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In this talk, Paula Januszkiewicz, renowned cybersecurity expert with years of experience in the field, shares her insights on critical tasks that must be included in any successful penetration testing checklist. She will offer the listeners a sneak peek into her pentesting trick book, discuss the special tools she is using, and highlight the importance of diversifying your pentester's toolkit. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in mastering the art of penetration testing.   In the security news: feel free to cry a bit, honeytokens are the shiny new hotness, it's fixed in the future, backdooring electron, should we move to passkeys, the turbo button, why Cisco hates SMBs, old vulnerabilities are new again, MSI, Boot Guard and some FUD, fake tickets, AI hacking, prompt injection, and the SBOM Bombshell!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw784 

"The question of who controls the ability to merge code changes into Bitcoin Core's GitHub repository tends to come up on a recurring basis. This has been cited as a “central point of control” of the Bitcoin protocol by various parties over the years, but I argue that the question itself is a red herring that stems from an authoritarian perspective — this model does not apply to Bitcoin. It's certainly not obvious to a layman as to why that is the case, thus the goal of this article is to explain how Bitcoin Core operates and, at a higher level, how the Bitcoin protocol itself evolves." — Jameson Lopp Today we dive into another piece by Jameson Lopp, this time to answer some of the old, never seems to die FUD about Bitcoin. Does Bitcoin Core control Bitcoin? And who controls Bitcoin Core? Today we dive into the issue of decentralization, what it means, and how Bitcoin Core works. Don't miss it! Who Controls Bitcoin Core? https://blog.lopp.net/who-controls-bitcoin-core/ Don't forget to check out the Bitcoin Canon for a simply incredible resource: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/canon/ Guy's Nostr Pubkey: npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 10% off your Bitcoin2023 tickets! Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • The Swan IRA is live! Follow the link to find out how to get your tax free retirement funds, securely allocated to Bitcoin! The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://bitcoinaudible.com/fold) • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://bitcoinaudible.com/coldcard) ------------------------ "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system." – John Gall, Systemantics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#bitcoin (04-05-2023) Today we delve into the plethora of total FUD around Bitcoin and mining that ALL of us need to push back on as Bitcoin has no marketing department and the big guns have massive pockets to twist the narrative to suit their agenda. WE are Bitcoin's marketing department, so let's all dig in and do our bit to spread the message that Bitcoin will actually help the environment. MY VIEWS ARE MY OWN AND I MAKE NO PREDICTIONS SO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING ANYTHING... & ONLY INVEST WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE! Subscribe to my ‘UK Bitcoiner' Backup Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3p4A_VqohTmbm44z4lgokg Mondays Live Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txjoVOP4X9Y All UK Bitcoin Master Links: https://linktr.ee/ukbitcoinmaster The Bitcoin Adventure Tickets: https://www.avonvalley.co.uk/events/the-bitcoin-adventure/ When taking a consultation The UK Bitcoin Master DOES NOT talk Trading, TA, Mining, or Alt Coins!

Our guest this week is Mert Mumtaz, Co-founder & CEO of Helius, a vertically integrated developer platform offering a suite of tools to help easily build products on Solana. Mert joins Brian Friel to clear up common misconceptions about Solana, shares the latest opportunities for developers, and dives deep into state compression, which reduces the amount of on-chain storage required to store NFTs, resulting in lower costs for creators and buyers by up to 100 times. State compression on Solana is already being leveraged by projects like Dialect, Drip.haus, and Helium to help scale their projects. Show Notes:01:10 - Origin Story and background05:08 - How he started on Solana07:45 - How Helius began11:27 - Misconceptions about Solana      18:01 - What is he most excited about on Solana23:03 - How is Helius working with DePin25:34 - Opportunities for Developers on Solana32:15 - A builder he admires          Full Transcript:Brian (00:06):Hey everyone and welcome to the Zeitgeist, the show where we highlight the founders, developers, and designers who are pushing the Web3 space forward. I'm Brian Friel, developer relations at Phantom, and I'm super excited to introduce my guest, the man who in Solana needs no introduction. Mert Montaz, the founder and CEO of Helius. Mert, welcome to the show. Mert (00:25):Thank you for having me, Brian. Brian (00:26):I've been looking forward to having a conversation with you here for a while. I don't know if you remember this, but way back in the day, I was getting my start on Solana by writing articles on Twitter, dev related articles, and you were one of the first people that took my article and said, hey, I'm an engineer at Coinbase. I can actually vouch that this is legitimate. And that actually got me in front of Chase Barker and everything. I don't know if you remember that interaction, but it's been a long time that I've seen you on Twitter. Mert (00:54):I do remember it. Brian (00:55):Thank you for that because that got me my stardom of three. Maybe that'd be an interesting place to start is I'd love to learn a little bit more about you. I know you were, previously before getting involved with Solana, you were at Coinbase. Can you share a little bit about your journey, what your background is and what led you to Solana? Mert (01:10):Yeah, absolutely. First of all, I do remember that interaction. I think it was a medium article about it was either voting or incremental counter, maybe a peanut butter sandwich or something. Brian (01:21):Yeah. It was like a simple app. Mert (01:22):Yeah, it was actually quite good. I was super impressed with it. I wish people kept producing those. I think we need more brine blog posts. Yeah. I guess maybe a brief intro of how I got started. I majored in math and communications engineering, communications engineering being satellites and signals and stuff like that. And I actually got to work at Blackberry as an intern. And so I got to see some pretty interesting engineering challenges at my earlier years about cloud infrastructure. I was on the team that ran the cloud for BBM, for example, which handled a lot of volume until it died, of course. Yeah, I mean after that I worked at the big banks in Canada, Canada's run by five big banks and I worked at three of those in some weird order where I did cybersecurity, I did payment systems, ATM withdrawals and stuff like that. (02:11):And I then joined a startup that got acquired, Shutterstock. It was about digital advertising and stuff like that. I'm sure some people are familiar with Shutterstock. And then I worked at Clear Bank on the treasury team where we were in charge of payment rails and stuff for funding entrepreneurs. And then we had this situation where we needed to send money to Australia and I needed to write the code that would handle doing that. And we met with a bunch of these vendors and stuff and it was all super complex for some reason that I didn't understand, you had to do these hops through various jurisdictions and stuff like that. And I was like, I mean you could probably just use USDC or something. And people just thought that was a scam. And at that point I was like, I wonder what the actual truth is here. (02:55):I did some digging and I was like, this is obviously not a scam, not even close. And in fact, it seems super interesting. I did a brief look into crypto in university where I thought I was maybe too academic and you need a PhD or something to do anything meaningful. Obviously quite wrong, but that was my first intro. And then a few weeks after that I was working at Coinbase. Actually it was interesting because I joined them slightly before they went public. And so they still kind of had the startup ethos and it was super fun working there and got to learn and build and talk with a bunch of really bright people. And that's obviously doing research on different blockchains. Obviously Coinbase is very EVM centric. Some times were good, some times we're bad. And somewhere in that line I found Solana and I just started digging around posting stuff, publishing stuff. And I really liked the approach that Solana had taken to be the pragmatic approach. I'm sure you hear this word a lot, but the practicality of the ecosystem as well as the ethos really resonated with me. (03:52):And the community was also pretty cool. You actually just mentioned Chase talking to you about something you posted. That was also my experience. Whenever I would posted something, Armani or Chase would hype me up and I was like, okay, that's pretty cool. And yeah, I mean it kind of just took off from there. Brian (04:07):Yeah. I love that framing of the pragmatic chain and you actually having that experience at a big bank just saying, why don't we just use USDC? It's settled in 400 milliseconds or whatever. And Solana really, I think, is the best example of that. That's pretty poetic that you found your way there. Mert (04:23):Mm-hmm. Brian (04:23):I remember a time though when you first were posting on Twitter, it was mostly around trying to help others understand what was happening on chain. And you mentioned Coinbase, very EVM centric. I think a lot of us who worked in crypto at the time, it was just EVMs the only game in town. And if you thought differently, that was just weird or a lot of people it didn't make sense. And I think my experience, one of the biggest barriers to getting people familiar with Solana was just wrapping their head around the mental model of just how stuff works on chain. It's just inherently different. Can you talk a little bit about that, how you got your start? What were you doing when you were writing these articles and helping others understand what was going on on chain? What did you have to build, what were you teaching yourself at that time? Mert (05:07):Yeah, that's a good point. Most people actually don't really know that unless they were early like you. At first what I would do, this was kind of during the peak kind of start of NFT season on Solana and basically a lot of influencer types or people who I don't think were very intellectually honest would post some sort of claim about, oh, the price of the NFT is going down because the price of Solana is going up. This is obvious and stuff like that. And I thought to myself, there's no way the markets are that efficient for JPEGs, right. There's other stuff there. If people were botting these NFTs and getting a high concentration on maybe dumping on retail and doing other sketchy stuff. And so I would just write scripts, goal length scripts or JavaScript scripts, whatever, and analyze the data. This is before any data analytics existed, really like Solana FM or I mean, Solana FM was there, but they did regular indexing, Solana floor and stuff. (06:09):Flip side, Nance, none of these actually covered Solana. I would just do it and then I would just write my findings in a Twitter thread with some charts and stuff. And I did that pretty regularly. I did it for a bunch of different stuff, including some upcoming projects in terms of gaming and where the potential is. And somewhere along the line after being armed with that knowledge of just doing it for a consistent amount of time, I came across a lot of people on crypto Twitter just really making unsubstantiated claims about Solana and its architecture and its scaling plan and all this stuff. And I guess I was in somewhat of a unique position where I was actually still at Coinbase at the time and somebody would post something and I had relatively okay knowledge of EVM, but also pretty good knowledge of Solana. (06:56):And so I'd usually be able to tell, okay, this is just not true what this person posted. Why is nobody correcting them? And it's because nobody actually just really knew both ecosystems that well. And sometimes in internal Coinbase chats, this would come up and people would be like, that is wrong. And I'd be like, yeah, that is wrong. Why aren't we doing something about this? And I kind of just started yelling at the people who were just lying or maybe spreading knowledge that was not grounded in truth, let's say. And I just never stopped doing that. And turns out crypto Twitter is full of these people, and so I never- Brian (07:29):Yeah. Your job's never done. Mert (07:30):Exactly. Brian (07:32):Is it fair to say that you arming yourself with this knowledge, you had to actually build the tools you needed just to understand what's going on-chain. Was this the start of Helius and essentially what you guys now offer? And maybe you can talk a little bit about that, how Helius began. Mert (07:45):Yeah, 100%. That's exactly right. The most common problem I ran across was when you're looking at on-chain data, the data is super cryptic, right. The instruction data is bortion coded or something. And unless you knew the schema of how it was encoded or maybe the idea which, especially in NFTs, in DeFi, it's not too bad, but especially in NFTs and other non-DeFi use cases, nobody has any idea what the on chain data looks like. And so I would have to hard code some weird methods, maybe parse logs, but also reverse engineer based on discriminators. Or I would even try to brute force it sometimes, which actually kind of worked. I would go on Magic Eden, and you would know this is before Magic Eden's programs were more readable. This is the first version. I would check the app layer. I would go to magiceden.io and I would see, okay, this NFT is listed for 20 SOL or something. (08:38):And then I would try a bunch of different decodings until I got that answer. And then I would do that with a bunch of different ones and I'd be like, okay, this is clearly the discriminator that I need to use. And so I would do that. I also did a bunch, go to the network tab, inspect source, and then dig through the entire minify JavaScript, unminify it, see the schema and try to use that schema when trying to decode the data and stuff. And I was like, this is bananas. This should not be done. And basically that's kind of where Helius came from and the first iteration of Helius was like, okay, we need to make on chain data read about Solana because it's particularly impossible. And then along the way, once we started doing that and talking to customers, it seemed like quite a few people were having other problems, especially around RPCs, which was surprising 'cause I thought RPCs were kind of okay, but after digging into it, it turns out that wasn't really the case. (09:28):And then you run into all sorts of other issues like streaming data on chain, at least in an inexpensive and reliable way. Solana has this problem with web sockets where you might lose data. Yeah, I mean just talking to customers just found a bunch of problems. And Helius is essentially now there to be this vertically integrated developer platform on Solana to essentially just help developers succeed on Solana. And we're not necessarily bound to Solana, but basically my philosophy on this is that I want crypto to succeed. I mean obviously we're all here because we're interested in crypto and believe in crypto's future. If you start from first principles there, I think given the options out there today, Solana's our essentially best shot at executing that vision. Obviously a lot of people disagree with that, but it's something I believe in. And so then my thought process, okay, how do we get more people to build on Solana so that we can have a better crypto future? Brian (10:19):No, I totally agree with that. I think that's been our ticket on Phantom as well, where it's like most of Phantom came from EVM folks and I think a lot of us independently kind of had this realization of we want crypto to succeed. Pragmatically thinking, what am I going to get my parents or my friend to use today? How are we realistically going to scale this thing in the next couple years? Solana also right now is the most pragmatic approach to doing that. I think before we jump in a little bit more to Helius in particular, what you guys offer and what you guys are up to, I kind want to take a moment just to talk maybe broadly about Solana because I think you are one of the most well known vocal defenders of Solana where there is a lot out there that's just blatantly wrong and you not only technically know how to rebut it, but you take the time and the energy to be out there and educating people. I want to know a little bit for where you sit at Helius, what you see right now, what would you say are some of the biggest misconceptions today about Solana that folks who maybe already know about crypto, maybe are already well versed in EVM, but maybe they just haven't gotten through to actually hear from somebody's boots on the ground. What would you tell them that they're misunderstanding about Solana? Mert (11:27):Maybe I'll take a more broad approach to answering this because it's kind of different segments, but in terms of maybe people from EVM, if you're already familiar with EVM and maybe you want to build on Solana and what are your kind of reservations, right. Some of the ones I've come across are, well, one, Rust is just hard to write. Solana has a diehard kind of fan base of Rust developers, but Rust is not easy. That is just a fact. Solidity, is somebody in high school could learn it easily, but Rust, I mean they'd be able to learn it, but I don't think it'd be easy. The concepts like lifetimes and for example, that stuff is not easy for somebody who wants to just prototype and maybe ship something. And so then you'll say, well, there's Anchor and stuff and Anchor is super helpful and probably my favorite tool on Solana, unless you know Rust, you're still going to be kind of flying blind and you know might need that to build your applications. (12:17):And if you're a determined developer, you'll get over that and then learn Rust anyways. But that friction alone is enough to deter a good amount of people is what I found. That's just one thing, and I know Foundation folks and Dev are working on this and there's some other teams, there's the Python seahorse stuff, there's a new type of Script One coming out. I think maybe there's even a Goaline One. It's also just a result of being early. Solana has really been around for two years, whereas EVM almost nine years now. It's hard to compare these things. That's one. And then two, and this is an interesting one, is developer optionality. As a developer, let's say at an entering focus from Coinbase, let's say you want to build a new product and  you're deciding between EVM and Solana. Well, the obvious kind of elephant in the room is, okay, if Solana has a problem, you are kind of done, right? (13:12):You don't have any other options. You can't port your code base over anywhere else. Whereas if you are the EVM developer and you build on Polygon, you can just use main net Eth, maybe you can, with some effort, use any of the other L2's or maybe another EVM for it, something like that. It's a much easier transition. It's less risky such that on a design doc that you want reviewed by product managers, most engineers are going to take the safe route there. Brian (13:37):It reminds me of that “no one gets fired for hiring IBM” phrase that they used to have back in the day, the safe route to get it approved by somebody. Yeah. Mert (13:45):100%. And it doesn't help that the Solana PR is so bad that everybody's even mistakenly saying, oh, Solana always goes down or Solana's all these different things. You add these up and then as an engineer, if you're at a big firm and you pick Solana, you have to religiously fight or justify your position. And most people just aren't going to do that even if they believe it. That's a big problem. One of the reasons why I think more SVM roll-ups that sell on other chains might be interesting here to give developers more optionality such that if you build on Solana, but Solana has something bad happen, but it's still settling on these other L1's or other data availabilities or whatever it might be. And then three, is of course, there are actual misconceptions about the reliability of the chain. (14:33):People think the chain has gone down 12 times or something, or multiple digits. It's actually gone down four times. People conflate performance degradation with outage. Performance degradation is just when you maybe have, you guys obviously notice at Phantom when you maybe aren't landing transactions on chain or maybe there's latency or something like that, that's the functional equivalent of fees getting higher on EVM. That's performance degradation. But an actual outage is actually relatively rare. In fact, the numbers, I think the last time I looked at them were 99.7% uptime, which isn't perfect, but it's also not bad. It's certainly not as bad as something that would go down every day or regularly. I mean there's a misconception there. Brian (15:15):Or reorgs in that matter too. Mert (15:16):Yeah, exactly. I mean we can kind of talk about that in maybe another part of this, but people don't realize that especially for an indexed company, maybe Coinbase where you're selling funds, those reorgs actually affect your architecture an insane amount because you need to add new systems to communicate, oh actually this block was not correct or something. Whereas on Solana, you don't really need to do that. I mean no block to my knowledge went back after being confirmed. Brian (15:40):Yeah. I was going to say I don't think there ever has been a... It's even, yeah, the optimistic confirmed, not even finalized as there's never been a reorg once it's been that. Yeah. Mert (15:49):Exactly. Some people think you need ridiculous hardware requirements to run these nodes and that's actually not true. You can run a node, depending on if you want an RPC node or a validator node for really anything from $200 to $800 a month. People think you need actual data centers to run it, which I don't know where people get that from. And then there's also light clients coming out now, right. I can talk all day about the misconceptions, but I think the first two are probably the most justified reasons from actual engineers that I've heard. Brian (16:20):Yeah. No, that's a really good take, I think, because one, there's the FUD, which I think is the back half of what you kind of just talked about, which I think that just comes with time and getting people to experiment with Solana and trying it firsthand and understanding there's no better teacher than that, otherwise you're fighting essentially Twitter algorithms. But I think that's a really nuanced take what you had to start, where you're saying the de-risking almost to get this buy-in because you know what it's like to work at these large companies and kind of proliferating Solana there. I also think what Jump is doing with Fired Answer is also just another benefit to that as well. Essentially just reducing the service area potential bugs that occur. Essentially if you have a bug in just one client implementation, adding a second one greatly reduces the chance it'll happen again. (17:09):Maybe one way we can take this is instead of fighting the FUD, because that could take all day, is from where you sit right now in Helius, say that you guys have a really interesting position in the space because one, you're super close to what's actually happening as Solana's roadmap evolves. I'd say part of being the pragmatic change is Solana's not afraid to push the boundaries, take risks, add new token programs, NFT compression, just constantly evolving at a fast pace. You guys are close to that and then you're also close to the developers who are coming into this space for the first time, like you said, the hobby weekend developer who's interested and they don't want to learn Rust and so they need some sort of abstraction layer to this coming in some sort of dead platform that's helping them in some way. What are you personally most excited about right now that's happening on Solana? Mert (18:02):Well, I mean Compression, I think, maybe is one that's gaining some steam in and an obvious one that I think most people are aware of at this point. But back when I was trying to show it, most people weren't aware. I think our job here is maybe done so now it can kind of take off, but Compression is super exciting because most people don't realize that Compression, actually, let me just explain what it is first. Data storage or state storage on Solana is quite costly. I don't know the exact cost, I guess I would need to look at that chart, but there's some articles on this and you can look at the Helius blog "shill" for seeing the comparisons for the numbers, but basically state storage on Solana is expensive and with Compression, essentially what you can do is instead of storing the data in state, you can store it on ledger. And that might sound a little abstract, but basically instead of needing it for consensus, you securely log it in transaction logs. (19:00):Basically it's what an engineer would call a stateless accumulator. I call them L2 because I like doing random marketing stuff, but Toly really doesn't like it. Do not call it an L2. Call it a stateless accumulator, which isn't very beginning friendly, but that is actually what it is. You just store a reference, it's a pointer by reference kind of thing. You store a reference to the data that's on the ledger on the state now instead of storing all the data on the state. And we do that via Merkel Trees, which I'm not going to go into here, but essentially you're able to get a few orders of magnitude and cost reductions. Now that's useful for digital assets and that's the first use case, NFT compression where you can mince thousands, millions, billions of NFTs. People will say like, oh, why do you need to mint a million NFTs, billion NFTs? (19:45):And it's like, that's not the point. The point is that we're not limited by technology anymore, whereas before we were, and we can maximize the design space and explore some things, right. You have Dialect doing sticker packs, Cross Mint using their APIs for all sorts of different cases, including loyalty programs, Helium migrating over to Solana for their hotspots using Compression, driphouse doing airdrops, Render potentially using it for their scene graphs, which is a super cool concepts, high map results even using them. And so it clearly has some use, but the cool thing about it is it's not actually limited to NFTs. Actually you can apply to any account, you can extend it to be fungible tokens and also just general account compression, which I think the guys at Gum are doing for some social graph formatives. It actually has quite a bit of potential there. (20:28):That's one of the big ones I'm excited about since my name is Compression Mert on Twitter right now. And then the Solana mobile, the Saga phone is awesome. I had a test unit and I've been an Android user my whole life after Blackberry Force and it's the best Android phone I've used and it's super snappy, very good build quality and it actually has changed my consumer behavior somewhat where actually, before I would explicitly shy away from mobile first or mobile crypto apps, I wouldn't use crypto at mobile at all. But now I'm like, okay, this is actually pretty cool. I can use leverage my secure seed vaults. We do need to work on that naming, but I can use that and have that confidence and that seamless integration. You have apps like Otter, Finance, Tip Link, Get Code or I guess just Code Wallet, which enables super fast kind of P2P payments, something like Venmo. And actually, I have used all of these to make payments to my family members and friends, so I'm super excited about that. (21:27):The thing I'm most excited about on Solana is this narrative of decentralized physical infrastructure or deepen taking off with not only do you have Helium now and High Mapper, you also have Render Now, Pollen Network, Genesis Go, Teleport and let's see who else we can get over. But I think this kind of intersection of P2P networks and using crypto to actually enable change in the physical world is super interesting and something that wasn't really possible before. Brian (21:56):That's super cool. I should say just for the listeners that we are recording this on April 13th, 2023, which is the official Saga launch day, so it's topical to bring that up. We're super excited about that too. I just think it's awesome that they're not afraid to push the boundaries on that. I mean for us at Phantom to not even have the ability to see a user seed phrase and it's just completely abstracted away at the hardware level, I think is awesome and a glimpse of where this is all heading. Let's talk a little bit about DePin too because I'm not as up to speed on that. I don't know if most of our users are. I think Helius migration is happening soon, TM, like this month in April. What are you guys seeing there? Is there any major changes to what you're doing on the infrastructure layer that's going to have to adapt for this? Do you foresee any major changes to end user behavior? (22:46):Part of what's interesting about Solana is the fee markets can adjust on a per piece of state level as opposed to if it was on Eth, you could see all of a sudden all your gas fees are increasing just like it would on a crazy NFT mint day. Can you talk a little bit about how you guys are working with this new DePin movement and what you guys are seeing? Mert (23:05):Helium particularly is interested in using Compression, or I mean they are using Compression to represent their hotspots and it would cost them just too much money to work with that kind of stuff on any other chain. And so Solana is what makes the most sense. And like you said, the independence of state, which causes individual account based fees as opposed to chain level fees, which doesn't make the UX horrible for one person here either. It's just you might have to pay extra. And so compression is something that they use the most, both High Mapper and Helium and also Render is, I believe, going to use it. They mentioned this in their GitHub migration paper. And so that's kind of the main driver, but also these teams generally have to subscribe to on chain events. And as a larger engineering firm or maybe independent of size, most people prefer getting data pushed to them instead of setting up some polling system to listen for events because there might be issues there. (24:02):They actually use our web hooks and then they kind of configure what events they want to listen to and then they kind of have this ease of mind where, okay, Helius will just stream me these events as they happen and I can just kind of plug, play and then forget. If anything happens, Helius will kind of let me know or maybe I'll get a page or something. The web hooks have actually been, it's interesting. When we first came to Solana, there was no web hook products on Solana and I'm not even sure if there was anything like that on Eth. It was just such an obvious thing and we built it and we shipped it and for example, Discord uses that for their integration into Solana. Their first actually Web3 integration, or actually I don't like the term Web3, their first crypto integration was with Solana and that was enabled with the Web hooks and we have some other big names using them now as well. (24:47):I don't think those are announced yet, but it's such a simple primitive, but just web hooks and listening to on chain data really helps some of these bigger firms who don't want to spend the time writing all this complex infrastructure code and they can just plug and play into some existing solution. Brian (25:02):Yeah. It's future-proofed, essentially. They can build once and they don't have to constantly be readjusting their implementation. Mert (25:08):Exactly. Brian (25:08):That's awesome. Turning this back to a developer who is maybe listening to this, familiar with EVM, looking at Solana, you guys do a lot, not just on the infrastructure side, but also on developer education, getting developers involved. We can talk about some of the specific initiatives there, but at a high level, what would you say are some of the biggest opportunities for a developer today who's looking at Solana? Where would you guide them to get started? Mert (25:35):Well, one thing I'll say is that Solana has maybe two main things that I would mention that might be interesting for folks coming over. One is that it's much earlier than the other ecosystems. And so there's a lot of low hanging fruit and underdeveloped tooling infrastructure, application layer stuff that exists in other chains in some form, but not on Solana. And so as a developer, let's just try to build something and you'll notice what's missing. You'll notice that the deployment workflows aren't great. You'll notice that maybe the monitoring isn't that great either, or maybe it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot with certain types of smart contractors and stuff. You'll notice a ton of problems and that's just your opportunity to make something cool and fix those maybe as open source, maybe as a public good, maybe as a company. And so there's a lot of potential there. (26:22):Another thing is that Solana's architecture is, and so this almost kind of contradicts the first point, but not really if you think about it. The architecture of Solana is so different, right. It's functional based where you have actually a lot of modularity within the layer. You have independent state and logic, you have different accounts, localized fee markets, and so it's much more modular than something like ETH where state and logic are coupled. And also obviously the scalability features of Solana are quite different than anything else. And what that means is there's a lot of things that you can actually build that's only possible on Solana. Brian (26:57):I love that catchphrase by the way, only possible on Solana TM. Mert (27:01):Yeah. I've been a big fan of that one, let's just say. And it's totally true, right. Order books, for example, you saw it with Serum, you're seeing it now with Phoenix. This is before Fire Dancer and before 200ms block times, which will happen. This is the slowest it will be, it's only going to get faster from here. And so there's a bunch of things that are only possible on Solana. And I would strongly encourage people to think from first principles as a developer, look around, see what problems there are. They don't have to be Solana specific, they can just be problems, right. I don't know, maybe it's too slow to send your dad money or maybe it's too hard to offramp crypto, I don't know, something like that. And then usually if you are trying to look for a solution there for that problem, Solana will be able to handle it much more comfortably than others. (27:47):And the other important thing is it'll actually scale, right. You want kind of elasticity as a developer such that if your app takes off, you don't want to have to now migrate to another stack or something. With Solana, it's honestly just plug into a cloud provider, just kind of scales with you. But also a third thing I'll actually mention, which this really should have been number one, but I would encourage you very, very strongly to produce content, especially developer related content. Build something, learn from it and then write about it, make a podcast, produce a video, produce a tutorial, just write content. And not only will that obviously help you connect with other people who are in the ecosystem and like-minded and building other cool stuff, but also when you write stuff and produce content, you have to know what you're talking about, otherwise you won't be able to write it, right. It'll make you connect the dots and it'll point out flaws in your thinking. Brian (28:44):Yeah. It's the fastest way to get the right answer on the internet is to publish something that's wrong. Mert (28:49):Exactly. And so I guess maybe to go along with that is just have a high tolerance for looking, I don't want to say stupid, but just have a high tolerance for being wrong. You're going to be wrong a lot, but that's not a bad thing unless you're building the infrastructure for handling, I don't know, some critical payments or something. But you're probably not going to be doing that. Brian (29:10):Yeah. It's like the pursuit of truth. If you're open to that and you're excited to get told what's right, I couldn't agree more that's 100% the best way to build. Mert (29:19):Yeah. Sometimes I'll post something that I think is correct, but it's not apparently actually correct because Toly will comment and he'll gently say something that's slightly unrelated, but it's like, oh, okay, I'm wrong, I guess. I will retract this. And so honestly, it's just a fun way to learn and you do enough cycles of that and you are going to be doing that to other people and that's how we grow. Brian (29:46):Yeah, I totally agree. I think this ties in with what you were saying earlier of Solana being the pragmatic chain. I think part of the benefit, there's a knock, we talked about it, about, hey, Solana's new, it's different and you're essentially fighting network effects at that point. But part of the benefit is you get to build your own genuine kernel of a developer ecosystem and start from first principles and start from new and not be afraid to change things new. And I think that's been pretty eye-opening, even just to me personally. As Phantom enters EVM, we're looking at everything that EVM has inherited over the years. Most obvious one being even just how injected wallets play with each other on EVM is so different than Solana because Solana took a very first principles approach and said, we're going to do this in a way that you have a wallet, you can use it anywhere, it's going to scale forever kind of thing. And it's been pretty eye-opening to see the differences there. (30:36):That would be my only other thing I'd add to you is if you are a dev and you want to make it high impact on, it's probably the best place for it because you can post publicly about why you're doing what you're doing and you'll get people who are interested in listening and will back you on the basis and the merits of your ideas is what I'd say. Mert (30:52):Yeah, absolutely. Me, Chase and other parts of the developer system will help you the best we can. Basically the Helius tagline is actually “Where Solana teams succeed” because our entire goal is to help you succeed. That's essentially why I wake up and that's what I spend my entire day doing. And the Phantom founders, for example, are great example of this, right. They came from EVM and they saw what was possible on Solana and they built the number one wallet in crypto and it had such good UX and such good design and stuff, and you guys absolutely dominated. And then now you're actually transcending the change, right. It's actually becoming a product, it's not just a chain's product, it's just a product that you can use to onboard people onto crypto. I really like that approach from starting from first principles like you guys. You saw Meta Mask and you're like, okay, well we're going to do it differently. And you did it much better in my view. And so I think that's just an example of what's possible. Brian (31:50):Thanks. Yeah, I mean we love hearing that, but obviously love everything that Solana's doing and Solana's always going to be home. There's a lot to do on Solana. I'm excited to roll up the sleeves this year and get started. I guess, Mert, and as we start to wrap this up, one question we always ask all our guests, I'd love to hear this from you. You mentioned a lot of people on this podcast, a lot of teams, but I'd love to know, is there a particular builder that you admire in the Solana ecosystem? Mert (32:17):Oh man. I mean, I do admire my co-founders, to be honest. I don't think they got that much credit because I'm kind of the loud one, but Nick and Liam are super, they're actually the driving force behind Helius and they do all of the engineering, and I do essentially nothing other than just larp on Twitter. Them for sure, but also, I'll give you my general approach on this, actually, maybe this is useful for someone, but my general approach to Twitter is whenever I see a founder on somebody's bio or something like that, or maybe a co-founder or something, I'll immediately follow them because those people are super inspiring to me. I pretty much follow all the founders on Solana at this point, I think. For example, the founder of Squat, Stephan Wright. I saw him, I was like, I'm going to follow this guy. (33:01):Turns out amazing dude, we're friends now. That's my general approach. I just respect all the founders in the ecosystem because they're taking big risks and they're trying to build cool stuff, and they're all trying to help the ecosystem. And so I have just huge respect for everyone there. Someones, I would probably point out specifically, would be obviously Armani and Tristan, huge respect for them. The founders of Gito, right, Sec, Fault and Buffaloo, I'll just say their pseudonym names. Co-founders of Squads, right, Margin, Drift, Zeta, for example. All the DeFi protocols. I'm probably just going to end up listing literally every single one. I would say if there's one particular one, it would be, I guess honestly just Toly, right. That's probably a cliche answer, but Toly just always keeps his composure under people just relentlessly slinging mud at his life's work essentially, and in a super unfair way. And he still gets up. And I mean, not only does he engage with the community, but he still builds cool stuff and there's so many different things. I have no idea how he does it, and I have a ton of respect for that. Brian (34:08):Well, I think that's the perfect answer. Having listed all the major founders in Solana, and then you go back to the guy who started it all, he sets the tone for the space and I think he makes it that drama free, practical, pragmatic, how do we build practical that's useful today. That's been my answer secretly too, that no one's asked me, but... Well, Mert, this has been awesome. Thanks so much for coming on. We'll have to do this again later once we've shipped all these crazy upgrades to Solana and check in again. But where can folks go to learn more about Helius? Mert (34:42):Yeah. Just helius.xyz. You can just go there or you can just @ me on Twitter. That's honestly how most people get in contact with me. Just tag me on Twitter on something and I'll respond. Brian (34:50):Awesome. Love it. Mert, the founder and CEO of Helius. Thanks so much for coming on. Mert (34:54):Thank you for having me.   

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Michael Isbitski, Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Sysdig, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the nuances of an effective cybersecurity strategy. Michael explains that many companies are caught between creating a strategy that's truly secure and one that's merely compliant and within the bounds of cost-effectiveness, and what can be done to help balance the two aims more effectively. Corey and Michael also explore what it means to hire for transferrable skills in the realm of cybersecurity and tech, and Michael reveals that while there's no such thing as a silver-bullet solution for cybersecurity, Sysdig can help bridge many gaps in a company's strategy. About MichaelMike has researched and advised on cybersecurity for over 5 years. He's versed in cloud security, container security, Kubernetes security,  API security, security testing, mobile security, application protection, and secure continuous delivery. He's guided countless organizations globally in their security initiatives and supporting their business.Prior to his research and advisory experience, Mike learned many hard lessons on the front lines of IT with over twenty years of practitioner and leadership experience focused on application security, vulnerability management, enterprise architecture, and systems engineering.Links Referenced: Sysdig: https://sysdig.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-isbitski/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Tailscale SSH is a new, and arguably better way to SSH. Once you've enabled Tailscale SSH on your server and user devices, Tailscale takes care of the rest. So you don't need to manage, rotate, or distribute new SSH keys every time someone on your team leaves. Pretty cool, right? Tailscale gives each device in your network a node key to connect to your VPN, and uses that same key for SSH authorization and encryption. So basically you're SSHing the same way that you're already managing your network.So what's the benefit? Well, built-in key rotation, the ability to manage permissions as code, connectivity between any two devices, and reduced latency. You can even ask users to re-authenticate SSH connections for that extra bit of security to keep the compliance folks happy. Try Tailscale now - it's free forever for personal use.Corey: Do you wish your developers had less permanent access to AWS? Has the complexity of Amazon's reference architecture for temporary elevated access caused you to sob uncontrollably? With Sym, you can protect your cloud infrastructure with customizable, just-in-time access workflows that can be setup in minutes. By automating the access request lifecycle, Sym helps you reduce the scope of default access while keeping your developers moving quickly. Say goodbye to your cloud access woes with Sym. Go to symops.com/corey to learn more. That's S-Y-M-O-P-S.com/coreyCorey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud, I'm Corey Quinn. I periodically find myself in something of a weird spot when it comes to talking about security. I spent a lot of my time in previous lives having to care about it, but the word security was never in my job title. That's who my weekly podcast on the AWS Morning Brief and the accompanying newsletter goes out to: it's people who have to care about security but don't have it as part of their job title. They just want to know what's going on without all of the buzzwords.This promoted guest episode is brought to us by our friends at Sysdig and my guest is Mike Isbitski, Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Sysdig. Mike, thanks for joining me.Michael: Thanks, Corey. Yeah, it's great to be here.Corey: So, you've been at Sysdig for a little bit, but your history is fascinating to me. You were at Gartner, which on the one hand would lead someone to think, “Oh okay, you talk about this stuff a lot, but might not have been particularly hands-on,” but that's not true. Either. You have a strong background as a practitioner, but not directly security-focused. Is that right?Michael: Yeah. Yeah, that is correct. I can certainly give the short version of the history lesson [laugh]. It is true, yes. As a Gartner analyst, you don't always get as hands-on, certainly talking to practitioners and leaders from all walks of life, different industries, different company sizes, and organization sizes.But yeah, as a Gartner analyst, I was in a different division that was much more technical. So, for me personally, I did actually try to tinker a lot: set up Docker, deploy Kubernetes clusters, all that fun stuff. But yeah, prior to my life, as an analyst, I was a practitioner, a security leader for close to 20 years at Verizon so, saw quite a bit. And actually started as enterprise architect building, kind of, systems and infrastructure to support all of those business needs, then I kind of transitioned over to application security towards the tail end of that career at Verizon.Corey: And one of the things that I find that I enjoy doing is talking with folks in positions like yours, the folks who did not come to the cybersecurity side of the world from a pure strategy advisory sense, but have been hands-on with these things at varying points in our careers, just because otherwise I feel like I'm sort of coming at this from a very different world. When I walk around the RSA show floor, I am consistently confronted by people trying to sell me the same dozen products over and over again with different words and different branding, but it seems like it's all buzzwords aimed from security people who are deep in the weeds to other security people who are deep in the weeds and it's just presumed that everyone knows what they're talking about already. And obviously worse. I'm not here to tell them that they're going about their business wrong, but for smaller companies, SMBs, folks who have to care about security but don't know the vernacular in the same way and don't have sophisticated security apparatus at their companies, it feels like a dense thicket of impenetrable buzzwords.Michael: Yes. Very, very fair assessment, [laugh] I would say. So, I'd say my life as an analyst was a lot of lengthy conversations. I guess a little bit of the secret behind analyst inquiry, I mean, a lot of times, they are hour-long conversations, sometimes multiple sets of them. But yeah, it's very true, right?There's a lot of nuance to how you work with technology and how you build things, but then also how you secure it, it's very hard to, kind of, condense that, you know, hours of conversation and many pages of documentation down into some bite-size nuggets that marketers might run with. So, I try to kind of live in that in-between world where I can kind of explain deep technology problems and business realities, and kind of explain that in more common language to people. Sometimes it's easier said than done when you're speaking it as opposed to writing it. But yeah, that's kind of where I tried to bring my skills and experience.Corey: It's a little counterintuitive to folks coming out from the other side, I suspect. For me, at least the hardest part of getting into the business of cloud cost optimization the way that I do with the Duckbill Group was learning to talk. Where I come from a background of heavy on the engineering and operations side, but being able to talk to business stakeholders who do not particularly care what a Kubernetes might be, is critical. You have to effectively be able to speak to different constituencies, sometimes in the same conversation, without alienating the rest of them. That was the hard part for me.Michael: Yeah, that's absolutely true and I certainly ran into that quite a bit as an enterprise architect at Verizon. There's kind of really need to work to identify, like, what is the business need. And typically, that is talking to the stakeholders, you know, what are they trying to achieve? They might not even know that, right, [laugh] because not everybody is very structured in how they think about the problem you're trying to solve. And then what is their daily workflow?And then you kind of arrive at the technology. I'd say, a common pitfall for anybody, right, Whether you're an engineer or a security practitioner is to kind of start with the technology or the solution and then try to force that on people, right? “Here's your solution to the problem that maybe you didn't know you had.” [laugh]. It kind of should work in reverse, right? What's the actual business need? What's your workflow? And what's the appropriate technology for that, right?Whether it's right-sizing the infrastructure or a particular type of functionality or protection, all those things, right? So, very similar kind of way of approaching the problem. It's just what you're trying to solve but [laugh] I've definitely seen that, kind of, Kubernetes is all the rage, right, or service mesh. Like, everybody needs to start deploying Istio, and you really should be asking the question—Corey: Oh, it's all resume-driven development.Michael: Yep, exactly. Yeah. It's kind of the new kid on the block, right? Let's push out this cool new technology and then problems be damned, right?Corey: I'm only half-kidding on that. I've talked to folks who are not running those types of things and they said that it is a bit of a drag on their being able to attract talent.Michael: Yeah, it's—you know, I mean, it's newer technologies, right, so it can be hard to find them, right, kind of unicorn status. I used to talk quite a bit in advisory calls to find DevOps practitioners that were kind of full-stack. That's tricky.Corey: I always wonder if it's possible to find them, on some level.Michael: Yeah. And it's like, well, can you find them and then when you do find them, can you afford them?Corey: Oh, yeah. What I'm seeing in these other direction, though, is people who are making, you know, sensible technology choices where you actually understand what lives were without turning it into a murder mystery where you need to hire a private investigator to track it down. Those are the companies that are having trouble hiring because it seems that an awful lot of the talent, or at least a significant subset of it, want to have the latest and greatest technologies on their resume on their next stop. Which, I'm not saying they're wrong for doing that, but it is a strange outcome that I wasn't quite predicting.Michael: Yeah. No, it is very true, I definitely see that quite a bit in tech sector. I've run into it myself, even with the amount of experience I have and skills. Yeah, companies sometimes get in a mode where they're looking for very specific skills, potentially even products or technologies, right? And that's not always the best way to go about it.If you understand concepts, right, with technology and systems engineering, that should translate, right? So, it's kind of learning the new syntax, or semantics, working with a framework or a platform or a piece of technology.Corey: One of the reasons that I started the security side of what I do on the newsletter piece, and it caught some people by surprise, but the reason I did it was because I have always found that, more or less, security and cost are closely aligned spiritually, if nothing else. They're reactive problems and they don't, in the general sense, get companies one iota closer to the business outcome they're chasing, but it's something you have to do, like buying fire insurance for the building. You can spend infinite money on those things, but it doesn't advance. It's all on the defensive, reactive side. And you tend to care about these things a lot right after you failed to care about them sufficiently. Does that track at all from your experience?Michael: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I'm just kind of flashing back to some war stories at Verizon, right? It was… I'd say very common that, once you've kind of addressed, well, these are the business problems we want to solve for and we're off to the races, right, we're going to build this cool thing. And then you deploy it, right [laugh], and then you forgot to account for backup, right? What's your disaster recovery plan? Do you have logging in place? Are you monitoring the thing effectively? Are your access controls accounted for?All those, kind of, tangential processes, but super-critical, right, when you think about, kind of, production systems, like, they have to be in place. So, it's absolutely true, right, and it's kind of definitely for just general availability, you need to be thinking about these things. And yeah, they almost always translate to that security piece of it as well, right, particularly with all the regulations that organizations are impacted with today. You really need to be thinking about, kind of, all these pieces of the puzzle, not just hey, let's build this thing and get it on running infrastructure and we're done with our work.Corey: A question that I've got for you—because I'm seeing a very definite pattern emerging tied to the overall macro environment, now, where after a ten-year bull run, suddenly a bunch of companies are discovering, holy crap, money means something again, where instead of being able to go out and gets infinite money, more or less, to throw at an AWS bill, suddenly, oh, that's a big number, and we have no idea what's in it. We should care about that. So, almost overnight, we've seen people suddenly caring about their bill. How are you seeing security over the past year or so? Has there been a similar awareness around that or has that not really been tied to the overall macro-cycle?Michael: Very good question, yeah. So unfortunately, security's often an afterthought, right, just like, kind of those things that support availability—probably going to get a little bit better ranking because it's going to support your customers and employees, so you're going to get budget and headcount to support that. Security, usually in the pecking order, is below that, right, which is unfortunate because [laugh] there can be severe repercussions with that, such as privacy impacts, or data breach, right, lost revenue, all kinds of things. But yeah, typically, security has been undercut, right? You're always seeking headcount, you need more budget.So, security teams tend to look to delegate security process out, right? So, you kind of see a lot of DevOps programs, like, can we empower engineers to run some of these processes and tooling, and then security, kind of, becomes the overseer. So, we see a lot of that where can we kind of have people satisfy some of these pieces. But then with respect to, like, security budgets, it is often security tools consolidation because a lot organizations tend to have a lot of things, right? So, security leaders are looking to scale that back, right, so they can work more effectively, but then also cut costs, which is definitely true these days in the current macroeconomic environment.Corey: I'm curious as well, to see what your take is on the interplay between cost and security. And what I mean by that is, I did the numbers once, and if you were to go into an AWS native environment, ignore third-party vendors for a second, just configure all of the AWS security services in your account, so the way that best practices dictate that you should, you're pretty quickly going to end up in a scenario where the cost of that outweighs that of the data breach that you're ostensibly trying to prevent. So—Michael: Yes.Corey: It's an infinite money pit that you can just throw everything into. So, people care about security, but they also care about cost. Plus, let's be very direct here, you can spend all the money on security and still lose. How do companies think about that now?Michael: A lot of leaders will struggle with, are we trying to be compliant or are we trying to be secure? Because those can be very different conversations and solutions to the problem. I mean, ideally, everybody would pursue that perfect model of security, right, enable all the things, but that's not necessarily cost-effective to do that. And so, most organizations and most security teams are going to prioritize their risks, right? So, they'll start to carve out, maybe these are all our internet-facing applications, these are the business-critical ones, so we're going to allocate more security focus to them and security spend, so [maybe we will be turn up 00:13:20] more security services to protect those things and monitor them.Then [laugh], unfortunately, you can end up with a glut of maybe internal applications or non-critical things that just don't get that TLC from security, unfortunately, for security teams, but fortunate for attackers, those things become attack targets, right? So, they don't necessarily care how you've prioritized your controls or your risk. They're going to go for the low-hanging fruit. So, security teams have always struggled with that, but it's very true. Like, in a cloud environment like AWS, yeah, if you start turning everything up, be prepared for a very, very costly cloud expense bill.Corey: Yeah, in my spare time, I'm working on a project that I was originally going to open-source, but I realized if I did it, it would cause nothing but pain and drama for everyone, of enabling a whole bunch of AWS misconfiguration options, given a set of arbitrary credentials, that just effectively try to get the high score on the bill. And it turned out that my early tests were way more successful than anticipated, and instead, I'm just basically treating it as a security vulnerability reporting exercise, just because people don't think about this in quite the same way. And again, it's not that these tools are necessarily overpriced; it's not that they aren't delivering value. It's that in many cases, it is unexpectedly expensive when they bill across dimensions that people are not aware of. And it's one of those everyone's aware of that trap the second time type of situations.It's a hard problem. And I don't know that there's a great way to answer it. I don't think that AWS is doing anything untoward here; I don't think that they're being intentionally malicious around these things, but it's very vast, very complex, and nobody sees all of it.Michael: Very good point, yes. Kind of, cloud complexity and ephemeral nature of cloud resources, but also the cost, right? Like, AWS isn't in the business of providing free service, right? Really, no cloud provider is. They are a business, right, so they want to make money on Cloud consumption.And it's interesting, I remember, like, the first time I started exploring Kubernetes, I did deploy clusters in cloud providers, so you can kind of tinker and see how these things work, right, and they give you some free credits, [a month of credit 00:15:30], to kind of work with this stuff. And, you know, if you spin up a [laugh] Kubernetes cluster with very bare bones, you're going to chew through that probably within a day, right? There's a lot of services in it. And that's even with defaults, which includes things like minimal, if anything, with respect to logging. Which is a problem, right, because then you're going to miss general troubleshooting events, but also actual security events.So, it's not necessarily something that AWS could solve for by turning everything up, right, because they are going to start giving away services. Although I'm starting to see some tide shifts with respect to cybersecurity. The Biden administration just released their cybersecurity strategy that talks about some of this, right? Like, should cloud providers start assuming more of the responsibility and accountability, potentially just turning up logging services? Like, why should those be additional cost to customers, right, because that's really critical to even support basic monitoring and security monitoring so you can report incidents and breaches.Corey: When you look across what customers are doing, you have a different problem than I do. I go in and I say, “Oh, I fixed the horrifying AWS bill.” And then I stop talking and I wait. Because if people [unintelligible 00:16:44] to that, “Ooh, that's a problem for us,” great. We're having a conversation.If they don't, then there's no opportunity for my consulting over in that part of the world. I don't have to sit down and explain to people why their bill is too high or why they wouldn't want it to be they intrinsically know and understand it or they're honestly not fit to be in business if they can't make a strategic evaluation of whether or not their bill is too high for what they're doing. Security is very different, especially given how vast it is and how unbounded the problem space is, relatively speaking. You have to first educate customers in some ways before attempting to sell them something. How do you do that without, I guess, drifting into the world of FUD where, “Here are all the terrible things that could happen. The solution is to pay me.” Which in many cases is honest, but people have an aversion to it.Michael: Yeah. So, that's how I feel [laugh] a lot of my days here at Sysdig. So, I do try to explain, kind of, these problems in general terms as opposed to just how Sysdig can help you solve for it. But you know, in reality, it is larger strategic challenges, right, there's not necessarily going to be one tool that's going to solve all your problems, the silver bullet, right, it's always true. Yes, Sysdig has a platform that can address a lot of cloud security-type issues, like over-permissioning or telling you what are the actual exploitable workloads in your environment, but that's not necessarily going to help you with, you know, if you have a regulator breathing down your neck and wants to know about an incident, how do you actually relay that information to them, right?It's really just going to help surface event data, stitch things together, that now you have to carry that over to that person or figure out within your organization who's handling that. So, there is kind of this larger piece of, you know, governance risk and compliance, and security tooling helps inform a lot of that, but yeah, every organization is, kind of, have to answer to [laugh] those authorities, often within their own organization, but it could also be government authorities.Corey: Part of the challenge as well is that there's—part of it is tooling, absolutely, but an awful lot of it is a people problem where you have these companies in the security space talking about a variety of advanced threats, of deeply sophisticated attackers that are doing incredibly arcane stuff, and then you have the CEO yelling about what they're doing on a phone call in the airport lounge and their password—which is ‘kitty' by the way—is on a Post-It note on their laptop for everyone to see. It feels like it's one of those, get the basic stuff taken care of first, before going down the path to increasingly arcane attacks. There's an awful lot of vectors to wind up attacking an infrastructure, but so much of what we see from data breaches is simply people not securing S3 buckets, as a common example. It's one of those crawl, walk, run types of stories. For what you do, is there a certain level of sophistication that companies need to get to before what you offer starts to bear fruit?Michael: Very good question, right, and I'd start with… right, there's certainly an element of truth that we're lagging behind on some of the security basics, right, or good security hygiene. But it's not as simple as, like, well, you picked a bad password or you left the port exposed, you know? I think certainly security practitioners know this, I'd even put forth that a lot of engineers know it, particularly if they're been trained more recently. There's been a lot of work to promote security awareness, so we know that we should provide IDs and passwords of sufficient strength, don't expose things you shouldn't be doing. But what tends to happen is, like, as you build monitoring systems, they're just extremely complex and distributed.Not to go down the weeds with app designs, with microservices architecture patterns, and containerized architectures, but that is what happens, right, because the days of building some heavyweight system in the confines of a data center in your organization, those things still do happen, but that's not typically how new systems are being architected. So, a lot of the old problems still linger, there's just many more instances of it and it's highly distributed. So it, kind of, the—the problem becomes very amplified very quickly.Corey: That's, I think, on some level, part of the challenge. It's worse in some ways that even the monitoring and observability space where, “All right, we have 15 tools that we're using right now. Why should we talk to yours?” And the answer is often, “Because we want to be number 16.” It's one of those stories where it winds up just adding incremental cost. And by cost, I don't just mean money; I mean complexity on top of these things. So, you folks are, of course, sponsoring this episode, so the least I can do is ask you, where do you folks start and stop? Sysdig: you do a lot of stuff. What's the sweet spot?Michael: Yeah, I mean, there's a few, right, because it is a larger platform. So, I often talk in terms of full lifecycle security, right? And a lot of organizations will split their approaches. We'll talk about shift left, which is really, let's focus very heavily on secure design, let's test all the code and all the artifacts prior to delivering that thing, try to knock out all quality issues, right, for kind of that general IT, but also security problems, which really should be tracked as quality issues, but including those things like vulnerabilities and misconfigs. So, Sysdig absolutely provides that capability that to satisfy that shift left approach.And Sysdig also focuses very heavily on runtime security or the shield right side of the equation. And that's, you know, give me those capabilities that allow me to monitor all types of workloads, whether they're virtual machines, or containers, serverless abstractions like Fargate because I need to know what's going on everywhere. In the event that there is a potential security incident or breach, I need all that information so I can actually know what happened or report that to a regulatory authority.And that's easier said than done, right? Because when you think about containerized environments, they are very ephemeral. A container might spin up a tear down within minutes, right, and if you're not thinking about your forensics and incident response processes, that data is going to be lost [unintelligible 00:23:10] [laugh]. You're kind of shooting yourself in the foot that way. So yeah, Sysdig kind of provides that platform to give you that full range of capabilities throughout the lifecycle.Corey: I think that that is something that is not fully understood in a lot of cases. I remember a very early Sysdig, I don't know if it was a demo or what exactly it was, I remember was the old Heavybit space in San Francisco, where they came out, it was, I believe, based on an open-source project and it was still taking the perspective, isn't this neat? It gives you really in-depth insight into almost a system-call level of what it is the system is doing. “Cool. So, what's the value proposition for this?”It's like, “Well, step one, be an incredibly gifted engineer when it comes to systems internals.” It's like, “Okay, I'll be back in five years. What's step two?” It's like, “We'll figure it out then.” Now, the story has gone up the stack. It originally felt a little bit like it was a solution in search of a problem. Now, I think you have found that problem, you have clearly hit product-market fit. I see you folks in the wild in many of my customer engagements. You are doing something very right. But it was neat watching, like, it's almost for me, I turned around, took my eye off the ball for a few seconds and it went from, “We have no idea of what we're doing” to, “We know exactly what we're doing.” Nice work.Michael: Yeah. Yeah. Thanks, Corey. Yeah, and there's quite a history with Sysdig in the open-source community. So, one of our co-founders, Loris Degioanni, was one of the creators of Wireshark, which some of your listeners may be familiar with.So, Wireshark was a great network traffic inspection and observability tool. It certainly could be used by, you know, just engineers, but also security practitioners. So, I actually used it quite a bit in my days when I would do pen tests. So, a lot of that design philosophy carried over to the Sysdig open source. So, you're absolutely correct.Sysdig open source is all about gathering that sys-call data on what is happening at that low level. But it's just one piece of the puzzle, exactly as you described. The other big piece of open-source that Sysdig does provide is Falco, which is kind of a threat detection and response engine that can act on all of those signals to tell you, well, what is actually happening is this potentially a malicious event? Is somebody trying to compromise the container runtime? Are they trying to launch a suspicious process? So that those pieces are there under the hood, right, and then Sysdig Secure is, kind of, the larger platform of capabilities that provide a lot of the workflow, nice visualizations, all those things you kind of need to operate at scale when you're supporting your systems and security.Corey: One thing that I do find somewhat interesting is there's always an evolution as companies wind up stumbling through the product lifecycle, where originally it starts off as we have an idea around one specific thing. And that's great. And for you folks, it feels like it was security. Then it started changing a little bit, where okay, now we're going to start doing different things. And I am very happy with the fact right now that when I look at your site, you have two offerings and not two dozen, like a number of other companies tend to. You do Sysdig Secure, which is around the security side of the world, and Sysdig Monitor, which is around the observability side of the world. How did that come to be?Michael: Yeah, it's a really good point, right, and it's kind of in the vendor space [laugh], there's also, like, chasing the acronyms. And [audio break 00:26:41] full disclosure, we are guilty of that at times, right, because sometimes practitioners and buyers seek those things. So, you have to kind of say, yeah, we checked that box for CSPM or CWPP. But yeah, it's kind of talking more generally to organizations and how they operate their businesses, like, that's more well-known constructs, right? I need to monitor this thing or I need to get some security. So, lumping into those buckets helps that way, right, and then you turn on those capabilities you need to support your environment, right?Because you might not be going full-bore into a containerized environment, and maybe you're focusing specifically on the runtime pieces and you're going to, kind of, circle back on security testing in your build pipeline. So, you're only going to use some of those features at the moment. So, it is kind of that platform approach to addressing that problem.Corey: Oh, I would agree. I think that one of the challenges I still have around the observability space—which let's remind people, is hipster monitoring; I don't care what other people say. That's what it is—is that it is depressingly tied to a bunch of other things. To this day, the only place to get a holistic view of everything in your AWS account in every region is the bill. That somehow has become an observability tool. And that's ridiculous.On the other side of it, I have had several engagements that inadvertently went from, “We're going to help optimize your cost,” to, “Yay. We found security incidents.” I don't love a lot of these crossover episodes we wind up seeing, but it is the nature of reality where security, observability, and yes, costs all seem to tie together to some sort of unholy triumvirate. So, I guess the big question is when does Sysdig launch a cost product?Michael: Well, we do have one [laugh], specifically for—Corey: [laugh]. Oh, events once again outpace me.Michael: [laugh]. But yeah, I mean, you touched on this a few times in our discussion today, right? There's heavy intersections, right, and the telemetry you need to gather, right, or the log data you need to gather to inform monitoring use cases or security use cases, a lot of the times that telemetry is the same set of data, it's just you're using it for different purposes. So, we actually see this quite commonly where Sysdig customers might pursue, Monitor or Secure, and then they actually find that there's a lot of value-add to look at the other pieces.And it goes both ways, right? They might start with the security use cases and then they find, well, we've over-allocated on our container environments and we're over-provisioning in Kubernetes resources, so all right, that's cool. We can actually reduce costs that could help create more funding to secure more hosts or more workloads in an environment, right? So it's, kind of, show me the things I'm doing wrong on this side of the equation, whether that's general IT security problems and then benefit the other. And yeah, typically we find that because things are so complex, yeah, you're over-permissioning you're over-allocating, it's just very common, rights? Kubernetes, as amazing as it can be or is, it's really difficult to operate that in practice, right? Things can go off the rails very, very quickly.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking time to speak about how you see the industry and the world. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you?Michael: Yes, thanks, Corey. It's really been great to be here and talk with you about these topics. So, for me personally, you know, I try to visit LinkedIn pretty regularly. Probably not daily but, you know, at least once a week, so please, by all means, if you ever have questions, do contact me. I love talking about this stuff.But then also on Sysdig, sysdig.com, I do author content on there. I speak regularly in all types of event formats. So yeah, you'll find me out there. I have a pretty unique last name. And yeah, that's kind of it. That's the, I'd say the main sources for me at the moment. Don't fall for the other Isbitski; that's actually my brother, who does work for AWS.Corey: [laugh]. That's okay. There's no accounting for family, sometimes.Michael: [laugh].Corey: I kid, I kid. Okay, great company. Great work. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it.Michael: Thank you, Corey.Corey: Mike Isbitski, Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Sysdig. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this has been a promoted guest episode brought to us by our friends at Sysdig. 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Not a ton to report on traditional markets, we closed unchanged and are opening basically the same. Last week was a boring macro week, but this week brings corporate earnings with META and a couple other big tech companies reporting, which should stir things up leading into the monthly macro events. Next week we have the highly anticipated payrolls report followed by the FOMC.Crypto has seen a dip with BTC diving to $27k and ETH dropping to the $1800 range. A lot of the alt coins have been crushed over the weekend. The $hitcoins are holding but still undergoing losses. We definitely had some heightened euphoria this past month, so use this time to reassess and make a proper plan for your next trades.Apes and Punks as they both dipped below 50 ETH going into the weekend, but have seemed to rebound, likely due to thin floors. Looks like we get to stay away from 0 for a bit longer.Degods got a lot of focus over the weekend with some FUD and a slight dip in the FP, due to the typical growing pains in the space.Guttercats is set to finally announce a community token and Killacubz mint is upcoming with 8 phases of incubation!YugaLabs vs Ryder RippsThe Yugalabs vs Ryder Ripps case seems to have gone in favor of the Bored Apes, much to the rejoice of those who care for the space. There was a 22 page summary on the case and @GencoLaw came on stage to share some of his findings.NFTs apparently get the statute of copyright laws which is a net positive for projects. In regards to a ‘right-click save' the Judge did not see enough artistic expression to grant those rights to Ryder. Yuga got many things granted in their favor but they did not get everything. It does not mean that NFTs are not securities, although this case was actually silent to this issue according to our on stage counsel.Provenance and IP matter, and this is the direction that artists and founders wanted this to go. This isn't a cemented judgment as there could be an appeal, and a trial is still pending.New Stubs Artist - AD_ADWe had our new STUBS artist this week, @adam_disbrow! He is a traditional artist coming from contemporary fine art who got into NFTs in 2021 by overhearing FUD from a traditional art gatekeeper, signaling he should look into it. Expressionist painter by trade, he paints pieces that are then professionally photographed and then brought into procreate/photoshop to create the amazing works he is known for."Crypto art as a whole and a culture is stronger than ever, and I'm all in" - AD_ADMetaversal & Rug Radio Event in Austin, TXWe also had @balon_art and @yossihasson on to talk about @HelloMetaversal, their badges, and the upcoming event in Austin, TX during Consensus in collaboration with Rug Radio.Metaversal looks at different projects and founders that are disrupting their respective space by using the Blockchain and NFTs. They also have their own production studio responsible for creating things like their latest @omegaxrunner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we've got Nick on the pod. Nick is a full stack developer who handles Docs and DevRel at the Solana Foundation and hosts the Solfate Pod. We seem to have an information gap between the Solana community and the rest of crypto. This podcast is an attempt to go over what is fact and fiction about the network in 2023. We go over some of the most common FUD levelled at Solana as well as what we are excited for. This conversation is made possible thanks to Streamflow. ------ THE COVE SPONSOR TOOLS:

If you're keeping a close eye on the cryptocurrency market, you might have noticed that there isn't really a ton to report on the traditional market. However, it is earning season, so keep an eye out for the big companies' reports. Meanwhile, alt coins are rallying, so that's something to keep an eye on.But, for once, there is actually a lot going on in NFTs. Azuki has been in the limelight, and its FP got up to 14. The company has also announced an event in Las Vegas at Hakkasan. A blur airdrop farmer hit a bunch of bids on adukis and beans, which could affect things very soon. Additionally, Moonbirds announced they are releasing a $TALON token via nesting.In the world of NFTs, a Big Killabears mint is upcoming, and Memeland is releasing a new GM show. Sorare had some big rare card sells around 100k.However, amidst all this exciting news, there's also a lot of hypocrisy on the timeline. People are rallying behind these meme coins without any expectations, yet will FUD a project into oblivion if there isn't a roadmap, a promise, or some type of expectation isn't met.In other news, the stage set their Sorare lineups live on stage today. Tune into the stream to see who they chose and the laughs they had while doing it. We were also joined by the Smurf Society to go over their upcoming drop. They somehow secured a collar with the Daft Punk team! Plus, they just signed with Sorare to collaborate on the Smurf project. This is no small matter.All in all, it's been an eventful week in the cryptocurrency market. While there may not be much to report on in the traditional market, the NFT and alt coin space are certainly heating up. GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Erich and Javvad talk about the Ruskies hacking Ukrainian coffe shop cameras, FTX's 'cybersecurity' (quotes are on purpose), Latitude Financial's decision not to pay and the FUD around juice jacking. All of this and more #cybersecurity news and information.   Stories from the show: Russian hackers ‘target security cameras inside Ukraine coffee shops' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/russian-hackers-target-security-cameras-inside-ukraine-coffee-shops PSA: Public Phone Charging Ports Are Malware Magnets https://www.pcmag.com/news/psa-public-phone-charging-ports-are-malware-magnets FTX's Cybersecurity Was Hilariously Bad https://gizmodo.com/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-cybersecurity-hacking-crypto-1850321150 Latitude Financial Refuses to Pay Ransom https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/latitude-financial-refuses-to-pay/

Natalie Brunell, Adam O and Walker from the "Crypto Couple" join us to catch up on the latest Bitcoin news and to talk in-depth on the FUD coming out of The NY Times regarding Bitcoin mining. We are then joined by Texas Slim and others to talk about their upcoming "Beef Intelligence" event happening in Washington, Virginia on April 22nd. Lastly, Steven Lubka, John Haar and Terrence Yang join us for another exciting edition of "Swan Private Macro Friday". Swan Private Team Members: Alex Stanczyk Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexstanczyk Café Bitcoin Crew: Ant: https://twitter.com/2140data Tomer: https://twitter.com/TomerStrolight Wicked: https://twitter.com/w_s_bitcoin Peter: https://twitter.com/PeterAnsel9 Produced by: https://twitter.com/Producer_Jacob Swan Bitcoin is the best way to accumulate Bitcoin with automatic recurring buys and instant buys from $10 to $10 million. Get started in just 5 minutes. Your first $10 purchase is on us: https://swanbitcoin.com/yt Download the all new Swan app! iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swan-bitcoin/id1576287352 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swanbitcoin.android&pli=1 Join us for Pacific Bitcoin Festival 2023! Purchase your tickets now before prices go up: https://PacificBitcoin2023.com Are you a high net worth individual or do you represent corporation that might be interested in learning more about Bitcoin? Swan Private guides corporations and high net worth individuals toward building generational wealth with Bitcoin. Find out more at https://swanbitcoin.com/private Check out the best place for Bitcoin education, Swan Bitcoin's “Bitcoin Canon”. Compiling all of the greatest articles, news sources, videos and more from your favorite bitcoiners! https://www.swanbitcoin.com/canon/ Get paid to recruit new Bitcoiners: https://swanbitcoin.com/enlist Hello and welcome to The Café Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. We're excited to announce we are bringing the The Café Bitcoin conversation from Twitter Spaces to you on this show, The Café Bitcoin Podcast, Monday - Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guest like Max Keiser, Lyn Alden, Tomer Strolight, Cory Klippsten and many others from the bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button to make sure you get the notifications when we launch an episode. Join us Monday - Friday 7pst/10est every Morning and become apart of the conversation! Thank you again and we look forward to giving you the best bitcoin content daily here on The Café Bitcoin Podcast. Swan Bitcoin is the best way to accumulate Bitcoin with automatic recurring buys and instant buys from $10 to $10 million. Get started in just 5 minutes. Your first $10 purchase is on us: ⁠https://swanbitcoin.com/yt⁠ Connect with Swan on social media: Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/SwanBitcoin

Ryan, David, Tim Beiko, Justin Drake, and Anthony Sassano unpack everything you need to know about today's, highly anticipated Shanghai-Capella: ETH Staking Withdrawals.  Also, the five cover ETH staking mechanics, withdraw upgrade FUD myths, what's next for Ethereum, and Justin's prediction around, staking airdrops?!...  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:  ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum 

The financial world is constantly in flux, with news and events causing shifts in the market but GM Web3 is here for you! Yesterday, traditional stocks saw no change in price action, but interest rates saw a massive rally following some concerning labor data from the previous day. The labor market numbers were the lowest they have been since 2021, indicating that things may be slowing down. This gives more power to the Federal Reserve to raise rates.This recent development may be one of the reasons why crypto is rallying, with ETH finally hitting over $1900. It will be interesting to see what the Payrolls number is when it comes out in combination with this recent labor data. Interestingly, crypto seems to be more correlated to gold and interest rates rather than the stock market.Meanwhile, the Shanghai ETH upgrade is incoming, but it received some FUD from the timeline. People pointed to the amount of ETH set to be unlocked along with the upgrade, and it seems that there was a "buy the rumor, sell the news" type of situation. The upgrade is set to go live on the 12th, and staked ETH will be unlocked, which is a highly anticipated event.The amount set on the unlock is 16 million ETH, which equates to around $30 billion. This is no small number, and will be a significant development in the crypto world.In terms of NFTs, not too many major movers have been seen. Nakamigos have been holding the headlines, topping out around 0.9 but now sitting in the 0.4 range, settling at a 40% fall. Opensea Pro was launched, and a gemesis NFT was offered to people who used GEM before a certain date on a one-per-wallet basis. Milady has also seen a fair amount of traction after Cobie changed his PFP to one of the misunderstood beings. Prior allegations seemed to have been cleared.The interface for Opensea Pro seems to be better in most every way. There is a "pro" and "collector" mode, offering different interfaces and information presented in different ways. The question remains, will they bring out a coin? They seem similar to Coinbase in that they are the only ones doing what they are doing without any token to go along with the platform.In a surprising move, Bugatti, yes, the luxury carmaker, is getting involved in NFTs and collaborating with Asprey Studio. There will be a physical item attached to the digital collectible, some sort of carbon fiber egg, and it will be available on the Bitcoin blockchain as an ordinal. OnChainMonkey is also involved in the launch, so they are web3 official!Finally, we were joined by FILT3R Studio, who shared their BAYC AR filters that look absolutely amazing! Watching the YouTube stream for the full experience is guaranteed to be a treat, as these filters are on a level that hasn't been seen before. Live listeners even had a chance to win a wearable. Their OG Allowlist is currently open for a chance to get in, exclusive for BAYC holders for the time being.The financial world is always changing, and staying on top of these developments is crucial for those invested in the market. From interest rates to NFTs, it's always a rollercoaster ride. Tune in to more GM Web3 to stay up to date!Filter team on @ 57:44GM! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The world of macro seems to be relatively quiet these days, but there are still some notable events happening in the cryptocurrency and geopolitical spaces. ETH is making gains this morning, while there was some fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) yesterday regarding CZ possibly being arrested due to rumors surrounding a Cobie encrypted message.Meanwhile, Elon managed to push DOGE up to around $0.10 simply by changing the Twitter logo to the Doge sign!On the geopolitical front, there are moves against the US from Saudi Arabia, which has teamed up with China to cut supply for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The dollar has weakened in comparison to global currencies, and it seems like there could be a coordinated attack on the US. In addition, Finland has joined NATO, and with a massive border share with Russia, this spells trouble for Russia as its major regions are in the north, and Finland's alliance will hinder any movements there.As for the financial markets, gold is moving in conjunction with BTC/ETH, and the recent moves are not necessarily a result of stock market activity. Rather, they seem to be due to the degradation of the US dollar. The G7 is also being flipped by the five BRICS countries, led by China, in terms of world contribution as measured by GDP. The population in BRICS is massive and accounts for 30-40% of the total world population.In the world of NFTs, Nakamigos are experiencing a pullback, while Gucci has teamed up with Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) to create a limited edition digital and physical necklace. The collaboration was announced on the official Gucci Twitter account and covered by Vogue, making it a notable event. Interestingly, Gucci is accepting $APE as currency for the necklace.BusterScher shared some of his unique collectibles, including a request to be a brigadier general signed/accepted by Abraham Lincoln, a bond receipt from George Washington, and a Warren Buffet-signed letter to a pastor, which is a rare specimen. He also shared an original Titanic photo, which is possibly the earliest known photo of the sunken unsinkable ship. Additionally, he showcased his original artworks and backgrounds from season 1 of SpongeBob, which were all hand-painted.Finally, the team will be attending the Proof of People event in New York on the 12th and 13th of April. The first PoP happened last year and celebrated art, life, and culture in the web3 world. Refraction DAO was on stage to share about the performances and the venue at Zero space.GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're joined by Will Reeves from the Fold App to talk about how they're making it easy to stack sats globally and earn bitcoin rewards on purchases. We also chat with Tone Vays, Dr.Jeff Ross, Greg Foss, Tomer Strolight and others about Elizabeth Warren starting a "anti-crypto" team and dispute the most recent FUD coming out about Bitcoin. Swan Private Team Members: Alex Stanczyk Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexstanczyk Café Bitcoin Crew: Ant: https://twitter.com/2140data Tomer: https://twitter.com/TomerStrolight Wicked: https://twitter.com/w_s_bitcoin Peter: https://twitter.com/PeterAnsel9 Produced by: https://twitter.com/Producer_Jacob Swan Bitcoin is the best way to accumulate Bitcoin with automatic recurring buys and instant buys from $10 to $10 million. Get started in just 5 minutes. Your first $10 purchase is on us: https://swanbitcoin.com/yt Download the all new Swan app! iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swan-bitcoin/id1576287352 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swanbitcoin.android&pli=1 Join us for Pacific Bitcoin Festival 2023! Purchase your tickets now before prices go up: https://PacificBitcoin2023.com Are you a high net worth individual or do you represent corporation that might be interested in learning more about Bitcoin? Swan Private guides corporations and high net worth individuals toward building generational wealth with Bitcoin. Find out more at https://swanbitcoin.com/private Check out the best place for Bitcoin education, Swan Bitcoin's “Bitcoin Canon”. Compiling all of the greatest articles, news sources, videos and more from your favorite bitcoiners! https://www.swanbitcoin.com/canon/ Get paid to recruit new Bitcoiners: https://swanbitcoin.com/enlist Hello and welcome to The Café Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. We're excited to announce we are bringing the The Café Bitcoin conversation from Twitter Spaces to you on this show, The Café Bitcoin Podcast, Monday - Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guest like Max Keiser, Lyn Alden, Tomer Strolight, Cory Klippsten and many others from the bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button to make sure you get the notifications when we launch an episode. Join us Monday - Friday 7pst/10est every Morning and become apart of the conversation! Thank you again and we look forward to giving you the best bitcoin content daily here on The Café Bitcoin Podcast. Swan Bitcoin is the best way to accumulate Bitcoin with automatic recurring buys and instant buys from $10 to $10 million. Get started in just 5 minutes. Your first $10 purchase is on us: ⁠https://swanbitcoin.com/yt⁠ Connect with Swan on social media: Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/SwanBitcoin

In this podcast episode, the market saw a strong day with the S&P 500 up 0.9%, but interest rates have sold and 2-year rates had a big move over the week. Traditional markets are being compared to FTX with crypto, as big headlines are followed by a lack of news and no crashing, suggesting that the rate of correction may outweigh the crisis. Meanwhile, crypto is holding and has rebounded from regulatory FUD, with XRP seeing another move up. Binance is receiving FUD over their connections to China, and Euro transfers of more than 1k may require KYC like traditional banking. Nakamigos is now sitting at .44 and was part of the end of the Satoshi drop. Blur has announced they are extending their rewards, which will be painful for Opensea as they've seen 50-60% market share. Beetle has announced big news, and Y00ts migration went smoothly yesterday. It remains to be seen which coin takes second place to ETH in trades between Solana and Polygon. Lastly, the UK has delayed its plans to get into NFTs, and a TikTok ban is still being discussed with an uncertain outcome.GM! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Future of Security Operations, Thomas speaks with Ryan Noon, Founder and CEO of Material Security, a company that protects the email of high-risk VIPs and top global organizations. A serial entrepreneur and an expert on cloud security, Ryan previously ran infrastructure teams at Dropbox after it acquired his last company, Parastructure. Before that, he helped build a company spun out of Stanford by the Department of Defense. A graduate of Stanford, Ryan holds degrees in Computer Science and Computer Security. Topics include: Ryan's first startup experience and the decision to launch his first company, Parastructure Getting acquired by Dropbox and what he enjoyed most about working there Ryan's journey from a hobbyist to a thought leader and founder in cybersecurity, taking a critical eye towards every system, and why Ryan sees himself as “a builder, a creator, and an optimist than a true security engineer” How the Russian government's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election impacted his perspective on cybersecurity and helped him realize the power of APIs Why email is such an excellent target for cyber attackers and how Material Security secures data within inboxes What founders should focus on in the first year, the importance of product management, and how Material secured its early adopters, including customers like Stripe, Databricks, and Lift, so quickly How to help your product to stand out, and why he believes it's important to avoid FUD tactics in cybersecurity What Ryan has learned from working with the world's leading security teams and how the best teams bridge gaps to win Ryan's thoughts on the uncertain global economic climate, its impacts, and how Material's conservative approach has allowed them to maintain a relatively lean team The future of security operations and what trends Ryan believes will continue - doing more with less and leveraging better infrastructure and tools that enable you to go deeper with your existing tech stack Resources: LinkedIn

Bjorn and Fud visit musician David Ebner of the St. Paul-based band Yeah Yeah Fine at his beautiful cabin on Lower Gull Lake. Fud looks back to 1989-90 when the Gull River cabin was built and his Super 8mm feature film The Wrong Door was made. Check out his new documentary on YouTube - "Men Make Movie, if Not Million$" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmJ4NlBtpFk&t=312s Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Learn what are the powerful 4 C's you need to know that can guarantee traffic and business growth Understand why you also need character traits rather than just having the skill sets Discover how to conquer your limiting beliefs that are stopping you from achieving your full potential Resources/Links: Want to learn how to create dynamic and attention-grabbing content that will wow your audience? Click here: dynamicfitpros.com/contentmachine Summary Do you have something amazing and life-changing to share with the world but just struggle to reach your target market? Knowing your forte is important but learning how to spread that like butter is crucial too! It's not always about the skill sets you have, but you also need to have the character traits like discipline, and consistency, in your forte or business. Chris and Eric Martinez help entrepreneurs become digital thought leaders. They are also the owners of Dynamic Fit Pros where they help coaches build and scale their coaching businesses. The dynamic duo, Chris and Eric, share what are the 4C's that are crucial to know for your business in order to generate high-paying clients and provide sustainable leads anywhere every time. Check out these episode highlights: 01:52 - Chris and Eric's ideal client: Our ideal client is health and fitness professionals. So it could be anyone from a personal trainer to a nutritionist, registered dietician, CrossFit coach, or, you know, natural path coach, or even just someone that does holistic health and wellness. 02:11 - The problem they help solve: So we help them create more income, impact, and independence, and actually have more faith over fear. And I say “faith over fear” just because there are a lot of health and fitness professionals and entrepreneurs too that like these days and age, we call it "FUD". 03:01 - The symptoms of the problem: It's really the lack of skill set, you know, understanding how to be a marketer first and coach second, and really understanding how to sell, how to create a, you know, a Grand Slam offers to where it positions them to, you know, sell it for one to $3,000. 04:51 - Clients' common mistakes before consulting Chris and Eric: Yeah, so kind of to piggyback what Eric said, one of the big mistakes they make is obviously they can acquire these skills, right? Sales, marketing, social media, having an offer, all that stuff, but the character traits are the biggest things that they need to sit there and hone in on. 05:53 - Chris and Eric's Valuable Free Action (VFA): It's called the 4 C's to generate more leads. And this is something really just great to write down. So the first C is, you know, learn to create good compelling content, and just be consistent with that. 06:39 - Chris and Eric's Valuable Free Resource (VFR): Want to learn how to create dynamic and attention-grabbing content that will wow your audience? Click here: dynamicfitpros.com/contentmachine 07:28 - Q: Us being identical twins, have we done a switcheroo in our classrooms when we are in middle school or high school? A: Hell yes! Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “I will take a coach that has the character traits first, and then teach them the skills secondly. Instead of them having the skills first and not having those character traits.” -Eric and Chris MartinezClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland 00:10 Welcome, everyone, to another edition of Marketing the Invisible. I'm Tom Poland beaming out to you from the Sunshine Coast in Australia, joined today by Chris and Eric Martinez. Guys, a very warm welcome from Down Under. Where are you hanging out? Eric Martinez 00:21 Tom, what's going on?

Hosts: Ansel Lindner and Christian Keroles Fed Watch is a macro podcast with a clear contrarian thesis of a deflationary breakdown of the financial system leading to bitcoin adoption. We question narratives and schools of thought, and try to form new understanding. Each episode we use current events to question mainstream and bitcoin narratives across the globe, with an emphasis on central banks and currencies.  Find all associated charts and links at bitcoinandmarkets.com/fed137 In this episode, CK is back for a HUGE week in central bank and bitcoin news. We cover this week's FOMC policy decision and press conference with Federal Reserve Chairman Powell. We discuss all the central banks raising rates in the face of a banking crisis and bank runs. Next, we discuss the crackdown by US officials on the bitcoin space, with Wells notices being sent out widely to many companies, and the Economic Report of the President devoting two entire chapters to understanding and spreading FUD about bitcoin. A lot is happening right now and we try to cover it all. CK and I have been positive regarding Chair Powell in the past, but it seems as if central bankers have lost their minds tightening while liquidity is evaporating rapidly. We agree that the recent attacks on scams in the space, are not meant as an attack on Bitcoin, and in the end everything is good for Bitcoin. Lastly, we look at several charts of bitcoin, the stock market, US Treasury yields, and the dollar. We like to do this to ground our conclusions in the market truth. We are emotional animals and can be pulled this way or that very easily. It is the charts, the market price, that is the source of truth much more so than our emotions or individual rational interpretations. What do the charts show us? Things are not as dire as the headlines would imply. Of course, it takes time for economic conditions as a whole to be translated across the market, but we do not see the patterns in the charts that lead up to the type of crises many are predicting. In fact, Bitcoin is rallying and stocks still have higher highs and higher lows. Treasury yields point to a liquidity crisis similar to 2019, and the dollar is not telegraphing acute global stress. Thanks for joining us. If you are reading this, hit the like and subscribe button! Constant updates on bitcoin and macro Free weekly Bitcoin Fundamentals Report Ansel Lindner On Twitter Christian Keroles On Twitter Nolan on Twitter Watch this Episode: YouTube ||  Rumble  Slide deck Powell speaks at FOMC press conference Whitehouse Economic Report Barney Frank was right about Signature Bank Treasury looks to insure all deposits via Bloomberg Yellen flip flops If you enjoy this content please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, REVIEW on iTunes, and SHARE! Written by Ansel Lindner Find More and Follow THIS EPISODE'S SPONSORS: Moon Mortgage - https://www.moonmortgage.io River - https://river.com/ Gordon Law - https://gordonlawltd.com/ Bitcoin 2023 Miami - https://b.tc/conference/ Bitcoin Magazine - https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/ Bitcoin Magazine Pro - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/tags/bitcoin-magazine-pro Lower your time preference and lock-in your BITCOIN 2023 conference tickets today! Use the code BMLIVE for a 10% Discount! https://b.tc/conference/2023 Use promocode: BMLIVE for 10% off everything in our store

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David Wells is the CEO of Enclave Markets — a development team whose first product, Enclave Cross, essentially creates on-chain OTC dark pools for digital assets. In this episode, Wells explains why OTC traders benefit from maintaining confidentiality via Enclave's Fully Encrypted Exchange ('FEX'), and how Enclave aims to combine the best elements of centralized and decentralized exchanges in its products. During this episode, Chaparro and Wells also discuss: How Enclave Cross eliminates MEV Why crypto needs crossing networks The 'giga-FUD' in the market This episode is brought to you by our sponsors Railgun, and Flare Network About Railgun Railgun is a private DeFi solution on Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum and Polygon. Shield any ERC-20 token and any NFT into a Private Balance and let Railgun's zero-knowledge cryptography encrypt your address, balance and transaction history. You can also bring privacy to your project with Railgun SDK, and be sure to check out Railgun with partner project Railway Wallet, also available on iOS and Android. Visit Railgun.org to find out more. About Flare Flare is an EVM-based Layer 1 blockchain designed to allow developers to build applications that can use data from other blockchains and the internet. By providing decentralized access to a wide variety of high-integrity data from other blockchains and the internet, Flare enables new use cases and monetization models. Build better and connect everything at Flare.Network.

In this video, we'll discuss AI Altcoins niche and the impact of the Fed's latest round of money printing. We'll also explore Bitboy's controversial stance on Shiba Inu and whether it's time to start spreading FUD :joy:. Stay tuned for all the latest news and trends in the crypto world.  Interested in Crypto Retirement Accounts? Check out iTrust Capital! ➡️ https://itrust.capital/Bitboy

Back for another episode of your favorite crypto podcast, I'm joined by Bew to talk to the big brain himself, Pacman of Blur. If you don't know Blur, your head must be buried deep inside the sand because it is the hottest, and most controversial, NFT marketplace to recently hit the scene. In this episode, we discuss why Pacman decided to build Blur, and as an NFT trader where he felt other marketplaces such as OpenSea fell short. Of course, we get into all the ins and outs of the controversies, misconceptions, and FUD around Blur and how it is affecting the NFT landscape. The tokenomics of Blur is a point of interest as we discuss how projects such as Blur can use tokens to help steal market share and create stickiness for their own platform. Getting into the technical side of things, we talk about the decisions around building an orderbook-style liquidity model for Blur and how this model affects how NFTs are seen and traded by collectors and traders alike. Alongside this discussion, the realization comes that Blur has shined a light on the different types of NFT market participants, including some that were hidden in the shadows to many. It wouldn't be a good NFT chat without discussing royalties, so we get into the history of royalties within NFT marketplaces, Blur's stance on NFT royalties, and philosophical and personal musing on the value and future of royalties. This was an incredible episode that you don't want to miss. Tune in for all the info and alpha. If you enjoyed the episode, please subscribe, rate, and share so we can continue to get amazing, alpha dropping guests. We plan to release episodes bi-weekly, so don't sleep!Big thank you to Pacman for taking the time out of his day to talk Blur with us. You can find him and Blur on Twitter @PacmanBlur and @blur_io. Feel free to tweet or message me @TheRogueItachi. You can find the pod on Twitter @GoodWillYunting

The Crypto Market has been crashing and FUD after FUD hits the news. Could this all be planned by the US Government? Could this be the end of Crypto? Join Miles Deutscher in this special episode of Crypto Banter DeFi and find out what this is all about! ⚠️

The Crypto market is dumping left and right after a hawkish Jerome Powell and other FUD was disrupting the markets for a week. The Bitcoin price broke the &20k support and Altcoins get hit even harder! Watch out for the Altcoins Miles is showing us in today's episode of Crypto Banter DeFi and stay ahead of the curve! ⚠️

Z okazji 3. urodzin podcastu Raport o stanie świata Dariusza Rosiaka wystąpił Artur Andrus z zespołem. Usłyszeliśmy znane i nowe piosenki, które albo już są, albo zaraz będą przebojami polskiej piosenki nie tylko kabaretowej. Arturowi Andrusowi towarzyszą muzycy: Wojciech Stec – fortepian, gitara Łukasz Borowiecki – kontrabas, akordeon Łukasz Poprawski – saksofony, klarnet Paweł Żejmo – perkusja Playlista: Bez katarynek Baba na psy Stargard in the night Szanta narciarska Ty tu, ja tam - tango Sokratesa 18 Od Jokohamy do Fudżisawy Ciocia w gablocie Szalona krewetka Panie Przybora, Panie Wasowski

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Lots of press lately regarding ChatGPT and its impact on cybesecurity. Some say it will help us fight adversaries, while others say it will only make adversaries more sophisticated. Lot's of FUD on both sides of the discussion. BSW hosts debate the pros and cons of ChatGPT (and other AI) to truly understand its impact and what we, as security leaders, need to know. In the leadership and communications section, Leaders Are Feeling the Pressure of an Uncertain, Dynamic Risk Landscape, Gartner Predicts Nearly Half of Cybersecurity Leaders Will Change Jobs by 2025, How to Empower Teams, and more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw295

Lots of press lately regarding ChatGPT and its impact on cybesecurity. Some say it will help us fight adversaries, while others say it will only make adversaries more sophisticated. Lot's of FUD on both sides of the discussion. BSW hosts debate the pros and cons of ChatGPT (and other AI) to truly understand its impact and what we, as security leaders, need to know. In the leadership and communications section, Leaders Are Feeling the Pressure of an Uncertain, Dynamic Risk Landscape, Gartner Predicts Nearly Half of Cybersecurity Leaders Will Change Jobs by 2025, How to Empower Teams, and more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw295

Lots of press lately regarding ChatGPT and its impact on cybesecurity. Some say it will help us fight adversaries, while others say it will only make adversaries more sophisticated. Lot's of FUD on both sides of the discussion. BSW hosts debate the pros and cons of ChatGPT (and other AI) to truly understand its impact and what we, as security leaders, need to know.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw295

#bitcoin (27-02-2023) On todays show, once again we delve into a few news headlines, then, as always we will take a look at a quick video and do our best to dispel it's blatant mission to misinform with the FUD it spews out. MY VIEWS ARE MY OWN AND I MAKE NO PREDICTIONS SO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING ANYTHING... & ONLY INVEST WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE! Thursdays Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmmDGqYBnrU All UK Bitcoin Master Links: https://linktr.ee/ukbitcoinmaster When taking a consultation The UK Bitcoin Master DOES NOT talk Trading, TA, Mining, or Alt Coins!

The Crypto market has experienced its first big dump in 2023! Is the worst over? We also have the Matic (polygon) founder join for some tough questions on recent FUD and news! Join Cryptoman Ran in today's episode of Crypto Banter for all the details! MUST WATCH NOW!! ⚠️

Join Jez and Rand for another fun-filled Xbox Two Podcast! This week, we discuss Xbox Game Pass "cannibalizing" sales, the latest FUD around the Activision deal, we talk Hogwarts Legacy thoughts and whether or not you should buy Wild Hearts, and much, much more. SPONSOR: GET 60% OFF your first prepared box meal at FACTOR, with our code XboxTwo60: http://www.factormeals.com/xboxtwo60

Big O talks about spreading FUD

Big O talks about spreading FUD

The SEC is attacking Crypto and the Crypto Market is crashing! What does this mean for the future of crypto? Tune in to today's episode of Crypto Banter DeFi where Miles Deutscher explains all the details of the latest FUD around Crypto staking and the SEC! ⚠️

Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode:  Is peak FUD in? Is this the ‘custody rule rally'? OTB is keeping the deals of the week House is probing the connections between FTX and the SEC SBF is banned from using a VPN Is SBF a secret sports fan? SBF's bail cosigners are unmasked SBF VC investors are hit with a class action lawsuit SEC sends Paxos a Wells notice Circle dispells Wells notice rumors Is the SEC going after all stablecoins or just BUSD? What does Reves say about stablecoins being securities? Tether is the beneficiary of the crackdowns in the US Can US regulators really go after Tether? How Paypal deposits are like stablecoins What's in the SEC's custody rules? Changes to market structure if the SEC's custody rules go through Binance suggests that they are ready to settle up with US regulators

This episode of Hopp on Calls with Kevin Hopp is the last part of our cold calling session with Dom Odoguardi, Senior SDR at Cognism. Today, Kevin shares how to use FUD (fear, doubt, uncertainty) appropriately without going full-on about fear and doubt. Kevin and Dom share funny ways they got creative to get meetings, from using Sendoso coupons to recording funny videos and sending voicemails. HIGHLIGHT QUOTESDon't sell FUD but something in the middle - Kevin: "I like the middle of the FUD, the best. Instead of fear and doubt, I want to try and see if I can make someone who's certain about their solution think that they're uncertain about their solution. Just think like, well, huh, I don't have that. What do you do differently? Yeah. That's why I did, I use a lot of feature language."The goal of a salesperson is to ask questions and make processes better - Dom: "As SDRs, BDRs, it's not just the goal to create some demand. It's really just to ask the right questions and see if there is a way there you can make their process better in any way or give them something extra that they don't currently have."Find out more about Dom in the link below:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/odoguardi/You can connect with Kevin Hopp at the link below:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khopp/Hopp on Calls is powered by Kixie.Hone the craft of outbound sales at Cold Calling 101.

“Bitcoin's an intelligence test, but it's also an epistemic humility test. You don't have to know everything about Bitcoin, nobody knows everything about Bitcoin. The question is, do you pretend you know when you don't? And if you do you'll be exposed.”— Troy CrossTroy Cross is a Professor of Philosopher and Fellow at BPI, & Shaun Connell is Executive VP of Power at Lancium & energy trading expert. In this interview, we discuss the evolution of the Bitcoin mining and energy debate: how Bitcoin mining has weathered the storm of FUD over its energy usage to become a tool that fixes an ever-increasing number of energy-related issues. - - - - Roy Sheinfeld, CEO of Breez, last week used the following analogy to highlight expanding knowledge of the Lightning Network's application: "The first industrial use of steam engines was to pump water out of mines, but nobody talks about that because the engines were stationary and hidden in the dark. Three generations later, inventors started adding wheels to the engines. Setting that power free and bringing it into the light made everyone take notice, and that's when steam changed everything."The same applies to the whole Bitcoin ecosystem, particularly in relation to Bitcoin mining. Since 2019, there has been a growing realisation that Bitcoin provides a multitude of benefits to producers, operators and consumers of energy. There are also an increasing number of ancillary applications being realised in other areas. So, is it time for Bitcoiners to become more emboldened in their advocacy of Bitcoin mining?There's an available body of evidence showing the important role that Bitcoin mining is playing in supporting Texas's energy grid. It is right to state that some of the resultant conclusions seem counterintuitive i.e. how can an energy user assist with energy supply? However, it merely takes an open mind, a willingness to question, and a capacity to learn, to realise that Bitcoin mining provides an important societal good.Paradigm shifts are always met with suspicion. The issue is we're on the right side of history. Therefore, should we use someone's views on Bitcoin mining as a test of their intelligence and humility? Is it time to be more assertive in responding to those who refuse to believe their eyes and ears? After all, they are the ones who refuse to be humble. - - - - This episode's sponsors:Gemini - Buy Bitcoin instantlyLedn - Financial services for Bitcoin hodlersBitcasino - The Future of Gaming is hereLedger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletCasa - The leading provider of Bitcoin multisig key securityWasabi Wallet - Privacy by default-----WBD619 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

in this episode, the hosts discuss various topics related to the latest news and trends in the cryptocurrency market. They cover the recent stock market volatility and the unknown future of inflation. The hosts also talk about the performance of different cryptocurrencies such as $Blur and $Ape coin, with the latter having a supply unlock for investors on March 18th. They delve into the strong day for NFTs, with most floors up around 20%, and mention specific NFTs that are seeing positive movements such as Beans and otherdeeds.We also covers $Blur's mechanism, which is likely to be used for governance, and the fact that it may not remain at its current price. We discussed the RugDAO's open call and USDC's cancel FUD, with false reports claiming that Circle received a Wells notice from the SEC. Additionally, the podcast covers Abu Dhabi's initiative to back web3 startups, with Dubai and the UAE pushing to be at the forefront of blockchain tech. Lastly, they mention $SUPERPLASTIC raising $20 million in a series a Alexa fund lead by Amazon and @KeithGrossman's partnership announcements with @moonpay.Todays show notes were created using Chat GPT, what do you think?GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With over 80% developer growth the past year, the Solana ecosystem has never been stronger. Chase Barker, Head of Developer Ecosystem at The Solana Foundation joins Brian Friel to talk about the current initiatives happening on Solana that excite him the most, along with the biggest opportunities he sees for Developers on Solana in episode 20 of The Zeitgeist. Show Notes:00:05 - Intro                            01:56 - Background / Start with Solana                        11:49 - Highlights from last year with the developer ecosystem16:13 - Latest exciting initiatives in Solana                  20:56 - Opportunities for devs in Solana 25:03 - Opportunities to build a project on Solana27:36 - Solana plays Pokemon" game           30:43 - Where will Solana be in 5 years                          32:55 - A builder he admires Full Transcript:Brian Friel (00:00):Hey, everyone and welcome to The Zeitgeist, the show where we highlight the founders, developers, and designers who are pushing the web 3.0 space forward. I'm Brian Friel, developer relations at Phantom and I'm super excited to introduce none other than the man, the myth, the legend, Chase Barker of Solana Foundation. Chase, welcome to the show.Chase barker (00:24):Hey man, thanks for having me.Brian Friel (00:26):This has been a long time coming. For those who don't know, Chase is the head of developer ecosystem at Solana Foundation. He's one of the earliest guys you could have seen if you were a developer coming into Solana. And it's special for me personally because Chase was the first person I reached out to on Solana. We actually did an episode on your old podcast, Chewing Glass at one point. It's great to be on the other side of the mic though, but officially welcome to the show, Chase.Chase barker (00:49):Thanks man. Yeah, it was super cool and it's also wild for me to be on this other side because we met in some interesting circumstances, you trying to dive into the whole ecosystem and I had no idea what I was doing and I needed help. And you wrote some really cool shit for me for the Solana Cookbook and here you are, leading Phantom. So anyways, I won't dive into that too much. Maybe we'll talk about it later, but it's super cool to be here, so thanks for having me.Brian Friel (01:15):Yeah, thanks for coming on. No, I couldn't agree more. Probably a good place to start, is maybe rewinding time a little bit, going back to some of those early days. Solana's pretty unique from a developer perspective. There was always, having worked in the industry pre-2018, it was always... If you're doing something development wise, solidity is the only game in town you got to be working in EVM. And Solana basically struck it out on its own and completely changed that narrative and you were around to see pretty much that whole evolution. Can you talk a little bit about your journey to finding Solana? Who are you, what were you doing, and what have you seen evolve in Solana since you've been there?Chase barker (01:56):Yeah, for sure. So I've told this story a lot and I'm going to keep this one shorter than I normally do, but I was an engineer for 12 years and then started trading crypto in 2017, made a bunch of money, lost it all in 2018, like most people. And then along that journey I found this project, Kin, who now exists on Solana, but they had their own fork of Stellar and I was into crypto and the bear market in 2018 and they had this hackathon thing and I built a tip bot with a group of other people to be able to tip on Reddit, discord, Twitter and Telegram. And I was like, okay, this is really cool. I really sort of hate my web2 job right now. I'm doing this government contracting work working on legacy Spring VC systems. It was miserable and I've talked about this a lot before and I just got everybody's email addresses and started saying, give me a job.(02:47):And they told me that all the jobs were based in Tel Aviv, but they have this developer relations role for Kin. And I was like, okay, that sounds great. What the hell is that? I had no idea what developer relations was at the time. So did a little bit of research, ended up taking the role and really just started working. They had an SDK, but documentation tried to grow a community. It's a little bit different. I'll get into this from Solana because Kin was like, this is the ICO days. Nobody really gave a shit about use cases. It was just like how am I going to be the most degenerate thing here. It was way ahead of its time, but eventually flash forward after a couple years of really loving what I was doing, traveling around the world, speaking at conferences, and helping people learn how to build in crypto.(03:31):And I heard, and it's March or April 2020 way early, and I'm talking, nobody that I knew, knew about Solana. So they were like, we're going to migrate to Solana this new blockchain. Nobody knows about it, but it's going to be super fast. Our tech team says it's great. So I followed along. Around December, I was involved in the migration process and I had spoken with Dan Albert, who's now the head of the Solana Foundation, and Raj and I engaged with a bunch of these guys but didn't really know them, but I was part of that migration. And then a little bit later into 2021, early 2021, people don't know this, but actually I was leaving Kin and I was looking for another role and I got hired by Circle for one week as a developer advocate. And then I saw Solana had a developer relations role, applied.(04:21):So I actually had an awkward situation where I had to tell Circle that “I know I just started, but I'm going to go work at Solana.” But the reason I worked at Solana is because I just DMed the shit out of Raj and Dan until they finally submitted into saying, okay, finally we're we're going to let you take this role. And at that time all that existed was the core documentation and the PaulX Escrow tutorial, aka the Solana Bible. And that was the start. May 5th, the day after my birthday of 2021, I joined Solana as the first sort of developer advocate and that's sort of the entry point.Brian Friel (05:01):Wow. So yeah, it's not really that long in calendar days. Chase barker (05:07):It's been 20 years. It's been 20 years.Brian Friel (05:09):Yeah, exactly. 20 years in crypto years for sure. A lot has changed since then. Maybe the only thing that hasn't changed is the strategy of just spam DMing somebody to try to get a job. I definitely tried to employ that with you back in the day. I know a few other people who have successfully deployed that strategy as well. But yeah, it's been crazy. There's a lot to talk about here. Maybe we just focus on the last year in particular because you mentioned 2021, it's a pretty crazy year. There was just the public tutorial on the docs and then all these people come in, you get anchor that gets built around that time. Solana takes off, a bunch of independent teams.Chase barker (05:49):Actually, let's go a little bit before that because I think this is just a really interesting thing and I like telling this part because when I started at Kin I was begging people to build on it because nobody was really building on blockchain except Ethereum at the time. And then I started with Solana and I had the exact opposite problem. You had a ton of people that were like, hell yeah, this sounds really awesome, but how the hell do you build on this thing? What the hell is rust? There's no documentation. You go into the Discord and the cord devs are just “go read the tests, that teaches you how to build on Solana.” And that's literally the world that we lived in at the time. And then started putting together this sort of part-time dev advocate team, if you want to call it that. I just skimmed Discord and looked for people who were helping others and be like, hey, come over here into this private discord with me.(06:39):And I'm like, help me scale myself. Because I was starting to write some example code and there was none of that. And then luckily I met Donnie and then Jacob and a couple other guys that are now full-time at Solana Foundation and they were helping in dev support. Jacob was working on the Java STK with Skynet Cap, if any of you guys know him. He was really one of the early OGs there. And then this whole group formed and they were writing content and then you reached out and contributed to the Solana cookbook and this whole thing just came out of nowhere. And I was literally sinking. The demand for Solana was so high because the tech was so new and the sort of hardcore engineers just really wanted to build, and the Dafi's and the Max's and the Armani's just figured the shit out.(07:28):But everybody else was like, let me, let me. And I could not do that on my own. I didn't even have the brain big enough to supply the knowledge to all these people. And then long story short, or maybe long story long is that you and I started talking and you wanted to be part of it and you wrote some really important stuff for the Solana Cookbook, I think retries, possibly PDAs and some of these other things. And it's like, thank you. And I do remember you being like, hey, can I work at Solana? And I didn't have any approval of power at the time and you left me and probably a month later I got approval to hire somebody else, but by that time you were at Phantom, but it seems like it worked out. So it is what it is.Brian Friel (08:12):I think you're right about the demands being so strong for people to figure it out that you just saw people coming together. A lot of times, you look at people who are evangelizing new tech and they're like, hey, here's this awesome thing. Try to explain it. And the first reaction of everyone is like, okay, cool, but then they just move on. And I feel like Solana was one of the few cases where that was the opposite, where everybody was like, this is incredible. How do I use this thing? How do I build this thing? And it was just this hive mind of people coming out of the woodwork to try to make it happen.Chase barker (08:43):Even me leading into Solana, and I say this a lot too because it's true in my mind, and I was like, listen to Anatoli and all this stuff, and I'm one of two things. This is the giant scam, or this is actually really fucking awesome. And luckily my instincts were right on that one and everything sort of worked out. And when I met you and then we started doing this part-time DevRel team that you were a part of for a while, first Solana Foundation.(09:09):And the next thing, my Twitter account became this thing where people would create content and I would share it and then somebody else would be like, oh, I want my shit shared. And then they would make content and I would share it. And this was this huge flywheel and that's really what turned into my account was this person who, you do cool shit, I'm going to share it. And then I became this other guy where I'm also, I do stupid shit and then I also share good shit. So it's this perfect mix of this idiot and then this guy who knows where the good stuff is.Brian Friel (09:46):You either die a developer or you live long enough to be a Twitter celebrity, I guess in your case?Chase barker (09:52):Yeah, I mean I don't necessarily love the celebrity side, but I do love getting DMs from people to say, Hey, all the things that you shared, and you probably hear some of the same like, hey, I got a job here because of this tweet that you made or this thread because I started making threads, who's looking for a job or who's whatever. And in the early days that's all we had, was Twitter. There was no other way to connect. I made a Twitter developer list and I added 300 people to it so that not everybody had to come into Solana Twitter and be like, follow each individual person and these were such manual, weird, really hard... I had no idea what I was doing. Luckily people showed up and were there and then just ran with it. I mean, looking back, dude, it's just awesome to look and see what's happened since then.Brian Friel (10:40):Yeah, no, I couldn't agree more. Lots of connections made in those early days, like you said too, where people get jobs, all this kind of stuff happens and it's crazy how little interactions like that go really far.Chase barker (10:49):Yeah, exactly.Brian Friel (10:50):So I guess taking it now to this past year, so we're recording this January 2023. The past year in particular, if you were just an outside observer looking at crypto, you're like, wow, prices are way down, everything's dead. And there's a report that comes out just the other day, Electric Capitalist Developer Report, which says Solana developers grew over 80% in the year. You and I... I had an intuition for this, I'm sure you did too. It was just developer activity.Chase barker (11:20):I didn't have intuition. I actually knew.Brian Friel (11:23):Yeah, you knew. But other people I'm sure had intuition if you're around the developer ecosystem, it's not stopping. Developer activities keeps picking up, summarize a little bit in your words over the last year, what has stood up to you? What are some of the highlights? You mentioned you started this thing and it's just you and DMing people on Twitter and getting this thing going. Now it's a serious operation of a developer ecosystem here going. What are some of the things you're most proud of that stood out to you?Chase barker (11:50):Yeah, so I think the start of the year in January of 2022, we're all sitting there, and the crypto markets nuke, and the blockchain literally is devastated. And that was any sort of pre any sort of ideas about what is wrong, what is it? Basically it was all these sort of liquidators, spamming to try to liquidate people and that just turned into this thing. And I think by that point in time though, we had some really high conviction developers that were already super invested themselves in Solana. So they stuck around and I think that's very unique for that to happen. Everybody's like, when are you going to fix this? But it literally took two to three months before they even identified what those solutions might be and those solutions to many of you, the devs out there were quick and fee-markets and some of these other things that improved.(12:45):But even though these solutions were being built, that shit takes time. So during that same time, Solana NFTs were going through the roof and these bots were spamming the network. Luckily we're flash forward briefly to right now all of those things have been implemented, but the work is never complete. But we've been pretty battle tested and recently, but I think to your original question, what I'm most proud of is being able to keep that morale up, being able to really build out this sticky community and I'm focused on devs, but it's not just the devs. Without that normal diehard community, without the Dev community, without the NFT community, we would've failed miserably like every other blockchain that tried to do what we did failed.(13:33):But I think a lot of this really comes down to personal relationships and when you come into Solana and you get involved, people really cheer you on and there's that sort of camaraderie there that kept people here, even in the darkest of times. I'm just really happy. Like I said, I knew that those numbers were high and to be honest, a lot of the reason while I've been memeing about the 75 developer ridiculous reports that have been coming out, I was memeing it so hard in the last couple weeks because we crawled GitHub internally and we know where our dev numbers are and we always make sure that we know where those things are. So it was sort of funny to me to just keep memeing that and then knowing Electric Capital was going to put out a report that sort of reflected... at least they have some pretty strict rules around what they constitute a dev. Our numbers are slightly higher, but their rules are strict. As a full-time dev, you have to commit code X amount of days per month or whatever that is.(14:32):I'm sure they have that somewhere and the way that they do it, but yeah man, it takes a village to do this and there's not one person you can point to, but there's obviously some champions out there that really made people inspired to continue building. The proudest thing I can think of is all the shit we took this year and we're still here and now we just have been pretty much named and given the silver medal of the second strongest developer community in crypto and you got to give a shout-out to Eat the Kings, fully open source and putting up numbers for devs, so you got to give them credit.Brian Friel (15:06):Yeah, we mentioned a little bit early on about how it was a narrative violation for Solana to have a completely different programming paradigm to not be using Solidity to get into an account model lower level dealing with Rust.Chase barker (15:20):There was FUD that was like “Solana's using Rust? Good luck. You guys are basically screwed.” Nobody's ever going to build on Rust. So that was false.Brian Friel (15:29):Yeah, most loved GitHub developer language though I'm pretty sure that's another narrative violation for you there. So talking a little bit more about what you guys have been up to you, you mentioned you guys have been crawling the GitHubs and you've seen this dev activity, you now have a full-time team like you said that, that you're working with, but it's not just you guys at Solana Foundation, there's all these other ecosystem teams now. There's people like Super Team Dao who are doing their own thing, coordinating devs and building devs. I'd say there's stuff on the community side getting devs and raising awareness there. There's Lamport DAO, I might be giving you too many answers here, but the community side and the tech side, what are some of the initiatives that are happening right now in Solana that have you most excited?Chase barker (16:14):I think one of the most important things to note about Solana Foundation and Labs in general is the headcount stays low. This sounds weird to a lot of people, but our job is to make ourselves irrelevant in the next five to 10 years as an organization, the super team and the Lamort DAOs and Meta Camp and Singapore in these different groups, a lot of them will get grants from the foundation to get themselves up and running. But after that they basically become these sort of miniature Solana foundations where they start growing their community from the inside out and giving out grants and doing all these really cool things. But you think of Solana as this giant bubble and every time one of these new miniature groups spins out, the Solana Foundation bubble gets smaller, and then these other bubbles start getting more and plentiful to eventually you reach a point where Solana Foundation bubble was the size of the rest of these small groups.(17:08):This is the antithesis of Web 2.0, hiring as many people in as much headcount as you can and trying to own everything. I don't want to own everything. I want to find Mertz, I want to find Super Teams. I want to find Meta Camps and I don't want to just go find them and ask them. I want to find these guys that just put everything they have into Solana the blockchain and they're just so passionate about it, that it's like this is the team that we want to put our energy behind. In the beginning it really was a lot of us at Foundation and Labs doing a lot of the talking, but now you have these stronger voices and I'm not going to lie, it makes my life a lot easier to not have to be doing all that talking online anymore, but I still do it.(17:53):And I think the important point here is that if we're going to become a decentralized blockchain, we also want to become a decentralized organization itself and that means nobody has to get our permission. I think one of the greatest examples of no permission is Hacker House was kicked off, everybody's like, when my city and MTN DAO was like, fuck this, I'm just going to make my own thing. And they actually built the best thing that's really happened out of our community to date and they produced multiple, clockwork previously, Kronos, mtnPay, all these guys won hackathons.(18:33):Because T.J. Littlejohn literally came up with mtnPay at MTN DAO and a food line being like, Solana Pay just came out. Oh shit, maybe I should just build a payment thing with this new thing. And then he set up the system and people were paying with USD right there. So if that trajectory keeps happening through Solana, and I know other blockchains are trying to emulate what we do, but there's no way to emulate this unless you actually do this organically and it's happening. And anytime I just find somebody like a TJ or a  MERT or whoever or a Brian or whatever, I'm going to put all my time and energy behind them and that's literally my philosophy and the foundation's philosophy in general, I think.Brian Friel (19:15):Yeah, for sure. No, I've seen that too. It feels like there's more... Solana is the only ecosystem I know outside of Ethereum really is there are these factions not the best word, but it's these unofficial groups of people that... Maybe it started as simple as we like to ski in February and we want to get together and hack. MTN DAO, but it's becoming an official collective now. People are identifying with it. And it has influence in the community. I mean I totally see what you're saying too about the Hacker House is I know we had our own last summer, we kind of piloted the Summer Camp Hackathon fan of Sponsor [inaudible 00:19:51]. But I just see that model continuing to go and more and more teams coalescing around certain regions and sponsoring their own thing.Chase barker (19:57):And for everybody listening here, don't ask for permission, don't ask when, just literally do it. And if you do it and you do it well, the attention will get drawn onto you and then I'll come find you and I'll knock on your door and ask you how I can help. So that's really the sort of mentality that I personally have.Brian Friel (20:15):Yeah, I couldn't agree more with that. That was my approach trying to work in this space, just do it and then ask for help or permission. Someone will find you. That's so much better than trying to ask somebody for permission to do something. So I guess that's a good transition to, let's put ourselves in the shoes of a developer who's looking at Solana right now. There's a lot of devs out there that might see Solana and they still think, oh, Rust and scary. That's probably not true. We can talk about that. But there's also probably a lot of devs who maybe know a little bit about Solana, they're kind of like right on the cusp, because they want to jump in. What do you want to say to these devs? What are some of the biggest opportunities that these devs should be looking at right now in Solana?Chase barker (20:56):Yeah, I think there's a couple things here. I think it depends on your demographic and age range. I mostly meant age range. So if you're in college right now, look up solanau.org and it's @SolanaUni on Twitter because Dana is our university relations person who is absolutely crushing it, sponsoring and participating in hackathons, doing workshops, just really bringing in my opinion, the next generation, the most risk averse group of people are students who are still funded by their parents that can make some sort of mistakes early on. So they're the next generation that's going to take this forward and luckily they have some really tech heavy guys out there that are just so dedicated to this, the Solana core engineers and the Jito team and all these different groups that are there to mentor them when they're ready to get in this. But I think SolanaU is probably a really high leverage thing.(21:54):We spend a lot of time working with Build Space who's built Solana Build Space Core, which is an amazing program. Things are getting easier. We're still in that place where new things are coming around the corner and I get a lot of shit for this, especially from Rust maxi's, but there's Seahorse Lang where you can build smart contracts on Python right now, not fully ready for production. There's a version of this in typescript coming. We're doing whatever we can to make it easier because the Chewing Glass thing is true and it's mainly true not because of Rust, not because of Solana, it's because learning Rust and Solana and all those concepts at the same time, is literally painful as hell. But content and all these other things combined put together right now and all of the sort of tooling that different groups are building like indexers and all these things are making the lives easier because as adapt dev you want to deal with “get program accounts and all that stuff”, it's not...(22:56):We're getting to a better place and it's coming right now there's a couple places, I mean solana.com/developers we're curating our own list, but I cannot negate what ELO from SOL Dev has done at soldev.app and the whole entire thing that he's built out. So I'm super bullish on a lot of the stuff they're doing. I think there's just too many things to name of how many independent contributors are out there just building shit. I said this the other day on Twitter, I know when things are getting really good when I can't even keep up with the retweets of the things that are being built that I have no idea about. And then you have this other guy that most people don't really know yet. His name's Jonas and I think it's Soul Play Jonas on Twitter,Brian Friel (23:40):He's our hackathon winner.Chase barker (23:41):Is he?Brian Friel (23:42):Yeah. So when we hosted the Summer Camp Hackathon last summer, we had a Deep Links prize and he won as the best use of Deep Links because he was the first to build a Unity game on Solana using it.Chase barker (23:53):I'm not going to dox his location, but I'm going to tell you this mfr is legend and really going to try to push the gaming world forward on Solana, which I think is the blockchain that has the best ability to actually scale. And I want to give credit where it's due, zk-Tech is going to be fucking amazing, but Solana as is right now, has the best chance to scale if a big top tier sort of gaming company hits and decides to leverage that tag.Brian Friel (24:24):Yeah, let's talk about that a little bit because I had Anatoly on as the first guest and he always talked about how his dream was blockchain at Nasdaq speed and it was like “it's DeFi all the way". Then you and I are both around for the 2021 craze where it was just all of a sudden it's the world's greatest JPEG trading machine, it's all NFTs. Now we're seeing stuff about gaming. Is there a certain type of developers interested in something they should come to Solana? It's just like everybody... It's not necessarily specialization here, but what are some of the biggest opportunities maybe if you're looking to start a company on Solana, build a project on Solana?Chase barker (25:03):Yeah, I think we're being honest here. If your use case does not necessarily require high throughput, then the options are pretty unlimited in blockchain. But if you want to be able to have fully on chain games.. And not to say that we both know this, when you're building a game on any blockchain, not everything has to be on chain and it's almost like not necessary to the extent, but DeFi, we need to reignite that on Solana. There's been a series of unfortunate events that–whatever, but I think there's a really strong group of people that are working on this open book DEX and this massive amazing thing that came true. But for me personally, I think that the big unlock comes in gaming and the real original use case of crypto that has never actually been solved, which is payments. I mean it's been solved but not in a usable way. If you're going to bring payments to new and emerging markets, the fees and stuff are important because the fees on some of these different chains is more money than is-Brian Friel (26:12):Not feasible. It's a non-starter.Chase barker (26:13):It's not feasible. And Solana Pay and a lot of these other payment options are starting to enable that. And I think it honestly just has the potential to change a lot of lives, JPEGs and all these other things. That's cool. And I love that people are having fun on blockchain also. Solana is definitely the funnest chain by the way, but payments, man payments, we have to do it. We have to get payments, remittances done on chain and Solana's the most equipped to do it, especially related to fees.Brian Friel (26:45):Yeah, I love you said it too about it being the most fun chain, priding yourselves with that because for a while, and I think you noticed this, with every new blockchain, something that starts, the first thing everyone does is copy what worked before. We're going to have an AMM, we're going to do some DeFi thing, we're going to have an NFT marketplace. But I'm starting to see now on Solana things that are uniquely Solana and just couldn't be done elsewhere. And it definitely feels like there's a unique culture. And I'll shout out too, one, we talked about T.J. Littlejohn and you mentioned payments, the Solana pay spec. Yeah, you can send payments to anyone, but you could send any transaction. So he built that NFT photo booth. You take a photo, scan it, and it mints as an NFT using the payment protocol. It's pretty cool. There's another one though, we just had him on as a guest, which will launch fairly soon on this podcast. Have you seen the “Solana Plays Pokémon” game?Chase barker (27:37):Yeah, I have briefly, but I don't know a ton about it.Brian Friel (27:40):I don't know. It's a game like that... It's like you said, it doesn't have to be crazy. It's not everything on chain, but it's almost like a new genre of game because here you have this emulator that's sitting off chain, it's playing Pokémon and it's like anyone can permissionlessly show up and just start voting to say, press this button, press up, press down. And Solana's so fast that it's basically processing these very quickly and all of a sudden you have people warring over, should we train a Squirtle? Should we release the Squirtle? Should we fight this gym leader? It's a toy today, but you can kind of see how wow, this could become kind of a new game genre where it's multiplayer and, you don't know who you're even playing with or against and it's all real time. It's all being coordinated. It's pretty wild.Chase barker (28:22):I think a lot, and I'm a big advocate of looking at the Web2 world and seeing what is possible on Solana, and also what makes sense because not every use case makes sense, but for example, like I said, I mentioned Shek earlier and Wordcel Club, which is the blogging platform and they're doing some other cool social primitives and it's like they're starting to open source those primitives, but why would you do something on web 3.0 that you could do on Web 2.0? And the answer is sort of incentives. And you look at some of these bigger social platforms that absorb 99.9% of the value and there's a way to distribute that value on web 3.0 that there never was in web 2.0. So I think that's an important one. There might be some disagreement here, but I think the group that really got closest to some sort of web 2.0 success was Stepn, because they went product first instead of... You see a lot of stuff in web 3.0 of it's like, developers first developing for developers, they're developing for things like that.(29:27):But Stepn was like, what does everybody do that we could reward them for and get this on chain? And that was working out, this is an incentive mechanism. Obviously it didn't fully work out and I think there's probably... They're working on that, but at the same time, we need to start thinking what in the web 2.0 world is working, how can we do that on web 3.0, and why would that app make sense in web 3.0? And then usually it's incentive mechanisms that give the user a reason to use it, but they're not going to do that with massive delays or lag times or all this stuff. It better work just like web 2.0 if not better if you're going to do that. So really focusing on things that Solana can do that other blockchains can't at this current moment is probably going to be some of the highest rate of success or at least some more of the higher impact things I think.Brian Friel (30:21):Yeah, I agree. It's got to be seamless in the background. There's people in crypto who care, but the vast majority of people don't want to sit around and wait for something to load. So we talked a lot about the state of Solana today, what you're excited about all these different people building. You alluded to this a little bit, but paint a picture for us. What do you see the Solana ecosystem five years from now?Chase barker (30:43):Five years from now, I see myself not having a job anymore, and I'm okay with that because I've said this since day one. If I do my job the way that I'm supposed to do my job by empowering, enabling others, then there's no need for a me anymore. And any true ecosystem that has a foundation or a labs, whatever, there should be a point that they're looking towards. The North Star is literally being able to walk away and that community in those small groups that you've sort of empowered and sort of distributed out, you can walk away and that shit just runs itself forever.(31:19):That's not just the blockchain that's actually distributed community, not just the distributed blockchain. So that's the North Star. Five years, probably not likely, but I do think in the next five years that it's going to be about as easy to build on Solana as it is to build on React. That's what I have in my mind. And we have the firepower in the ecosystem and the dedicated people that I already see completely just trying to push with Seahorse and all these other things. People are just thinking, how can I make this easier for people if we're already there two to three years in from [inaudible 00:31:59] Beta Solana, we're progressing rapidly right now and if we keep that rate in the next five years, it's going to be insane.Brian Friel (32:09):Love that. And yeah, the beta tag, I'm sure given all the trials and tribulations, we will be shedding that beta tag soon.Chase barker (32:17):I haven't seen the Bernie meme in a while and if anybody listening to this doesn't know, Anatoly said that we're going to drop the beta tag after one year from the Bernie meme that he posts about validators.Brian Friel (32:27):Zero days since last Bernie meme. Really? Okay.Chase barker (32:31):I mean who knows if that happens, but I haven't seen him post that Bernie meme in a while, so we'll see. We'll see.Brian Friel (32:36):Yeah, I'll miss that Bernie meme. We'll put some pit vipers on Bernie again, just for all time sake. Well Chase, this has been an awesome discussion, really great having you on, and it's been a long time coming. One closing question we ask all of our guests, I want to hear it from you, is who is a builder that you admire in the Solana ecosystem?Chase barker (32:55):So my initial sort of instinct is to probably mention somebody that's never been really mentioned before, but I can't not just talk about Armani because he was part of the first wallet. He was part of the framework that made Solana better in terms of developer experience with Anchor. And I mean I know he's now building another wallet and it's just the truth. Armani, his whole sort of ethos and what he is trying to do is just trying to make crypto usable and better for a lot of people.(33:34):And I think that's just an important thing for me and I really respect that about him. So I truly think that Armani is one of the people that I really respect the most in the space for what he's done and transparently and just like everybody who has a very large voice gets a lot of shit. And for people like that to stick around, it's incredible. We all deal with it. You work at Phantom, I work at Solana Foundation. Armani has worked at various groups or whatever and we have to just continue what we're doing and just deal with all the that shit we get and you just got to respect that, man. So that's pretty much my answer.Brian Friel (34:17):That's Awesome. I couldn't agree more. Well, Chase, it has been awesome having you on. Thank you so much for your time. Where can developers go to get started with Solana?Chase barker (34:27):Solana.com/developers or I'll also not show our own stuff and you can go to soldev.app as well. We have different offerings like soldev.app has a lot more, solana.com/developers has a little more curated smaller list, but both are very good options. So yeah man, that's the place. So check it out and let's get going.Brian Friel (34:53):Love it. Chase Barker, head of developer ecosystem at Solana Foundation. Thank you so much.

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