Eureka Street Creative Podcast

Episode 39 - Interview with Crypto Twitter pseudo-anon: IDEX Intern

Good morning! I spend alot of time on Crypto Twitter. It is a double-edged sword, but you can learn alot of amazing things and meet some really cool people. One of these people is IDEX Intern who has been watching my little show for a while now. He has always been a strong supporter and given me some cool tips and insights. He has been going under another Twitter account, but recently got hired by IDEX Exchange where he is working in their Marketing dept. He was nice enough to come on the show and banter with me for over an hour about tons of different topics.

Episode 38 - Hey man, are you a multi-chainer or a maxi?

Good morning! This morning I bring up a topic that has been on my mind. Does the future include multiple layer 1 blockchains? Or will one blockchain rule them all? Many ETH maxis will tell you that Ethereum will be the base-layer for all of crypto and that the world will run on a variety of layer 2 solutions. They say that all the other layer 1 "monolithic" blockchains will fall to their doom. However, at the same time, you see lots of dapps like Aave using any blockchain that has sufficient liquidity and reaping handsome rewards for being open-minded to many other blockchain solutions. Which perspective will be the victor in the end?

Sources:

https://newsletter.defitimes.io/p/go-multi-chain-or-ngmi?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

https://uniswap.org/

https://aave.com/

https://ens.domains/

Episode 37 - Ooga ooga! I aped in on Dope Wars $PAPER and the Infinite Machine Movie NFT collection

Good morning! As the title says, Ooga ooga! I aped in on Dope Wars PAPER and the Infinite Machine Movie NFT collection. I finally found a P2E game I think I will actually play. With 8-bit LoFi versions of all my favorite 90's rap playing through the WinAmp player, I browse through the DopeWars.gg website and see that I can get all the OG computer game radness without Mom picking up the phone from the other room and ruining my 12 hour download. This p2E is built on Ethereum and Starkware! The first of it's kind! Then, I move on to The Infinite Machine Movie collection. Finally, Ethereum history has made it to the big silver screen. They are funding their movie in true Ethereum form as well by the sale of the limited edition NFT. These NFT's will let you be interactive and participate in the movie. It also lets the fans get directly involved and support their favorite projects and have some sense of ownership in the project's success.

Sources:

https://twitter.com/FightinFlix

https://dopewars.gg/

https://twitter.com/TheDopeWars

https://www.theinfinitemachinemovie.com/

https://mint.theinfinitemachinemovie.com/

https://rainbow.me/

Episode 36 - Going down Transaction Street to end up at the crypto accounting rat‘s nest

Good morning! This morning I start out looking at the newly updated TXStreet.org website. This website has always been one of my favorite visualization tools for crypto and the current crypto traffic. It is a great teaching tool as well to help people visualize blocks, gas, and why fees are sometimes high. Then, I start asking myself questions and coming up with theories that I know nothing about and end up on some website that talks about how crypto is and should be reported in company financials. First off, I know NOTHING about accounting, so I don't know how I ended up on this website or topic. Second, I don't know who Foot Noted Analyst is and I did not like their conclusion. But hey, what do I know? This is exactly the point of this show; to stumble on random stuff and the audience goes on this unpredictable ride with me.

Sources:

https://txstreet.com/

 

https://www.footnotesanalyst.com/bitcoin-the-financial-reporting-challenge-for-investors/

Episode 35 - Equipping communities with a good ‘ol blockchain tech stack and donation governance

Good morning! I had a hard time yesterday explaining bonding curves and donation systems that I decided to use yesterday as a shaky foundation and build on it some more. In this episode I review the concept of bonding curves and then go into augmented bonding curves and how the Token Engineering Commons and the Commons Stack come into play with all this. Basically the Token Engineering Commons and the Commons Stack help communities build blockchain donation and governance systems that will help communities directly address the specific needs and interests of any particular community instead of having to rely on some gigantic corporate or govt endorsed charity to come in at a snails pace to try to solve a local organizations issues. TEC and Commons Stack are the tools that allow this to happen.

Sources:

https://tecommons.org/

https://commonsstack.org/

https://medium.com/giveth/the-commons-stack-scaling-the-commons-to-re-prioritize-people-and-the-planet-fdc076aec4eb

https://giveth.io/

https://medium.com/@simondlr/saving-the-planet-making-it-profitable-to-protect-the-commons-50393906fe22

https://medium.com/@simondlr/tokens-2-0-curved-token-bonding-in-curation-markets-1764a2e0bee5

https://medium.com/@abbey_titcomb/crowdfunding-the-commons-d590238d8c3c

https://medium.com/linum-labs/intro-to-bonding-curves-and-shapes-bf326bc4e11a

https://blog.relevant.community/bonding-curves-in-depth-intuition-parametrization-d3905a681e0a

Episode 34 - A donation, a little dance, and we’re done? Not with Giveth.io, and The Commons Stack

Good morning! This morning I verbally fumble with some new concepts of donating I have never heard before. When you donate to the grocery store clerk, that money just basically disappears. But what if it didn't? What if it became an actual investment and you got to see the change first hand? With the blockchain these previously conceptual ideas become an objective reality. I try my hardest to articulate the concepts of bonding curves which leads to augmented bonding curves. I did not get to augmented bonding curves yet as I was struggling trying to visualize what just bonding curves are. But I will make it to augmented bonding curves. This video is me trying to do my homework.

Sources:

https://giveth.io/

https://medium.com/commonsstack/the-augmented-bonding-curve-part-1-a-web3-way-to-fund-public-goods-7c9d1a871ae2

https://twitter.com/thegrifft/status/1471310023783555077

https://medium.com/@abbey_titcomb/crowdfunding-the-commons-d590238d8c3c

https://tecommons.org/

https://commonsstack.org/

Episode 33 - OHM forks, DeFi 2.0, Hector DAO, Fantom, Hashgraph, and DAGs

Good morning! Somehow I manage to fly over entire rabbit hole worlds of topics this morning as I talk about everything from what DeFi 2.0 is, to a bunch of various different OHM forks on various blockchains, to getting into Fantom and talking about Hashgraph, Lachesis, DAGs, aBFT, and then I spend a little time reading comments comparing Hedera Hashgraph and Fantom. Is Fantom susceptible to a lawsuit by the big, bad Hedera?

Sources:

https://hectordao.com/

https://app.hectordao.com/#/stake

https://wiki.rugdoc.io/docs/how-to-connect-metamask-with-the-fantom-network-ftm/

https://fantom.foundation/

https://fantom.foundation/ftm-staking/

https://fantom.foundation/lachesis-consensus-algorithm/

https://coinguides.org/fantom-network-metamask-ftm-chain/

https://www.paypervids.com/fantom-ftm-vs-hedera-hashgraph-hbar/

https://www.reddit.com/r/hashgraph/comments/lp1xdf/hedera_hashgraph_vs_fantom/

https://hazelcast.com/glossary/directed-acyclic-graph/ https://101blockchains.com/hashgraph/

Episode 32 - There‘s a way for anyone to jump into crypto, but beware of grifters!

Good morning! I got a little bit on a rant this morning talking about grifters. When you first approach the crypto world, you may be overwhelmed by all the different opinions and way to approach it. Whether it be by mining, trading, DeFi, DAO, NFTs, or Metaverse Gaming. There seems to be something for everyone. However, there are always grifters and scammers that come around and try to take advantage of those new people. They pose as professionals and usually try to present some simple easy, but unknown projects, tokens, NFTs or steps that will give you advantage. All you have to do is buy a seat at their conference (online or in person), or buy their book, or subscribe, or whatever. There are, thankfully, good people out there in the crypto-Twitter space and beyond that want to help you find your niche. I look at 5 ways to make it without technical skillz in this space written by Coopahtroopah. If you know of some good web 3 related tweet threads turn them in to Chair @vrycmfy

Sources:

https://wiki.metagame.wtf/docs/playbooks/how-to-make-it-without-technical-skills

https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1470197861413441539

https://twitter.com/vrycmfy/status/1470929535352848386

Episode 31 - Interview with Chair from NFTP.fun aka: Rainbow Rolls NFT - Deflusionary Ass-ets for public goods

Howdy folks! I just got off the horn with pseudo-anon Chair from NFTP.fun aka: Rainbow Rolls. Rainbow Rolls is a project that has highjacked the degenerate and debaucherous NFT movement where people are dropping insane amounts of money on jpegs for clout and speculation. Rainbow Rolls is turning that movement on it's head by incorporating the potty jokes that we all love and using the proceeds from the NFT sales to go toward public goods like wiping away medical debt. Rainbow rolls see themselves as De-Flusionary ASS-ets that are a fun way to help others. NFT's and and the blockchain are opening up an entire new world for the non-profit space and poroviding much needed transparency and access for smaller non-profits to get funding without tons of middlemen. Later in the interview we start to drift towards some of Chair's favorite NFT projects and games along Aavegotchi talk. Who knows? Maybe there is some alpha there for NFTP.fun! It was a fun interview until his cat crashed the party and needed it's kinship leveled up.

Sources:

https://nftp.fun/

https://twitter.com/rainbow_rolls

https://twitter.com/vrycmfy

https://ripmedicaldebt.org/

https://giveth.io/

https://gitcoin.co/

https://aavegotchi.com/

Episode 30 - What happens to the laws of the land in the metaverse? Who owns your Data? Who regulates?

Good morning! This morning I begin by talking about some of the latest MGH DAO developments regarding staking. Staking on Polygon has been available for a week, and now staking on Ethereum is becoming available! I talk a bit about MGH DAO and why I am attracted to it. Then, I go into some of the legal questions surrounding the creation of a metaverse as a whole as this subject is really fascinating to me. We all collect data as info. What happens when that data becomes currency? How and by who is that data collected? What are we allowed to do with it? Can we live and eat with that data? Who is allowed to create and own that data in metaverse? Who owns the data created by AI bots/NFTs in the metaverse? What are the overarching governance/engineering mechanism in the metaverse? How is this regulated? So many questions. For those fearful of a metaverse Matrix-style dystopia, don't worry, we are still far away from being trapped in pods and fed through a tube. Sources: https://app.metagamehub.io/ https://metagamehub.medium.com/mgh-staking-on-ethereum-4f3bfe01005c https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/12/01/live-work-play-legal-metaverse-preparing-new-online-existence/id=140614/ https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/legal/legal-metaverse/ https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/a-brief-overview-of-the-metaverse-and-9541020/ https://alethea.ai/