Wild User Interviews Podcast (Wuipod)

Some of the topics covered on this episode include:

* Blaze Path to NEAR: from Ethereum miner to staking validator mastermind
* Open Shards Alliance: origins, current role in ecosystem
* Core Technical Concepts required to understand Stake Wars
* NEAR Security and Threat Model - challenges of adding 67% of all validators in one go
* Stake Wars - what problem is it trying to solve? Educate the world about NEAR tech stack, train the next set of validators from within active and committed community members and reduce the barrier of access by funding seat price for winners.
* War Stories (lessons) from previous competitions
* Tips for Participants 
* Onix Network, community owned incentivised testnet coming SOON
* .... and more!

Resources and Mentions
* Join Stake Wars to Become Chunk-only Producer - https://near.org/blog/join-stake-wars-to-become-a-chunk-only-producer/

* Near Decentralize - Introducing Chunk-only Producers: https://near.org/decentralize/
* Introduction to NEAR Protocol's Economics - https://near.org/blog/near-protocol-economics/

* NEAR Validator Bootcamp - https://near-nodes.io/validator/validator-bootcamp

* Introduction to Onix - https://gov.near.org/t/the-onix-near-network-a-community-owned-and-governed-near-network/23884

* Open Shards Alliance Website - https://openshards.io
* Open Shards Alliance Discord - https://discord.gg/t9Kgbvf
* Meta Pool - https://metapool.app

Some of the topics we cover are:

• Perspective of an outsider attending NEAR Lounge @ ETH Denver. Interesting lessons on crafting IRL onboarding experiences
• Reflections on an unsuccessful NFT launch. Value of experimentation and iteration
• Vision and Mission: Innovating on Web3 Music
• 100 True Fans Concept. How to identify them, reach them, etc.
• Special Digital Items
• Pathways into Crypto and Mechanical Engineering
• How you can learn anything: Launching a homemade rocket 14,000 feet that breaks sound barrier
• Common elements between Rocketry, Cuprto and Music
• Much more..!

Resources & Mentions

• Patrick's employer - Cypher Protocol
• Patrick's Music NFT Project - Circa 
• [Blog] How Drone Altitude Relates to Dynamic Interest Rate in Defi Credit Protocols

Social Media

• Patrick Twitter - https://twitter.com/snappy_jim
• AVB Twitter - https://twitter.com/AlejandroVBeta1

Some of the topics covered on this show include:

• Weird and wonderful pathway from Journalism into Web3
• Challenges of Journalism & Media in general
• Web 3 as a new paradigm for publishing forcing media back into a more noble place.
• Pronoia & other mental models of highly successful people 
• Importance of Personal Branding
• State of Branding & Marketing in Web3
• Link between Fashion Tech & Web3
• ...more

About Lorraine

• https://twitter.com/lorrainesanders
• https://lorrainesanders.com
• Free Marketing and Bandring Resources: https://lorrainesanders.com/resources
• https://www.spiritof608.com

Mentions & Resources

• Generation Crypto: Marketing Conference that Onboarded Lorraine to NEAR
• 4NTS Youtube Videos taught Lorraine a lot about NEAR, got her excited to leap in
• Carl, fellow Council Member headquartered at a dungeon in Italy
• Alpha Growth: Marketing and Biz Dev for Crypto projects; employer and mentor
• Open Forest Protocol: amazing and inspiring project building on NEAR. Example of intersection of future-focused, positive values and tech.
• Alpha Leaks w AVB Youtube Channel: quality content to help onboard masses
• Chris Herd, pioneering the remote work movement.
• [Book] The Zone of Genius by Gay Hendricks
• 
  

References & Resources

* [Blog] NEAR Hacker House Austin Schedule
* [Blog] NEAR Hacker House Bounty Winners
* NEAR @ Consensus
* Encode Club Hackathon

* NEAR May 2022 Town Hall (Regional Hubs Section)

* [Book] Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson (History of Scientific Revolutions)

* Capital Guild (Mintbase Store, Nigerian Artists)

* [Blog] Mintbase Raises $7m, $5m for Grants
* How to Apply to Mintbase Grants Program

* Arroz Studios (Arts Studio and Events Space in Lisbon, Portugal)

* Nearhub - Gateway to NEAR Metaverses

Follow on Social Media

NEAR Hacker House - https://twitter.com/NearHacks
NEAR Austin - https://twitter.com/NEAR_ATX 

About Elias

Elias is the founder of WAGMI Solution a Web3, Social Media, and Marketing Solutions Agency focused on the NEAR Ecosystem. He is also involved with a range of amazing projects including:

•  Evoltn, The voice of the underground’s rising electronic artists;
• NEAR NFT DAO: Focused on building a sustainable model that supports the NEAR NFT ecosystem for years to come;
• Korosenai Ninjas the first successful Derug on NEAR
• TENK: NFT Core Infrastructure

Resources & Mentions

• RealMattMoney: https://linktr.ee/MattMoney
• Tim Ferriss Podcast w Edward Thorp: https://tim.blog/2022/05/28/ed-thorp-transcript/

Resources
Kresko Website - https://www.kresko.fi

Deepak Twitter - https://twitter.com/hinduhacker

Kresko Twitter - https://twitter.com/kreskoFi
Kresko Medium - https://medium.com/kreskofi
Kresko Telegram - https://t.me/kreskofi
Kresko Github - https://github.com/kreskohq/

Resources
* Arterra Website
* Complexity Gaming Introduces First Ever Digital Collectibles for Fans
* Complexity HQ

Follow on Socials
Arterra - https://twitter.com/ARterraLabs
Jon Werthen - https://twitter.com/jonwerthen
AVB - https://twitter.com/home
Complexity - https://twitter.com/Complexity

How to Submit a Funding Proposal to Marketing DAO:
https://gov.near.org/t/guide-how-to-submit-a-funding-proposal-to-the-marketing-dao/4603

Follow Rebecca
https://twitter.com/mecsbecs28 

References

Orrin Music - Youtube Channel
Orrin Podcast - Interview with Neil de Grasse Tyson

Nick Szabo - On Smart Contracts (1996)

NFT Collaboration between Mintbase and Orrin - a Cyborg from the Future

Ceramic Network, Decentralised Data Storage

Verida - decentralised network of private databases

Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow

QSTN Website - https://qstn.us
QSTN Medium - https://medium.com/@qstnus
QSTN - Twitter - https://twitter.com/qstnus

About Zeitwarp
Zeitwarp Website: Art, Music and Design
Conceptual CryptoArt - Bio on Paras
Zeitwarp Virtual NFT Gallery
Zeitwarp NFT Store on Mintbase
Glitch Breaks - Collection on Paras
The No$talgia $how - Collection on Paras
Zeitwarp Twitter

References
Meta Buidl (sic) Hackathon Devpost
The Future of the Web (Meta Buidl Winner)

Arroz Estúdios is an arts space based in Lisbon. We offer an environment for creatives to freely express themselves
Vandal - Digital Artist
Samtoshi - Comic Book Artist, Co-founder NearxPublish
NEARxPublish - Bringing the digital to the physical & back: phygital storytelling, original publications, music & multimedia for the #NEAR Ecosystem.
NEARxPublish @ San Diego NFT Conference

Coin Center - leading non-profit focused on the policy issues facing cryptocurrencies
'Shadowy Super Coders' by Elizabeth Warren - “Instead of leaving our financial system at the whims of giant banks, crypto puts the system at the whims of some shadowy, faceless group of super-coders and miners, which doesn’t sound better to me,” she said.

Mintbase pioneering NFTs on NEAR
Nate Geier - Mintbase Co-Founder

Open Forest Protocol (OFP) Regenerative NFT Auction.   

Jeff Gold - Nearhub, Tamago
Nearhub - home of Radio Zeitwarp. An abandoned oil rig that serves as a radio station and exhibition space on the NEAR Metaverse