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GreenPill is about crypto-economic systems that create positive externalities for their neighbors & for the world.

We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design. We search for powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, & market regenerative web3-era applications and digital assets. We launch the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world.

Ethereum is the ultimate substrate for human coordination. Learn about the web3 builders who are solving coordination failures and creating a more regenerative infrastructure for the world using Ethereum.

Take the Green Pill!

GreenPill Kevin Owocki

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GreenPill is about crypto-economic systems that create positive externalities for their neighbors & for the world.

We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design. We search for powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, & market regenerative web3-era applications and digital assets. We launch the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world.

Ethereum is the ultimate substrate for human coordination. Learn about the web3 builders who are solving coordination failures and creating a more regenerative infrastructure for the world using Ethereum.

Take the Green Pill!

    99 - 0 to 1 Coordination Games w. Ameen Soleimani

    99 - 0 to 1 Coordination Games w. Ameen Soleimani

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    Ready to slay Moloch?
    Today we're joined by DAO OG and an individual who has led the way and taught many how to slay Moloch - Ameen Soleimani, the founder of MolochDAO and SpankChain. 
    Kevin dives deep with Ameen as they discuss what it takes for a project to go from 0 to 1, the future of coordination, and his new projects Privacy Pools and Iran Unchained.
    Take the green pill anon.
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    Topics Covered:
    0:00 Intro
    5:39 MolochDAO Origins
    17:44 Sense of Purpose
    23:49 Adversarial Optimism
    28:50 MolochDAO v3
    36:40 0 to 1 Coordination Games
    42:35 Privacy Pools
    50:21 Ameen's Tornado Cash Reflections
    59:19 Iran Unchained
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    Resources:
    Ameen Soleimani
    https://twitter.com/ameensol 
    Slaying Moloch
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903tHM4RA9k 
    MolochDAO 
    https://molochdao.com/ 
    PrivacyPools 
    https://www.privacypools.com/ 
    Iran Unchained 
    https://iranunchained.com/ 
    Ameens ETHDenver Talk https://twitter.com/ameensol/status/1633182175209361409 
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    Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.
    Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here:
    https://www.bankless.com/disclosures 

    • 1 hr 19 min
    98 - Ethics of Decentralized Social Technologies with Danielle Allen & Glen Weyl

    98 - Ethics of Decentralized Social Technologies with Danielle Allen & Glen Weyl

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    Web3 is decentralized social technology. But what are it's ethics?
    Joining the podcast today are Danielle Allen and Glen Weyl who are two of the coauthors on a new paper entitled 'Ethics of Decentralized Social Technologies: Lessons from Web3, the Fediverse, and Beyond', which is linked below for you to read in full.
    Danielle Allen is a professor of political philosophy, ethics, and public policy at Harvard University.
    Glen Weyl is Research Lead at Microsoft Research, founder of RadicalxChange and the Plurality Institute, and Co-Author of the book Radical Markets.
    Take the green pill anon.
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    Topics Covered:
    0:00 Intro
    7:53 Plurality Defined
    8:25 Web3 Ethics TLDR
    16:03 Foundational Systems
    22:38 Degen -> Regen
    28:17 Values Dissemination
    34:17 Maximum Success Scenario 
    37:06 Closing Thoughts
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    Resources:
    Danielle On Twitter:
    https://twitter.com/dsallentess 
    Glen On Twitter:    
    https://twitter.com/glenweyl 
    Read the paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L4Au0J2JHed-CWhBjfxbWzd_1OlUW2vj/edit?rtpof=true&sd=true 
    Plurality:
    https://www.plurality.net/ 

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    Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.
    Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here:
    https://www.bankless.com/disclosures 

    • 40 min
    97 - DAO Alignment with Sam Spurlin of The Ready

    97 - DAO Alignment with Sam Spurlin of The Ready

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    Is learning from frontline veterans your thing, anon?
    Sam is a Partner at the organizational change and transformation consultancy, The Ready, and is co-stewarding The Ready’s efforts to contribute to DAOs and the web3 space more broadly. 
    Join us today as we dive in today as we explore the past, present, and future of DAOs and discuss the nature of structureless organisations as they evolve over time and react as they are subject to various different climates. 
    Take the green pill anon.

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    Topics Covered:
    0:00 Intro
    4:23 Future of Organizing
    7:50 The Ready Origins
    15:15 Common Misalignments 
    23:25 Defining Purpose
    31:45 State of DAOs
    39:41 Consent-based Agreement
    46:53 Maximum Success
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    Resources:
    Sam Spurlin
    https://twitter.com/samspurlin 
    The Ready
    https://theready.com/ 
    Murmur
    https://www.murmur.com/ 
    DAOs and Their Evolving Operating Systems
    https://theready.mirror.xyz/gqDXVHQjY1bChb27CN4AzQU2O5t5dAQtY9HqaI7NS_Y 
    An Org Designer in the Land of the DAOs
    https://theready.mirror.xyz/HXvvxlYHQWaPGLm3D2SbuJBECWMT3peSdJ-Hth6CrFo 
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    Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.
    Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here:
    https://www.bankless.com/disclosures 

    • 53 min
    96 - Toward a More Cooperative Web3 with Maxwell Kanter, Sarah Hubbard, and George Oates

    96 - Toward a More Cooperative Web3 with Maxwell Kanter, Sarah Hubbard, and George Oates

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    What do you know about the intersection of cooperativism and web3?
    A recent paper co-written by numerous industry researchers, builders, and experts sought to delve deep into some of the key areas of overlap, and how Web3 might be the perfect opportunity to explore alternative models of ownership and control.
    Today, we are joined by 3 of the authors - George Oates of flickr.org, Maxwell Kanter of Gitcoin, and Sarah Hubbard of Harvard University and Safra Center for Ethics and we discuss their thoughts behind the paper and explore the subject.
    Take the green pill anon.
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    Topics Covered:
    0:00 Intro
    3:54 Overview and Definitions
    10:39 Web3, DAOs, and Co-Ops
    17:05 A Mutualistic Web3
    23:15 Building Communities & Trust
    32:15 Codifying Values
    37:28 Ostram's 8 Principals
    48:00 Closing Thoughts
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    Resources:
    George Oates
    https://twitter.com/ukglo 
    Maxwell Canter
    https://twitter.com/publicmaxwell 
    Sarah Hubbard
    https://twitter.com/sarahhubba 
    Towards A More Cooperative Web3
    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4302681 
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    Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.
    Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here:
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    • 46 min
    95 - Summer of Protocols with Venkatesh Rao

    95 - Summer of Protocols with Venkatesh Rao

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    Everything is a protocol. But which will be passed on to our descendants?
    Venkatesh Rao is a published author and consultant who holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and writes the Ribbonfarm Blog. Venkatesh has published a new paper entitled The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols with coauthors Tim Beiko, Danny Ryan, Josh Stark, Trent Van Epps, and Bastian Aue.
    The Summer of Protocols program is an 18 week (primarily) virtual course from May-August which is designed to help fund a set of full-time core researchers and part-time affiliate researchers to think in the broadest possible terms about protocols and advance thinking of protocols as a category.
    Today, Kevin and Venkatesh go deep to explore this. Take the green pill anon.

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    Topics Covered:
    0:00 Intro
    4:56 The Summer of Protocols
    9:36 The Paradigm of Protocols
    16:49 First Class Protocols 
    22:15 Global Protocol Adoption
    28:47 Protocol Curation
    34:40 Taxonomy of Protocols
    37:14 Venkat's Prompt
    44:40 Summer of Protocols Requisites 
    49:00 Successful Outcomes
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    Resources:
    Venkatesh Rao
    https://twitter.com/vgr 
    Summer of Protocols 
    https://summerofprotocols.com/ 
    Announcement Twitter Thread
    https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1632844338161156096 
    The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols Paper
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bZm9JTZvEs0cF-ftOBtNQYannCCS3wuKY8iwzdUrQ3Q/edit 
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    Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.
    Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here:
    https://www.bankless.com/disclosures 

    • 53 min
    94 - DAO Drops with Magenta Ceiba & Ori Shimony

    94 - DAO Drops with Magenta Ceiba & Ori Shimony

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    What does the future of retroactive public goods funding look like? 
    Quite simply - it's DAO Drops. 
    Kevin is joined today by Magenta and Ori from dOrg as they explore in detail the fundamental issues that the current paradigm of providing grants poses when developing open source projects, and we dive deep as we detail how DAO Drops takes the next step forward in retroactive public good funding.  
    Take the green pill anon.
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    Topics Covered:
    0:00 Intro
    3:40 What is DAO Drops?
    9:24 Mission Statement
    16:28 Pluralism and Coordination
    24:01 IRL Public Goods
    30:10 The Stretch Vision
    39:25 Round One Info
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    Resources:
    Magenta
    https://twitter.com/magentaceiba 
    Ori
    https://twitter.com/orishim 
    DAO Drops
    https://daodrops.io/ 
    https://twitter.com/dao_drops 
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    Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.
    Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here:
    https://www.bankless.com/disclosures 

    • 49 min

Customer Reviews

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44 Ratings

44 Ratings

JoshuaSL ,

Fantastic Pod

Highly recommend to anyone going down the Web3 / DAO rabbit hole. Owocki is one of the stronger and genuine thought leaders we have and when you couple that with his ability to draw top talent to the pod, you get a recipe for quality content.

aieioioua ,

Finally a show about regenerative economics

Really grateful for the deep thought and discussion about regenerative economics and future society. Really brilliant guests and strong interviewing. I daresay this show fills the most important niche in the space.

Colton Oreo ,

Inspiring and actionable

My new favorite podcast! Optimistic, concise, and a useful guide toward our solarpunk future ☀️

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