Podcasts about decentralizing

Stephan & Matt discuss the ‘Save Our Wallets' campaign, which aims to protect non-custodial wallets from regulatory challenges posed by the U.S. government. He highlights the legal risks developers face due to broad interpretations of regulations and the potential consequences of future administrations. The importance of advocacy for legislative change, user engagement, and improving user experience in Bitcoin transactions are emphasized. Additionally, the conversation touches on the implications of AML and FATF regulations, the evolution of wallet technologies, and the need for research into Miner Extractable Value (MEV) in Bitcoin. They also discuss various aspects of Bitcoin and Ethereum, focusing on the implications of MEV (Miner Extractable Value), the risks of mining centralization, and the importance of investing in solutions rather than relying on consensus changes. They explore the challenges posed by private order flow, the philosophical differences in Bitcoin development, and the future of Bitcoin Core and node adoption.Takeaways

For episode 206, we're excited to welcome Mario Di Dio, GM of Network at Helium—a trailblazing DePIN project that's redefining what decentralized infrastructure can look like at scale. From powering the world's largest contiguous Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) to deploying a nationwide mobile offload strategy with industry partners, Helium is proving that blockchain can drive real-world, real-time value.Powered by the Solana blockchain and a unique token-based incentive model, Helium is making it possible for everyday people to own a piece of the world's wireless infrastructure.We discuss:How one of the most successful, OG decentralized infrastructure projects in Web3 grew from grassroots origins to partnering with major industry giants.Why blockchain-based incentives are key to scaling wireless infrastructure—and how Helium's Proof-of-Coverage unlocks real-world value creation at scale.And how Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) is building a more inclusive, resilient, and community-owned internet—flipping the connectivity model on its head.--Key Takeaways--

www.marktreichel.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-treichel/Episode Summary: In this episode, I dive into what NCUA might look like after its May 22nd downsizing — a 25% reduction in staff driven by Trump-era mandates for smaller government. Using clues from the agency's own language, historical precedent, and my firsthand experience with past reorganizations, I lay out my predictions for NCUA's evolving structure.This is part three of a special podcast series unpacking the agency's potential realignment.Key Topics Covered:

Welcome back to AutoPGF: Funding Impact with Glo Dollar—a special podcast mini-series from Crypto Altruists that explores the future of Automatic Public Goods Funding, or AutoPGF for short, and the incredible organizations leveraging this new mechanism to scale their impact.For episode 4, we're honored to welcome Anna Whitson-Diaz from the Stellar Development Foundation, Kourtney Rusow from Coala Pay, and Christine To from Glo Dollar. Together, we unpack how blockchain is creating new opportunities for the humanitarian sector—helping aid organizations move faster, reach farther, and build resilient systems that can scale.We discuss:How blockchain is revolutionizing humanitarian aid—making it faster, cheaper, and more transparent to get critical funds directly into the hands of those who need it most.How leaders from Stellar, Coala Pay, and Glo are building real-world Web3 infrastructure that meets people where they are—from proactive aid tools, to stablecoins, to programmable, last-mile payments.And why crypto's next frontier isn't just financial innovation—it's building sustainable systems for global good, powered by mechanisms like Glo Dollar.--Key Takeaways--

This week on “Waking Up With AI,” Anna Gressel looks at how decentralized AI training could revolutionize the field by allowing for the collaborative use of advanced GPUs worldwide, expanding access to model development while raising interesting questions about export controls and regulatory frameworks. ## Learn More About Paul, Weiss's Artificial Intelligence Practice: https://www.paulweiss.com/practices/litigation/artificial-intelligence

For episode 507, Brandon Zemp is joined by the Founder of Pluralis Research Dr. Alexander Long. He was previously an AI Researcher at Amazon in a team of 14 Deep Learning PhDs. At Amazon, Dr Long's research focus was in retrieval augmentation and sample-efficient adaptation of large multi-modal foundation models. At UNSW his PhD was on sample efficient Reinforcement Learning and non-parametric memory in Deep Learning, where he was the School Nominee for the Malcolm Chaikin Prize (UNSW Best Thesis).Pluralis Research is pioneering Protocol Learning, an alternative to today's closed AI models and economically unsustainable open-source initiatives. Protocol Learning enables collaborative model training by pooling computational resources across multiple participants, while ensuring no single entity can obtain the complete model.

Timestamps :  00:00 Cold start 01:31 About Allo Capital 02:14 Guest Introduction 02:43 Episode Overview 06:17 Benjamin's Intro 07:02 Rodrigo's Intro 08:04 Unveiling the Report: "Ethereum's Future – Decentralizing Protocol Governance in Public Goods Funding" 11:45 Controversy About the EF Director, Its Purpose, and Ethereum's Performance on Social Media 12:41 Ways to Shift Conversations from Destructive to Constructive 16:53 Takeaways from the Report

In this episode of the Azizi Podcast, Samir Azizi sits down with Dr. Mehdi Kargar, co-founder of Heisenberg Network, to dive deep into the most overlooked problem in AI today: AI-ready data. You'll learn: Why 80% of AI projects are failing—and what Heisenberg is doing about it How Data Agents transform raw, messy data into structured, contextual intelligence Why CPUs, not GPUs, are the real heroes in AI data processing How you can earn crypto just by running a lightweight node on your laptop The future of decentralized compute and how it empowers a more open, censorship-resistant AI ecosystem How Heisenberg cuts AI data costs by up to 70% Dr. Kargar explains the origins of Heisenberg, how they went from Web3 predictive analytics to building the missing layer of AI, and why the network's infrastructure is powered by a decentralized network of idle CPUs from everyday users—just like you.

Send us a textZero-knowledge proofs are revolutionizing trust in AI and blockchain by providing verifiable computation without compromising privacy or security.  Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh, founder of Lagrange, explains how their technology is making AI trustworthy at internet scale with practical applications for combating deepfakes and securing sensitive data.• ZK proof generation costs have decreased by 1000x in just three years, making previously theoretical applications practical• Lagrange's DeepProof is the first zero-knowledge machine learning library, 700 times faster than competitors• Users typically don't prioritize privacy and security until they experience a breach, creating adoption challenges• ZK technology enables verifying AI outputs without revealing underlying data, essential for trust in autonomous systems• The convergence of AI and blockchain creates more than additive effects – not 1+1=2, but 1+1=5 in terms of innovation potential• Common misconception: ZK technology is not limited to Ethereum but applicable to any chain, execution environment, or application• Two enduring use cases in crypto: simple cross-border value transfer and complex AI systems deployed on decentralized infrastructureThis episode was recorded through a Descript call on March 18, 2025. Read the blog article and show notes here: https://webdrie.net/decentralizing-security-how-lagrange-is-revolutionizing-crypto-and-ai-verification-with-ismael-hishon-rezaizadehDiscover RYO: the Web3 payment solution making crypto simple and secure for everyone. Featuring an expansive ecosystem with LIFE Wallet, Global Mall, and Japan's first licensed Crypto ATM Network, RYO empowers your financial journey. Awarded 'Best Crypto Solution.'

What if the future of healthcare lies in our ability to decentralize it? This episode takes us on an insightful journey with Jasmine Smith, the visionary CEO of Rejuve AI. She shares her fascinating transition from health information management to leading a groundbreaking project in decentralized health and wellness. The transformation from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 is laid bare, with Jasmine revealing how this evolution empowers individuals by taking control away from traditional central entities and addressing challenges like scalability and user experience. We also uncover how technologies such as IPFS and Filecoin are poised to revolutionize sectors like healthcare, particularly in data handling and security.We venture into the intersection of AI, blockchain, and longevity research through Rejuve AI's decentralized platform. This network ambitiously crowdsources health data from users, leveraging wearable devices and health surveys, with future plans for genomic data integration. By personalizing health protocols, Rejuve AI aims to deepen users' understanding of their physiological data, marking a significant stride toward democratizing health information. There's a burgeoning movement toward decentralized science, with comparisons drawn to initiatives like Matt Kaberlein's crowdsource database for rapamycin and VitaDAO's innovative research efforts.As we explore decentralized science further, the episode delves into how it fosters fairness, reduces bias, and accelerates research, especially in the field of aging. VitaDAO's novel approach to funding biotech startups through tokenized intellectual property is highlighted, offering a glimpse into the future of rapid therapy development. The synergy between VitaDAO and Rejuve AI is palpable, with both entities pushing the boundaries of health innovation. Listeners can anticipate the launch of the Rejuve AI app in early 2025, a tool designed to enhance user health and longevity through a freemium model backed by the RJV token. These initiatives are set to transform healthcare into a more collaborative and data-driven industry, promising a healthier future for all.https://www.rejuve.ai/Free sample chapter -Lies I Taught In Medical School :https://www.robertlufkinmd.com/lies/Our sponsors: Complete Metabolic Heart Scan ($100 off with 'LUFKINCT') https://robert-lufkin.mykajabi.com/CMHS Siphox Health, at-home health testing (15% off):https://pathlongevity.com/Prolon & the Fasting Mimicking Diet (20% off ):https://prolonlife.com/Lufkin *** CONNECT***Web: https://robertlufkinmd.com/X: https://x.com/robertlufkinmdYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/robertLufkinmdInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertlufkinmd/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertlufkinmd/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robertlufkinmd Threads: ...

In episode 195, we welcome Benji Leibowitz, COO at Molecule and Co-Founder of pump.science. Benji is at the forefront of Decentralized Science (aka DeSci), a movement using blockchain to democratize research funding, unlock new discoveries, and shift power from big institutions of funders, and into the hands of scientists and the community.In this episode, we explore:How Decentralized Science (DeSci) is revolutionizing scientific research and funding The potential of IP tokens and crypto-powered science to unlock new medical breakthroughsAnd why now, amidst NIH cuts and a challenging funding environment in the US, presents a unique opportunity for DeSci to fill critical funding gaps, empower independent researchers, and accelerate scientific innovation beyond traditional institutional barriers.--Key Takeaways--

What happens when we make our partners the center of our emotional universe? In this insightful episode with Christa walking us through the concept of decentralization, we explore the delicate art of "decentralizing" your partner—a powerful practice that counterintuitively strengthens intimate connections. Through the lens of marriage theory, including but not limited to the Enneagram, we discover how constant emotional monitoring can suffocate even the most loving relationships. Learn to recognize signs you've over-centralized your partner, understand how your Enneagram type influences this tendency, and best of all, walk through a practical anxiety exercise with Christa to help you create healthy space while maintaining deep connection. Whether you're feeling anxious about your partner's every mood shift or struggling with boundary issues, this episode offers compassionate guidance for finding that sweet spot where both individuals can thrive within the relationship. Find resources and coaching info at www.EnneagramandMarriage.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Now is when people will purposefully forget things, and memory becomes very selective. Every year that we are given, means more time to strengthen and shape our world. Some believe that deception can be labelled as virtue. Doubting deeply held beliefs can become very uncomfortable. 47 years old tomorrow, together with the 47th president. They will claim that change is unavoidable. Why ruling powers push religion. Faith became the same as obeying political institutions. Psychological conditioning to accept authority without challenge. Destroying religious challenges also ends the tradition to conquer and convert. The legal systems soon followed politics. The subjugation of populations was always seen as justified. NATO intel doesn't answer to anyone. Their history is a deep one that will require unraveling. They developed the post WWII intel apparatus. Also, the means for controlling the narrative. The colonial version of world history won. Pure faith does not require external validation. The fear based approach eliminated competing beliefs. Silencing traditions was standard. Decentralizing belief is a means to avoid control. Faith existed long before dogma. Trusting your gut is not only smart and spiritual, it's also a last line of defense.

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io.net is a decentralized GPU network that offers scalable and cost-effective computing power for machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. Boasting over 325,000 verified GPUs, io.net aims to address the GPU supply crunch by creating a more accessible and efficient marketplace for compute resources.Tausif Ahmed is the Chief Business Development Officer at io.net, a decentralized physical infrastructure network specializing in GPU solutions. He recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about the technology.Tausif Ahmed is based in Los Angeles and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Tausif has a diverse background in business development, having worked previously at Kraken, Amazon, and Deloitte. He has led strategic partnerships and business development initiatives across multiple industries, including cloud computing and digital assets. Tausif is known for his expertise in driving growth through innovative partnerships and strategic planning.To learn more about the network visit io.net, and follow the team on X.

The space business landscape is changing. Companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin are moving at breakneck speed toward goals Americans have dreamed of since the 1960s. At the same time, a whole host of smaller startups are arriving on the scene, ready to tackle everything from asteroid mining to next-gen satellites to improved lunar missions.Today on Faster, Please — The Podcast, I'm talking with Matt Weinzierl about what research developments and market breakthroughs are allowing these companies to thrive.Weinzierl is the senior associate dean and chair of the MBA program at Harvard Business School. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Weinzierl is the co-author of a new book with Brendan Rosseau, Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier.In This Episode* Decentralizing space (1:54)* Blue Origin vs. SpaceX (4:50)* Lowering launch costs (9:24)* Expanding space entrepreneurship (14:42)* Space sector sustainability (20:06)* The role of Artemis (22:45)* Challenges to success (25:28)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. Decentralizing space (1:54). . . we had this amazing success in the '60s with the Apollo mission . . but it was obviously a very government-led, centralized program and that got us in the mode of thinking that's how you did space.You're telling a story about space transitioning from government-led to market-driven, but I wonder if you could just explain that point because it's not a story about privatization, it's a story about decentralization, correct?It really is, I think the most important thing for listeners to grab onto. In fact, I teach a course at Harvard Business School on this topic, and I've been teaching it now for a few years, and I say to my students, “What's the reason we're here? Why are we talking about space at HBS?” and it's precisely about what you just asked.So maybe the catchiest way to phrase this for folks, there was one of the early folks at SpaceX, Jim Cantrell, he was one of the earliest employees. He has this amazing quote from the early 2000s where he says, “The Great American Space Enterprise, which defeated Communism in defense of Capitalism, was and is operating on a Soviet economic model.” And he was basically speaking to the fact that we had this amazing success in the '60s with the Apollo mission and going to the moon and it truly was an amazing achievement, but it was obviously a very government-led, centralized program and that got us in the mode of thinking that's how you did space. And so for the next 50 years, basically we did space in that way run from the center, not really using market forces.What changed in various ways was that in the early 2000s we decided that model had kind of run its course and the weaknesses were too big and so it was time to bring market forces in. And that doesn't mean that we were getting rid of the government role in space. Just like you said, the government will always play a vital role in space for various reasons, national security among them, but it is decentralizing it in a way to bring the power of the market to bear.Maybe the low point — and that low point, that crisis, maybe created an opportunity — was the end of the Space Shuttle program. Was that an important inflection point?It's definitely one that I think most people in the sector look to as being . . . there's the expression “never waste a crisis,” and I think that that's essentially what happened. The Shuttle was an amazing engineering achievement, nobody really doubts that, and what NASA was trying to do with it and with their contractors was incredibly hard. So it's easy to kind of get too negative on that era, but it is also true that the Shuttle never really performed the way people hoped, it never flew as often, it was much more costly, and then in 2003 there was the second Shuttle tragedy.When that happened, I think everybody felt like, "This just isn't the future." So we need something else, and the Shuttle program was put on a cancellation path by the end of that decade. That really did force this reckoning with the fact that the American space sector, which had put men on the moon and brought them back safely in 1969, launching all sorts of dreams about space colonies and hotels, now, 40 years later, it was going to be unable to even put a person into orbit on its own rockets. We were going to be renting rockets from the Russians. That was really a moment of soul searching, I guess is one way you think about it in the sector.Blue Origin vs. SpaceX (4:50)I guess the big lesson . . . is that competition really does matter in space just like in any other business.I think naturally we would lead into talking about SpaceX, which we certainly will do, but the main competitor, Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos company, which seems to be moving forward, but it's definitely seemed to have adopted a very different kind of strategy. It seems to me different than the SpaceX strategy, which really is kind of a “move fast, break things, build them back up and try to launch again” while Blue Origin is far more methodical. Am I right in that, is that eventually going to work?Blue Origin is a fascinating company. In fact, we actually opened the book — the book is a series, basically, of stories that we tell about companies, and people, and government programs, sprinkled in with some economics because we can't resist. We're trying to structure it for folks, but we start with the story of Blue Origin because it really is fascinating. It illustrates some really fundamental aspects of the sector these days.To your specific question, we can talk more about Blue in many of its aspects. The motto of Blue from its beginning has been this Latin phrase, gradatim ferociter or, “step-by-step, ferociously,” and Bezos in the earliest days, they even have a tortoise on their company shield, so to speak, to signal this tortoise and the hair metaphor or fable. From the earliest days the idea was, “Look, we're going to just methodically work our way up to these grand visions of building infrastructure for space,” eventually in the service of having, as they always said, millions of people living and working in space.Now there's various ways to interpret the intervening 20 years that we've had, or 25 now since they were founded. One interpretation says, well, that's a nice story, but in fact they made some decisions that caused them to move more slowly than even they would've wanted to. So they didn't continue working as closely with NASA as, say, for instance SpaceX did. They relied really almost exclusively on funding from Bezos himself issuing a lot of other contracts they could have gotten, and that sort of reduced the amount of external discipline and market competition that they were facing. And then they made some other steps along the way, and so now they're trying to reignite and move faster, and they did launch New Glenn, their orbital rocket, recently. So they're back in the game and they're coming back. That's one story.Another story is, well yes, they've made decisions that at the time didn't seem to move as fast as they wanted, but they made those decisions intentionally. This is a strategy we will see pay off pretty well in the long run. I think that the jury is very much still out, but I guess the big lesson for your listeners and for me and hopefully for others in the sector, is that competition really does matter in space just like in any other business. To the extent that Blue didn't move as fast because they didn't face as much competition, that's an interesting lesson for the private sector. And to the extent that now they're in the game nipping at the heels of SpaceX, that's good for everybody, even for SpaceX, I think, to have them in the game.Do you think they're nipping at the heels?Well, yeah, I was just thinking as I said that, that might have been a little optimistic. It really does depend how you look at it. SpaceX is remarkably dominant in the commercial space sector, there's no question there. They launch 100 times a year plus and they are . . . the latest statistic I have in 2023, they launched more than 80 percent of all the mass launched off the surface of Earth, so they run more than half the satellites that are operational in space. They are incredibly dominant such that concerns about monopoly are quite present in the sector these days. We can talk about that.I think “nipping at the heels” might be a little generous, although there are areas in which SpaceX still does have real competition. The national security launch sector, ULA (United Launch Alliance) is still the majority launcher of national security missions and Blue is looking to also get into the national security launch market. With Amazon's satellite constellation, Kuiper, starting to come into the launch cadence over the next couple of years, they will have demand for lots of launch outside of SpaceX and that will start to increase the frequency with which Blue Origin and ULA also launch. So I think there is reason to believe that people in the sector will have more options, even for the heavy-lift launch vehicles.Lowering launch costs (9:24)[SpaceX] brought the cost of getting a kilogram of mass into orbit down by 90 percent in less than, really 10 or 15 years, which had been a stagnant number for going on four or five decades.People in Silicon Valley like talking about disruption and disruptors. It's hard to think of a company that is more deserving, or A CEO more deserving than Elon Musk and SpaceX. Tell me how disruptive that company has been to how we think about space and the economic potential of space.We open our chapter in the book on SpaceX by saying we believe it'll go down as one of the most important companies in the history of humanity, and I really do believe that. I don't think you have to be a space enthusiast, necessarily, to believe it. The simplest way to summarize that is that they brought the cost of getting a kilogram of mass into orbit down by 90 percent in less than, really 10 or 15 years, which had been a stagnant number for going on four or five decades. It had hovered around — depending on the data point you look at — around $30,000 a kilogram to low earth orbit, and once SpaceX got Falcon 9 flying, it was down to $3,000. That's just an amazing reduction.What's also amazing about it is they didn't stop there. As soon as they had that, they decided that one of the ways to make the business model work was to reinvent satellite internet. So in a sector that had just over a decade ago only 1000 operational satellites up in space, now we have 10,000, 6,000 plus of which are SpaceX's Starlink, just an incredibly fast-growing transformational technology in orbit.And then they went on to disrupt their own disruption by creating a rocket called Starship, which is just absolutely massive in a way that's hard to even imagine, and that, if it fulfills the promise that I think everyone hopes it will, will bring launch costs down, if you can believe it, by another 90 percent, so a total of 99 percent down to, say, $300 a kilogram. Now you may not have to pass those cost savings on to the customers because they don't have a lot of competition, but it's just amazingWhat's possible with those launch costs in that vicinity? Sometimes, when I try to describe it, I'm like, well, imagine all your 1960s space dreams and what was the missing ingredient? The missing ingredient was the economics and those launch costs. Now plug in those launch costs and lots of crazy things that seem science-fictional may become science-factual. Maybe give me just a sense of what's possible.Well first tell me, Jim, which of the '60s space dreams are you most excited about?It's hard for me, it's like which of my seven kids do I love more? I love the idea of people living in space, of there being industry in space. I like the idea of there being space-based solar power, lunar mining, asteroid mining, the whole kit and caboodle.You've gone through the list. I think we're all excited about those things. And just in case it's not obvious to your listeners, the reason I think you asked that question is that, of course, the launch cost is the gateway to doing anything in space. That's why everyone in the industry makes such a big deal out of it. Once you have that, it seems like the possibilities for business cases really do expand.Now, of course, we have to be careful. It's easy to get overhyped. It's still very expensive to do all the things you just mentioned in space, even if you can get there cheaply. Once you put humans in the mix, humans are very hard to keep alive in space. Space is a very dangerous place for lots of reasons. Even when there aren't humans in space, operating in space, even autonomously, is obviously quite hard, whether it's asteroid mining or other things. It's not as though, all of a sudden, all of our biggest dreams are immediately going to be realized. I do think that part of what's so exciting, part of the reason we wrote the book, is that there is a new renaissance of enthusiasm of startups building a bit on the SpaceX model of having a big dream, being really cost-conscious as you build it, moving fast and experimenting and iterating, who are going after some of these dreams you mentioned..So whether it's an asteroid mining company — actually, in my course later this week, we're having Matt Gialich, who's the CEO of AstroForge, and they're trying to reboot the asteroid mining industry. He's coming in to talk to our students. Or whether it's lunar mining, we have Rob Meyerson who ran Blue Origin for more than a decade, now he's started up a company that's going to mine Helium 3 on the moon; or whether you're talking about commercial space stations, which could eventually house tourists, manufacturing, R&D, a whole new push to bring the cost savings from the launch sector into the destinations sector, which we really haven't had.We've had the International Space Station for 20 plus years, but it wasn't really designed for commercial activity from the start and costs are pretty high. So there is this amazing flowering, and we'll see. I guess I would say that, in the short run, if you're trying to build a business in space, it's still mostly about satellites. It's still mostly about data to and from space. But as we look out further, we all hope that those bigger dreams are becoming more of a reality.Expanding space entrepreneurship (14:42)The laws of supply and demand do not depend on gravity.To me, it is such an exciting story and the story of these companies, they're just great stories to me. They're still, I think, pretty unknown. SpaceX, if you read the books that have been published, very harrowing, the whole thing could have collapsed quite easily. Still today, when the media covers — I think they're finally getting better —that anytime there'd be a SpaceX rocket blow up, they're like, “Oh, that's it! Musk doesn't know what he's doing!” But actually, that's the business, is to iterate, launch again, if it blows up, figure out what went wrong, use the data, fix it, try again. It's taken a long time.To the extent people or the media think about it, maybe 90 percent of the thought is about SpaceX, a little bit about Blue Origin, but, as you mentioned, there is this, no pun intended, constellation of other companies which have grown up, which have somewhat been enabled by the launch costs. Which one? Give me one of those that you think people should know about.There's so many actually, very much to your point. We wrote the book partly to give folks inside the industry a view they might not have had, which is, I'm an economist. We thought there was room to just show people how an economist thinks through this amazing change that's happening.Economics is not earthbound! It extends above the surface of the planet!The laws of supply and demand do not depend on gravity. We've learned that. But we also wrote the book for a couple other groups of people. One, people who are kind of on the margins of space, so their business isn't necessarily involved in space, but once they know all the activity that's happening, including the companies you're hinting at there, they might think, “Wait a minute, maybe my business, or I personally, could actually use some of the new capabilities in space to drive my mission forward to have an impact through my organization or myself.” And then of course the broader population of people who are just excited and want to learn more about what's going on and read some great stories.But I'll give you two companies, maybe three because I can't help myself. One is Firefly, which just landed successfully on the moon . . . 24 hours ago maybe? What a great story. It's now the second lander that's successfully landed, this one fully successfully after Intuitive Machines was a little bit tipped over, but that's a great example of how this model that includes more of a role for the commercial sector succeeds not all the time — the first lunar lander in the program that was supporting these didn't quite succeed — but try, try again. That's the beauty of markets, they find a way often and you can't exactly predict how they're going to work out. But that was a huge success story and so I'm very excited about what that means for our activity on the moon.Another really fascinating company is called K2. A lot of your listeners who follow space will have heard of it. It's two brothers who basically realized that, with the drop in launch costs being promised by Starship, the premium on building lightweight small satellites is kind of going away. We can go back to building big satellites again and maybe we don't need to always make the sacrifices that engineers have had to make to bring the mass down. So they're building much bigger satellites and that can potentially really increase the capabilities even still at low cost. So that's really exciting.Finally, I'll just mention Varda, which is a really fun and exciting startup that is doing manufacturing in automated capsules right now of pharmaceutical ingredients. What I love about them, very much to your point about these startups that are just flowering because of lower launch costs, they're not positioning themselves really as a space company. They're positioning themselves as a manufacturing company that happens to use microgravity to do it cheaper. So you don't have to be a space enthusiast to want your supply chain to be cheaper and they're part of that.Do you feel like we have a better idea of why there should be commercial space stations, or again, is that still in the entrepreneurial process of figuring it out? Once they're up there, business cases will emerge?I was just having a conversation about that this morning, actually, with some folks in the sector because there is a wide range of views about that. It is, as you were sort of implying, a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg problem, it's hard to know until you have a space station what you might do with it, what business cases might result. On the other hand, it's hard to invest in a space station if you don't know what the business case is for doing it. So it is a bit tricky.I tend to actually be slightly on the optimistic end of the spectrum, perhaps just because, as an economist, I think you are trained to know that the market can't be predicted and that at some level that is the beauty of the market. If we drive down costs, there's a ton of smart entrepreneurs out there who I think will be looking very hard to find value that they can create for people, and I'm still optimistic we'll be surprised.If I had to make the other side of the case, I would say that we've been dreaming about using microgravity for many decades, the ISS has been trying, and there hasn't been a killer app quite found yet. So it is very true that there are reasons to be skeptical despite my optimism.Space sector sustainability (20:06)Space does face a sort of structural problem with investing. The venture capital industry is not really built for the time horizons and the level of fundamental uncertainty that we're talking about with space.It's also a sector that's gone through a lot of booms and busts. That certainly has been the case with the idea of asteroid mining among other things. What do you see as the sustainability? I sort of remember Musk talking about there was this kind of “open window to space,” and I don't know what he thought opened that window, maybe it was low interest rates? What is the sustainability of the financial case for this entire sector going forward?It is true that the low interest rate environment of the early 2020s was really supportive to space in a way that. Again, opinions vary on whether it was so hot that it ended up actually hurting the sector by creating too much hype, and then some people lost their shirts, and so there was some bad taste in the mouth there. On the other hand, it got a lot of cash to a lot of companies that are trying to make really hard things happen. Space does face a sort of structural problem with investing. The venture capital industry is not really built for the time horizons and the level of fundamental uncertainty that we're talking about with space. We don't really know what the market is yet. We don't really know how long it's going to take to develop. So that's I think why you see some of these more exotic financing models in space, whether it's the billionaires or the so-called SPAC boom of the early 2020s, which was an alternative way for some space companies to go public and raise a big pile of cash. So I think people are trying to solve for how to get over what might be an uncomfortably long time before the kind of sustainable model that you're talking about is realized.Now, skeptics will say, “Well, maybe that's just because there is no sustainable model. We're hoping and hoping, but it's going to take 500 years.” I'm a little more optimistic than that for reasons we've talked about, but I think one part we haven't really mentioned, or at least not gone into that yet, which is reassuring to investors that I talked to and increasingly maybe an important piece of the puzzle, is the demand from the public sector, which remains quite robust, especially from the national security side. A lot of startups these days, even when capital markets are a bit tighter, they can rely on some relatively stable financing from the national security side, and I think that will always be there in space. There will always be a demand for robust, innovative technologies and capabilities in space that will help sustain the sector even through tough times.The role of Artemis (22:45)Artemis is a really good example of the US space enterprise, broadly speaking, trying to find its way into this new era, given all the political and other constraints that are, of course, going to impinge on a giant government program. I can imagine a scenario where most of this book is about NASA, and Artemis, and what comes after Artemis, and you devote one chapter to the weird kind of private-sector startups, but actually it's just the opposite. The story here is about what's going on with the private sector working with NASA and Artemis seems like this weird kind of throwback to old Apollo-style way of doing things. Is Artemis an important technology for the future of space or is it really the last gasp of an old model?It's a very timely question because obviously with all the change going on in Washington and especially with Elon's role —Certainly you always hear rumors that they'll cancel it. I don't know if that's going to happen, but I certainly see speculations pop-up in the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times from time to time.Exactly, and you probably see debates in Congress where you see some Congress-people resistant to canceling some contracts and debates about the space launch system, the SLS rocket, which I think nobody denies is sort of an older model of how we're going to get to space. On the other hand, it's an incredibly powerful rocket that can actually get us to the moon right now.There's a lot of debate going on right now. The way I think about it is that Artemis is a really good example of the US space enterprise, broadly speaking, trying to find its way into this new era, given all the political and other constraints that are, of course, going to impinge on a giant government program. It's a mix of the old and the new. It's got some pieces like SLS or Gateway, which is a sort of station orbiting the moon to provide a platform for various activities that feel very much like the model from the 1980s: Shuttle and International Space Station.Then it's got pieces that feel very much like the more modern commercial space era with the commercial lunar payload services clips contracts that we were briefly talking about before, and with some of the other pieces that are — whether it's the lander that's also using commercial contracts, whether it's those pieces that are trying to bring in the new. How will it all shake out? My guess is that we are moving, I think inexorably, towards the model that really does tap into the best of the private sector, as well as of the public, and so I think we'll move gradually towards a more commercial approach, even to achieving the sort of public goods missions on the moon — but it'll take a little bit of time because people are naturally risk averse.Challenges to success (25:28)We're going to have some setbacks, some things aren't going to go well with this new model. There's going to be, I'm sure, some calls for pulling back on the commercial side of things, and I think that would be a real lost opportunity. . .How do we not screw this up? How do we not end up undermining this momentum? If you want to tell me what we can do, that's great, but I'm also worried about us making a mistake?There are threats to our ability to do this successfully. I'll just name two which are top of mind. One is space debris. That comes up in virtually every conversation I have. Especially with the increasing number of satellites, increasing number of actors in space, you do have to worry that we might lose control of that environment. Again, I am on the relatively more optimistic end of the spectrum for reasons we explain in the book, and I think the bottom line there is: The stakes are pretty high for everybody who's operating up there to not screw that part up, so I hope we'll get past it, but some people are quite worried.The second, honestly, is national security. Space has always been a beacon, we hope, of transcending our geopolitical rivalries, not just extending them up there. We're in a difficult time, so I think there is some risk that space will not remain as peaceful as it has — and that could very much short-circuit the kind of growth that we're talking about. Sadly, that would be very ironic because the economic opportunities that we have up there to create benefit for everybody on Earth and are part of what hopefully would bring people together across borders up in space. It's one of those places where we can cooperate for the common good.How could we screw this up? I think it's not always going to be smooth sailing. We're going to have some setbacks, some things aren't going to go well with this new model. There's going to be, I'm sure, some calls for pulling back on the commercial side of things, and I think that would be a real lost opportunity. 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In episode 194, we're excited to welcome Norbert Vadas, Head of Product at ZkCloud, a leading platform building the first truly decentralized cloud for Zero-Knowledge proving. Before diving into blockchain, Norbert spent over a decade working with global organizations like UNICEF and FAO, navigating the intersection of finance, governance, and emerging tech. He later transitioned into Web3 as part of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship, where he explored ZK proving's potential to transform how we validate and secure data.We explore:How Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proving is revolutionizing blockchain scalability and privacy.Why decentralized cloud computing could be the key to a an inclusive, fair, and accessible internet powered by the people.How Norbert's journey—from working with UNICEF and FAO to becoming an Ethereum Fellow—has shaped his mission to leverage ZK proofs and Web3 tools for real-world impact--Key Takeaways--

Host Ron Steslow welcomes Mike Brock, CEO of TBD, a subsidiary of Block Inc. (formerly Square), the financial technology firm led by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The Internet is dominated by massive, corporate walled gardens like Google, Facebook, and Twitter (now X), where centralized control makes their users (us!) vulnerable to censorship and manipulation. In this episode, we explore how the movement to decentralize technology empowers individuals, protects against corporate and government abuse, and addresses real problems in finance and social media. We'll also discuss how decentralized technology can enhance financial access and freedom, bypassing intermediaries and censorship, and shifting power from financial corporations to individuals. Finally, we turn to the political landscape, focusing on the Democratic party's approach to decentralized technology and early signs it may be changing. Segments to look forward to: (04:45) Mike's background  (10:50) Empowering individuals through decentralized finance and identity  (15:45) Building infrastructure for a decentralized future  (19:10) The potential of decentralized identity  (29:49) The importance of Bitcoin's decentralization  (31:31) Financial Access and Freedom  (34:27) Preserving agency  (44:44) Changing the balance of power  (50:54) The varied stance of the Democratic party Follow Ron and Mike on X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/RonSteslow https://x.com/brockm Email your questions to podcast@politicology.com or leave us a voicemail at ‪(202) 455-4558‬  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Abhishek Singh is a Ph.D. student at MIT Media Lab. His research interests include collective intelligence, self-organization, and decentralized machine learning. The central question guiding his research is --- how can we (algorithmically) engineer adaptive networks to build anti-fragile systems? He has co-authored multiple papers and built systems in machine learning, data privacy, and distributed computing. Before joining MIT, Abhishek worked with Cisco for 2 years where he did research in AutoML and Machine Learning for systems.An AbstractThe remarkable scaling of AI models has unlocked unprecedented capabilities in text and image generation, raising the question: why hasn't healthcare seen similar breakthroughs? While healthcare AI holds immense promise, progress has been stymied by fragmented data trapped in institutional silos. Traditional centralized approaches fall short in this domain, where privacy concerns and regulatory requirements prevent data consolidation. This talk introduces a framework for decentralized machine learning and discusses algorithms for enabling self-organization among participants with diverse resources and capabilities.About Foresight InstituteForesight Institute is a research organization and non-profit that supports the beneficial development of high-impact technologies. Since our founding in 1987 on a vision of guiding powerful technologies, we have continued to evolve into a many-armed organization that focuses on several fields of science and technology that are too ambitious for legacy institutions to support.Allison DuettmannThe President and CEO of Foresight Institute, Allison Duettmann directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Programs, alongside Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees. She has also been pivotal in co-initiating the Longevity Prize, pioneering initiatives like Existentialhope.com, and contributing to notable works like "Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy" and "Gaming the Future".Get Involved with Foresight:Apply to our virtual technical seminars Join our in-person events and workshops Donate: Support Our Work – If you enjoy what we do, please consider this, as we are entirely funded by your donations!Follow Us: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInNote: Explore every word spoken on this podcast through Fathom.fm, an innovative podcast search engine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Web3 with Sam Kamani, I speak with Darius, co-founder of Vertex Protocol, about building a cutting-edge DeFi platform that delivers unparalleled speed, liquidity, and professional-grade features. We explore: How Vertex's Rust-based matching engine achieves 250k TPS. Innovative cross-chain liquidity aggregation with minimal bridging requirements. The importance of product completeness in DeFi: perps, spot, and money markets in one platform. Lessons from Darius's transition from TradFi to crypto trading. Darius also shares insights on the future of Vertex, plans to expand to 20 chains, and their vision for decentralized infrastructure. If you're a trader, a Web3 enthusiast, or interested in the mechanics of DeFi platforms, this conversation is packed with actionable insights. Key Timestamps [00:00:00] Introduction: Sam introduces Darius and the conversation about Vertex Protocol's journey in DeFi. [00:01:00] Vertex Origins: How Darius's background in trading inspired the creation of Vertex. Building a platform tailored to professionals with capital efficiency and speed. [00:04:00] The Matching Engine: How Vertex uses a Rust-based sequencer for high-speed order processing. The trade-offs between decentralization and performance. [00:07:00] Cross-Chain Liquidity: Vertex's innovative approach to liquidity aggregation. Achieving minimal bridging through netting effects and money markets. [00:10:00] Business Model: Revenue sources: trading fees, money markets, and protocol staking. The balance between reinvestment and decentralization goals. [00:11:00] User Demographics: Why Vertex appeals to professional traders and small/medium trading firms. The role of spot and money markets in supporting perps trading. [00:16:00] Future Roadmap: Plans to expand to 20 chains. Enhancing retail adoption with gamification and yield products. Decentralizing the Vertex sequencer. [00:20:00] Challenges in Scaling: Managing team burnout and sustaining high standards in a growing organization. Balancing scrappiness with documentation and process development. [00:25:00] Ask and Opportunities: Vertex's need for skilled engineers and professionals to support its growth. How listeners can connect with Vertex and contribute. Connect https://linktr.ee/vertex_protocol https://x.com/vertex_protocol https://www.linkedin.com/in/darius-tabatabai/ https://x.com/dariustabai Disclaimer Nothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. Finally, it would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend.Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/

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In this episode of Web3 with Sam Kamani, I chat with Dominic Williams, founder of the DFINITY Foundation and visionary behind ICP (Internet Computer Protocol). We dive deep into: The challenges and opportunities of creating a world computer with blockchain. How ICP is enabling AI to run on-chain, transforming industries like law, healthcare, and enterprise. Why decentralization, security, and scalability are critical for the future of Web3. Dominic's journey from gaming to blockchain innovation and the lessons he learned along the way. Whether you're a developer, investor, or Web3 enthusiast, this conversation sheds light on the next frontier of blockchain and decentralized computing. Key Timestamps [00:00:00] Introduction: Sam introduces Dominic Williams and ICP's mission to build the world computer. [00:01:00] Dominic's Background: From gaming to blockchain—how creating an MMO game led Dominic to crypto. [00:03:00] What is ICP?: The vision of the Internet Computer Protocol as a decentralized world computer. [00:06:00] Why Build ICP?: Dominic explains how ICP differs from other blockchains and its focus on scaling and hosting advanced applications. [00:08:00] The Challenges of Blockchain: Tackling scalability, efficiency, and security to enable truly decentralized computing. [00:11:00] Running AI On-Chain: The technical hurdles of hosting large language models. Why running AI on-chain ensures security, resilience, and trust. [00:18:00] The Future of AI and Blockchain: Real-world use cases like AI-assisted legal services and enterprise applications. [00:27:00] The Problem with Crypto Fragmentation: Why Web3 is so disjointed and how financial incentives shape the industry. [00:35:00] Lessons from Vaporware: The pitfalls of hype-driven projects and why ICP's focus on R&D sets it apart. [00:43:00] What's Next for ICP?: Enabling users to build applications simply by talking to AI. Scaling ICP for mass adoption. [00:46:00] The Ask: Dominic invites talented engineers and AI researchers to join DFINITY and work on the next frontier of blockchain and AI. Connect https://internetcomputer.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/dfinity/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedwilliams/ https://x.com/dfinity https://x.com/dominic_w Disclaimer Nothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. Finally, it would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend. Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - ⁠https://www.web3pod.xyz/⁠

Pete Russell used his experience in the food industry to design Ooooby, a sales platform for farmers to sell directly to the public. Their goal is to put local, ecologically sound growers back at the heart of the food system. Ooooby integrates all the apps one would use to build an online farm store into their software to simplify the process for farmers and offer a seamless experience for the customer.The platform has been available in Australia, New Zealand and the UK and is now becoming available in North America. One of the ways they keep the platform true to its values is by steward ownership- where the people who work for the company and the users all have buy-in. Learn how it works in this week's podcast interview! Connect With Guest:Website: www.ooooby.comInstagram: @oooobyhq Podcast Sponsors:Huge thanks to our podcast sponsors as they make this podcast FREE to everyone with their generous support: There are a lot of farm sales platforms out there, but there's only one that's cooperatively owned by farmers. That's GrownBy — your all-in-one solution to simplify farm sales. From start-up market farms to complex and scaled-up CSAs, GrownBy makes online farm sales easy and affordable; setting up your shop is free, and you only pay when you sell. Join over 900 farms who have already signed up for GrownBy, and you're eligible to join the co-op and become a member-owner after your first sale. Visit grownby.com to get started.Farmhand is the only ready-to-ride assistant made by and for farmers. Through a simple text or email to Farmhand, you can offload admin tasks, automate your CSA, update your website, and sell more to your customers. Learn more and take one of our many time-saving tasks for a test drive to see firsthand how Farmhand can help you earn more, and work less at farmhand.partners/gfm.Bootstrap Farmer offers a complete range of growing supplies including heat mats, ground cover, frost blankets, silage tarps, irrigation, and trellising. They also make all-metal, all-inclusive greenhouse kits, constructed of steel made in the USA and fabricated in Texas. Their heavy-duty, Midwest-made propagation and microgreens trays will last for years and are available in a full spectrum of colors. For all that plus experienced support for everything they sell, check out Bootstrap Farmer at bootstrapfarmer.com. Subscribe To Our Magazine -all new subscriptions include a FREE 28-Day Trial

In this engaging episode of The Life of Flow Podcast, we welcome Dr. Constantino Peña, Section Head of Interventional Radiology at the Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute. Dr. Peña shares insights into his extensive work in Latin America, the collaborative spirit in advancing vascular care, and his involvement in transformative conferences like the ISET meeting.The conversation spans from reminiscing about pivotal moments in vascular care to discussing the evolution of medical education, the integration of cutting-edge technologies, and the challenges of democratizing healthcare tools globally. Dr. Peña's stories of ingenuity and perseverance highlight the creativity required to overcome resource limitations, making this episode both inspiring and educational.Key Topics Discussed:The Latin American Impact:The profound influence of Latin American collaborations on global vascular care.How regional expertise is shaping global practices.Transforming Medical Conferences:The legacy and future of the ISET meeting.The importance of live case demonstrations and interactive learning.Innovation in Challenging Environments:Stories of resourceful medical practices in underserved regions.Local development of medical devices in Brazil and Mexico.Future Frontiers:The role of AI in education and patient care.Decentralizing healthcare systems and creating integrated networks for accessible care.Takeaways from Dr. Peña:Collaboration and innovation are key to advancing medical care, even in resource-limited settings.Conferences and meetings should adapt to modern learning styles, focusing on nuanced discussions and cutting-edge technologies.A vision for a decentralized, accessible healthcare model that integrates hospitals, outpatient centers, and communities.

LinkedIn has consistently proven it's at the top of its game, no matter the economic climate. What's the secret behind their success?In today's episode, Santi Pochat, LinkedIn's VP of Brand Marketing, shares his perspective on investing in brand longevity and authentic storytelling to drive success even in tough times. Santi takes us through his journey—from Argentina's vibrant advertising scene to leading brand initiatives at global giants like Google and Samsung. He also sheds light on how brands can thrive in a decentralized market and how LinkedIn is evolving into a dynamic hub for continuous career growth.Join us as we discuss:Investing in brand consistency during downturns drives faster recovery and stronger positioning in upturns.Strong brand perception in B2B enhances client engagement, reduces churn, and improves sales efficiency.Decentralizing through employee advocacy and authentic content builds genuine connections with audiences.

In this episode of Crypto 101, Bryce Paul interviews Kyle Okamoto, CTO of Aethir, about the future of decentralized computing and Aethir's role in transforming the infrastructure landscape for Web3 applications. Kyle explains how Aethir provides decentralized GPU resources to power intensive tasks like AI training, gaming, and high-scale data processing, making enterprise-grade compute accessible and affordable. The conversation dives into Aethir's tokenomics, community-driven governance, and the New Horizons program, which invites infrastructure providers to contribute their underutilized GPUs to the network. Kyle shares his thoughts on the challenges of scaling decentralized infrastructure, the need for regulatory clarity, and his vision for Aethir's impact on both Web2 and Web3 industries.Get immediate access to my entire crypto portfolio for just $1.00 today! https://www.cryptorevolution.com/cryptnation-directGet your FREE copy of "Crypto Revolution" and start making big profits from buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrency today: https://www.cryptorevolution.com/freeSubscribe to YouTube for Exclusive Content:https://www.youtube.com/@crypto101podcastFollow us on social media for leading-edge crypto updates and trade alerts:https://twitter.com/Crypto101Podhttps://instagram.com/crypto_101Guest LinkWeb: https://aethir.com/X: https://x.com/AethirCloud*This is NOT financial, tax, or legal advice*Boardwalk Flock LLC. All Rights Reserved 2024. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Fog by DIZARO https://soundcloud.com/dizarofrCreative Commons — Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported — CC BY-ND 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/Fog-DIZAROMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/lAfbjt_rmE8▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, we delve into the concept of decentralizing social media, advocating for a shift where the quality of content and genuine subscriptions take precedence over algorithm-driven engagement. We discuss the dilemma photographers face with Instagram, exploring viable alternatives that could meet their needs for attention, income, and connection outside centralized platforms. We question whether social media might one day be viewed as harmful as smoking or alcohol, pondering if current excitement blinds us to its potential dangers. We also highlight the recurring urge to abandon Instagram for platforms like Vero and Clubhouse and why we inevitably all return to Instagram. Lastly, we discuss the internal dialogue many experience when trying to manage an overwhelming number of followings.Expect to learn:- how to become your own platform outside of centralized apps- how to remain authentic in an algorithm-driven world- to identify the needs you're trying to fill with Instagram- how you can fill those needs outside of the platform with more success- how to best audit and cull your "following" listBook a one time virtual 30 minute 1-on-1 session with Aaron or Seth entirely for FREE by using the code "FREETRIAL" at checkout: https://thephotographermindset.com/products/60-minute-virtual-1-on-1-sessionSponsor:Thanks to WhiteWall for being our lead sponsor this episode! They're the top choice for photographers who want high-quality prints, with a variety of material options, and who want their work delivered fast in 9 days or less!You can use the code TPMINDSET15 at checkout for 15% off! Valid until 12/31/24https://www.whitewall.com/Subscribe to TPM's Youtube page and watch full length episodes: https://www.youtube.com/thephotographermindset/Make a donation via PayPal for any amount you feel is equal to the value you receive from our podcast episodes! Donations help with the fees related to hosting the show:https://paypal.me/podcasttpm?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_USThanks for listening!Go get shooting, go get editing, and stay focused.@sethmacey@mantis_photography@thephotographermindsetSupport the showSupport the show

The Bulletproof Dental Podcast Episode 368 HOST: Dr. Peter Boulden GUEST: Dr. Trey Tippit DESCRIPTION In this episode, Peter and Trey share strategies for dentists to thrive in a competitive market. They discuss the importance of presence, training, and continuous growth, emphasizing the need to decentralize operations and enhance patient experience. Key topics include handling criticism, the value of having A-players on your team, and the distinction between leads and service quality. They explore themes such as financial success, game theory in business, setting goals, and fostering a positive culture. The conversation highlights the significance of appreciation, clarity, continuous learning, healthy competition, and knowledge sharing. Tune in to discover how mindset and collaboration drive success! TAKEAWAYS Building a strong presence is crucial for success. Training is a key component in differentiating oneself. Decentralizing operations can mitigate risks in practice management. Planning for future growth is essential in practice development. Focusing on the quality of service is more important than just acquiring leads. Implementing the three Rs can significantly improve patient retention. Game theory can be applied to business metrics, including money, as a way to measure the efficiency of running a business. Setting goals and incentives can motivate and drive performance in a team. Culture plays a crucial role in team performance, and toxic behavior can negatively impact the overall culture. Attracting and retaining top talent is essential for the success of an organization, and creating a positive work environment can help in this regard. Marketing efforts can be used to attract top talent by showcasing the benefits and positive aspects of working in an organization. Appreciate and value the work of others CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction and Context Setting 03:23 - Building for the Future 06:14 - The Role of A-Players in Growth 09:32 - Continuous Growth and Shedding Old Skin 12:19  - Handling Criticism and Haters 21:16 - The Three Rs: Reappoint, Refer, Review 29:31 - Applying Game Theory to Business Metrics 30:55 - Setting Goals and Incentives for Performance 36:30 - The Impact of Culture on Team Performance 43:49 - The Need for Top Talent in an Organization 47:16 - Creating a Positive Work Environment 52:04 - Appreciation and Lack of Appreciation 58:35 - Embracing Healthy Competition 01:02:05 - The Power of Sharing Knowledge   REFERENCES Bulletproof Mastermind Bulletproof Summit Bulletproof Real Estate  

In this episode, we're joined by Michael and Colin from Liquity! We discussed Liquity v1 vs Liquity v2, how user's are behaving, and the role of their stability pool. Additionally, we discussed how they're thinking about capturing revenue with the v2 model, and the importance of integrations and composability for stablecoins. Finally, we ended the discussion with commentary on why decentralized stablecoins are needed in the first place. Thanks for tuning in! As always, remember this podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely their opinions, not financial advice. -- Follow Liquity: https://x.com/LiquityProtocol Follow Colin: https://x.com/colingplatt Follow Michael: https://x.com/svobodamichael Follow Luke: https://x.com/0xMether Follow Boccaccio: https://x.com/tripleboccaccio Follow Blockworks Research: https://twitter.com/blockworksres Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3foDS38 Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3SNhUEt Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3NlP1hA Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ -- Timestamps: (0:00) Introduction (2:58) Changes From Liquity v1 to v2 (6:59) The Need For Liquity v2 (10:54) Liquity v2 User Behavior (17:51) Permissionless III Ad (19:05) The Role of the Stability Pool (28:55) Capturing Revenue With Liquity v2 (32:44) Stablecoin Integrations and Composability (37:05) Protocols Built on Top of Liquity (41:51) Returning Revenue to Users (45:51) Why Do We Need Decentralized Stablecoins? (51:04) Growth of Decentralized Stablecoins -- Check out Blockworks Research today! Research, data, governance, tokenomics, and models – now, all in one place Blockworks Research: https://www.blockworksresearch.com/ Free Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter -- Disclaimer: Nothing said on 0xResearch is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Boccaccio, Dan, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

In this episode, Ashton from Openmesh joins Web3 with Sam Kamani to explore the urgent need for decentralizing Web3 infrastructure. As centralized cloud giants like AWS and Google Cloud dominate the Web3 landscape, Ashton shares how Openmesh aims to build a permissionless, immutable cloud that truly embodies the ethos of decentralization. We discuss the economic challenges faced by node operators, the growing centralization choke points, and how Openmesh's innovative solutions can transform Web3 infrastructure. Key Timestamps [00:00:00] Introduction: Sam introduces Ashton and Openmesh, highlighting the issue of centralization in Web3 infrastructure. [00:02:00] Getting Into Web3: Ashton shares his journey from Web2 and early days of Ethereum meetups in 2015. [00:06:00] Web3 Challenges: The rise of AWS and Google Cloud in Web3 and the risks of centralization. [00:13:00] Economic Viability of Node Operators: Ashton discusses the high costs of running nodes and how it threatens decentralization. [00:19:00] Openmesh's Solution: Introducing Openmesh's permissionless cloud and decentralized infrastructure aggregation. [00:27:00] The Role of Node Operators: Why node operators are critical for Web3's success and how Openmesh supports them. [00:35:00] Building Immutable Cloud Infrastructure: How Openmesh uses a distributed model to offer secure, wallet-protected virtual machines. [00:45:00] Xnode and the $100M Giveaway: Ashton details Openmesh's initiatives to empower developers and node operators. [00:58:00] Future Vision: Ashton shares the roadmap for Openmesh and the importance of decentralizing the cloud. Disclaimer Nothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. Finally, it would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend. Connect https://www.openmesh.network/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/openmesh/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonh/ https://x.com/openmeshnetwork https://x.com/AshtonHetti Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/

I'm not a financial advisor; Superpowers for Good should not be considered investment advice. Seek counsel before making investment decisions.Watch the show on television by downloading the e360tv channel app to your Roku, AppleTV or AmazonFireTV. You can also see it on YouTube.When you purchase an item, launch a campaign or create an investment account after clicking a link here, we may earn a fee. Engage to support our work.Devin: what do you see as your superpower?Nicole: My superpower is that I don't get—climate change isn't something I see as a depressing end-of-world must-be scenario. It's very much a call to action.In today's episode of Superpowers for Good, I had the pleasure of speaking with Nicole Whalen, Founder and CEO of Green Compass, a company dedicated to fighting climate change by retrofitting buildings with green infrastructure. The conversation highlighted the significant yet often overlooked role that buildings play in contributing to climate change. According to Nicole, over 70% of emissions in Washington, D.C., come from buildings, and this trend is common across the globe.Nicole shared how Green Compass utilizes nature-based solutions to retrofit commercial and multifamily buildings. These efforts include installing solar panels, electrification systems, and green stormwater infrastructure, all aimed at reducing emissions and mitigating the effects of climate change. One of her most striking projects involved creating a 2,000-square-foot rain garden that captures almost a million gallons of water per year. "Something as small a footprint as 2,000 square feet can capture almost a million gallons of water a year," she said, emphasizing the scale of impact even small projects can have.What I found particularly compelling was Nicole's vision for decentralizing both energy and water systems, a step she sees as critical for sustainability. “Decentralizing utilities is something that's...indicative for sustainability. We need to have more decentralization of our energy sources [and] decentralized water systems as well,” she explained.Nicole's work demonstrates the immense potential of combining private sector investment with innovative green solutions to solve one of the world's most pressing problems: climate change. Green Compass's Raise Green crowdfunding campaign is now live, offering a unique opportunity for impact-minded investors to support this mission.Stay tuned for more inspiring stories on how business leaders are using their superpowers for good!tl;dr:* Introduction of Green Compass: Nicole Whalen, founder of Green Compass, explains that her company retrofits commercial and multifamily buildings using green infrastructure to combat climate change, employing nature-based solutions like solar systems and EV charging.* Climate Impact of Buildings: Whalen highlights the significant role buildings play in emissions, with over 70% of emissions in Washington D.C. coming from buildings, and emphasizes the need for retrofitting to reduce these emissions.* Stormwater Retention Credits: Green Compass develops projects that utilize stormwater retention credits, a market-driven solution that allows private investment in green infrastructure, benefiting entities like churches and reducing costs while improving environmental outcomes.* Future Expansion: Green Compass, initially focused in D.C., plans to expand across the U.S. as other municipalities adopt similar stormwater management systems, driven by climate change and inadequate existing infrastructure.* Nicole's Superpower: Whalen attributes her success to her scientific mindset, particularly her ability to view the world through ecological relationships, and her passion for using nature to restore the environment, offering an optimistic approach to addressing climate challenges.How to Develop Green Innovation As a SuperpowerNicole's superpower lies in her ability to drive significant environmental change through innovative green solutions. By retrofitting buildings with advanced green infrastructure, she tackles climate change head-on. Nicole's approach integrates nature-based systems like green stormwater infrastructure, solar energy, and electrification to reduce emissions and enhance sustainability in urban environments.An illustrative story from our conversation involved a project where Nicole's team created a 2,000-square-foot rain garden that captures nearly a million gallons of water annually. This project not only manages stormwater effectively but also enhances the local environment by adding trees and reducing urban heat. Nicole's innovative approach allows her to address both water management and carbon sequestration simultaneously.To develop green innovation as a personal strength, Nicole suggests focusing on several key areas:* Invest in Learning: Understand the latest technologies and methods in green infrastructure.* Leverage Investment Opportunities: Utilize innovative financing solutions like stormwater retention credits to support your projects.* Embrace Decentralization: Promote decentralized systems for energy and water management to increase sustainability.By following Nicole's example and advice, you can make green innovation a skill. With practice and effort, you could make it a superpower that enables you to do more good in the world.Remember, however, that research into success suggests that building on your own superpowers is more important than creating new ones or overcoming weaknesses. You do you!Guest ProfileNicole Whalen (she/her):Founder & CEO, Green Compass LLCAbout Green Compass LLC: Based in Washington DC, Green Compass retrofits commercial and multifamily buildings to fight climate change by deploying:

In this episode, we dive deep into the intersection of AI and Web3 with Bidhan Roy, the visionary behind Bagel. Bagel is revolutionizing how we build and access machine learning models by leveraging community power and privacy-preserving technologies. From his extensive experience at Amazon Alexa to his ambitious plans at Bagel, Bidhan shares insights into the challenges and opportunities in AI and Web3. Discover how Bagel aims to democratize AI, enabling anyone to build state-of-the-art models and fostering a truly decentralized ecosystem. Tune in to learn how AI can be both powerful and privacy-conscious, and what this means for the future of technology. Key Points with Timestamps [00:01:14] Introduction to Bidhan Roy and his background in AI and machine learning. [00:02:18] Overview of Bagel: A peer-to-peer machine learning ecosystem. [00:03:12] Challenges in the current AI industry: Monetization, privacy, and community rewards. [00:07:05] Discussion on open source vs. centralized AI models. [00:09:21] How Bagel aims to democratize access to high-quality data and resources. [00:13:08] Privacy concerns and the importance of privacy-preserving technologies in AI. [00:16:02] Insights on the untapped potential of private data sets in AI. [00:20:01] Bagel's unique monetization strategy and shared ownership model. [00:25:38] The challenges of building a startup at the intersection of AI and Web3. [00:35:20] The difference between AI and Web3 in terms of decentralization and permissionless innovation. [00:40:05] Future trends in Web3 and the importance of real user engagement. [00:44:04] Projects in AI and Web3 that inspire Bidhan and Bagel. Disclaimer  Nothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research.  Request Finally, it would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend. Connect with Bagel and Bidhan https://www.linkedin.com/in/bidhanr/  https://www.bagel.net/ https://x.com/bagel_network Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/

Ocean Mining launched in November of last year to great fanfare and intrigue with a promise to decentralize Bitcoin mining. We check in with the team nearly 1 year on.Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week we are joined by Bitcoin Mechanic, arguably the face of Ocean Pool. Ocean launched in November 2023 with a lot of hope, excitement and promise, even getting a node from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey with an investment. The Ocean Pool team promised to decentralize Bitcoin mining through novel block template options for individual miners, a new payout structure called Tides and, to much criticism, the filtering of Ordinals and Inscription projects natively. In this interview, we go through what happened over the course of 2024 with Ocean Pool, how it's attracting hashrate, revisiting the ‘spam' problem, block template construction and the future of Bitcoin in regards to MEV and future soft forks.Timestamps:00:00 Start02:08 Bitcoin Mechanic bio05:26 Start9 & node runners06:43 What's Ocean?08:20 Who is Ocean different?13:25 Block template centralization22:27 Closed Source firmware23:55 Ocean Biz Dev25:03 How to attract miners?34:56 PPLNS vs FPPS45:03 Why would a miner switch?49:39 How big is the market for hobbyist miners?56:36 Corporate pools59:31 Corporate MEV1:03:04 Template construction1:13:01 OPCAT & the future of BTCPublished twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday!

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week we are joined by Bitcoin Mechanic, arguably the face of Ocean Pool. Ocean launched in November 2023 with a lot of hope, excitement and promise, even getting a node from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey with an investment. The Ocean Pool team promised to decentralize Bitcoin mining through novel block template options for individual miners, a new payout structure called Tides and, to much criticism, the filtering of Ordinals and Inscription projects natively.  In this interview, we go through what happened over the course of 2024 with Ocean Pool, how its attracting hashrate, revisiting the ‘spam' problem, block template construction and the future of Bitcoin in regards to MEV and future soft forks. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:08 Bitcoin Mechanic bio 05:26 Start9 & node runners 06:43 What's Ocean? 08:20 Who is Ocean different? 13:25 Block template centralization 22:27 Closed Source firmware 23:55 Ocean Biz Dev 25:03 How to attract miners? 34:56 PPLNS vs FPPS 45:03 Why would a miner switch? 49:39 How big is the market for hobbyist miners? 56:36 Corporate pools 59:31 Corporate MEV 1:03:04 Template construction 1:13:01 OPCAT & the future of BTC Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 

Host Ron Steslow welcomes Mike Brock, CEO of TBD, a subsidiary of Block Inc. (formerly Square), the financial technology firm led by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The Internet is dominated by massive, corporate walled gardens like Google, Facebook, and Twitter (now X), where centralized control makes their users (us!) vulnerable to censorship and manipulation. In this episode, we explore how the movement to decentralize technology empowers individuals, protects against corporate and government abuse, and addresses real problems in finance and social media. We'll also discuss how decentralized technology can enhance financial access and freedom, bypassing intermediaries and censorship, and shifting power from financial corporations to individuals. Finally, we turn to the political landscape, focusing on the Democratic party's approach to decentralized technology and early signs it may be changing. Segments to look forward to: (04:45) Mike's background  (10:50) Empowering individuals through decentralized finance and identity  (15:45) Building infrastructure for a decentralized future  (19:10) The potential of decentralized identity  (29:49) The importance of Bitcoin's decentralization  (31:31) Financial Access and Freedom  (34:27) Preserving agency  (44:44) Changing the balance of power  (50:54) The varied stance of the Democratic party Follow Ron and Mike on X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/RonSteslow https://x.com/brockm Email your questions to podcast@politicology.com or leave us a voicemail at ‪(202) 455-4558‬  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a Text Message.Join us for an engaging new episode of Remotely One, where hosts Rick Haney and Kaleem Clarkson welcome Ben Kvalo, a seasoned professional in the gaming and entertainment industries, and the Founder of Midwest Games! His impressive journey from Portage, Wisconsin, to his current residence split between Los Angeles and Green Bay is not only outstanding but also fascinating. Ben's career trajectory is remarkable, with roots in sports management influenced by his family's football legacy. His entrepreneurial spirit emerged early, starting a radio station in college, which led to a brief stint in professional radio before making a significant transition to the gaming industry.Ben chats about his pivotal career move to 2K, where he contributed to the success of major franchises like Borderlands, BioShock, Civilization, Xcom, Mafia, and NBA2K. His role at 2K provided him with comprehensive insights into the gaming business, igniting his passion for supporting creatives with his operational expertise. Ben shares his initial culture shock when moving from Wisconsin to San Francisco, contrasting the lifestyle differences and the booming tech innovation of the 2010s.Interestingly, Ben transitioned from games to the film industry with Netflix, before circling back to the gaming world. The differences between the gaming and film industries are significant, with Netflix's revolutionary approach to technology and streaming standing out. Ben discusses the global accessibility of Netflix, which democratized content consumption and catered to diverse viewing habits.What took Ben to the next stage of his career? His decision to start his own company, Midwest Games, stemmed from his passion for remote work. This ignites a desire among individuals seeking flexibility and a better work-life balance. Midwest Games embraces remote work, fostering a culture that supports underrepresented developers and prioritizes innovation and creativity, letting people control their own destinies.Not only are Ben's ideas technologically revolutionary, but they are also groundbreaking in another way: his decision to focus on underserved populations in his hiring practices. Ben explains that the traditional concentration of the video game industry in expensive cities like LA, San Francisco, Seattle, and Austin excludes many talented individuals from other regions. A study shows that two-thirds of the U.S. video game industry is concentrated in these areas, despite the high cost of living and the lack of necessity for physical presence in the digital age.His journey from Netflix to founding Midwest Games underscores the transformative potential of remote work and the importance of creating flexible, inclusive work environments. By challenging the traditional geographic concentration of the video game industry, Ben is not only building a successful company but also contributing to a more equitable and diverse industry landscape. Join us for this insightful and inspiring episode to hear more about Ben's remarkable journey and his vision for the future of remote work in the gaming industry. Thank you for the amazing chat, Ben!Learn more from Ben:Ben's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benkvalo/Midwest Games: https://www.midwestgames.com/

In our Season 3 finale, Erin and Carol are joined by Caroline Morchio, Head of UX at Dashlane, a credential management platform. Their conversation explores UX research best practices at a security-minded organization like Dashlane, highlighting other what teams can bring to their own work. Caroline shares the ways she structures the UX team to support the product landscape at Dashlane, their processes for empowering colleagues to contribute to research, and why she prefers a "decentralized" model. The conversation also unpacks the core skills that Caroline emphasizes no matter the company: storytelling, actionable insights, and templates. Together, these help her team maintain rigor while scaling to meet new user experiences opportunities.Finally, Caroline discusses how to balance the security and usability when conducting UX research, and forecasts what the future of data privacy and security might have in store, like passwordless authentication. Episode Highlights04:27 Implementing research in stages07:22 The strategic impact of UX on a business11:23 Focusing on ICP segmentation and user sophistication18:06 The importance of privacy and data security23:01 Decentralizing research processes30:17 The importance of research in complex technologyAbout Our GuestCaroline is a Design leader with experience in innovative companies transforming their industries. She has led design teams through all phases of product development and fostered a culture of open collaboration and feedback. Caroline was previously VP of Design at Handshake, Neuralink, and is now an AWS Design ambassador and Head of UX at Dashlane.More Resources on Security in UXRA Researcher's Guide to Data Privacy RegulationsNDAs and Consent Forms for UX ResearchExamining Ethical Design and Respectful UX

“The amount of human attention in the world is finite. We have 24 hours in the day, some of which we need to spend paying attention to eating, sleeping and meeting our other needs. The attention during the remaining hours of most people in the world is taken up by having to earn an income and by consuming goods and services, leaving relatively little time for attention to be freely allocated. A hard limit on available attention also exists for humanity as a whole—as I argued earlier, we are headed for peak population, at which point we will no longer be increasing the total amount of potentially available attention by adding more people.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, we're covering The World After Capital by Albert Wenger. We'll explore the transition from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Age, the new scarcity of attention, and the potential for widespread societal change. Join us in this futuristic discussion as we ponder how digital technologies are reshaping our world and the future of human civilization. We cover a wide range of topics including: The shift from capital to attention as a scarce resource How we're heading into a future that's non-linear Why "everyone needs to" is not a practical solution The role AI may play in replacing jobs and technological adaptation Do we agree with the author's proposed solutions? And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the Show: Duolingo (4:47) The New York Times (5:25) Codementor (29:47) Cursor (29:55) Starlink (44:43) WWDC24 (45:06) Outside the System (53:15) Tucker Carlson and Bukele (53:25) Zeekr 001 (1:01:12) Outside the System: Crypto Confidential episode (1:05:56) DeepMind (1:08:25) Inflection AI (1:09:13) Books Mentioned: The World After Capital (Adil's Book Notes) Homo Deus (0:14) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) (Adil's Book Notes) Novacene (0:21) (Book Episode) The Beginning of Infinity (0:29) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The War on Normal People (0:35) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Into the Amazon (7:52) (Book Episode) The Coming Wave (1:08:04) People Mentioned: Albert Wenger Yuval Noah Harari (0:13) Andrew Yang (0:35) (Book Episode) George R. R. Martin (18:00) John Gray (44:25) Francisco Franco (58:21) Mustafa Suleyman(1:08:25) Show Topics: (0:00) In today's episode, we're diving into The World After Capital by Albert Wenger. We kick off the episode by reflecting on previous episodes and reads we've had with books that debates what is coming after the current industrial era. What's next for human civilization?  (3:57) One of the book's strengths is its historical framing. While Wenger presents the situation well, his solutions and theories about the future were hard to fully agree with.  (8:34) Nat, Neil, and Adil explain how Wenger sets up the big picture. He argues that we're on the cusp of a major historical shift where we can no longer predict the next step due to fundamental changes. In each era, a scarcity drives human behavior. Today, Wenger contends that the finite resource is attention.  (10:55) Have we shifted the problem from capital to attention by untethering currency from a hard asset? Leading companies like Microsoft and Google are powerful not because of their capital but because they control our attention.  (14:57) Attention vs. time. Wenger refers to the "job loop" where time is exchanged for money. With the internet, you can create things with no marginal cost, selling without a major time investment. (16:42) Aside from attention, what other contenders do we have as the next scarce resource? (19:21) The book's purpose is not just to observe shifting scarcity but to highlight how each shift has led to widespread violence. Wenger aims to minimize or avoid this violence. Has the violence already started, and how might it differ this time around?  (24:52) How new inventions often replace old methods, and people adapt. AI could be the first technology in our lifetime to put many people out of work. Should we be worried? While we're used to working with people in complex organizations, AI's impact may take time to fully manifest, much like the gradual replacement of horses by cars. (32:01) Why learning how to work with AI tools can give you a future advantage.  (33:49) The world population faces fertility problems and declining birth rates. If population decline is gradual, it's manageable. But how will it play out?  (38:01) Nat, Neil, and Adil point out one major disagreement they have with the author's idea of how to find meaning in your life. (40:30) The first of Wenger's proposed solutions is mindfulness and meditation. (42:19) Wenger emphasizes information freedom with internet access for all, which is a good start. Decentralizing access ensures it can't be stopped or taken away. We also touch on the topic of universal basic income (UBI), (45:42) Do we just need to "get over" our right to privacy and scarcity thinking? We explain our disagreements with Wenger and how privacy may be incompatible with technological progress. (55:03) Transforming a place from dangerous to moderately safe is no easy feat. We examine El Salvador's turnaround under Bukele.  (1:00:17) Discussing the significant changes over the span of 20 years. We also talk about cars made in China, noting how the perception of "Made in China" has evolved from being seen as cheap to being recognized for quality. (1:03:15) If a solution requires "everyone needs to," it's likely not a practical solution. Effective solutions must work with current incentives and human behavior. We discuss the importance of having a fluid career identity and finding deeper meaning in life beyond a job. (1:07:32) That concludes this episode! Have you read The World After Capital? Let us know your thoughts! Next up, we will be reading Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Grab a copy of the book here, check out our website, and give us a follow on Instagram to stay in the loop on what's happening on the Made You Think podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. This means you can directly tip the co-hosts in BTC with minimal transaction fees. To get started, simply download a podcast app (like Fountain or Breez) that supports Value-for-Value and send some BTC to your in-app wallet. You can then use that to support shows who have opted-in, including Made You Think! We'll be going with this direct support model moving forward, rather than ads. Thanks for listening. See you next time!

In this episode sponsored by LAOS and Bitlayer Recorded live at Consensus 2024 in Austin, Texas, we dive into the world of blockchain with three industry trailblazers: Jahan Trendback from Cosmos, Piers Ridyard from Radix, and Solo Ceesay from CalaxyLet's learn together how Jahan Trendback discusses his work with Cosmos, focusing on the Gravity Bridge and innovative solutions for blockchain interoperability. Also how Piers Ridyard shares his journey from traditional finance to the world of Web3, explaining how Radix addresses challenges in the DeFi space and finally Solo Sisi tells the origin story of Calixy, a social marketplace redefining the creator economy.Join us as we explore the innovative approaches these blockchain projects are taking to address key industry challenges and provide users with new and improved experiences in the Web3 space.

In episode 162, we're excited to welcome Rod Mamin, Founder of LunCo, an organization on a mission to decentralize space exploration and catalyze open source space engineering. We talk about the growing DeSpace movement, how Web3 can help address the pain points in traditional space research, bringing an open source ethos to space engineering, why the average person should care about space exploration, and much more.--Three Key Takeaways--One of the greatest benefits of DeSpace is how it opens space exploration to the broader community by coordinating scientists, enthusiasts, and citizens around the world in funding and supporting space research. It's also important to remember that space exploration is about more than just rocket science, and requires diverse skill sets and professions. Web3 can help coordinate this talent across borders.Web3 incentive mechanisms will be key in driving the Decentralized Space revolution. Whether it's using tokens to incentivize participation in data networks, or IP-NFTs to monetize research discoveries, these mechanisms will be key in coordinating the community and building a sustainable DeSpace ecosystem.Supporting space exploration and research extends beyond missions to the moon or Mars. In reality, space engineering and research touch our daily lives in numerous ways. Whether it's using GPS to navigate, accessing the internet via satellite, or utilizing data collected by satellites, these advancements have a broad impact. Therefore, community involvement in the space movement is essential.--Full shownotes with links available at--https://www.cryptoaltruism.org/blog/crypto-altruism-podcast-episode-162-lunco-decentralizing-space-exploration--Support us with a Fiat or Crypto contribution--Learn more at cryptoaltruism.org/supportus--DISCLAIMER --While we may discuss specific web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on potential investment opportunities, or any opportunity, before making an investment. We host a variety of guests on this podcast with the sole purpose of highlighting the social impact use cases of this technology. That being said, Crypto Altruism does not endorse any of these projects, and we recognize that, since this is an emerging sector, some may be operating in regulatory grey areas, and as such, we cannot confirm their legality in the jurisdictions in which they operate, especially as it pertains to decentralized finance protocols. So, before getting involved with any project, it's important that you do your own research and confirm the legality of the project. More on the disclaimer at cryptoaltruism.org.Please note: we make use of affiliate marketing to provide readers with referrals to high quality and relevant products and services.

In this episode, Dr. Vishnu Sundaresan from our Defense Sciences Office highlights several technology programs designed to precisely control chemical processes to enable distributed, small-batch manufacturing of chemical products while retaining efficiencies of large-scale industrial production. Colloquially calling this portfolio “decentralized chemistry for everything,” the concept aims to shift the paradigm from a few centralized production facilities producing medicines in large batches and requiring a costly purification process, to direct manufacturing of pure pharmaceuticals via desktop printer-sized machines that would create — at the push of a button — doses of a variety of medicines whenever and wherever needed. Such a revolutionary capability — if successful — would circumvent brittle international chemical supply chains and would serve military members deployed in remote locations as well as benefit rural civilian communities.Sundaresan describes programs aiming to achieve elements of this vision: Spin-COntrolled chemical Process Engineering (SCOPE), Recycling at the Point of Disposal (RPOD), and Establishing Qualification Processes for Agile Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (EQUIP-A-Pharma).Listen to Sundaresan describe his journey to becoming a DARPA program manager, the fascinating world of controlling electron spins, and the ethical, legal, and societal challenges of preparing the market for such revolutionary tech.

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Shawna Martell and Dan Fike, about the Navigators program at Carta and how they are finding ways to decentralize decisions and empower individual contributors. The quality of technical decisions is improved, and decisions are reached more quickly because the people involved are close to the relevant context. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/45jfXHZ Subscribe to the Software Architects' Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter Upcoming Events: InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 24-25, 2024) Actionable insights on today's critical dev priorities. devsummit.infoq.com/conference/boston2024 InfoQ Dev Summit Munich (Sept 26-27, 2024) Practical learnings from senior software practitioners navigating Generative AI, security, modern web applications, and more. devsummit.infoq.com/conference/munich2024 QCon San Francisco (November 18-22, 2024) Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies. qconsf.com/ QCon London (April 7-9, 2025) Discover new ideas and insights from senior practitioners driving change and innovation in software development. qconlondon.com/ The InfoQ Podcasts: Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts: - The InfoQ Podcast www.infoq.com/podcasts/ - Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture - Generally AI Follow InfoQ: - Mastodon: techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq Write for InfoQ: Learn and share the changes and innovations in professional software development. - Join a community of experts. - Increase your visibility. - Grow your career. www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq

Filecoin Foundation President Marta Belcher discusses the convergence of Web3 technologies and creative licensing.To get the show every day, follow the podcast here.Filecoin Foundation President Marta Belcher joins Logik and CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie at Consensus 2024 to discuss the convergence of Web3 technologies and creative licensing. Plus, insights on Filecoin's role in disrupting the monopolistic control of data storage by tech giants.-This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “First Mover” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, Jeff Yan, Co-founder of Hyperliquid, joins to discuss Hyperliquid's journey and growth thus far. He provides insights into how they developed the HyperBFT consensus algorithm, Hyperliquid's Vault System, and their plans to decentralize the Hyperliquid L1. Jeff also gives his thoughts on competing with Centralized Exchanges, and what's in store for Hyperliquid in the future. Thanks for tuning in! As always, remember this podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely their opinions, not financial advice. -- Wormhole is a decentralized interoperability platform powering multi-chain applications and bridges. It provides developers with access to liquidity and users on over 30 leading blockchain networks, enabling use cases in DeFi, data queries, and governance. The platform is trusted by teams like Uniswap and Circle and, to date, the platform has facilitated the transfer of over 35 billion dollars through over 850 million cross-chain messages. Claim your unique Wormhole NFT at https://forms.clickup.com/45049775/f/1aytxf-18571/OKMZT6A2GPAA9B6X6V -- Pear is an innovative pair-trading exchange built on top of SYMMIO. Users can trade trending narratives with one click, from bluechip narratives such as long BTC, short ETH, right through to WIF vs BONK. SYMMIO's intent-centric architecture enables deep liquidity, sourced off-chain and brought on-chain, and combined with Pear, have democratized access to complex trading strategies typically reserved for institutional traders. Start trading today at: https://www.pear.garden/ -- Follow Jeff: https://x.com/chameleon_jeff Follow Boccaccio: https://twitter.com/tripleboccaccio Follow Carolina: https://x.com/GoldDefi Follow Blockworks Research: https://twitter.com/blockworksres Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3foDS38 Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3SNhUEt Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3NlP1hA Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ -- Timestamps: (0:00) Introduction (1:50) Hyperliquid Overview (6:05) Competing with Centralized Exchanges (7:51) Hyperliquid's Vault System & Bridging Experience (13:59) The Hyperliquid L1 (19:11) Building the HyperBFT Consensus Algorithm (21:26) Wormhole Ad (22:04) Pear Ad (22:30) Products Built on Top of the Hyperliquid L1 (32:30) Decentralizing the L1 (38:19) Bootstrapping Hyperliquid (42:10) Consolidating Users on One Chain (45:36) Future Plans for Hyperliquid -- Check out Blockworks Research today! Research, data, governance, tokenomics, and models – now, all in one place Blockworks Research: https://www.blockworksresearch.com/ Free Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter - - Disclaimer: Nothing said on 0xResearch is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Boccaccio, Carolina, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

Key Takeaways: What is up with all the drama in Alternative Media recently? I was inspired to start writing this piece a few weeks ago when longtime popular researcher Amazing Polly (@FringeViews) started making public accusations against a well known alternative health company, The Wellness Company (TWC). TWC have partnerships with many content creators and […]

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Key Takeaways: Mainstream vs Alternative vs Independent: Recent controversies in alternative media signal a broader shift towards decentralization and fragmentation across various sectors, highlighted by disputes involving key personalities and companies. Evolution of Public-Private Partnerships: The traditional public-private partnerships are evolving into complex civic partnerships where media and technology blur lines between civilian and intelligence operations. How to Navigate New Media Landscape: Analyze the core-message and economic models. Article advocates for "Value For Value" to maintain ethical integrity and avoid the pitfalls of traditional monetization strategies. What is up with all the drama in Alternative Media recently? I was inspired to start writing this piece a few weeks ago when longtime popular researcher Amazing Polly (@FringeViews) started making public accusations against a well known alternative health company, The Wellness Company (TWC). TWC have partnerships with many content creators and personalities in the Alternative Media space (some of whom I consider friends). While the initial concerns about TWC brought up by Amazing Polly are entirely valid (connections between founder Foster Coulson and Erik Prince [Blackwater]), the subsequent events that unfolded beyond this particular situation screams of a much larger sociological and technological phenomenon worth exploring for any independently thinking truth seeker. While the TWC situation disrupted the perceived unity amidst the crowd of "awake" people perusing the Internet, the drama spilled into the heart of Alternative Media when Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) left the Daily Wire. This event speaks to how far we are on the operation to split apart the Judeo-Christian ethic that the founders used as core principles of our country . The drama that broke out concerning Steven Crowder (@scrowder) (divorce, ex-employee) only adds fuel to the fact that the conservative superstars who rose to popularity in the last decade, are now your main characters in the reality TV show called Alternative Media. We've called it AMIC (Alternative Media Industrial Complex). There are other names who have similar names for the sentiment. We all know that Mainstream Legacy Media is pretty much dead at this point, at least in the format it was delivered in the past. But the question will be, can the Alternative Media exist without them? @Axios published an article titled "Shards of Glass: Inside Media's 12 Splintering Realities," which suspiciously tries to do something similar to what this piece is about. But their take is more about the platforms and "hive minds" that are quite general and not too helpful IMHO. What I will attempt to do here is provide a template by which anyone can use to analyze the content you are consuming today. This is an especially important exercise, as it may reveal uncomfortable truths about your favorite podcasters, youtubers, tiktokers, x-ers, etc. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. ~1 Peter 5:8 C19 was the Great Reset Can you believe it's been over 4 years since the lockdowns? If you're reading this, congratulations! You survived a highly orchestrated worldwide trauma based mind control session that could only be possible on the doorsteps of a true technocratic dystopia. Human interaction in the first world became exclusively virtual. Leaders of all strata were forced to make totalitarian decisions. And economic infrastructure was rattled for the first time in over a decade. No place was this more obvious than Mainstream Corporate Media. It can be stated that C19 was one giant initiation ritual for the general public, brought to you by those, knowingly or not, doing the bidding of the principalities and powers that think they have control over the earth and its people. THE GREAT EXODUS When we (@CanaryCryRadio) started to notice long time talking head personalities leave, get fired, or "let go" from their legacy trad-media fortresses, many were forced to go "independent." We watched as they started forming alliances and groups in the "wild west" of online virtual media by either joining established alternative platforms, or going solo publishing blogs, podcasts, YouTube, TikTok etc. The folks who were once celebrated as the faces and voices of the establishment, suddenly found themselves alongside random people like you and I, competing for attention, clicks, and a paycheck. Some have found their way into government or private think tanks (@ChrisCillizza,@ChrisGloninger). This diaspora of people coming out of the traditional media was/is happening to almost every sector or industry, including healthcare. In fact, it could be argued that health/wellness is THE most impacted when it comes to a post-C19 psyoped world. An exodus from the Big Pharma economic model seems to have been one tentacle of the greater plan to restructure everything. Or at least an excuse to show how broken it is, in order to implement the stuff that will "fix" it. Good ole' problem-reaction-solution. Of course, such a massive beast like Big Pharma can't flip their cash cow infrastructure on a dime. They have an entire generation of customers hooked in, til' death-do-them-part. It would take a decade at least. In the meantime, it would be beneficial for someone to cast a large net to capture all the disgruntled and disenfranchised citizens exiting the trust funnel of the traditional institutional pillars. It seems that's what the Wellness Company did. Some might call it a smart and savvy business decision, others might call it a direct operation from the intelligence playbooks. As you'll see, the lines that separate these things are blurring. And it could be argued, that the final shift will come with the economic infrastructure, not just medical. THE INFILTRATION To that effect, I think Amazing Polly and others before her have done a pretty good job bringing attention to individuals who started the Wellness Company, and some of their ties to former private military contractors like BlackWater (Erik Prince openly assisted James O'Keefe and the Veritas Project learn how to do undercover work). The sentiment had been that such training turned Veritas Project into a "patriotic intelligence outfit." It was likely also the reason for its undoing as well. Since Amazing Polly published her video on the TWC, complete with a map of content creators who are either sponsored or have affiliates with them, she found herself being attacked and eventually doxxed. I'm not particularly in support of doxxing anyone, but the information that did surface about her was, at best, bad optics, and at worst, revealed some uncomfortable truths. In short, her husband works for a company in Canada whose position required Government security clearance. I get it. Not everyone who has a Gov security clearance is part of the lizard club, but as I stated in the post that you can read here, I suggested directly to Amazing Polly, that it's bad optics. Especially if that was something she was trying to hide from the public (which she has a right to do), since she likely understood that it would be bad optics coming from someone who has a decent sized following, making content exposing "the system". Her husbands LinkedIn account has since been deleted. If you want to learn more about her reporting and perspective, you can see the video she published here, and the surrounding commentary about being doxxed etc. In my personal opinion, the Amazing Polly vs TWC drama is just one tree in a much larger forest. Namely a sociological and technological phenomenon of decentralization (maybe even balkanization) of everything from journalism, to healthcare, to intelligence operations itself! The implications are more dire for all of us in one way, but a cause for hope in another. DON'T GET TRIGGERED I said in a recent podcast episode of Canary Cry NewsTalk, that "we are all being turned into intelligence operatives." What I meant was that every citizen (especially those on the internet) are effectively agents that represent something...or someone. In that context, maybe it was good that Erik Prince helped Project Veritas do undercover work to expose corruption, especially in the traditional right-left paradigm that we've all been forced into. Or perhaps it speaks to how the true social engineers have already been working on creating the parallel economy to the Mainstream Media, by building out the Alternative Media. The necessities of such an operation would naturally mean that they would have to mingle with the general population. This bridged the traditional intelligence operatives into civilian life, and weaponized civilian life to become more like intelligence operations. This is especially true when it comes to news media. What this all means is that you and I are all being forced into this weird period of time when anything we say, do, write, or publish online, can be used for agendas that far exceed the initial intent of that piece of content. We've all become messengers in the 5th generation war. The rise of the MIC (Military Industrial Complex) in the 20th century was marked by the partnerships between Private (Corporations) and Public (Government) sectors; Public-Private Partnerships. PPPs were designed to create the gray-area economic apparatus that would effectively secure the United States as the first benefactor in diplomacy and military affairs worldwide. Corporations that build really expensive and dangerous stuff, and Governments who come up with reasons to need them. And we-the-people get to pay for it. What could go wrong? It is true that this very apparatus is currently running wild, instigating the poly-chaos of World War 3, where geopolitical and trans-religious tensions will unground the loyalties of prior generations, and instead, form new conflicts between networks. But this cannot be possible without the tools to make it happen. As the MIC built "stuff" over decades, certain patented technologies and their commercial products began embedding themselves into our public communications infrastructure. As of 2024, there are smart phones in the hands of more than 6 billion people around the world. This distribution has been a massive vehicle for the rise of "Alternative Media." Even before the Trump era that started the greater public awareness of corruption and downfall of legacy media, a thriving Alternative Media synonymously existed alongside Independent Media. In fact, the two phrases meant essentially the same thing, mostly apparent via their economic models. Much like the title "Alternative Rock" when I was growing up, anything "ALT" simply meant, "stuff that's not being pushed by the mainstream (record labels, commercials, news outlets etc.)." It is supposed to represent content not economically incentivized by a third party, who wield the power to facilitate and manufacture a spot light for the subject. The music industry is a great analogy because we lived through the decentralization of economic viability for musicians through the rise of the Internet. Big record labels were forced to go more and more shallow as true talent were able to exist more or less independently or by way of starting their own record labels (alternative). As avenues and opportunities to build one's own economic fortresses increased, the lines between mainstream and alternative/independent became blurred. Mainstream has increasingly become nothing better than the vehicle for pure propaganda. But much of Alternative Media thrives its existence on calling out and exposing the lies of the mainstream. Without the Mainstream Media, Alternative Media is nothing. There is a symbiosis, a manufactured paradigm war, to keep each other alive. Thus, as Alternative Media has matured into the New Mainstream, a new distinction has become clear. Alternative vs Independent. The maturing indicates that we have reached critical mass on the decentralization and distribution of military grade comm technology. It's why we are currently going through the adoption of #Bitcoin, where pseudonymity of transacting on a trust-less immutable ledger benefits both the intel operatives and great grandma living on the other side of the world alike. In fact, the transition to go from online to on-chain is WELL under way. But in this new paradigm where the old ways of PPPs are exposed, new types of operations most certainly exist. Especially if it can assist the new generation of social engineers to transition from the train their forefathers built, onto a shiny new rocket ship. It's a lot to process, but I hope you get something out of how I'm working through this stuff to navigate the new landscape of millions to billions of voices all screaming into the database, competing to win the attention of the masses for just one moment to deliver a message. The Evolution of PPPs Parallels to Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) like Public-Public Partnerships (PuPs) have also been around in past decades, where governments partner with non-profits instead of corporations. Highly controlled and tactical messages sent through, what was at the time, the advent of modern media; Newspapers, Magazines, TV/Radio stations is one thing (there were only so many when I was growing up), but perhaps even more powerful are/were the pulpits who reinforced the messages (501c3, non-profits, Truman's Psychological Strategy Board). As we find ourselves in this chaotic period a quarter of the way into the 21st century, the word "public" in the old PPP sense (Government), has become rather obsolete. No longer are our governments, especially at the federal level, representing the will of the people. Hence, the word "public" ought to be given back "to the people" as it were. As such, we might be in new kinds of manufactured "partnerships." Specifically a "Civic Partnership," meaning the general public, largely measured in attention and clicks. These are more akin to "social contracts" between a creator and their audiences. Other synonyms like "tribes" have been used, but I stuck with Civic because it implies public duty, especially in online media that covers world events and news. The labels I'm about to list here are not official, not taken from any public document (although informed by them), nor are they fully developed. They also ought to be considered on a spectrum, not hard lines. As you'll discover, it's not just "us" versus "them" anymore. It's really all of us competing with one another in this new digital citizen panopticon as we begin to find our virtual homes in whatever Network States we identify with most (@balajis). Jesus said in Matthew 24:7 "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom..." In this new era, it might be appropriate to understand it as "Network against Network." Since the modern network is defined by code, we can reference how all of this goes back to the power of the words and symbols. If we are careless with our tongue, we may fall into the trap of unintentionally misleading our fellow citizens. COVERT-CIVIC PARTNERSHIPS (CCPs) I'd like to start off by suggesting the Covert-Civic Partnerships (CCPs...ironic

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