with a rich background in contributing to the ecosystem from a non-technical frame, focused on communication and human coordination. We discuss a broad swath of topics including yield farming, social tokens, NFTs, Defi summer, DAOs, and the collaborative nature of the environment facilitated by this technology.

Find him on twitter or instagram at @coopahtroopa.

Jordan Ellis is a very accomplished builder in the space. He transitioned from Microsoft game development to Ethereum in 2019 due to the promise decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) technology provided. 

In traditional organizations, much of the work created dies. Only projects that make it to market become useful. In this open source ecosystem, this problem doesn't exist. The purpose of open source comes from sharing knowledge and information.

Further, DAO systems provide opportunities for new methods of resource management to exist. These structures contradict the traditional corporate hierarchy to form a more flexible, flat management system.

If you'd like to learn more about Jordan, find him here.

We hope you enjoy the latest episode of Square 1!

We’re back. This week we’ll release two intro episodes. We’ve been thinking deeply about the way to best orient listeners. There will be a variety of intro episodes as well as deep dives.

As you listen send feedback! We’d love to create the content you find most valuable.

Disclaimer: none of this is legal nor investment advice. Find an advisor.

This week we’ll release two intro episodes. We’ve been thinking deeply about the way to best orient listeners and will do so via publishing a variety of intro episodes as well as deep dives.

As you listen send feedback! We’d love to create the content you find most valuable.

Disclaimer: none of this is legal nor investment advice. Find an advisor.

This is the first episode of Square 1 season 1 where we talk to Andy Tudhope. Andy is a hacker-anthropologist and comes to the table with incredibly deep insights on the history of money, it's relevance to society, and how cryptocurrency continues to evolve this ancient form of communication.  

Takeaways:

Give a brief listen to gather a context for the significance of the Internet and how it uses protocols to transact data across servers around the globe. 

This new system (only ~50 years young) is foundational to the way society coordinates today and into the future. It is also a fundamental concept needed to understand software and cryptocurrency.

Review this episode to listen to brief descriptions defining cryptocurrency, DAOs, Defi, and token economics. 

Disclaimer! If you are new to these concepts, they will sound like a foreign language.

The goal for Square 1 is to provide content that provides a holistic overview of the systems available within cryptocurrency today. Most content we see either falls on the deeply academic and technical to the deeply speculative and financial. Square 1 will talk to people and teams to define the practical applications of the technology today, as well as bring users up to speed with relevant concepts.

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Square I developed out of a curiosity to uncover the present day value and future consequence of cryptocurrency networks. Discussion here will focus on token economics, decentralized organizations (DAOs), and remote product development. At times, we might meander into other topics relevant to the guests we host.

Despite the nature of these deeply technical topics, I’d like to steer conversations in a way that anyone can engage with and learn from. I remember first learning about the crypto space in early 2017 and feeling completely overwhelmed with the noisy information provided by the variety of media efforts raising ICOs. Square I will aim to cut through this noise in order to uncover the ground floor of this technology today, for ourselves and our listeners.

This program is made possible by the Bloom Community Grants program. Bloom is sponsoring research and development grants to the crypto community to collaborate on some exciting new initiatives to benefit the crypto ecosystem. If you have an idea for something to explore in token economics, unsecured DeFi lending, or token utility, reach out to [email protected].

Interested in DAOs but unsure about legal restrictions? Come catch a casual conversation with some of the top lawyers in the space. They wont have conclusive advice, but does give you a starting point for how to think about the issues. This podcast primarily covers the differences between LLC and COOP entities to be built for a DAO.