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Arianna Simpson of a16z comes on the Bankless Podcast to explore the insane momentum we've seen around crypto gaming. The product-market fit between the gaming and crypto worlds is palpable. The scaling and maturation of the crypto economy make for a ripe inflection point for an explosion of cultural applications.
What does Play-To-Earn mean for the investor? Is ETH money for the metaverse? Arianna's takes offer a huge amount of insight as we dive into the future of both work and play.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
5:00 Arianna Simpson
7:05 Crypto Gaming: Why Now?
10:06 How Big is This?
17:15 Building Infrastructure
20:29 Player Ownership
28:13 Eating the World
31:55 Progression to Play-To-Earn
37:30 Capturing Value
41:27 Isn’t it a Ponzi Game?
48:30 Working in Crypto Gaming
58:08 Consolidation of Resources
1:05:03 Impact on Culture & Industry
1:15:36 The Metaverse
1:20:17 ETH is Metaverse Money
1:27:10 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Arianna on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AriannaSimpson?s=20 
Masters of Doom:
https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Culture/dp/0812972155 
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4th Week of September, 2021
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
3:01 MARKETS
3:14 BTC Price
3:33 ETH Price
4:50 ETH/BTC Ratio
5:17 DeFi Action
7:06 Layer 2
https://l2beat.com/ 
7:44 Polygon Users ATH
https://twitter.com/MihailoBjelic/status/1440692200447246337?s=19 
8:49 Miners Selling Less
https://twitter.com/Data_Always/status/1440137774775083008 
10:32 Evergrande
https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1439920043404546050?s=20 
14:00 RELEASES
15:00 Yearn v3
https://twitter.com/iearnfinance/status/1438622112265080849 
16:41 Coinvise v3
https://twitter.com/CoinviseCo/status/1438622643658231814?s=19 
19:24 College Defi Classes
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1440037825139777541?s=20 
21:25 Zerion Apple Watch Faces
https://twitter.com/zerion_io/status/1440020147490770944?s=20 
22:43 Robinhood Wallets
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/118271/robinhood-rolling-out-crypto-wallet-transfer-features 
24:47 Bankless DAO Season 2
https://season2.bankless.community/ 
26:08 DAO Apparel
https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1440062844217683983?s=20 
27:18 Raises
SoRare
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/09/21/european-football-nft-platform-sorare-raises-680m-series-b/ 
Bitclout Founder
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/118133/bitclout-creator-decentralized-social-blockchain-200-million-funding-a16z-others 
Dapper Labs
https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1440662318250004488?s=20 
32:50 Jobs
https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs 
33:30 NEWS
34:05 Gary Gensler
https://twitter.com/garygensler/status/1440409729554018307?s=21 
43:00 Gary’s Financial Advice
https://twitter.com/garygensler/status/1440705940567719944?s=21 
47:32 SEC vs Mainnet Conference
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1440010854330732548?s=21 
https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/status/1440046283041820672?s=20 
50:28 SEC vs Coinbase
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/09/20/coinbase-drops-planned-lend-program-after-sec-warning/ 
51:55 Audius Partnerships
https://twitter.com/AudiusProject/status/1438524417139560450?s=20 
52:57 Economist Cover
https://twitter.com/theeconomist/status/1438524270175477760?s=10 
54:11 0xMaki Stepping Down
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/117960/project-lead-behind-2-8-billion-dex-sushiswap-is-set-to-step-down 
55:16 Future of Optimistic Ethereum
https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/the-future-of-optimistic-ethereum-7f22d987331 
58:00 Snoop Dogg
https://twitter.com/SnoopDogg/status/1440038460417474567?s=20 
59:41 Time Pieces
https://time.com/6100404/timepieces-nft-collection/ 
1:00:40 Chainalysis Scraping Data
https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1440371592081543177?s=20 
1:02:39 NJ & TX vs Celsius
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/118015/after-blockfi-new-jersey-and-texas-set-sights-on-celsius-crypto-interest-accounts 
1:03:50 Congress vs Self-Directed IRA
https://medium.com/cryptozoa/red-alert-congress-wants-to-destroy-your-self-directed-ira-609dae9cf016 
1:07:00 TAKES
1:08:00 Build Faster
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1440022593860472838?s=20 
1:10:19 Changing Securities
https://twitter.com/raoulgmi/status/1440361603459735556?s=21 
1:11:44 Maker Solar Farm
https://twitter.com/jp_koning/status/1440318552108462081?s=20 
1:14:48 ETH Logo
https://twitter.com/avsa/status/756875789182857216?s=20 
1:15:25 What David

This is a classic Ryan-and-David only episode. With no guest, we dive into David's recent article "The Metaverse Emerges." What is the Metaverse? Raoul Pal described it as digital fluidity on our recent episode with him.
Composable digital objects, a network economy, scaling social structures... whatever it is, Nation States aren't ready for the incoming metaversal explosion. Are you?
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
7:00 Cryptoeconomic Nation State
10:45 Seeing Like The State
18:50 Humanity’s Faustian Bargain
23:30 Seeing Like The Protocol
28:45 The Metaverse
32:00 Metaversal Objects
35:40 Centralization
39:21 Neutrality & Density
46:10 Slowly Manifesting
54:00 Avatars & Identity
59:41 Fluid Value
1:06:25 Ethereum’s Role
1:10:33 Blockchain Taxes
1:15:45 ETH as Metaverse Money
1:22:35 It’s All Metaverse
1:27:43 Closing & Disclaimers
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Nic Carter is one of our favorite writers in crypto. He's shaped our thoughts on many subjects over the years. He's definitely a Bitcoiner, but is he also an Etherean? What makes Nic tick?
Get to know the person behind the persona in this week's episode of Layer Zero.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:00 Nic Carter & Geography
8:51 What’s Your Deal? Ethereum??
12:39 Shared Ancestry
20:09 Cypherpunk Values
23:28 Working for Bitcoin
25:54 Countering FUD
28:24 Individualism & Value Supremacy
35:00 Conservative & Faith-Based
42:53 Money God
46:35 Affiliation & Identity
52:48 Mountaineering & Fun
56:55 Memory & External Storage
58:40 What’s Nic Doing? What Now?
1:05:22 Kanye & Closing
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Resources:
Nic on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/nic__carter?s=20 
Castle Island:
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Nic's Podcast, On the Brink:
https://onthebrink-podcast.com/  
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Vitalik Buterin returns to the Podcast to discuss his recent article 'Moving Beyond Coin Voting Governance.' As always, Vitalik comes with a birds-eye view of high level challenges facing the crypto space with a moral & philosophical slant.
Building sufficiently decentralized governance mechanisms is a hugely challenging endeavor. Tackling elegant solutions to coin voting, we also cover the benefits of running your own node, the metaverse, and an update on the Ethereum narrative.
When Vitalik comes on Bankless, it's time to listen closely.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:00 Vitalik Returns!
7:26 Decentralized Governance
14:38 Who is Governance For?
19:44 Coordinating Public Goods
26:07 Public Goods & Upgrades
34:52 New Mechanisms
38:28 What is Blockchain Governance?
47:53 Ungovernance for Layer 1
54:00 Why Coin Voting Sucks
1:02:20 Whales
1:12:15 Running Your Own Node
1:22:14 Culture & Technology
1:26:51 Scalability Tradeoffs
1:31:05 The Metaverse & Loot
1:36:55 Update on Ethereum
1:43:15 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Vitalik on Twitter
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin?s=20 
Moving beyond coin voting governance
https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html 
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Bankless Nation, meet Klima DAO, the carbon-backed digital currency and algorithmic climate protocol.
Dionysus, Archimedes, and Oxylos join to discuss bringing environmental incentives to DeFi, using similar mechanics to OlympusDAO and the OHM token. Klima DAO plans to generate on-chain demand for carbon offsets and build a carbon-backed treasury, with the goal of driving up the price of carbon.
Who said crypto was bad for the environment? For Bankless readers, it should come as no surprise that the powers of DeFi can be leveraged to incentivize coordination around public goods.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:45 Dionysus, Archimedes, and Oxylos
6:35 Klima DAO & Carbon Markets
14:10 Voluntary Economy
17:45 Relationship with OlympusDAO
25:00 Tokenomics
33:33 Inducing Demand
35:02 Ponzi Games & Game Theory
42:41 Opt-In Social Incentives
46:06 Roadmap and IDO
51:52 Slaying Moloch
57:52 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Klima DAO
https://klimadao.finance/ 
Discord
https://discord.gg/kx4pahaFw8 
Klima DAO on Twitter
https://twitter.com/KlimaDAO?s=20 
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