Eureka Street Creative Podcast

Episode 19 - Crypto Tittie NFTs (yay!) and Badger hacks (boo!)

Good morning! Crypto is a weird space. It is growing and expanding and there is tons of uncertainty. I try to keep an open mind, laugh, have fun, and at the same time be aware of the risks involved and the scams out there. The first half of the video is fun and focused on CryptoTittiesNFT.com. It is an NFT project that give a large percentage of the proceeds to breast cancer research. Then, I go in for a reality check and look at the recent BadgerDAO hack where $120,000 million was stolen due to a front-end exploit. I cover some basic things to watch out for in Metamask and also talk about how the insurance company is not wanting to cover the attack. I hate to say it, but the Bitcoin maxis are right on the risks of wrapping your Bitcoin, and here is a prime example of why.

Sources:

https://cryptotittiesnft.com/

https://opensea.io/collection/crypto-titties-collection

https://badger.com/products/badger-bridge

https://twitter.com/CryptoCatVC/status/1466380960648380419

https://revoke.cash/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/2/22814849/badgerdao-defi-120-million-hack-bitcoin-ethereum

https://thedefiant.io/badgerdao-hack-insurance-payout/

Episode 18 - My production process - Scamming the scammers - The Ross Ulbricht Genesis Collection

Good morning! This episode was full of info. First, I start off by answering some questions some people have had about my production process and how I find time to put out so much content in such a short amount of time. Then, I found a great Tweet that talks about a scenario in which you can give the scammers a taste of their own medicine and scam them back by taking their ETH gas. Finally, I highlight the Free Ross Ulbricht Genesis NFT Collection that is now on auction on Superare. With proceeds from this NFT, they are starting a donor-advised fund called Art4Giving, dedicated to relieving the suffering of the incarcerated and their families.

Sources:

https://twitter.com/depression2019/status/1465737323484573700

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethdev/comments/7x5rwr/tricked_by_a_honeypot_contract_or_beaten_by/

https://twitter.com/ClemencyForRoss/status/1466185453913231361 https://freeross.org/genesis-collection

https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/ross-ulbricht-genesis-collection-30841

Episode 17 - Louie C Rhymes charting new territory in web 3 NFT music - Opolis redefining work!

Good morning! This morning I cover two different projects that are both redefining and pushing what it means for their respective industries to be in the web 3 space. Louie C Rhymes is the NFT Rapper. He creates generative art and music NFT's for his project, but the NFT don't stop there. The music has no middleman, and the funds go toward building and empowering a community of artists. As an NFT holder you can become part of that community, giving you voting rights and the ability to receive community rewards. Then, with all this independence that NFTs, crypto, and DAO sare giving, people are leaving their corporate jobs in droves. This begs the question, "what about benefits, and taxes, and all the stressful and boring stuff that comes with being independent. Opolis is a tokenized employment commons that is designed to take care of those payroll and benefits for you. It is not just a service, by holding $WORK tokens you have ownership in the governance of Opolis and you have the power of community behind you.

Sources: https://www.hiphopheads.io/

http://connect.opolis.co/bankless-blitz/

https://opolis.co/

https://opolis.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/White-paper.pdf

Episode 16 - Web 3, not crypto. Web 3 here, web 3 there, web 3 everywhere!

Good morning! This morning I have a topic docket full of web 3 NFT platforms and use-cases. From the big Hollywood silver screen to hip-hop music to a new web 3 style social media platform, web 3.0 is permeating into all modern culture. Most aren't even aware of it yet!

Sources:

https://zycrypto.com/ethereum-is-about-to-hit-the-big-screen-with-the-development-of-a-blockbuster-about-its-origins/

https://twitter.com/worldofethereum/status/1465804914622353412

https://www.hiphopheads.io/

https://nftp.fun/

https://akasha.ethereum.world/social-app/feed

https://www.stonercats.com/

https://www.madrealities.xyz/

https://gm.xyz/

Episode 15 - Morning crypto dump and some readings on liberty in cyberspace!

Good morning! This morning I begin with my usual charts and ramblings about the crypto space. I somehow digress to talking about wrapped Bitcoin and end up on Badger DAOs Bitcoin bridge page for my first time ever. Then I explain how to set up a Metamask RPC. Then I get into a reading of John Barlow's "A Declaration of Cyberspace". I end with reading snippets of Timothy May's "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto". Truly an episode narrated by a Golden Retriever. Squirrel!

Sources:

https://badger.com/

https://www.eff.org/fr/cyberspace-independence

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/crypto-anarchist-manifesto/

Episode 14 - The metaverse reaching the the far corners of the world with Human DAO and Theta Network

Good morning! The common theme between these two very different projects, is they are both working to reach the everyone. Including those thought to be out of reach and out of touch. Human DAO is launching it's token on December 1, 2021 with a mission to equip the low to no income people of the world with the tools/P2E characters necessary to dive into web 3.0 games like Axie Infinity to earn income for themselves and their communities. Theta is creating a system of decentralized Content Delivery Networks (CDN) to replace CDN's like Cloudflare and Fastly to bring those CDN right into your neighborhood and in your home. This will enable ultra fast video streaming to meet the current and future demands of games, and the metaverse as it grows exponentially in size. Is all of this a good thing? Is this overreach? What it is will include AI? As always, I try to present some ideas and let you take it from there.

Sources:

https://medium.com/@TheHumanDAO/degen-meets-do-good-92cd80ffba2e

https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/11/19/is-theta-crypto-going-to-make-you-richer/

https://medium.com/theta-network/theta-network-an-essential-infrastructure-for-metaverse-development-2cf78f1c1e04

https://decentral.games/blog/decentral-games-partners-with-theta-network-to-expand-metaverse-livestream-events

Episode 13 - Light-hearted Sunday morning meditation on law, code, social agreements, and Moloch

Good morning! This morning I highlight an article written by @eaglelex_eth. In his article he brings to light the issues with the general assertion that "Code is law" in the crypto space and dev world. While we all want to reform the current system that is rife with systematic oppression and segregation, what happens if we completely replace it with code? Does this open the door for new types of attacks and/or a dehumanization of the law? Does this set into motion a Moloch-style mechanism that goes on auto-pilot and leads humanity into destruction? Lots of these light-hearted questions are going through my head on this happy Sunday morning!

Sources:

BanklessDAO Newsletter November 27, 2021

https://twitter.com/eaglelex_eth

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

https://medium.com/cryptronics/the-5-most-common-smart-contract-vulnerabilities-738de4fae3ba

Episode 12 - Return of The Cypherpunk to save us all from dystopia in the year 2140

Here is an excerpt from a past show:  I connect dots like a crazy person between Alcor, cryonics, Hal Finney, Satoshi Nakamoto, and the speculation that Hal Finney is Satoshi Nakamoto who will return back to earth. Are we in the time of tribulation before the savior returns to bring order to the Earth through approx 1.1 million BTC mined in the early days? Was Hal Finney the real Satoshi Nakamoto? Of course, none of us reading this today will be alive in 2140, but it is fun to speculate.

Sources:

https://www.alcor.org/

https://kriorus.ru/en/news/How-cryonics-and-cryptography-are-related-Hal-Finney-CryoGen

https://decrypt.co/34810/how-many-bitcoin-does-its-inventor-satoshi-nakamoto-still-own

https://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/

https://decrypt.co/10975/what-if-satoshi-nakamoto-suddenly-returned

Episode 11 - Blockchain 3.0 - Huh? Just when I understand some of the basics...

 I get a little technical and try to understand what EVM is, and then how WASM is the next step in the evolution of a decentralized virtual machine. Just when I begin to understand some of the basics of Ethereum, here they go already kicking it up another notch! I also talk about some of the super fundamentals like what is a compiler, what is Turing complete, etc... Many of us have not had the chance to sit in classes that talked about this. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my terribly loose style and way of trying to externalize this stuff.

Sources:

https://medium.com/momentum6/the-war-on-virtual-machines-wasm-vs-evm-8e68f9d53ef4

https://www.parity.io/blog/wasm-smart-contract-development/

https://webassembly.org/

https://blog.cosmos.network/announcing-the-launch-of-cosmwasm-cc426ab88e12

https://cosmwasm.com/

Episode 10 - Post Thanksgiving cheap gas rundown

Good morning! This morning I cover a slew of different topics and projects. I give a basic rundown of all the stuff I did yesterday while the ETH gas prices were (relatively) cheap. I picked up some good .ETH domains, I transferred some ETH to Polygon, and I staked some stuff. I also talk about Avalanche chains, Polygon Bridges, LP token yield aggregators, Flote.app NFT drop, Adamant Finance Arbitrum airdrop, and other random stuff.

Sources:

https://flote.biz/were-building-this-ship-together-announcing-flotes-plank-owner-nft-series/

 

https://adamant.finance/ https://hop.exchange/ https://ens.domains/