Take everything you think you know about crypto and poop it in the toilet. Shout between the stalls to your neighbor to show your support for their struggle. Light a match to cover up the Taco Bell token you bought earlier. Give a congratulatory hoot when you flush and finish. This is my anti-professional crypto channel. I‘m just a a barely sane dude who fell down the cryptocurrency rabbit hole. This channel is my fumbling attempt to communicate myself outside of my own head about my journey ...
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In this episode I look at the new Orange DID service by Microstrategy, and then talk about DID in general along with IQ.wiki and AI-driven IQGPT.由Eureka John
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In this episode I speak about how tech innovation always starts with fun, much like the fart noise pages when the internet started. Then I go into memecoins on Degen chain and poke around things there.由Eureka John
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In this episode 512 I spoke with Chris Eberle (DeFiGinger) on the current state of web3/crypto. We initiated the interview as a way to test multiple livestreams on Twitter, YouTube, and Unlonely.app, but it serendipitously turned into a great interview. You can find Chris on his podcast through Crypto Sapiens at cryptosapiens.xyz You can find him o…
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In this episode I am checking in on some projects I have been working on. One of the things I emphasize this week is how web3 content creation apps are bringing out the weirdness in the same way that public television and UHF did in the 80's and 90's.由Eureka John
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In this episode I make my debut as an onchain and open source podcaster using a combination of vdo.ninja, OBS, Unlonely.app (using livepeer) and Hypersub. I will be minting these on Zora as well. Let's see how this experiment works!由Eureka John
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In this episode I bring back Magic Mike on the show since his last appearance 2.5 years ago on episode 201. We speak about the evolution of meme coins into "culture coins". These projects have transcended memes and now have cultural utility and social impact. Mike is a part of the funny, or vulgar, depending on your perspective BAWLS ONU culture co…
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In this episode I speak with Devin Sawyer, one of the SciFi comic book series LegendsOfCypher.io. After a couple of decades in the banking industry, Devin went down the web3 rabbithole and found a world of opportunity to combine his passion for technology with his passion for SciFi and comics with a community of other web3 driven folks he met in a …
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Good morning! Warning! This episode is pretty much a lLongwinded rant & ramble about the haters of the bDAO Arbitrum Proposal. I basically made this episode to help defend my BanklessDAO community against the hordes of numbskull crypto twitter haters who are criticizing the proposal some members of BanklessDAO made to the Arbitrum DAO. Artibutrum c…
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In this episode I interview Prince Jindal and Jung Won Kim, the Founders of Lantern Finance. Lantern Finance seeks to create a place for the non-technical crypto-interested person to safely land in the crypto space and be able to enjoy things like staking ETH securely without risk of exchange implosion, or on the other side have to have a high degr…
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Good morning! I apologize in advance for the crappy quality and sound, but I am streaming from my hotel room in Houston. In this episode I discuss digital ID's both centralized and decentralized. Sources: https://mirror.xyz/brantly.eth/7nJZCqyvhbdTIfq4oSnNEjlUUyxS9sf3pTHcBNi8Te8由Eureka John
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Episode 504 - Web3 tools Jokerace and Aburra - Bitcoin Ordinals, Project Spartacus, and Censorship
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Join me in the morning before I start my day as I wake myself up to some baseless opinions and incoherent techno-babble. This morning I talk about DAO tooling, specifically JokerAce.xyz and how you can create contests, polls, and voting mechanisms for your DAO/online community. Then I talk about the web3 version of Twitter Spaces called Aburra.xyz …
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Join me in the morning before I start my day as I wake myself up to some baseless opinions and incoherent techno-babble. This morning I talk about the concept of the Dark Forest of the internet and in crypto. Sources: https://archive.ph/kIIRX https://zkga.me/ https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-survive-in-the-ethereum-dark-forest-f21c9eca4bfe http…
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Good morning! I am trying to get back to doing morning livestreams on YouTube. This morning was a sort of test run. I think it worked ok. This episode has a little more rambling than usual, but that's because it is live and unedited! Source: https://safe.mirror.xyz/V965PykKzlE1PCuWxBjsCJR12WscLcnMxuvR9E9bP-Y…
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Episode 501 - Above Average Joe’s take on Decentralized Social Media: friend.tech vs post.tech
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In this impromptu episode, I interview BanklessDAO OG and longtime Community Manager Above Average Joe and get his take on decentralized social media and friend.tech vs post.tech. Sources: https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-friend-tech-the-social-token-driven-decentralized-social-network Twitter: https://twitter.com/Abv_Avg_Joe friend.tech post.t…
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Good evening! It is Saturday night and I am recording episode 500. I am Reflecting on the show, web3's use case, and on 0xSplits.xyz as a useful protocol and tool. I made a commemorative NFT for this show and minted 500 of them. It is pictured in the thumbnail. If you want one, you can buy it at this link: https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x495f9…
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Episode 499 - Saturday Night thoughts on Moloch, Metamask Snaps, Forta bots, and web3 journalism tools
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In this episode I ramble about Moloch, Metamask Snaps, Forta bots, and web3 journalism tools like reSee.it, and Permacast.app Sources: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ https://twitter.com/reSeeIt https://resee.it/ https://www.permacast.app/由Eureka John
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In this episode, I talk about my creator's block and me finally creatign a new episode after about 6 months of nothing. I talk about some of the podcasts I am involved in and why I am starting back up. Then I transition over to Tornado Cash and how Roman Storm has been arrested and why this matters to us. I also show where we can go donate to help …
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In this episode I explore a couple of niche apps. One is whal3s.xyz which is an app to easily create webhooks to give you notification for on-chain events. The other is mean.finance, a decentralized way to DCA (dollart cost average) your crypto investments away from centralized exhanges. Sources: https://www.whal3s.xyz/ https://mean.finance/…
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Good morning! In this episode I briefly cover a rough definition of the concepts behind decentralized ID. With the movement of our identities and lives into the digital space in the last 10 or so years, we have come to a fork in the road. Will all our info be centralized and as a result surveilled and controlled? Or are we doing to decentralize and…
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Episode 495 - 2023 will be the year of AI agents - own your data, or the agents will own you!
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Good morning! In this episode I talk alot about AI and how our interactions with them will be based on what data we give the AI bots and what allowances they give us through their interfaces. Sources: https://advent.unlock-protocol.com/ https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7013375376609464321/ https:…
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In this episode I ramble a bit about the recent great crypto crash and why I am still here. Then I poke around a fun web3 reputation tool called Noox.World. https://noox.world/由Eureka John
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In this episode I poke around Mastodon with Crystal Street from JournoDAO. Skip ahead to the 16:00 minute mark to jump ahead of my rambling to get to the part where I am speaking with Crystal由Eureka John
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In this amazing interview I speak with Joshua Scigala about money, bitcoin, DeFi, Gold, inflation, usury, the founding of his Gold/BTC exchange Vaultoro.com and the new stablecoin project launch called TheStandard.io. A DAO-based project that creates over-collateralised stablecoins backed by Gold, Bitcoin and Ethereum. This lending platform will el…
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Here's another epic rant where I talk about the shilling in the crypto space, DAO motivations, decentralized journalism, data ownership and how our data is food for AI. Will AI be our masters forcing us into a predestined fate? Or will we control our data as the food for AI and thus be the owners of our own free will and destiny? Sources: cryptosap…
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Episode 162 - The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Paypal, Celsius and the social credit system all in one big rant
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Good morning! Happy to be finally making an episode for myself as it has been less frequent lately. Not a bad thing, just means I am busy helping other projects and DAO in the web3 ecosystem. This morning I wrap up The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Paypal, Celsius and the social credit system all in one big rant! Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
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In this episode I reflect on how journalism and web3 can get to know each other and the tools that journalists can use to apply web3 to the mass amounts of information being thrown at them. Web3 can help journalists with: Immutability Transparency New business models Community ownership Decentralization Security / Trustless Communications Please do…
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Episode 160 - Is accredited investing a glass ceiling, or a necessary protection? Interview with Mike Rabinovici
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In this episode I speak with Mike Rabinovici on the subject of accredited investing. Is the status of being an accredited investor just another glass ceiling that perpetuates inequality and creates a glass ceiling? Or does it protect the innocent from all the scams that run rampant in the newly emerging web3 space? Mike sheds light on the terms and…
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Good morning! Lately I have seen alot of talk and hype about the Cult DAO and the REVOLT 2 EARN protocol. The way it was describe to be was as an anonymous decentralized venture capital project. I barely know what venture capitalism is and what those people do. I have never had the luxury of having enough money or being around people with enough mo…
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Good morning! This morning I read an article written by Orca Protocol. The article defines and lays out the distinction between Socialware vs Trustware. This distinction brought a more philosophical question to mind for me. Are we trying to automate trust out of human organization? What will that mean for society? For our psyches? Is this automatio…
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Good morning! This morning I explore the concept of data ownership and biometric data that is gathered to create inferred knowledge. We are at the point where biometric passive data is being gathered in massive volume. All of this data is being processed by AI and machine learning algorithms. Inside these neural networks, even our best and brightes…
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Good morning! I woke up this morning to all types of news about Tornado Cash being criminalized in the United States. Tornado Cash is a tool people in crypto can use to mix their transactions with others to add a layer of privacy to their financial dealings. People should have every right to this privacy much like people in the 90's had every right…
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Episode 155 -You’re turned off by crypto. I get it. Rug pulls and bad user experience. But there’s still hope!
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Good morning! This Saturday morning I reflect on why people, and often times even myself, can't stand crypto and web3. From rug pulls to bad user experience (UX) design, it seems like we have taken a step back in the name of lofty philosophical ideals of independence and financial autonomy. Web 2 is soooooo easy! But convenience is the tool of thos…
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Good morning! This morning's conversation with myself entails mostly DAOs and DAO tooling. Specifically Notion, Dework, Gnosis, Parcel, and Utopia. Sources: https://gnosis-safe.io/ https://parcel.money/ https://dework.xyz/ https://www.utopialabs.com/ https://twitter.com/utopialabs_/status/1500987031534530562?s=20&t=xEDgf9xCAd0VLdMFX8eDRA…
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Good morning! In this episode I had a hard time making my thoughts come out of my mouth in a coherent manner, but I ended up talking about real estate on the blockchain, augmented reality, peeing in the backyard, the metaverse, and the kid's game MASH. Sources: https://www.metaverserights.com/post/crypto-backed-by-hard-assets-like-real-estate-will-…
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Good morning! This morning I go poking around the Aztec Network website and blog. I talk alot about privacy and the account model on Ethereum standard vs the UTXO that Aztec and zk.money bring to the equation. Of course, all my usual rambling is thrown into the mix. Sources: https://aztec.network/ https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/953.pdf https://docs.a…
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Good morning! After rambling and beign side-track by the Island Boyz token project for a bit, (fast-forward to 10:00 min mark) I do a little DIY run-through of new L1 AI-driven blockchain called Libonomy ($LBY). This layer one blockchain uses a consensus engine called Aphelion that is driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning. The AI a…
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Good morning! This morning is a short, and easy episode. I mainly just wanted to test out a new audio configuration. I have been trying to troubleshoot the audio issue in the past several episodes and I finally think I got it all fixed. Anyway, this episode is about the old fake file extension scam/virus. This is a scam/virus that names a file a .p…
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Good morning! This morning I go over a report by Trail of Bits commissioned by DARPA to look for vulnerabilities in crypto, specifically Bitcoin and Ethereum. A friend of mine brought this Trail of Bits podcast to my attention that talks about this report and the findings that Bitcoin and Ethereum are not as nearly decentralized as their communitie…
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Good morning! This morning is all about Mt Gox. Apparently the entities behind the Mt Gox hack implosion settlement have announced that they will be releasing 150k BTC onto the market beginning in August. What does this mean for BTC and the market? Is this a Black Swan event or a buying opportunity? But first of all, what is Mt Gox? The crypto worl…
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Good morning! This morning I talk about a smorgasbord of topics including CBDC's and the elimination of anonymous digital cash and their "absolute control". All for our protection, of course. Voyager Digital going completely Chapter 11 on us. Then, for some positive innovation news, Lens Protocol has allowed BankelssDAO members to be whitelisted fo…
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Good morning! In this episode I end up talking alot about 0xSifu and how he was welcomed back to the Wonderland community after being expelled several months ago. Not only was he welcomed back, but he got a proposal passed to pump $25 million into his project Sifu Vision that he launched while in exile. Sifu Vision uses the $SIFU token to track the…
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Good morning! This morning I explore a meme I found on LinkedIn that showed a Venn Diagram composed of web3, crypto, and blockchain. The meme was meant to visualize the three separate entities that are yet blended together. A holy trinity of sorts. With people making distinctions between web3 and web 3.0, I thought this meme was interesting; especi…
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Good morning! This morning I woke up at 5:30 am with the burning desire to explain the differences between web3 and web 3.0 and some of the history and function of both (said noone ever). Well that's exactly what I do in this episode, except it is not some organized survey of both. It is, rather, a crash-up-derby of an event with topics, questions,…
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Good morning! This episode ended up being mainly about Coinbase. Goldman Sachs slapped a "Sell" rating on $COIN. Is Coinbase doomed to slide into insolvency with this downward crypto draft we are having? Is all of this manipulated by the institutional investors to kick out the amateurs and bring in the big players with regulatory certainty? Will Go…
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Good morning! This morning I go through a CryptoSlate article that coevrs the current issue of Bancor freezing their impermanent loss protection service. This service, along with their tempting rewards are why many people jumped participating into Bancor's DEX LP's in the first place. Two of these participants are most likeley Celsius and 3AC who a…
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Episode 141 - Celsius under investigation - What is Parity Substrate and how does Polkadot use it?
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****Note: I said Ford S10. I meant Chevy S10! But I think you got the idea hopefully. Good morning! First up until the 12:00 minute mark, listen to me ramble on about Celsius and how they are being investigated. I received an e-mail from the Texas State Securities Board asking me to complete a survey on my dealings with Celsius. Sounds like they ar…
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Episode 140 - Harmony blockchain bridge suffers 100 million dollar hack and other morning tangents
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Good morning! As I meander around on my morning news dump, I talk about the recent Harmony Horizon Bridge hack of over $100 million. The hack was not a smart contract exploit, but instead, was an exploit of the private keys of a multisig wallet. I explore this hack and talk about foundational crypto concepts along the way. Sources: https://twitter.…
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Good morning! This morning I speak about voting in DAOs. DAOs have notoriously low participation in voting as well as people that just speculate on the governance tokens. This has been an issue lots of communities have been trying to solve. This issue even applies to the large-scale apathy we see in our nation-wide voting today. In this episode I g…
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Good morning! Normally, I don't pay attention to what's going on with the Tron ecosystem and especially not the USDD decentralized stablecoin. In fact, I had never even heard of it until a few days ago. But with all the fear whipped up from the collapse of the Terra ecosystem, there are now rumors that Tron could do the same thing. I saw the Tron T…
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Good morning! In this episode I take a gander at Gitcoin Grants and a couple of projects I donated to using a concept called quadratic funding. It is a way to donate to make sure that everyone's vote/donation matters. There is more weight put on the amount of different people donating to a project than one large donor. This way, large donors are no…
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