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Ryan Berckmans is an Ethereum community member and ETH investor.In this episode, we unpack the disconnect between Ethereum's surging fundamentals and its lagging market price, exploring what's driving real adoption, why ETH demand hasn't followed through (yet), and what could finally flip the narrative.------
This episode was recorded live at Schelling Point during Eth Denver 2025. In our fourth Rehash Hot Ones show, competitors Kevin Owocki, Disruption Joe, Sophia Dew, and Rena O'Brien battle it out for who has the spiciest takes on DAO governance, web3 funding, and the potential for AI to address challenges in crypto. Along the way, they brave increasingly spicy hot sauces, and audience members participate with their own hot takes as well while also engaging in the interactive spice challenge on stage. Finally, votes are tallied live on JokeRace and a winner is crowned. ⏳ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 01:57 Panelist introductions 03:10 Rules and voting 04:28 Round 1: Does DAO Governance Work? 18:13 Round 2: Best Way to Fund Web3 Projects 27:43 Round 3: Can AI Fix Crypto? 37:35 Winner announced
In this episode, Droste hosts a discussion with Trewkat (Miss Katrina) and Adam Miller (The Thriller) about Black Flag DAO's new membership structure and legal entity formation. The conversation, originally recorded as a Twitter Space on February 18th, covers the transition from BanklessDAO, new membership tiers, staking requirements, and upcoming events. Key topics include the special membership opportunity for former BanklessDAO members (ending March 2nd, 2025), the formation of a Marshall Islands DAO LLC, and an upcoming social gathering with Chippi fam at EthDenver!Important Dates- Deadline for Discounted Staking: March 2nd, 2025- ChippiCon and BlackFlag Social at EthDenver: February 26th, 2025Timestamps[00:00] Show Introduction and Time-Sensitive Updates- March 2, 2025 discounted staking deadline for existing Level 1 BanklessDAO members[02:00] X Space intro banter and historical context with TheThriller (Adam Miller)[06:15] Background on Transition from BanklessDAO with Trewkat (Miss Katrina)[08:30] Staking Discount, Deadline and Rationale for returning members vs new members[11:00] New Member Criteria and Structure Details announced in January- Flag Curious: Entry Level Access (free)- Flag Raiser: 500 USDC Stake + Social Consensus- Flag Bearer: Advanced Membership Requirements + Voting Rights[16:30] Transition mechanism through March 2 for existing L1 members[20:00] Staking Mechanism and Pool Details[22:30] Historical Context and Governance[24:00] Related Community Projects and Updates[27:00] BCard x ChippiCon[28:30] Black Flag Initiative[30:00] Chippi children's book on Amazon, more Chippi talk[34:00] Legal Entity Formation with MiDAO[39:00] Community Impact and Evolution[41:00] Closing chatter[42:00] Note on How to DAO book by Kevin Owocki & Puncar[43:00] Wrap upLinks and Resourceshttps://x.com/BlackFlagDAOhttps://warpcast.com/~/channel/blackflaghttps://blackflagdao.notion.site/https://www.chippicon.com/#https://linktr.ee/chippinfthttps://getbcard.iohttps://app.banklessacademy.com/newsletterhttps://warpcast.com/banklessacademyPresentationhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-2Dio4GaPW2vF8FNBFHXrS0cdOtmGk0Fy2fbu3GvKO4/edit?usp=sharingAnnouncementshttps://banklessdao.substack.com/p/bfd-bulletin-1https://paragraph.xyz/@bfbulletin/black-flag-bulletin-2Making Bank is produced independently on behalf of BlackFlag DAO
Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin and author of Onchain Capital Allocation. https://allobook.gitcoin.co/
In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. This month of January, we will review the top books on some key areas of interest for compliance professionals. This week, four upcoming books in 2025 for business leaders. How to Dao by Kevin Owocki and Puncar The Power of Purpose, 4th edition by Richard Leider and David Shapiro The Resilient Leader by Brian Molitor House of Huawei by Eva Dou For more information on the Ethico Toolkit For more information on the Ethico Toolkit for Middle Managers, available at no charge, click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Do you think you've got what it takes to become a founder in crypto? On the show today we've got 8 of crypto's most famous and successful builders in crypto, each with about 15 minutes in time, giving you the wisdom they gained founding their own companies. We're joined by Jesse Pollack from Base, Jeremy Allaire from Circle, Anatoly from Solana, Stani from Aave, Kain from Synthetix, Mike & Jason from Blockworks, Kevin Owocki from Gitcoin and Lucas from Jito. Each one with their own perspectives, their own scars and hopefully by listening to this episode, you, the listener, can learn from their experiences to gain the confidence you need to venture into this world. ------
What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where “many small donors are more powerful than one large donor.” After the talk, Sherrell reflects on how digital tools are transforming the way communities get their needs met.
This episode was recorded live in Detroit on Saturday, September 28, 2024 during the Rehash podcast event at MCON III. In this episode, Kevin Owocki from Gitcoin joined us to talk about democratic allocation of capital onchain.Kevin is the co-founder of Gitcoin, host of the Green Pill Podcast, and author of the Onchain Capital Allocation Handbook. This episode is sponsored by Last. Last is a new EVM chain that generates revenue from cashflow throughout the network and returns all profits to the community via sustainable and lasting incentives. Build to Last at https://last.net. COLLECT THIS EPISODE FOLLOW REHASH:TwitterFarcasterTikTokInstagramNewsletterRehash Podcast Club (RPC) IMPORTANT LINKS:Kevin Owocki (Twitter)GitcoinOnchain Capital Allocation HandbookGreen Pill Podcast TIMESTAMPS0:00 Intro1:58 How do we allocate capital fairly?17:55 Is retrofunding a good funding mechanism? DISCLAIMER: The information in this video is the opinion of the speaker(s) only and is for informational purposes only. You should not construe it as investment advice, tax advice, or legal advice, and it does not represent any entity's opinion but those of the speaker(s). For investment or legal advice, please seek a duly licensed professional.
What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where "many small donors are more powerful than one large donor."
What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where "many small donors are more powerful than one large donor."
What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds based on the number of contributors, rather than the amount given. Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki dives into the principles and pitfalls of this approach to philanthropy, where "many small donors are more powerful than one large donor."
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On our penultimate episode of the season, we're speaking with Irina Marinescu, co-founder and CEO of buidlbox, a global hub for builders to learn, earn, and connect in web3.Irina is also a mentor at Tachyon and a founder of Women in Crypto, and she previously worked as General Counsel at Gitcoin throughout its disaffiliation process to decentralize Gitcoin Holdings (which later became Supermodular) from GitcoinDAO back in Spring 2022.It was during this transition period that Gitcoin's bounties and hackathons product, which was originally launched in 2017 by Kevin Owocki, began morphing into what is now buidlbox, and in February 2023 at ETH Denver, buidlbox officially launched. Around that time, Supermodular (previously Gitcoin Holdings) decided to shift its entire focus to supporting the thriving buidlbox platform.In this episode, Irina shares updates on where buidlbox stands today and how it is shaping the future of learning and work, what she learned from the Gitcoin disaffiliation process, both from a legal and an organizational perspective, and how non-technical people can get involved in hackathons and building in the space.We then get into the recent SAB 121 bill that President Biden recently vetoed, why Irina believes the SEC hasn't exactly been aligned with the crypto ecosystem, and the one thing we need to do more of to help regulators change their minds about crypto.
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5 years, 20 Grants, 3715 projects crowd-funded and over $60M raised towards public goods funding, from 4.2M unique donations. Gitcoin's headline numbers are indicative of the massive success their quadratic funding (QF) and public goods funding models (PGF) have seen over the years. With Gitcoin 2.0, crowd-funding is further decentralised, Allo Protocol being open-source and permissionless: any ecosystem treasury can create their own Gitcoin Grants program to help their community fund what matters to them.Topics covered in this episode:Kevin's background and Gitcoin's journey so farThe utility of Gitcoin PassportGitcoin Grants sybil protection dilemmaPublic goods & capital allocationQuadratic funding (QF) & retroactive public goods funding (RPGF)New allocation models introduced by Gitcoin 2.0$GTC token utility & decentralising Allo ProtocolThe current landscape of DAOsEpisode links:Kevin Owocki on TwitterGitcoin on TwitterGitcoin Governance ForumsSponsors:Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.ioChorus1: Chorus1 is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at - chorus.oneThis episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst.
Gitcoin 2.0 will transform Gitcoin into a decentralized protocol that makes it easy for communities to allocate capital.Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.In this episode, Laura interviews Meg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at Gitcoin, and Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin. They discuss the evolution of Gitcoin from a centralized platform to a decentralized suite of protocols, Gitcoin 2.0, which allows any Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) based ecosystem to fund its public goods. They also talk about the various funding mechanisms available, including quadratic funding, retroactive public goods funding, and conviction voting. Learn more: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding?The team is also exploring more futuristic concepts such as private voting systems, angel investing 2.0, and impact attestations. The ultimate goal for Gitcoin is to create a capital allocation infrastructure that funds what matters to communities, whether they are towns, states, countries, or online interest groups.Show highlights:Kevin's background and how he came to found Gitcoin and why Meg joined the companyThe differences between Gitcoin 1.0 and 2.0What quadratic funding is and why it is important in the blockchain ecosystemThe problem of sybil attacks and how Gitcoin Passport aims to solve itWhy Gitcoin has changed its approach to put more focus on scaling Ethereum rather than other types of grantsHow Gitcoin is trying to solve capital allocation efficiency with Allo (Capital Allocation) ProtocolWhat streaming quadratic funding is and how it differs from traditional quadratic fundingHow retroactive public goods funding (RPGF) worksWhat conviction voting is and how it addresses some of the current problems in DAOsWhich projects are using Gitcoin Passport and what forWhy Gitcoin is so focused on the Ethereum ecosystem and whether they will launch in other chainsWhat the purposes of the GTC token are and how it could become a flywheel for GitcoinHow Gitcoin can become sustainable long-term, since it's free to use at the momentThe features that are coming down the line for Gitcoin, including privacy and onchain "angel investing" What the future could look like if Gitcoin succeeds in its mission, according to KevinThank you to our sponsors! PolkadotGuests | Kevin Owocki, Co-founder of GitcoinMeg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at GitcoinLinks | GitcoinGitcoin 2.0 Whitepaper, co-authored by Kevin Owocki and Meg ListerPublic Goods Funding: The New Meta | Kevin Owocki - Gitcoin, presentation at ETH Denver 2024Gitcoin Entering the End Game Gitcoin's Citizen Grants programImpact reportCoinDesk: Why Crypto's Most Altruistic Project Is Going (Kinda) CorporateBlockworks: Gitcoin is restructuring to focus on grants for the Ethereum ecosystem Allo ProtocolAnnouncement threadWeb3 Ecosystem FundingState of Web3 Grants ReportWeb3 Innovations in Public Goods FundingHow To Fund Innovation: A Guide to Web3 Grants, Meg Lister for BeIn CryptoQuadratic fundingORIGINAL WHITE PAPER, co-authored by Vitalik Buterin Retro PGFUnchained: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding?PassportIntroducing Passport - Digital Identity as a Public Good -Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC. Distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Michele Musso and Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. In this episode, Laura interviews Meg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at Gitcoin, and Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin. They discuss the evolution of Gitcoin from a centralized platform to a decentralized suite of protocols, Gitcoin 2.0, which allows any Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) based ecosystem to fund its public goods. They also talk about the various funding mechanisms available, including quadratic funding, retroactive public goods funding, and conviction voting. Learn more: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding? The team is also exploring more futuristic concepts such as private voting systems, angel investing 2.0, and impact attestations. The ultimate goal for Gitcoin is to create a capital allocation infrastructure that funds what matters to communities, whether they are towns, states, countries, or online interest groups. Show highlights: Kevin's background and how he came to found Gitcoin and why Meg joined the company The differences between Gitcoin 1.0 and 2.0 What quadratic funding is and why it is important in the blockchain ecosystem The problem of sybil attacks and how Gitcoin Passport aims to solve it Why Gitcoin has changed its approach to put more focus on scaling Ethereum rather than other types of grants How Gitcoin is trying to solve capital allocation efficiency with Allo (Capital Allocation) Protocol What streaming quadratic funding is and how it differs from traditional quadratic funding How retroactive public goods funding (RPGF) works What conviction voting is and how it addresses some of the current problems in DAOs Which projects are using Gitcoin Passport and what for Why Gitcoin is so focused on the Ethereum ecosystem and whether they will launch in other chains What the purposes of the GTC token are and how it could become a flywheel for Gitcoin How Gitcoin can become sustainable long-term, since it's free to use at the moment The features that are coming down the line for Gitcoin, including privacy and onchain "angel investing" What the future could look like if Gitcoin succeeds in its mission, according to Kevin Thank you to our sponsors! Polkadot Guests: Kevin Owocki, Co-founder of Gitcoin Meg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at Gitcoin Links Gitcoin Gitcoin 2.0 Whitepaper, co-authored by Kevin Owocki and Meg Lister Public Goods Funding: The New Meta | Kevin Owocki - Gitcoin, presentation at ETH Denver 2024 Gitcoin Entering the End Game Gitcoin's Citizen Grants program Impact report CoinDesk: Why Crypto's Most Altruistic Project Is Going (Kinda) Corporate Blockworks: Gitcoin is restructuring to focus on grants for the Ethereum ecosystem Allo Protocol Announcement thread Web3 Ecosystem Funding State of Web3 Grants Report Web3 Innovations in Public Goods Funding How To Fund Innovation: A Guide to Web3 Grants, Meg Lister for BeIn Crypto Quadratic funding ORIGINAL WHITE PAPER, co-authored by Vitalik Buterin Retro PGF Unchained: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding? Passport Introducing Passport - Digital Identity as a Public Good Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. In this episode, Laura interviews Meg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at Gitcoin, and Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin. They discuss the evolution of Gitcoin from a centralized platform to a decentralized suite of protocols, Gitcoin 2.0, which allows any Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) based ecosystem to fund its public goods. They also talk about the various funding mechanisms available, including quadratic funding, retroactive public goods funding, and conviction voting. Learn more: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding? The team is also exploring more futuristic concepts such as private voting systems, angel investing 2.0, and impact attestations. The ultimate goal for Gitcoin is to create a capital allocation infrastructure that funds what matters to communities, whether they are towns, states, countries, or online interest groups. Show highlights: Kevin's background and how he came to found Gitcoin and why Meg joined the company The differences between Gitcoin 1.0 and 2.0 What quadratic funding is and why it is important in the blockchain ecosystem The problem of sybil attacks and how Gitcoin Passport aims to solve it Why Gitcoin has changed its approach to put more focus on scaling Ethereum rather than other types of grants How Gitcoin is trying to solve capital allocation efficiency with Allo (Capital Allocation) Protocol What streaming quadratic funding is and how it differs from traditional quadratic funding How retroactive public goods funding (RPGF) works What conviction voting is and how it addresses some of the current problems in DAOs Which projects are using Gitcoin Passport and what for Why Gitcoin is so focused on the Ethereum ecosystem and whether they will launch in other chains What the purposes of the GTC token are and how it could become a flywheel for Gitcoin How Gitcoin can become sustainable long-term, since it's free to use at the moment The features that are coming down the line for Gitcoin, including privacy and onchain "angel investing" What the future could look like if Gitcoin succeeds in its mission, according to Kevin Thank you to our sponsors! Polkadot Guests: Kevin Owocki, Co-founder of Gitcoin Meg Lister, GM of Grants Labs at Gitcoin Links Gitcoin Gitcoin 2.0 Whitepaper, co-authored by Kevin Owocki and Meg Lister Public Goods Funding: The New Meta | Kevin Owocki - Gitcoin, presentation at ETH Denver 2024 Gitcoin Entering the End Game Gitcoin's Citizen Grants program Impact report CoinDesk: Why Crypto's Most Altruistic Project Is Going (Kinda) Corporate Blockworks: Gitcoin is restructuring to focus on grants for the Ethereum ecosystem Allo Protocol Announcement thread Web3 Ecosystem Funding State of Web3 Grants Report Web3 Innovations in Public Goods Funding How To Fund Innovation: A Guide to Web3 Grants, Meg Lister for BeIn Crypto Quadratic funding ORIGINAL WHITE PAPER, co-authored by Vitalik Buterin Retro PGF Unchained: What Is Retroactive Public Goods Funding? Passport Introducing Passport - Digital Identity as a Public Good Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's podcast we host two guests: Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin, and Meg Lister, GM at Gitcoin Grants Labs. Gitcoin is a platform that connects developers with open-source projects for funding, collaboration, and building digital public goods through various forms of contribution like coding, design, and more. In our conversation we learn about the origin story of Gitcoin and breakdown the main funding mechanisms, such as quadratic funding and retroactive funding, benefits of onchain capital allocation over traditional funding mechanisms, and we delve into Allo Protocol, an open-source protocol that enables groups to efficiently and transparently allocate pooled capital. 0:00 Intro 1:37 Kevin Owocki and Meg Lister 4:12 The Story of Gitcoin 12:39 Quadratic and Retroactive Funding 18:21 Main Usecases 24:35 Grants Programs in the Bull 28:44 Onchain Capital Allocation 33:53 Allo Protocol 37:33 Gitcoin Token 38:17 Revenue 41:01 Ultimate Vision 49:05 Fiat Onramps Our sponsor Synfutures: https://oyster.synfutures.com/ ✨ Check out our new website ✨ https://thedefiant.io/
If you care about this show as a public good, consider signing up on Substack or Patreon today for bonus episodes, live calls, and more — or at least mash “subscribe” on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and leave a five-star review. The unborn future archaeologists who find these episodes inscribed in DNA will thank you!Today I welcome you to join me for a long-awaited trialogue with two of the most thoughtful people I know: Gregory Landua, co-founder of Regen Network (and CEO of Regen Network Dev PBC), a project to bend finance and computing back into service of regenerative land stewardship, and Speaker John Ash, a machine learning engineer and artist/musician who walked away from his fintech job in 2017 in protest of the profit motive to build a democratic language model named Iris based on Cognicism, a new framework for collaboration rooted in shared wisdom. Gregory and John are two of the most prominent and articulate advocates in my network for a third way beyond starry-eyed technoutopianism and desperate doomer thinking. Neither of them pull any punches when it comes to their cutting critiques of extractive capitalism and its capture of both sustainability discourse and potentially emancipatory new information technologies. But both recognize, as I do, that with a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the nature of trust, money, technology, and value that humankind is fully capable of a socioeconomic transformation that could empower us to make every transaction serve our collective well-being.It took me a while to come around to believing in the notion that AI and Web3 could actually heal the damage we're doing to the biosphere, and even now I acknowledge that tools, like people, tend toward the production of harmful externalities when embedded in structurally unjust systems. But as I discussed with evolutionary biologist Manfred Laubichler and physicist Geoffrey West back in episode 212, not all innovation is created equal — and we may be on the cusp of a psychological and cultural reformation that opens up new paths to sanity and right relations. And it's well past time for us to move beyond a “nature good, tech bad” or “tech good, nature bad” duality — both sides come from the same flaw in comprehension that allows us to believe we can escape our natural limits, or that self-destruction will allow us to escape our duties as the steward-servants of our living world.Enjoy this soulful and provocative discussion!✨ Mentioned & Related Links:The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David WengrowUSGS on climate change and monsoons in the US SWEarlier recording of Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash in dialogueGregory Landua on Kevin Owocki's Green Pill PodcastMG on “value creation” as the export of externalitiesSpeaker John Ash on CognicismSpeaker John Ash on Cognition & ConflictSpeaker John Ash on SpotifyAn Oral History of The End of “Reality” by MGAccelerando by Charles StrossGlasshouse by Charles StrossRapture of the Nerds by Charles Stross & Cory Doctorow✨ Support The Show:• Subscribe on Substack or Patreon for COPIOUS extras, including private Discord server channels and MANY secret episodes• Make one-off donations at @futurefossils on Venmo, $manfredmacx on CashApp, or @michaelgarfield on PayPal• Buy the music (intro/outro: “Olympus Mons” & “Sonnet A”; episode codas “Transparent” & “Signal”) on Bandcamp• Buy the books we discuss at the Future Fossils Bookshop.org page and I get a small cut from your support of indie booksellers• Browse and buy original paintings and prints or email me to commission new work✨ Related FF Episodes:213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governance206 - Scout Rainer Wiley on AI vs. BS Jobs, The Return of Culture, and Eldritch Wonders in The Bright Apocalypse193 - Kimberly Dill on Environmental Philosophy: In Defense of Wildness & Night181 - Jim Rutt on The Pre- and Post-History of GameB178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch Institutions176 - Exploring Ecodelia with Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, and Sam Gandy at the Psilocybin Summit163 - Bitcoin & Fungal Economies with Toby Kiers & Brandon Quittem146 - Raising Earth Consciousness with Ralph Metzner, Dennis McKenna, Gay Dillingham, Valerie Plame Wilson, Allan Badiner, and Michael Garfield at Synergia Ranch, April 2016141 - Nora Bateson on Warm Data vs. The Cold Equations133 - Brian Swimme on Telling A New Story of Our Universe122 - Magenta Ceiba on Regenerative Everything94 - Mark Nelson on Ecotechnics & Biosphere 2 (Part 1)61 - Jamaica Stevens (On Crisis, Rebirth, Transformation)60 - Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Goes Meta on Everything: Integral Ecology & Impact56 - Sophia Rokhlin (Anarchy, Ecology, Economy, and Shamanism)51 - Daniel Schmachtenberger (Designing A Win-Win World for Everyone) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
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The Daily Gwei Refuel gives you a recap every week day on everything that happened in the Ethereum and crypto ecosystems over the previous 24 hours - hosted by Anthony Sassano. Timestamps and links to topics discussed: https://daily-gwei-links.vercel.app/recent 00:00 Introductory song 00:09 Anthony phishing attack victim https://optimistic.etherscan.io/tx/0xe6e8c3b904a221a0e8a44ed3b08f74fe873b4085d395792753e6c35631ad4b3d 13:15 Ethereum Futures ETF applications accelerated https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1707203091785732272 15:04 Gensler grilled in from of house committee https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1707039123134087270 15:48 Kevin Owocki at Stand With Crypto day in DC https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1707217559932543085 17:06 Gensler can't say if Pokemon Cards are securities https://twitter.com/RepRitchie/status/1707117291349885103 20:21 Holesky testnet releasing today https://twitter.com/go_ethereum/status/1707295657558454395 21:03 Dencun upgrade website https://twitter.com/ethStaker/status/1707131801011970058 23:07 Censorship resistance on the Ethereum network https://twitter.com/mikeneuder/status/1707042087416279160 26:02 Rated network raise $12.98M https://twitter.com/TheBlock__/status/1707018529755595116 27:57 Enzyme launch using vampire attack on Diva https://twitter.com/micho/status/1706723349580349657 31:00 Nintendo emulator being w/ NoirLang from Aztec https://twitter.com/aztecnetwork/status/1706654966520447474 This episode is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/j5jQtjgHTTU Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thedailygwei.substack.com/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvCp6vKY5jDr87htKH6hgDA/ Follow Anthony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sassal0x Follow The Daily Gwei on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedailygwei Join the Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4pfUJsENcg DISCLAIMER: All information presented across all of The Daily Gwei's communication channels is strictly for educational purposes and should not be taken as investment advice.
Kevin Owocki is a founder of Gitcoin and Green Pill. In conversation with Matthew Monahan. Watch this episode on video: https://youtu.be/li52pnvmohE Watch a preview: https://youtu.be/F_wfNOjtnEY Green Pill: https://greenpill.network/ Gitcoin: https://gitcoin.co/ Supermodular: https://supermodular.xyz/ Kevin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/owocki THE REGENERATION WILL BE FUNDED Ma Earth Website: https://maearth.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@maearthmedia Community Discord: https://maearth.com/community Podcast Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/theregeneration/feed.xml EPISODE RESOURCES Kevin's keynote at ReFi Summit: https://owocki.com/refi-summit-2023-keynote/ Allo Protocol: https://allo.gitcoin.co/ Quadratic Funding: https://www.wtfisqf.com/ Radical Xchange: https://www.radicalxchange.org/ Hypercerts: https://hypercerts.org/ RELATED INTERVIEWS Griff Green (Giveth): https://youtu.be/1OqwwGxDBKw Deepa Chaudhary (Impact DAO Media): https://youtu.be/t542Ypq7i_4 Holke Brammer (Hypercerts): https://youtu.be/q3osrfEW4WQ This interview took place during ReFi Summit 2023: https://refisummit.org SOCIAL Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/maearth X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/maearthmedia Lenstube: https://lenstube.xyz/channel/maearth.lens Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maearthmedia/ Mirror: https://mirror.xyz/maearth.eth LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maearth/ Lenster: https://lenster.xyz/u/maearth Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maearthcommunity TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maearthmedia
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Kevin is a co-founder of Gitcoin. We talk about his book Stuff Crypto OGs Know, how to think about values trade-offs, whether crypto will ever move beyond financial use cases, accepting the reality of credibly neutral protocols, and Kevin's take on the controversy behind Gitcoin's latest funding round. -- This episode is sponsored by Forefront. Check out forefront.market/subscribe - - Follow Kevin: https://twitter.com/owocki Follow Chase: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman Follow On the Other Side: https://twitter.com/ontheOSpod Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3pJInKm Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3M7wHbP Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3pMRbiM - - Disclaimer: Nothing said on On The Other Side is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Chase and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.
In this episode, Kevin Owocki, Founder of Web3 crowdfunding platform Gitcoin (and now supermodular) joins us to discuss regenerative finance and regenerative funding. Kevin explains what regenerative finance is, why being a degen isn't all that, and why he believes the future of crypto and Web3 lies in "regen" projects (things where resource capacity goes up over time). We also discuss quadratic funding and why it matters, the idea of retroactive public goods funding, and other potentially exciting novel funding mechanisms.
Move over, DeFi—ReFi is coming? Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki has stepped away from DeFi grant-giving machine Gitcoin as it fully decentralizes and is now focused on regenerative finance (huh?) and ReFi incubator Supermodular. He aims to "regenerate the regenerators." He explains it all to Dan Roberts and Liam Kelly, and also talks DAO structure, crypto factions, NFT use cases, his book "Greenpilled," and much more.For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @gmdecrypt on Twitter.Be sure to join the gm Telegram room for direct access to our hosts and guests.Hosts and guests:Dan RobertsTwitter: @readDanwriteLiam KellyTwitter: @liam_gallasKevin OwockiTwitter: @owockiPodcast thumbnail art by Grant Kempster Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this podcast episode, the hosts discussed the recent crisis involving Silicon Valley Bank (SBV), which is responsible for funding over 40% of tech startups and invested in mortgage-backed securities. As a result, the macro economy is in shambles, and crypto has been crushed, with BTC and ETH down 10% and alts down around 20%. The hosts discussed the crisis and the potential implications for the banking sector and crypto.The hosts also discussed recent data points and predictions of volatility and shifts in the market, as well as the strength of crypto in this situation. They highlighted the appeal of crypto as an option for investors who are considering pulling their money out of SBV and other banks.Kevin Owocki discussed his work as founder of Gitcoin, which aims to fund public goods and support developers in creating software. He highlighted the importance of credible neutrality in fair funding and described the mechanisms for democratically funding public goods, including quadratic funding. He also discussed his new project, Supermodular xyz, which aims to cultivate a more regenerative digital frontier and make positive contributions to the world.We ended on a positive note despite the grim climate, with a call to action to work together to create long-term positive outcomes and build a better world.Kevin Owocki on @ 38:30GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin. Earlier this year, Gitcoin transitioned from the original company structure to a DAO, and Kevin exited from his leadership role to cede full governance over to the token holders. In this episode, Kevin and Jess talk through the road that led him there and the many challenges and opportunities of decentralization that he — and Gitcoin — learned along the way, and how blockchain uniquely enables the transition from centralized company to fully decentralized organization.
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In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with a familiar name to all of us in the industry. Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin a community of builders, creators, and protocols at the center of open web ecosystems. Gitcoin has facilitated $72.3 Million of funding to open source projects, has 312 thousand monthly active developers, and 3 & half thousand projects that have been created. Kevin is working on his new project called Supermodular, which we will cover.We briefly review the recent collapse of FTX and the effect on our industry. Then we dive into a discussion around EVM compatibility, L2s and their alt chain counterparts.We discuss the prospects for a brighter future, leveraging Web3, DAOs and focusing on regenerative projects.Testing testing Web2..3.Contact Info:Host: Igor YuzoSpeaker(s): Kevin Owocki
Even before the pandemic, social scientists knew that the infinite social-media scroll and offline social isolation left humans more depressed. At the same time, faith in traditional party politics continues to wane.Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin; Nathan Schneider, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, Ellie Rennie, a professor, and researcher at RMIT University in Australia; and Tanisi Pooran, a partner at The Ready join David Morris, CoinDesk's chief insights columnist, to discuss how DAOs can help address both challenges by offering a new model for tighter-knit digital communities and better incentive models for public goods.-The panel discussion took place on June 10, the second day of CoinDesk's Consensus 2022 festival in Austin, Texas. The executive producer for CoinDesk Reports is Jared Schwartz. Nia Freeman edited this episode.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Kevin Owocki has moved on from Gitcoin and recently founded Supermodular, the venture studio built on top of Gitcoin to help promote digital public goods in the crypto ecosystem. ------
Kevin Owocki describes himself as an internet citizen, DAO cartographer, EVM whisperer & chaos magician. But what is truly behind these identities? We met at Mainnet in New York and talked about the future of AI, security issues of proof of stake, Kevin's background, why and how he built Gitcoin, and why he decided to turn the project into a DAO. https://twitter.com/owocki https://gitcoin.co/ Gitcoin is a platform where you get paid to work on open-source software in Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, Solidity, HTML, CSS, Design, and more. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:40 Who is Kevin Owocki 2:08 Gitcoin DAO 3:14 How to organize the chaos 5:55 How Kevin started Gitcoin 7:45 Why Kevin chooses Ethereum 8:52 Ethereum Merge 10:30 The future of Ethereum 12:53 Bridges 14:06 Kevin's background 14:36 The future of AI 17:10 Interoperability & decentralized social media 19:20 Innovation in Colorado 21:08 Is Proof-Of-Stake secure? 23:10 Environment & crypto 26:14 The game of coins 27:15 Future of Gitcoin DAO ►► Get 20% off on your ticket to W3BX. Use my code: WOLF20. Register here: http://web3expo.live/ ►► JOIN THE FREE WOLF DEN NEWSLETTER https://www.getrevue.co/profile/TheWolfDen GET UP TO A $8,000 BONUS IN USDT AND TRADE ALL SPOT PAIRS ON BITGET FOR ZERO FEES! ►► https://thewolfofallstreets.info/bitget TRADE ON THE WORLD'S BEST DEX, BULLISH: ►► https://thewolfofallstreets.info/bullish/youtube Follow Scott Melker: Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottmelker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wolfofallstreets Web: https://www.thewolfofallstreets.io Spotify: https://spoti.fi/30N5FDe Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3FASB2c #Bitcoin #Crypto #Trading The views and opinions expressed here are solely my own and should in no way be interpreted as financial advice. This video was created for entertainment. Every investment and trading move involves risk. You should conduct your own research when making a decision. I am not a financial advisor. Nothing contained in this video constitutes or shall be construed as an offering of financial instruments or as investment advice or recommendations of an investment strategy or whether or not to "Buy," "Sell," or "Hold" an investment.
Welcome to Chain Reaction, where we unpack and explain the latest in crypto news, drama and trends, breaking things down block by block for the crypto curious.For our Tuesday episode this week, where we interview an expert in the crypto space, we chatted with Kevin Owocki. He is the founder of Gitcoin and an outspoken proponent of both open source software and decentralized governance. We spoke with Owocki about whether the crypto community is living up to its lofty ideals and what comes next for Ethereum after The Merge. We also discussed:How venture capitalists should be incentivizing the creation of more publicly beneficial blockchain infrastructure, and what still needs to be built.Whether technology is enough to solve some of the societal problems blockchain developers and advocates are frequently passionate about.ICYMI, you can use the promo code REACT for 15% off tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt this October (excluding online and expo) where we'll be chatting with industry experts such as a16z's Chris Dixon and Solana Labs' Anatoly Yakovenko.We'll also be hosting our first dedicated crypto event in Miami for just one day on November 17th — you can use the same promo code, REACT, for 15% off a General Admission ticket.And even if you can't join us in person, you can use the promo code REACT to get 25% off an annual subscription to TechCrunch+.Chain Reaction comes out every Tuesday and Thursday at 12:00 p.m. PT, so be sure to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite pod platform to keep up with the action.
In this episode of the Ownership Economy, Jahed and Martin connect with Golda Velez, the Co-founder of WhatsCookin, an activity planning startup working to strengthen communities, create opportunities and democratize corporations. Golda comes from a background working as a senior software engineer in some of the largest web2 digital platforms. She worked on data at Uber, risk at Postmates, and held a variety of other roles leading teams in building complex, scalable platforms. She is now taking that experience and applying it to building a stakeholder owned and governed platform for community engagement. We dig into the business model, how she started, tools she's using for ownership and governance, and other aspects of team building in this early stage venture. For engineers interested in transitioning from web2 to web3, we also recommend episode 5 with Kevin Owocki from Gitcoin and Episode 8 with James Young from Abridged. We hope you enjoy the episode. Show Notes: Mike Moyer – Slicing Pie – Equity Splits for Startups What's Cookin' does equity their way | by Fairmint A Minimal Approach to Linked Trust With Uncertainty Cooperation Episode 027 - Empowering Local Providers with Efficient Development Finance Facilitated through Web3 with Dr. Melyn McKay by The Ownership Economy Bloomberg Beta Episode 005 - Building and Funding the Digital Commons Together with Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin by The Ownership Economy Episode 008 - The Future of Work, DAOs, and Verifiable Credentials with James Young of Abridged by The Ownership Economy
In this week's episode of DAO or Never, we interview Kevin Owocki, founder of web3events.co and Gitcoin.Kevin has a BS in Computer Science, 15 years of engineering leadership experience in open source software and web startups, and is a community organizer in the Boulder, Colorado tech scene. We discuss regenerative society, the Green Pill, Gitcoin and more.Ready? Let's dive in!Key Takeaways:The origins of the green pill (00:57)Positive sum games (04:13)Owocki at work (06:03)Quadratic funding explained (08:14)The Merge and proof of stake (12:27)Gitcoin rounds and project categories (13:33)Gitcoin passport and digital identity (19:09)Solar Punk vs Lunarpunk philosophy (30:49)The Green Pill Book (35:38)Additional Resources:Follow GitcoinExplore Gitcoin GrantsConnect with OwockiTake the Green PillListen to the Greenpill.party PodcastQuadratic Payments: A Primer by Vitalik ButerinLearn more about Logos DAOConnect with Logos DAO on LinkedIn and TwitterGet all the news from DAO or NeverIf you enjoyed this episode, please follow, rate, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform!
On episode 4 of ReFi Podcast Season Two, John chats with Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin and thought leader working to incentivize public goods. We explore Kevin's story, dive into what it means to take the “Green Pill”, and learn all about Kevin's vision for how web3 can solve some of the most pressing challenges of our time. Recorded live at SBS in Paris.. 00:00 Intro 01:56 Quadratic Funding History 04:30 Why we launched GTC 08:10 Gitcoin Passports 10:47 The idea of ‘Lunar Punk' 13:28 Green Pill 16:33 What kind of world are our kids going to grow up in? 18:22 Galaxy brain ideas into memes. 22:00 Local people are best to solve problems 23:55 Quadratic funding in Colorado during pandemic 25:28 Why blockchain is well positioned to solve global communication failure 29:00 Spinning the flywheel of sybil resistance 30:00 Web3 has to provide mainstream utility 34:04 ‘Carbon credits' for poverty reduction, biodiversity restoration 36:44 Solar punk & web3 ready to bear fruit 39:20 Why Kevin stood down from leadership at Gitcoin 44:00 What can we do to help? 47:14 Advice for a young entrepreneur? 50:38 Ideas are fun but stressful 52:38 How do you manage a business of this size? 54:30 Hyperstructures Follow Kevin and check out Gitcoin: Website: https://gitcoin.co/ Gitcoin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gitcoin Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/owocki -------------------------------------------- Join the conversation on Twitter, follow: https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat Thanks to our friends at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com
Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki joins Natasha and Deana to talk about what public goods are, and why they matter. They talked about how Boys Club is creating anti-fragility in crypto, and took a hit from Kevin's web3 optimism pipe. Next, Deana and Natasha talked about web3 media models, and closed out the episode discussing Natasha's gambling strategy.
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Celebrating the release of his first book "Greenpilled: How Crypto Can Regenerate The World" we welcome Kevin Owocki to discuss regenerative crypto-economics, doomer optimism, impact DAO's, public goods and crypto's relationship to the state . Buy Greenpilled and take the pledge: https://greenpill.party/#bookSub to The Green Pill Podcast: https://availableon.com/greenpillFollow Kevin: https://twitter.com/owockiGitcoin: https://gitcoin.co/
Phoebe Tickell is a biologist and systems thinker developing methodologies and approaches suited for a better world. She is an innovator with a background in the biological sciences, technology, social entrepreneurship and systems design. She left the scientific academy with the knowledge that an understanding of complex systems could be applied to real world pressing issues and that bridges were needed to stretch from theory to practice. She works across multiple societal contexts applying a complexity and systems thinking lens and has worked in organisational design, advised government, the education sector and the food and farming sector. She is a co-founder of the DGov Foundation – a community of distributed governance practitioners – and Member of Enspiral, a community that innovates in decentralising power and developing decentralised tools and technologies to do so. She also created Moral Imaginations in 2020 to push the frontier of research and implementation of research-backed collective imagination exercises and training to inspire change and find new solutions in an era of unprecedented disruption and potential for transformation. It's clear that society needs direction when it comes to change, and in today's episode we explore how imagination gives us the ability to think beyond traditional frames. Join us as we delve into training a new breed of activists, mapping unintended consequences, how to coordinate at a massive scale – and accounting for future generations with the choices that we make. A full transcript of the episode can be found on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/phoebe-tickell/ Key highlights we discussed: > Why imagination has become central to building the future > The moral elements of new ways of organising > How diverse teams or communities can work from shared principles > Why we need to stay connected to our local communities > Why coordination is not ‘everything' for DAOs To find out more about Phoebe's work: > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phoebetickell/ > Twitter: https://twitter.com/solarpunk_girl > Website: http://www.phoebetickell.com/ > Moral Imaginations: https://www.moralimaginations.com/ > Moral Imaginations Twitter: https://twitter.com/moral_imagining > Moral Imaginations Substack: https://moralimaginations.substack.com/ Other references and mentions: > Indy Johar, A Development Future: https://medium.com/hub-engine/a-developmental-future-21bf6412625e > The Manifesto for Moral Imagination: https://medium.com/moral-imaginations/a-manifesto-for-moral-imagination-dbf62f0cb7aa > Trans-contextual Organizing: Shifting Perceptions — with Nora Bateson: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/nora-bateson/ > Daniel Schmachtenberger: https://civilizationemerging.com/about/ > Kevin Owocki, The Green Pill, with Phoebe Tickell: https://greenpill.substack.com/p/12-solarpunk-girl-phoebe-tickell?s=r > L. M. Sacasas – Building a convivial society: autonomy, tools, scale and capabilities: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/l-m-sacasas/ > MetaGov: https://metagov.org/ > Colony: distributed organizations that actually work – with Aron Fischer and Jack du Rose: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/colony/ > Samantha Slay, Going Horizontal: https://goinghorizontal.co/ > New Citizenship Project: https://www.newcitizenship.org.uk/ Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/ Thanks for the ad-hoc music to Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://boundaryless.io/podcast-music Recorded on 19 April 2022.
Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin, which helps coordinate crowdfunding for projects and software developments on the Ethereum blockchain. With 300,000 builders and over 25,000 funders, Gitcoin has become a key pillar of the Ethereum nation, making sure public goods can thrive. We talk about how Gitcoin was born as a reaction to the ICO era, after Kevin realized many of the business models and funding mechanisms on Ethereum were broken. Open-source software is carrying a huge weight, while its builders are not being properly compensated or incentivized, and Gitcoin wants to change that. Thanking our podcast sponsors: Zerion is Mission Control for Web3: an intuitive DeFi portfolio manager, multichain tracking & trading and the best place to show off your NFT collection Unstoppable Domains is The #1 provider of NFT domains. Get YourName dot crypto, dot x, dot nft or a range of other endings for as low as $5 Nexo: Invest in crypto, earn interest of up to 20%, paid out daily, and use crypto as collateral to receive a credit line at premium rates. Step Finance's portfolio management dashboard enables Solana users to visualize, analyze, execute and aggregate transactions across all Solana contracts at the click of a button.
What is most important in crypto? What wins out in the end? Today, we find out if user experience is more important than decentralization. As we progress through crypto's cambrian explosion, we often observe the tradeoff between immediate product viability and a 'no cutting corners' approach. Taking the side of UX & a product-first mentality is Cooper Turley, a champion of the creator economy. Kevin Owocki—himself a schelling point for public goods—is defending decentralization and the merits of a values-first approach. While exploring the roots of this tradeoff, we'll learn more about where we are as an ecosystem and where we are inevitably heading. ------
What is Gitcoin? Gitcoin is a company that builds the Web3 space. Vitalik Buterin called Gitcoin a key pillar of Ethereum. But what will the future look like? And how will Gitcoin interact with Cosmos in the future? This is what Juri Maibaum discusses with Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki in today's episode! CHECK OUT GITCOIN
In this episode, Martin & Jahed sit down with Kevin Owocki, co-founder and CEO of Gitcoin, a community developing digital public goods that has put $52 million in the open source ecosystem's hands since its founding. In the conversation, Kevin covers how Gitcoin's mission came to be, why its important to fund public goods, and the bleeding edge of democratic governance innovations Gitcoin is spurring on with quadratic funding and quadratic voting with Gitcoin Grants. This episode provides a unique view behind the scenes of a thriving, well-funded community experimenting with new democratic methods that politicians, technologists, and founders seeking to expand the agency of their community can borrow from. Here are the show notes: Elastic and AWS open source battle The crusade against Open Source abuse Grounding decentralised technologies in cooperative principles: What can “Decentralised Autonomous Organisations” (DAOs) and platform cooperatives learn from each other? A comparative analysis of the platforms for decentralized autonomous organizations in the Ethereum blockchain Gitcoin Grants Case Study
Few things compare to ETH Denver. It is impossible to fully capture the experience of the crypto community at a massive gathering like this, but these two choice talks provide a snapshot of the vibes and ethos of the 2022 conference. Kevin Owocki and Erik Voorhees join to synthesize the respective merits of individualism and collectivism, and Andrew Yang stepped up to give an impromptu call to action for the community to rally around productive goals. We are scaling out the crypto vibes, and that was abundantly clear this week. Far larger than any previous ETH Denver, this conference truly felt like a Schelling point for folks changing the world via novel, elegant mechanisms. We just can't wait for ETH Denver 2023. ------
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Kevin Owocki returns to Bankless with a very special announcement—the GreenPill Podcast! The Gitcoin OG is the embodiment of the best parts of the crypto ethos, and his commitment to public goods is making the world a better place. GreenPill is launching through the Bankless network, and we're extremely excited to meme ‘public goods' and ‘regenerative cryptoeconomics' into existence. Take the Green Pill, anon. ✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill
Mint Season 4 episode 17 welcomes Kevin Owocki, a technology entrepreneur based in Boulder, Colorado, and the Founder of Gitcoin.In this episode, we discuss: 00:31 - intro05:19 - Gitcoin14:00 - What's the Incentive to Build for Open Source?17:09 - What's Your Plan to Capture More Market Value?21:24 - Intersection Between Creators and Gitcoin24:45 - Synergies Between Journalists and Software Developers32:20 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Kevin Owocki - https://twitter.com/owockiLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io
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Gitcoin is a platform which funds software developers for work in open source ecosystems. Open source creates value without capturing it: Gitcoin creates funding mechanism to correct the asymmetry between value created and value captured. So far they have raised $51million, which were then distributed to public goods projects.We were joined, for the second time, by Gitcoin's founder Kevin Owocki. Hear as we chat about quadratic and public good funding, the Internet of Jobs, and Kevin's book, Greenpilled - Regenerative CryptoEcononmics, which is out soon!Topics covered in this episode:An update on what's happened since Kevin was last on the showHigh level funding stats and measuring the success of GitcoinQuadratic funding - why and how?Public good fundingImpact DAOs and Regenerative CryptoEconomicsGitcoin's transformation to a DAOThe Internet of Jobs (IoJ) - advantages and disadvantagesGreenpilled - Kevin's bookEpisode links:Episode 257 - Gitcoin – Aligning Incentives in Open-Source DevelopmentGitcoin resultsGreenpilled - Regenerative CryptoEconomics - book coming soonTake the Green PillGitcoin on TwitterKevin on TwitterSponsors:Gnosis Safe: Gnosis Safe is a smart wallet for securely managing digital assets and allows you to define customized access permissions. - https://epicenter.rocks/gnosissafeTally: Tally is a new wallet for Web3 and DeFi that sees the wallet as a public good. Think of it like a community-owned alternative to MetaMask. - https://epicenter.rocks/tallycashThis episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/430
Guest Conor Okus | Christoph Ono Panelists Richard Littauer | Georgia Bullen | Memo Esparza Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain Open Source Design! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source with design. Learn how we, as designers, interface with open source in a sustainable way, how we integrate into different communities, and how we as coders, work with other designers. Today, we are joined by two guests, Christoph Ono, who is a UX and digital product designer from the Bitcoin Design Community, and Conor Okus, who works for Block, and is part of an initiative called Spiral, previously Square Crypto. On this episode, we are going all out looking at design for Bitcoin. Christoph and Conor fill us in about the Bitcoin Design Community, Bitcoin Design grants, and some challenges they had to face in the process of setting this community up. They go in depth about the designer's principles, the life cycle of a project, how they decided to focus on the onboarding side. Also, Conor tells us more about a video series he helped design to learn the basics of how Bitcoin works called, Hello Bitcoin. There is so much more to hear, so go ahead and download this episode now to find out! [00:01:27] Memo, Richard, Georgia, Conor, and Christoph give us a brief introduction of what they do, and we find out how Conor and Christoph know each other. [00:10:02] Conor and Christoph fill us in on what's so special about the Bitcoin Design grants and if they have seen a lot of design grants in the crypto space. Christoph tells us his plan on how he wants to pay it forward to make the grant possible for others. [00:14:25] Find out more about the Bitcoin Design Community, how many contributors there are, how many designers have been funded, and the projects. [00:17:48] Christoph shares some of the challenges he's run in to and how they scope a problem for contributors to work on. [00:21:34] Christoph and Conor explain how they ended up focusing on the onboarding side. [00:25:03] Georgia wonders if they have a sense of where people are coming from, and if they're coming with a design background, or a Bitcoin background, and if that has an effect on what they're able to do. [00:30:12] Christoph and Conor tell us more about the designer's principles and what they're doing to ensure they are praised for their work. [00:33:58] Find out more about the life cycle of a project and the design review process. Conor tells us about a video series he does to help people understand how Bitcoin works called, Hello Bitcoin. [00:36:40] We end with Conor telling us a little bit about Lightening Network, and Christoph shares what he would love to see next year for all creatives and designers. [00:38:53] Find out where you can follow Conor and Christoph on the internet. Quotes [00:18:40] “I always try to encourage, share early, even if it's rough, because someone else may help push you in the right direction.” [00:27:25] “I would consider it an environment where designers have to work more closely to a protocol than another environment. You may have to move slower at times, and you may have to think through with more rigidity. Setting that as an expectation is quite important.” [00:29:10] “I have never worked with such principled designers and developers.” [00:31:42] "Bitcoin is a lot more long-termed focused.” [00:32:50] “One of the ideas is that any self-motivated designer can come in and say I have an idea, and then they do it because they're excited about it. And then there's support.” Spotlight [00:39:43] Memo's spotlight is a crypto tool called The Giving Block. [00:40:39] Georgia's spotlights are a pattern library called, Decent Patterns, or Decentralization, off the shelf. Also, a workshop she hosted at Mozilla Festival called, “Explain Decentralization To Me.” [00:41:41] Richard's spotlight is Karri Saarinen. [00:42:22] Christoph's spotlight is Penpot. [00:42:45] Conor's spotlight is a project called, Bitcoin Smiles. Links Open Source Design Twitter (https://twitter.com/opensrcdesign) Open Source Design (https://opensourcedesign.net/) Sustain Design & UX working group (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/design-ux-working-group/348) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) Sustain Open Source Twitter (https://twitter.com/sustainoss?lang=en) Richard Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Georgia Bullen Twitter (https://twitter.com/georgiamoon?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Memo Esparza Twitter (https://twitter.com/memo_es_) Conor Okus Twitter (https://twitter.com/ConorOkus?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Conor Okus LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/conorokus/) Christoph Ono Twitter (https://twitter.com/gbks) Christoph Ono LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/germanysbestkeptsecret/) Christoph Ono Website (https://www.germanysbestkeptsecret.com/) Sustain Podcast- 3 episodes with guest Kevin Owocki (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/kevin-owocki) Spiral (https://spiral.xyz/) Spiral Grants (https://spiral.xyz/#grants) Bitcoin Design (https://bitcoin.design/) Bitcoin Design Guide (https://bitcoin.design/guide/) Bitcoin Projects (https://bitcoin.design/projects/) Hello Bitcoin (https://hellobitco.in/) The Giving Block (https://thegivingblock.com/) Decent Patterns (https://decentpatterns.xyz/) “Explain Decentralization To Me” workshop-Simply Secure (https://simplysecure.org/blog/from-paper-to-infinity-whiteboard-inspiring-creativity-and-digital-collaboration-in-online-design-workshops/) Karri Saarinen (https://karrisaarinen.com/) Penpot (https://penpot.app/) Bitcoin Smiles (https://bitcoinsmiles.org/) Sustain Open Source Design Podcast-Episode 9: Andy Gonzalez and Contributing and Collaborating as a Designer (https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/9) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guests: Christoph Ono and Conor Okus.
Guest Ele Diakomichalis Panelists Richard Littauer | Eric Berry | Pia Mancini Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are very excited to have as our guest today, Ele Diakomichalis, who is one of the Co-Founders and one of the core contributors to Radicle. What is Radicle? It's a decentralized stack for code collaboration that enables developers to collaborate on code, govern code, and fund code in a decentralized way. Ele fills us in more about Radicle, how many people are on the team, how many people use it, the financial commitment to using Radicle, and he explains the three layers to the Radicle stack. Also, we find out Ele's pipe dream for long-term usage of Radicle and his thoughts on how he thinks he can change the coding space for JavaScript and Ruby coders, and people who want to make open source better. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out more about how to get involved in Radicle! [00:01:28] Ele fills us in on what Radicle is and why it's so awesome. Also, we learn how Radicle is different than using GitHub and then paying people through Open Collective using Ethereum. [00:08:39] We learn more about the financial commitment that somebody using Radicle might be obligated to or not obligated to. [00:15:29] Richard wonders what the current scope of Radicle is, how many people use it, and how big the team is. [00:18:09] What is Ele's pipe dream for long-term usage of Radicle for the average contributor who doesn't want anything to do with P2P or Crypto, and how does he think he can change the coding space for JavaScript coders, Ruby coders, or people who are interested in just making open source better and working on stuff? [00:22:42] The topic of finding a path for open source creators to capture more value out of their creations through a coin or token is brought up by Pia and she wonders how that's looking now for Ele with Radicle, as well as challenges of paying or getting paid for value creation in open source. [00:32:12] If you want to get involved in Radicle find out where you can go. [00:33:25] Find out where you can follow Ele online. Quotes [00:06:25] “One of the things that we actually do with Radicle is actually leveraging Ethereum for code governance.” [00:13:28] “The last thing is basically what we call Radicle Funding, and this is basically our contribution to the open sustainability problem where you, as a maintainer, you can actually raise funds from your supporters, either as donations or in exchange for something within your community.” [00:19:17] “The second thing that it's more of a dream or a hope, but I really feel that what we're doing with Radicle works is introducing a non-hierarchical model for collaboration.” [00:19:57] “We really hope that we're going to see a lot of these developers actually realizing that if we can also coordinate in a non-hierarchical way and sometimes this actually looks more beautiful.” [00:30:56] “Because we think that we need to create new cultural norms. We want to make this a norm that every time that you get paid, more developers get paid and try to create this more cyclical, regenerative, someone would say, open source economy.” Spotlight [00:34:31] Eric's spotlights are iPad mini 6, Gitcoin and Kevin Owocki, and the immense value that Richard Littauer provides to the community, as well as his videos to check out on YouTube called, “Francis Bacon and Eggs.” [00:36:09] Pia's spotlight is the Lex Fridman Podcast. [00:36:50] Richard's spotlight is Nassar Hayat. [00:37:29] Ele's spotlights are Abbey Titcomb, Nassar Hayat, IPFS, SSB, and other decentralized workers. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) Eleftherios Diakomichalis Twitter (https://twitter.com/lftherios?lang=en) Eleftherios Diakomichalis Linkedin (https://de.linkedin.com/in/eleftheriosd) Elefttherios Diakomichalis Website (http://eleftherios.io/) Radicle (https://radicle.xyz/) Radicle Community (https://radicle.xyz/community.html) iPad mini (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-mini) Kevin Owocki Twitter (https://twitter.com/owocki?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Francis Bacon and Eggs-Richard Littauer (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYqf3zgG7JNPtk2z5Hnyh4-xEhLBkRfIG) Lex Fridman Podcast (https://lexfridman.com/podcast/) Nassar Hayat Twitter (https://twitter.com/nassarhayat/) Abbey Titcomb Twitter (https://twitter.com/abbey_titcomb) IPFS (https://ipfs.io/) Sustain Podcast- Episode 57-Mikeal Rogers on Building Communities, the Early Days of Node.js, and How to Stay a Coder for Life (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/mikeal) Sustain Podcast- Episode 56-Dominic Tarr on Coding What You Want, Living On A Boat, and the Early Days of Node.js (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/dominic) Sustain Podcast- Episode 68- Kevin Owocki-Introducing FundOSS.org: A new way of funding open source, by Gitcoin x Sustain (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/kevin-owocki) Sustain Podcast- Episode 50- Kevin Owocki- Gitcoin, Quadratic Funding, and how Crypto can sustain Open Source (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/kevin-owocki) Sustain Podcast- Episode 14-Kevin Owocki- Funding Open Source With Gitcoin (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/kevin-owocki) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Ele Diakomichalis.
In this interchain special episode of Citizen Cosmos we talk with 4 projects: Trading Strategy, Gnosis, Radicle & Gitcoin, in 4 short interviews during Liscon 2021. Trading Atrategy is an algorithmic trading protocol for decentralized markets. It is a decentralized protocol for the next generation quantitative finance. Decentralized automated trading strategies allow investing with more profit and lower risk, as investors get direct access to high quality investing strategies and real-time control over their assets. Gnosis builds new market mechanisms for decentralized finance. Our three interoperable product lines allow you to securely create, trade, and hold digital assets on Ethereum. Radicle adopts the Scuttlebutt social overlay paradigm by establishing a peer-to-peer replication layer on top of distributed version control systems, starting with git. User accounts and login is replaced by public key cryptography, hosted issue trackers are replaced by local peer replication, and the idea of a single canonical upstream is replaced by a patch-based peer-to-peer or "bazaar" model. Gitocin is a platform where you get paid to work on open source software in Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, Solidity, HTML, CSS, Design, and more. Gitcoin is the community of builders, creators, and protocols at the center of open web ecosystems. Mikko's Twitter (https://twitter.com/moo9000) Richard's Twitter (https://twitter.com/rimeissner) Lukas's Twitter (https://twitter.com/SchorLukas) Abbey's Twitter (https://twitter.com/abbey_titcomb) Kevin's Twitter (https://twitter.com/owocki) We spoke to our guests about web3, and: Crypto Twitter Communication Open source tech Centralization and decentralization Hedge funds and greed Efficiency and mass adoption Product market fit DAO's and tools for the people Software and control Ordinary citizens and the blockchain The projects and people that have been mentioned in this episode: | Ethereum (https://www.ethereum.org/) | Trading Strategy (https://tradingstrategy.ai/) | Gnosis (https://gnosis.io/) | Radicle (https://radicle.xyz/) | GitHub (https://github.com/) | Gitcoin (https://gitcoin.co/) | Gnosis safe (https://gnosis.io/safe/) | If you like what we do at Citizen Cosmos: Stake with Citizen Cosmos validator (https://www.citizencosmos.space/staking) Help support the project via Gitcoin Grants (https://gitcoin.co/grants/1113/citizen-cosmos-podcast) Listen to the YouTube version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ZSB8-5y_8) Read our blog (https://citizen-cosmos.github.io/blog/) Check out our GitHub (https://github.com/citizen-cosmos/Citizen-Cosmos) Join our Telegram (https://t.me/citizen_cosmos) Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/cosmos_voice) Sign up to the RSS feed (https://www.citizencosmos.space/rss) Special Guests: Abbey Titcomb, Kevin Owocki, Lukas Schor, Mikko Ohtamaa, and Richard Meissner.
What is Gitcoin? Gitcoin is a place that you can get coins, if you are a software developer working on open source software, we are focused on providing funding for open source software. And hopefully, when there's funding for open source software, software developers can stop working their their day jobs in corporate America, or, or, or just generally, and move on to working on open source and pay their mortgage with working on open source software. And so we just want to build rails from people who want to fund open source and are looking for developers to open source software developers.
Gitcoin is a crowdfunding platform for open-source public goods governed by the people who use it. Hear Kevin Owocki describe how they combined the innovative methods of quadratic funding and strong sybil resistance to create a new system for rewarding the best projects. --- Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO. https://bankless.community --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi. https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens_ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018 https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ --- Resource links: Gitcoin is a platform where you can build and fund the open web together. https://gitcoin.co/ https://twitter.com/gitcoin Connect with Kevin Owocki https://twitter.com/owocki --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.
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Kevin Owocki, founder of GitCoin–a decentralized platform & organization focused on building and funding the open web–joins Vince Horn co-founder of Buddhist Geeks, to explore the potential of bringing together the world of Dharma and the world of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations).Episode Links:
Kevin Owocki is the leader behind the Gitcoin project, but he is also a husband, a father, an ultimate frisbee player, and a self-described hippie. As one of the most compelling individuals in the space, for Kevin it all boils down to coordination. In this episode of Layer Zero, we focus on Slaying Moloch, Incentivizing Public Goods, the Solarpunk aesthetic, and much more. Dive in and find out why we're optimistic about the future of society. ------
Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin, a marketplace for freelance crypto dev talent and experiment grounds for liberating public goods funding from nation-states. If it weren't for Gitcoin, Ideamarket wouldn't be here. In this episode: 00:00 — Episode starts 00:25 — Kevin Owocki bootcamp 06:20 — How Kevin got into programming 10:21 — Philosopher kings and crypto 14:27 — "Nature is the OG Inventor" 16:10 — Gitcoin and public goods 22:33 — Empowering open-source 35:09 — Building Gitcoin 43:10 — Lucid dreaming 50:14 — The need for more imagination in crypto 56:54 —What's something in crypto that will only be obvious in retrospect?EPISODE LINKS:Kevin on TwitterGitcoin websiteGitcoin on TwitterKernel.communityIDEAMARKET LINKS:IdeamarketTwitterApple PodcastsSpotifyDiscord—The Ideamarket Podcast is where venture philosophers share the ideas, trends, and concepts they're most bullish on.—About Ideamarket:Ideamarket is the credibility layer of the internet. Ideamarket allows the public to mainstream the world's best information using market signals, replacing media corporations as arbiter of credibility.Get started now.
Guest Kavita Kapoor Panelists Eric Berry | Eriol Fox | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Our special guest today is Kavita Kapoor, Founding Member and Strategy Director of the Federation of Humanitarian Technologists. Kavita tells us all about the Federation of Humanitarian Technologists, how things are going there since they started, and a project they started. We learn from Kavita why she thinks it's important that children learn about technology, she gives incredible advice on how a tech person can get involved with the humanitarian efforts, and why it's important to live your mission and visions. She also tells us her perspective and shares a personal story on the lack of gender diversity in tech jobs, as well as not enough LGBTQ plus spaces for the tech community especially in the UK. Kavita is amazing, so go ahead and download this episode to hear more! [00:03:11] Kavita tells us all about her herself, her involvement in the Shorinji Kempo martial art, and how she met Mike Nolan, who is the other Founding Member of the Federations of Humanitarian Technologists. [00:05:45] We learn all about the Federation of Humanitarian Technologists. [00:07:45] Kavita talks about how they hired their first Humanitarian Aid Director and how everything is going there. [00:09:55] Eric wonders where those lines cross in open source versus what Kavita is working with humanitarian efforts. [00:13:00] Eriol asks Kavita if open source software and the open source community offer more opportunities for these Non-governmental organizations and charities to build capacity around their technology. [00:15:24] Find out why Kavita thinks it's important that children learn about technology, and whether open source can be part of that education and how early should it be. [00:19:13] Richard wonders why Kavita is so interested in the membership organizations such as OpenUK and the Federation of Humanitarian Technologists. [00:21:33] Eric tells Kavita she is a powerhouse and wonders how she has time to do the things that she's doing and also wonders if she has any other passions. [00:22:30] From the technologist side, Kavita tells us how a tech person can get involved with the humanitarian efforts such as hers and do that in a sustainable way for them, emotionally as well as financially. [00:26:43] Eriol asks to hear Kavita's perspective on things that she's witnessed when people with tech skills do get engaged with these kinds of projects, but the barriers that she's perceived and the ones that she's tried to knock down so they can participate. She talks about gender diversity and not enough LQBTQ plus spaces for the technology community, especially in the UK. [00:31:54] Find out where you can follow Kavita online. Quotes [00:06:40] “And I think it's what we all realized when we work for organizations of different scales is that it's really difficult sometimes to scale up and have the infrastructure, especially when you're working on projects that are all funded for the end goal, for the end impact.” [00:17:31] “So I went off and became COO of the Micro:bit Educational Foundation and we went around the world. We went to into sixty countries during my tenure. We went from a million devices in the UK that was given away free, four million devices around the world, and some of the kids that we worked with were incredible.” [00:19:59] “But actually, when I've been working for profit organizations, I've never felt that I could have the impact that I wanted to have or have the access to the power structures that I wanted to have so that we could actually do more good.” [00:20:25] “But the bottom line is always about where the money is.” [00:20:43] “You have to live your mission and visions.” [00:23:41] “I find it crazy at the moment that we've got so many people out of work who have tech skills and so many open tech positions and I'm trying to figure out what that gap is.” [00:24:44] “It is really where your starting point is, but you can always do something, and you can always negotiate with your teams at work to get some bandwidth.” Spotlight [00:32:24] Eric's spotlight is a new program that just launched called FundOSS. [00:33:53] Eriol's spotlight is a project called Chayn. [00:34:42] Alyssa's spotlight is being thankful that her computer is working. [00:35:02] Richard's** **spotlight is the National LGTB Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). [00:35:58] Kavita's spotlight is Software Conservancy. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) Kavita Kapoor Website (https://kavitakapoor.org/) Kavita Kapoor Twitter (https://twitter.com/kavitakapoor) Kavita Kapoor Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kavitakapoor/) OpenUK (https://openuk.uk/) International Rescue Committee (https://www.rescue.org/) Shorinji Kempo (https://www.shorinjikempo.net/en/about-shorinji-kempo/what-is-shorinji-kempo/) Federation of Humanitarian Technologists (https://www.federationof.tech/) The Federation of Humanitarian Technologists-GitHub (https://github.com/FederationOfTech/) BBC Micro Games Archive (http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/) Micro:bit (https://microbit.org/) Project Implicit Harvard (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/) Project Implicit Test (https://www.projectimplicit.net/) Lesbians Who Tech Pride Summit 2021 (https://lesbianswhotech.org/pridesummit2021/) FundOSS (https://fundoss.org/) Chayn (https://chayn.co/) National LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce (https://www.nglcc.org/) Software Freedom Conservancy (https://sfconservancy.org/) Sustain Podcast-Episode 69-“Humanitarian Open Source” with Michael Nolan. (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/69) Sustain Podcast-Episode 49-“What OpenUK Does” with Amanda Brock & Andrew Katz (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/49) Sustain Podcast-Episode 68-“Introducing FundOSS.org: A new way of funding open source, by Gitcoin x Sustain” with Kevin Owocki. (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/68) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Kavita Kapoor.
Guest Geoffrey Huntley Panelists Eric Berry | Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are super excited to be going “down under” with our guest today, Geoff Huntley, who works at Gitpod as part of a team that focuses on community and he works with the engineering team. He is also a long-time open source developer advocate, and general coder dude from Australia. We learn from Geoff how he got started in coding, how he loves to teach people coming into the field, and the importance of turning up, sticking around, and helping out in this industry. He tells us all about Gitpod, what he does there, why more people are adopting it, what beer money does for maintainers, and how he's using Gitpod to try to solve the problem of maintainers sustainability. Also, Geoff shares some awesome advice to help the sustainers out there, and his advice on how to use money, which you really need to hear! Download this episode now to find out much more from Geoff #vanlife! [00:01:45] Geoff tells us about the van he lives in and the project he maintains called ReactiveUI. [00:02:50] We learn how Geoff got started with coding and how he ended up willing to take over an open source project that takes a lot of maintenance. [00:06:00] Richard asks Geoff to talk about the amount of maintainers out there and any opinions he has about the engineering code versus the maintainer parable he just mentioned. [00:08:49] We learn more about Gitpod from Geoff. [00:10:49] Eric asks why people are adopting Gitpod, what makes that different between that and Codespaces, and Geoff tells us what the response has been so far. [00:14:40] Geoff talks about how he's using Gitpod to try to solve this problem of maintainers sustainability, and how it goes back to Nadia Eghbal with her Roads and Bridges and the pivotal work she did with the Ford Foundation. [00:17:43] Eric wonders what Geoff thinks that beer money does for the maintainers, and when he was talking to the guys, what kind of response was he getting. [00:21:18] Geoff tells us how many people were involved in the distribution and if he was able to bring in more community members to help decide where those funds were allocated. [00:23:13] We find out the background of the team at Gitpod, and what Geoff does there. [00:25:12] Richard wonders how Geoff is structuring partnerships and how is he making it easier for developers to know about the whole suite of tools that are at their disposal to try and get not just beer money, but sticker money, backer money, and eventually, hopefully things like UBI coming out of code. [00:26:46] Geoff shares his knowledge to the sustainers out there and that can help others. [00:33:00] Eric and Richard share their thoughts on what the next five years is going to be. [00:39:24] Geoff leaves us with a final thought on, “How to use money?” We also find out where you can find him online. Quotes [00:03:27] “Well, it was for personal development and learning. I found at the company I didn't really have a mentor as such, and I found in open source there is an unlimited supply of learning if you just turn up and say, “How can I help?” [00:04:12] “No other industry has that opportunity if you just do the one simple thing of just turning up, sticking around, and helping out.” [00:04:36] “So these are common problems in open source. We have a lot of focus on the code, but there's so many different ways people can contribute to open source even if you still don't understand the code base.” [00:07:22] “So, one thing to always remember is problems can be fixed, we'll pull requests. Open source software is as is.” [00:16:03] “Now, one of the things we've found in that is it's still too hard to give projects money.” [00:18:56] “People are very excited just to even know that you're using their software and how it's getting value.” [00:39:31] “I suppose I'd leave to everyone to think about when you do have money and beer money is coming in, consider maybe not paying your developers.” [00:40:12] “So, use your funds to bring yourself joy. Think about all the things you do as an open source maintainer and the things that don't bring you joy, that's what the funds should be used to do.” Spotlight [00:42:22] Eric's spotlights are github1s and GitHub Web IDE. [00:43:31] Richard's spotlight is the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs. [00:44:30] Geoff's spotlight is the open source project pre-commit. Links Geoffrey Huntley Twitter (https://twitter.com/geoffreyhuntley) Geoffrey Huntley Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreyhuntley) Geoffrey Huntley Website (https://ghuntley.com/) Gitpod (https://www.gitpod.io/) Iron Ring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring) Open Source Maintainers on GitHub (https://github.com/maintainers) GitHub-open source (https://github.com/open-source) Geoff Huntley's personal monorepo-GitHub (https://github.com/ghuntley/ghuntley) Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure by Nadia Eghbal (Ford Foundation) (https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-reports/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure/) DevX Conf (https://devxconf.org/opensource) “DevX Conf wrap & distributing $10k of open-source funding” by Geoffrey Huntley and Christin Frohne (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/devxconf-wrap) Gitpod chat (https://gitpod.io/chat) Geoff Huntley Gitpod chat (https://discord.com/invite/ZZ8wxgHtc6) “Gitpod Open-Source Sustainability Fund” by Geoffrey Huntley (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-open-source-sustainability-fund/) github1s (https://github.com/conwnet/github1s) GitHub Web IDE (https://github.com/zvizvi/Github-Web-IDE) Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs (https://vcnaa.vermont.gov/) pre-commit (https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit) Russell Keith-Magee-“If you're relying on open-source software for your business”-YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t85TyH-h04) Sustain Podcast-Episode 50-Gitcoin, Quadratic Funding, and how Crypto can sustain Open Source with Kevin Owocki (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/50) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Geoffrey Huntley.
In this episode Lex interviews Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin, one of the driving forces of Ethereum. Kevin describes his learning experience as CTO for Techstars startups led him to create the most popular open-source platform for Ethereum developers. Kevin's analysis of open source software outlines the unprecedented value of the Open Internet. He walks us through his journey building Gitcoin and the opportunity he had to create an incentivization mechanism with the help of Vitalik Buterin to create an environment where the market can express their preferences more fairly. Kevin also highlights the transformational potential of DeFi, and the power of memes.
Hi Fintech Futurists, In this conversation, we talk with Kevin Owocki, who serves as the CEO & Chief Roboticist at Gitcoin, about the evolution of the programmable blockchain space, how open software gets made, where value comes from and all sorts of other really cool futuristic things. Additionally, we explore the nuances of being an early developer in shifting markets, idea mazes, the founding of and philosophy behind Gitcoin, the deep work being done towards the Open Internet, the building of community-driven grant mechanisms, early work on quadratic-funding, and the idea behind memes powering DeFi.
The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy hosts Kevin Owocki, The founder of Gitcoin who covers the entire Gitcoin story, from quadratic funding to the future of public goods. Kevin also dives into GTC, its use and decentralizing the project
Gitcoin is turning itself into Gitcoin DAO, governed by the community and GTC holders! Come learn all about Gitcoin DAO, GTC distribution, and the responsibilities of the governors! ------
Episode Notes Dylan speaks to Kevin Owocki, founder of open-source grant distribution platform, GitCoin. Discussion topics include new economic models in open-source development, using quadratic formulas to improve voting and funding distribution, supporting developers in new ecosystems, and much more.
Panelists Pia Mancini | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer Guest Kevin Owocki Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! This is a special edition episode we are doing today. We have the most enthusiastic guest and returning champion Kevin Owocki with us to talk about quadratic/democratic funding, which is a completely new concept, and how we're using it in FundOSS. What is FundOSS? Well, we have a really exciting announcement to make today, so be sure to listen. We are discussing what the fund is and how it works. Also, we will talk about funding open source maintainers and doing it a new way with more money, some of which is coming out of Sustain. Download this episode now to find out what this excitement is all about! [00:01:25] Kevin starts off by explaining the project they are working on called FundOSS.org. We also learn how this is different from traditional matching that happens. [00:06:10] Pia tells us why they are doing this and the main benefits, and Kevin tells us about the crowdfunding campaign and how much money they raised over a two week period. [00:08:47] Kevin explains quadratic funding, a pilot they did, and Bitcoin grants. [00:10:47] Pia asks Kevin to talk a little bit about the funding of the commons and the radical markets framework to it. He mentions a paper written about quadratic funding. [00:14:38] Alyssa asks Kevin to talk about how collectives that are participating can make this a successful campaign for themselves and their budgeting, and the projects that may not be as visible what they can do. [00:16:20] Pia tells us about how Sustain put money towards this fund, how they got to that decision, and what enabled them to do this. [00:17:58] Kevin tells us all the other large sponsors of the work. [00:20:06] Richard wonders who is funding this since they are all here, and if there is an amount of that matching fund that goes towards the owners. Alyssa tells us this is a joint venture with Gitcoin integrating with open source collective. [00:23:00] Richard wonders if any of the money goes towards dependencies or is it only towards really cool project TM, and Alyssa explains. [0025:32] Kevin addresses Richard’s point about only the popular projects getting funded and that being a problem. [00:26:34] Richard tells us everywhere you can follow Kevin on the internet and Alyssa shares one final point about call to actions. Spotlight [00:28:57] Pia’s spotlight is Zanga.tech. [00:29:41] Kevin’s spotlight is Ethereum. [00:30:43] Alyssa’s spotlight is thanking a few people from FundOSS, Zach Herring, Sanchay Mittal, and Octavian Todirut. [00:31:24] Richard’s spotlight is the Low Resource Languages GitHub repo's links. Quotes [00:10:37] “So we’re really trying to adjust the behaviors in the ecosystem to move more towards working on the digital infrastructure that people care about as opposed to projects with private gain associated with them.” [00:11:11] “From what I understand is that public goods, which are goods that are non-excludable in non-rival risks. So, things like clean air, clean water, privacy, open source software is a public good, suffer from something called a free rider problem, which is basically like well this good is non-excludable and non-rivalrous, why should I support it, why should I give it my all? There’s no paywall for open source software.” [00:13:37] “I think it’s just as important that we have a broad sense of distribution of those projects that people don’t know about.” [00:22:51] “Trust the open street maps person to know all about geographies.” Links Kevin Owocki Twitter (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23kevinowocki) Kevin Owocki Website (https://owocki.com/) FundOSS.org (https://fundoss.org/) Sustain Podcast-Episode 50-Gitcoin, Quadratic Funding, and how Crypto can sustain Open Source with guest Kevin Owocki (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/50) Gitcoin (https://gitcoin.co/) A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods- by Vitalik Buterin, Zoe Hitzig, E.Glen Weyl (https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06421) Open Collective Fund OSS (https://opencollective.com/fundoss) Gitcoin- WTF is Quadratic Funding-video (https://wtfisqf.com/) Zanga.tech (https://zanga.tech/?platform=macos) Ethereum (https://ethereum.org/en/) Zach Herring Twitter (https://twitter.com/zherring) Low Resource Languages-GitHub (https://github.com/RichardLitt/low-resource-languages) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Kevin Owocki.
Quadratic Funding powers Gitcoin Grants, an application that has become a "Significant Pillar of the Ethereum Ecosystem," according to Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin. Learn about the why, the how, and the what behind Gitcoin Grants and Gitcoin's plans to take Quadratic Funding mainstream, with a QF application that will help local downtowns recover from COVID-related economic distress. Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin.co -- a blockchain-based network for growing open-source software with incentivization mechanics. He has a BS in Computer Science, ten years of engineering leadership experience in startups and Open Source Software, and is a community organizer in the Boulder Colorado Tech Scene. Kevin believes strongly that Open Source Software Development should be sustainably funded. Gitcoin a one-stop-shop that gives Software Developers the skills & connections to survive and thrive in this new blockchain ecosystem. You can find out more about Gitcoin at https://gitcoin.co and Kevin at https://owocki.com
This was a livestream event that occurred on the EthHub YouTube channel, celebrating the launch and genesis block of Ethereum 2.0. Guests: Eric Conner, Anthony Sassano, David Hoffman, Ryan Sean Adams, Danny Ryan, Preston Van Loon, Travis Blane, Trent Van Epps, Kevin Vitale, Kevin Owocki, Superphiz and Hudson Jameson.
STATE OF THE NATION #14 - Tuesday, September 15th, 2020 Watch on the Bankless YouTube Channel The State of the Bankless Nation is....FUNding It that time of year....GITCOIN TIME!!! Every quarter, 4 times a year, Gitcoin Grants rolls around. This is one of the few times where the money in your wallet means 10x more than it used to... IF... AND ONLY IF.... you donate to your favorite DeFi and Ethereum infrastructure. We bring on Kevin Owocki, el presidente of Gitcoin, to discuss the role of Gitcoin in funding the DeFi ecosystem and the technology behind funding public goods. ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS:
In this episode of the Original Let's Talk Bitcoin Show, open source developer and Gitcoin creator Kevin Owocki joins Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan and Adam B. Levine for an in-depth discussion on modern fundraising. Find Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/owocki GitCoin project page: https://gitcoin.co/ (This episode was recorded in late July) OLTB #444 features music by Jared Rubens and Gurty Beats, with editing by Jonas. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/originalltb/message
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In this episode, we interview Kevin Owocki with Gitcoin and Josh and Kevin with Peeps Democracy. Find out how decentralized work and governance can change the world! All this and more! Join us!
Sponsored by: https://www.honeybadger.io/images/navbar_logo.svg?1597697989 (https://www.honeybadger.io/) Panelists Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Kevin Owocki Gitcoin (https://gitcoin.co/) Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have special guest, Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin. We find out what Gitcoin does and what’s changed with it in the past couple of years. Some other topics we discuss are Quadratic Funding (QF), a hot new thing called DeFi, Ethereum, Blockchain, and Downtown Stimulus in Boulder, CO. Download this episode now to find out this and much more! [00:01:27] Kevin tells us what Gitcoin does, what he’s doing there, and what’s changed in the past couple of years. [00:03:43] The hot new thing is “DeFi.” Kevin explains what this is. Richard wonders if there’s any way to make some sort of mutual funds out of all the different dollars, out of all the different major currencies that you can actually stabilize and cross them. [00:05:54] Richard wonders if the currencies have shifted in this stable currency market and has that affected DAI and Gitcoin in any way, and has Kevin seen less percentages going out because the current downturn in the global economy at all. [00:07:44] Eric brings us economic struggle and he wants to know Kevin’s perspective on blockchain and if they’ve stepped up. Does this whole process make people think that we need to have more control over the structure of our economy? [00:12:44] Kevin answers a question about maintainer’s views on providing quality or quantity on contributions. We also find out how much money has flown through Gitcoin’s platform. [00:15:39] Eric asks Kevin, since there is a lot of money pumping through Gitcoin’s platform and the intention is to sustain open source, is that focusing on blockchain projects now and does he see this type of technology or this idea moving into more of a global landscape with all sorts of projects? Downtown Stimulus in Boulder, CO is also mentioned. [00:19:52] Kevin explains what QF is. We also find out how QF can be gamed. [00:32:41] If you are a maintainer, and you want to get involved in Quadratic Funding, find out here how to get involved. [00:34:50] Kevin tells us how people can go about from nothing to doing stuff with Quadratic Funding, using Ethereum, using Gitcoin, or learning about DAI, if they don’t know anything right now. [00:36:12] Kevin tells us where we can find more about him online. Spotlight [00:37:34] Justin’s spotlight is inspired by Dave Gandy, Episode 41, a weight loss app called NOOM. [00:38:11] Eric’s spotlight is Kevin’s magnificent mane and the shampoo he uses. [00:39:10] Richard’s spotlight is Awesome Remote Job-a repo run by Lukasz Madon. [00:39:57] Kevin’s spotlight is Ethereum. Quotes [00:13:23] “One of the things she said was, even when contributors are coming to these repos is that they’re not providing quality contributions. And if they do, then they’re like drive by contributions and they don’t come back and they don’t promote to maintainers.” [00:23:37] “If you push the power out to the edges and you let your community decide what to find, not only does that push the decision out to the edges, the Ethereum Foundation gets to measure which projects their community cares about. The community co-funds the projects along with them and they can fund a thousand projects per quarter or ten thousand projects per quarter instead of just 10-20. [00:41:25] “And so, I’m really excited about what Ethereum is doing and I want an Ether-binge. You should check it out!” Links Kevin Owocki Website (https://owocki.com/) Kevin Owocki Twitter (https://twitter.com/owocki) Kevin Owocki Gitcoin (https://gitcoin.co/owocki) Gitcoin (https://gitcoin.co/) Funding Open Source With Gitcoin-Devchat.tv ()https://devchat.tv/sustain-our-software/sos-014-funding-open-source-with-gitcoin/ Downtown Stimulus (https://downtownstimulus.com/) Gitcoinco Quadratic Funding-GitHub (https://github.com/gitcoinco/quadratic-funding) DeFi (https://blog.coinbase.com/a-beginners-guide-to-decentralized-finance-defi-574c68ff43c4) Ethereum (https://ethereum.org/en/) Awesome Remote Job-Lukasz Madon (https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job) Sustain Podcast – Episode 41 (https://fireside.fm/s/fxw-Bcan+HH3L5owT) Noom (https://www.noom.com/programs/health-weight/exsf01d/?upv=3&sp=google&utm_source=g&utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_campaign=1355772182&utm_content=328167418798&utm_term=kwd-387385511434%7Cnoom%20app&gid=52400241737%7C&type=branded%7Cintent%7Ce&cid=EAIaIQobChMIv6zA2sab6wIVBopaBR3q3Qp9EAAYASAAEgKncfD_BwE&pos=&step=pros&lang=en&device=c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIv6zA2sab6wIVBopaBR3q3Qp9EAAYASAAEgKncfD_BwE#/) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com) Rebase.fm (https://rebase.fm/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Kevin Owocki.
On Opolis Public Radio (OPR), we dig into how changes in the world are changing people’s lives with a focus on freelancing, finances and the future of work.With Opolis, freelancers and gig workers everywhere have access to the same health benefits, life and disability insurance, and other services that only corporate employees have had access to traditionally.Subscribe to Opolis’ YouTube channel to stay in the loop: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxpG_XyDTUvYmrTfiexmU2A?view_as=subscriberJoin the discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpolisSpeaker: In this episode of OPR, Opolis Founder & Executive Steward John Paller chats with Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin.co, a blockchain-based network for growing open source software with incentivization mechanics. Kevin has a BS in Computer Science, 10 years of engineering leadership experience in startups and Open Source Software, and is a community organizer in the Boulder Colorado Tech Scene. Follow John Paller on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PallerJohnFollow Kevin Owocki on Twitter: https://twitter.com/owocki?s=20 Abstract: On this episode of Opolis Public Radio (OPR), we dig into how to democratize employment, the future of work experience, and Colorado as a geographic and sociopolitical tech hub. This talk was recorded on July 22nd, 2020.About Kevin Owocki: Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin.co, a blockchain-based network for growing open source software with incentivization mechanics. Kevin has a BS in Computer Science, 10 years of engineering leadership experience in startups and Open Source Software, and is a community organizer in the Boulder Colorado Tech Scene.About Opolis: Opolis is building a next generation employment ecosystem for the self-sovereign worker. With Opolis, freelancers and gig workers everywhere have access to the same health benefits, life and disability insurance, and other services that only corporate employees have had access to traditionally.
A single long-form episode with all the week's content + a TL;DR. This week was all about macro frame-setting coming out of Davos. Monday - 4 Reasons Crypto Should Care About Davos Tuesday - Gitcoin's Kevin Owocki on Controversy and the Future of Open Source Funding Wednesday - Why Vodafone’s Defection Won't Matter For Libra Thursday - Will Mass Adoption Be More PayPal or Pornhub? Friday - Davos Takeaways, CBDCs & the Rise of Bitcoin Art featuring Brekkie von Bitcoin
Ever since announcing their fourth round of grants, Gitcoin has been a major subject of conversation across the Twittersphere. In addition to all the excited buzz from both technical projects and media creators vying for grants matched based on E. Glen Weyl and Vitalik Buterin’s quadratic funding model, there has been controversy. Some of that controversy has been from outside the Ethereum community, pointing to Consensys and Ethereum Foundation support as an example of centralization. Some of the controversy has come from within, as debates rage about what is or isn’t an acceptable use of “public” resources. No matter what one’s position, it’s hard to deny that Gitcoin is one of the most interesting experiments in open source funding to date. Listen as @nlw askes the projects founder Kevin Owocki about the history of the project, the controversy, and what makes this round of grants such a big jump forward.
Ever since announcing their fourth round of grants, Gitcoin has been a major subject of conversation across the Twittersphere. In addition to all the excited buzz from both technical projects and media creators vying for grants matched based on E. Glen Weyl and Vitalik Buterin’s quadratic funding model, there has been controversy. Some of that controversy has been from outside the Ethereum community, pointing to Consensys and Ethereum Foundation support as an example of centralization. Some of the controversy has come from within, as debates rage about what is or isn’t an acceptable use of “public” resources. No matter what one’s position, it’s hard to deny that Gitcoin is one of the most interesting experiments in open source funding to date. Listen as @nlw askes the projects founder Kevin Owocki about the history of the project, the controversy, and what makes this round of grants such a big jump forward.
The special guest for this episode of Sustain our Software is Kevin Owocki. Kevin is the founder of Gitcoin, a service that links up freelance developers with people who need them and pays these developers in crypto currency. Gitcoin is a blockchain forward brand that is built on open source software and currently uses Ethereum as its crypto currency of choice rather than creating their own. They like Ethereum because of its relevance as the 2nd most popular cryptocurrency at the time of this episode. By incentivizing open source contributions, Gitcoin has become an important contributor to the funding of open source software. Pia begins the discussion by asking Kevin how the bounty system is governed for Gitcoin and Kevin shares some of their structure, process, and philosophy on the subject as well as Gitcoin’s desire to make it easy for developers to find work on their platform. The panelists then discuss how they think the future of the job market will change with the emergence of blockchain. The discussion starts with stating that bounties are the current popular system but Eric says he would look to see a blockchain based paycheck network among other ideas. Pia questions how Eric’s ideas can scale to the larger open source ecosystems and how to have a conversation with a company to open a wallet with Ethereum. Eric responds with some of his ideas on how to make this work as well as some roadblocks they might face. One of the biggest challenges is that the technologies involved are newly emerging and this brings along some skepticism with it. Richard then asks what Kevin’s long term view is that goes beyond the current system even though things are working really well right now. Kevin shares his aspiration that Gitcoin becomes a network that is owned, built by, and built for coders. This means that they find a way to distribute Gitcoin’s equity to the community and sustain open source through those means. Kevin shares that he does wish to go beyond the bounty system and some of his thoughts on how he hopes to accomplish that. The conversation then moves to networks and peer communications. Pia raises a concern that some people who don’t have an aptitude for communication often get left behind. She asks Kevin how Gitcoin helps to overcome challenges for those who struggle to get involved. Kevin shares some thoughts on why certain demographics struggle and makes the point that a difference could be made in how those in the field prioritize diversity. Kevin talks about the sustain conference and some of the great opportunities he had when he attended the prior year. He had the opportunity to talk to other professionals and share ideas on web3, blockchain and sustaining open source. The final topic covered by the panelists is who the big contributors are that are making a big difference to sustain open source. Kevin names a few companies that he feels has made a difference and a high level view of what they have done. Panelists Pia Mancini Eric Berry Richard Littauer Guest Kevin Owocki Sponsors Adventures in .NET React Round Up Adventures in Blockchain Links Gitcoin Ethereum Web3 Sustain OSS Conference Codefund Oscoin Moloch DAO Picks Richard Refined github chrome extension Using CSS to hide the github notification icon Four Tet Eric Berry Pipedrive Oss fund Pia Woop recovery tracker Open collective climate strike Octobox Kevin Advantage kinesis 2 keyboard Gratitude journaling Deep Chord by Echo Space
The special guest for this episode of Sustain our Software is Kevin Owocki. Kevin is the founder of Gitcoin, a service that links up freelance developers with people who need them and pays these developers in crypto currency. Gitcoin is a blockchain forward brand that is built on open source software and currently uses Ethereum as its crypto currency of choice rather than creating their own. They like Ethereum because of its relevance as the 2nd most popular cryptocurrency at the time of this episode. By incentivizing open source contributions, Gitcoin has become an important contributor to the funding of open source software. Pia begins the discussion by asking Kevin how the bounty system is governed for Gitcoin and Kevin shares some of their structure, process, and philosophy on the subject as well as Gitcoin’s desire to make it easy for developers to find work on their platform. The panelists then discuss how they think the future of the job market will change with the emergence of blockchain. The discussion starts with stating that bounties are the current popular system but Eric says he would look to see a blockchain based paycheck network among other ideas. Pia questions how Eric’s ideas can scale to the larger open source ecosystems and how to have a conversation with a company to open a wallet with Ethereum. Eric responds with some of his ideas on how to make this work as well as some roadblocks they might face. One of the biggest challenges is that the technologies involved are newly emerging and this brings along some skepticism with it. Richard then asks what Kevin’s long term view is that goes beyond the current system even though things are working really well right now. Kevin shares his aspiration that Gitcoin becomes a network that is owned, built by, and built for coders. This means that they find a way to distribute Gitcoin’s equity to the community and sustain open source through those means. Kevin shares that he does wish to go beyond the bounty system and some of his thoughts on how he hopes to accomplish that. The conversation then moves to networks and peer communications. Pia raises a concern that some people who don’t have an aptitude for communication often get left behind. She asks Kevin how Gitcoin helps to overcome challenges for those who struggle to get involved. Kevin shares some thoughts on why certain demographics struggle and makes the point that a difference could be made in how those in the field prioritize diversity. Kevin talks about the sustain conference and some of the great opportunities he had when he attended the prior year. He had the opportunity to talk to other professionals and share ideas on web3, blockchain and sustaining open source. The final topic covered by the panelists is who the big contributors are that are making a big difference to sustain open source. Kevin names a few companies that he feels has made a difference and a high level view of what they have done. Panelists Pia Mancini Eric Berry Richard Littauer Guest Kevin Owocki Sponsors Adventures in .NET React Round Up Adventures in Blockchain Links Gitcoin Ethereum Web3 Sustain OSS Conference Codefund Oscoin Moloch DAO Picks Richard Refined github chrome extension Using CSS to hide the github notification icon Four Tet Eric Berry Pipedrive Oss fund Pia Woop recovery tracker Open collective climate strike Octobox Kevin Advantage kinesis 2 keyboard Gratitude journaling Deep Chord by Echo Space
The special guest for this episode of Sustain our Software is Kevin Owocki. Kevin is the founder of Gitcoin, a service that links up freelance developers with people who need them and pays these developers in crypto currency. Gitcoin is a blockchain forward brand that is built on open source software and currently uses Ethereum as its crypto currency of choice rather than creating their own. They like Ethereum because of its relevance as the 2nd most popular cryptocurrency at the time of this episode. By incentivizing open source contributions, Gitcoin has become an important contributor to the funding of open source software. Pia begins the discussion by asking Kevin how the bounty system is governed for Gitcoin and Kevin shares some of their structure, process, and philosophy on the subject as well as Gitcoin’s desire to make it easy for developers to find work on their platform. The panelists then discuss how they think the future of the job market will change with the emergence of blockchain. The discussion starts with stating that bounties are the current popular system but Eric says he would look to see a blockchain based paycheck network among other ideas. Pia questions how Eric’s ideas can scale to the larger open source ecosystems and how to have a conversation with a company to open a wallet with Ethereum. Eric responds with some of his ideas on how to make this work as well as some roadblocks they might face. One of the biggest challenges is that the technologies involved are newly emerging and this brings along some skepticism with it. Richard then asks what Kevin’s long term view is that goes beyond the current system even though things are working really well right now. Kevin shares his aspiration that Gitcoin becomes a network that is owned, built by, and built for coders. This means that they find a way to distribute Gitcoin’s equity to the community and sustain open source through those means. Kevin shares that he does wish to go beyond the bounty system and some of his thoughts on how he hopes to accomplish that. The conversation then moves to networks and peer communications. Pia raises a concern that some people who don’t have an aptitude for communication often get left behind. She asks Kevin how Gitcoin helps to overcome challenges for those who struggle to get involved. Kevin shares some thoughts on why certain demographics struggle and makes the point that a difference could be made in how those in the field prioritize diversity. Kevin talks about the sustain conference and some of the great opportunities he had when he attended the prior year. He had the opportunity to talk to other professionals and share ideas on web3, blockchain and sustaining open source. The final topic covered by the panelists is who the big contributors are that are making a big difference to sustain open source. Kevin names a few companies that he feels has made a difference and a high level view of what they have done. Panelists Pia Mancini Eric Berry Richard Littauer Guest Kevin Owocki Sponsors Adventures in .NET React Round Up Adventures in Blockchain Links Gitcoin Ethereum Web3 Sustain OSS Conference Codefund Oscoin Moloch DAO Picks Richard Refined github chrome extension Using CSS to hide the github notification icon Four Tet Eric Berry Pipedrive Oss fund Pia Woop recovery tracker Open collective climate strike Octobox Kevin Advantage kinesis 2 keyboard Gratitude journaling Deep Chord by Echo Space Special Guest: Kevin Owocki.
In this week's episode of Adventures in Blockchain, Charles Max Wood interviews Eric Berry and Kevin Owocki, discussing open source sustainability using blockchain. Eric Berry is a panelist on Sustain Our Software podcast and runs Codefund. Kevin is the co-founder of Gitcoin. Our guests start by explaining what each of their companies does and how they help sustain open source. Kevin explains that Gitcoin is a place you can get coin if you are a software engineer working in open source. Their mission is to support open source software. Kevin discusses how blockchain creates new hope for open source sustainability. One project Kevin introduces that helps move them towards their goal is called bounties. Bounties allow engineers to collect cryptocurrency for work they do in opensource. Codefund is an ethical advertising platform that is specifically run to grow and sustain open source. Eric shares how they do this by inviting bloggers, application builders, and other maintainers, to put a small bit of code on their sites that specifically advertise what they are doing. This allows them to receive passive revenue constantly without having to spend time marketing. Gitcoin and Codefund are related, Kevin and Eric share the story of how they started helping one another. When Kevin was building Gitcoin he met Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and was invited to join ConsenSys. Using his work with ConsenSys as a stepping stone Gitcoin was able to level up. At this point, Eric reached out to Kevin because he was looking for a way to more easily distribute funds. Next, the panel considers how sustaining open source is made easier through open source. In the blockchain ecosystem, there is a lot more liquidity and a lot less bureaucracy. Kevin explains that when people think of blockchain they only see bitcoin prices and miss all the potential that the blockchain has. There are many problems paying people with “real” currency. For example, credit card companies take fees, transfer money across borders is difficult and worst of all there are knowledge workers that don’t have access to a stable financial system like in parts of Africa. By using the blockchain to pay these great developers can work for western companies and in open source. Eric shares how he uses the blockchain to pay maintainers and advertisers. The inbound advertisers at Codefund are already using eth and dai, which is easily turned around to pay their publishers. Currently, it is not all done on the blockchain, Eric explains what it looks like paying everyone. Codefund's goal is to eventually be completely on the blockchain and to be constantly paying their maintainers. Taxation is something discussed on this weeks Sustain Our Software, Eric brings it up in hopes of hearing Kevin’s take on taxation in the blockchain. Kevin explains that he wrote an EIP or Ethereum improvement proposal, block reward funding for open source maintainers. The blockchain has miners who receive coin for the work they do. Those miners use an algorithm to show proof of work. Open source maintainers do work for the blockchain as well and his proposal says that maintainers should receive coin for what they do for the blockchain. The problem that some have with this idea is that it is hard to prove the software they are writing will directly impact the blockchain or that it even got done. The panel considers ways to prove the value created by maintainers and how paying maintainers show them they are valued. Burn out is a big obstacle for the maintainability of open source. Everyone has responsibilities, to family and other things and its a shame when those doing open source have to quit because they can’t meet those responsibilities. The panel discusses ways that we can help maintainers not burn out. They also talk briefly about entitlement in open source, Kevin introduces his no asshole policy. Charles asks Kevin to explain how Gitcoin’s bounty network works. The architecture of Gitcoin’s bounty network uses the smart contract in Ethereum called standard bounties, which acts as an escrow function. When an issue is posted it goes into standard bounties which holds the eth. When someone starts the work they are put in contact with the funder and when they submit their work they get paid. Kevin explains the rules of social etiquette in the network that keeps everyone happy. He shares some of their results and statistics and explains how disputes are handled. They will be launching a new service called Gitcoin grants, which uses CLR matching. Kevin also explains how they use monthly hackathons to help the open source community. Eric takes a turn to explain what Codefund is doing to help in open source. They will be releasing a Codefund sponsorship service, this will help open source projects to find the right sponsors. He tried something similar in 2017 with some promising results but was shut down Github. Now that they have worked it out with Github they will be trying again. Charles having remembered their first attempt shares some of his feelings about Codesponsor and his excitement that they will be trying again. To end the episode the panel reiterates how blockchain could change the financial world. Kevin compares it to how the internet changed the world, at first it was slow but it grew and changed. Charles compares it to the discovery and growth of the radio. The panel considers how the blockchain will evolve and what it could mean for the future of the world. 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In this week's episode of Adventures in Blockchain, Charles Max Wood interviews Eric Berry and Kevin Owocki, discussing open source sustainability using blockchain. Eric Berry is a panelist on Sustain Our Software podcast and runs Codefund. Kevin is the co-founder of Gitcoin. Our guests start by explaining what each of their companies does and how they help sustain open source. Kevin explains that Gitcoin is a place you can get coin if you are a software engineer working in open source. Their mission is to support open source software. Kevin discusses how blockchain creates new hope for open source sustainability. One project Kevin introduces that helps move them towards their goal is called bounties. Bounties allow engineers to collect cryptocurrency for work they do in opensource. Codefund is an ethical advertising platform that is specifically run to grow and sustain open source. Eric shares how they do this by inviting bloggers, application builders, and other maintainers, to put a small bit of code on their sites that specifically advertise what they are doing. This allows them to receive passive revenue constantly without having to spend time marketing. Gitcoin and Codefund are related, Kevin and Eric share the story of how they started helping one another. When Kevin was building Gitcoin he met Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and was invited to join ConsenSys. Using his work with ConsenSys as a stepping stone Gitcoin was able to level up. At this point, Eric reached out to Kevin because he was looking for a way to more easily distribute funds. Next, the panel considers how sustaining open source is made easier through open source. In the blockchain ecosystem, there is a lot more liquidity and a lot less bureaucracy. Kevin explains that when people think of blockchain they only see bitcoin prices and miss all the potential that the blockchain has. There are many problems paying people with “real” currency. For example, credit card companies take fees, transfer money across borders is difficult and worst of all there are knowledge workers that don’t have access to a stable financial system like in parts of Africa. By using the blockchain to pay these great developers can work for western companies and in open source. Eric shares how he uses the blockchain to pay maintainers and advertisers. The inbound advertisers at Codefund are already using eth and dai, which is easily turned around to pay their publishers. Currently, it is not all done on the blockchain, Eric explains what it looks like paying everyone. Codefund's goal is to eventually be completely on the blockchain and to be constantly paying their maintainers. Taxation is something discussed on this weeks Sustain Our Software, Eric brings it up in hopes of hearing Kevin’s take on taxation in the blockchain. Kevin explains that he wrote an EIP or Ethereum improvement proposal, block reward funding for open source maintainers. The blockchain has miners who receive coin for the work they do. Those miners use an algorithm to show proof of work. Open source maintainers do work for the blockchain as well and his proposal says that maintainers should receive coin for what they do for the blockchain. The problem that some have with this idea is that it is hard to prove the software they are writing will directly impact the blockchain or that it even got done. The panel considers ways to prove the value created by maintainers and how paying maintainers show them they are valued. Burn out is a big obstacle for the maintainability of open source. Everyone has responsibilities, to family and other things and its a shame when those doing open source have to quit because they can’t meet those responsibilities. The panel discusses ways that we can help maintainers not burn out. They also talk briefly about entitlement in open source, Kevin introduces his no asshole policy. Charles asks Kevin to explain how Gitcoin’s bounty network works. The architecture of Gitcoin’s bounty network uses the smart contract in Ethereum called standard bounties, which acts as an escrow function. When an issue is posted it goes into standard bounties which holds the eth. When someone starts the work they are put in contact with the funder and when they submit their work they get paid. Kevin explains the rules of social etiquette in the network that keeps everyone happy. He shares some of their results and statistics and explains how disputes are handled. They will be launching a new service called Gitcoin grants, which uses CLR matching. Kevin also explains how they use monthly hackathons to help the open source community. Eric takes a turn to explain what Codefund is doing to help in open source. They will be releasing a Codefund sponsorship service, this will help open source projects to find the right sponsors. He tried something similar in 2017 with some promising results but was shut down Github. Now that they have worked it out with Github they will be trying again. Charles having remembered their first attempt shares some of his feelings about Codesponsor and his excitement that they will be trying again. To end the episode the panel reiterates how blockchain could change the financial world. Kevin compares it to how the internet changed the world, at first it was slow but it grew and changed. Charles compares it to the discovery and growth of the radio. The panel considers how the blockchain will evolve and what it could mean for the future of the world. 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Get your copy on that date only for $1. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Links Disrupting Open Source Sustainability Sustain Our Software CodeFund GitCoin Results Gitcoin OSCoin The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires Join The Blockchain Developer Bootcamp https://www.facebook.com/Adventures-in-Blockchain-1180850735452512/ Picks Charles Max Wood: MaxCoders.io The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America Eric Berry: AirPods Case Open Collective badge project Kevin Owocki: Sustain Web3 Conference in Boulder, Colorado, Feb 2020 Kinesis Advantage2 Ergonomic Keyboard (KB600)
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirtieth episode features Kevin Owocki. Kevin is the founder and self-described chief janitor of Gitcoin, a blockchain-based incentivization layer for open-source software. Gitcoin helps connect developers eager to contribute to open source projects with projects offering bounties for development work. Kevin himself is an experienced developer and passionate about strengthening the foundations and expanding the impact of open-source software. On this episode Kevin talks with Tor about the beginnings and future of Gitcoin, what sustainability means for open source and blockchain, and how to design for humans in a space that often abstracts them away. Enigma's podcast "Decentralize This!" features guests from all over the decentralization space: developers, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, artists, people in government and enterprise - all individuals who care deeply about building a more decentralized and sustainable world. How can all these people with different perspectives collaborate to create and scale the technologies we need to shape a better future? ---- Relevant links: Kevin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/owocki Gitcoin: https://www.gitcoin.co Enigma: www.enigma.co Enigma Blog: blog.enigma.co Enigma Twitter: www.twitter.com/enigmampc
In this week, we sit down with Kevin Owocki, co-founder of gitcoin, to have a look at how open source blockchain development is funded. We cover the different methods for funding open source work, what has worked in the past, what hasn’t, how funding blockchain projects can be quite different and what people are experimenting with today. We discuss: EIP1337 (https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/1337) Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure (https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/2976/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf) A handy guide to financial support for open source (https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand) Funding through foundations Grants programs Crowdfunding Token payments Founder rewards/block rewards Thank you to this week's sponsor Apograf! Apograf has built an extensive collection of open access research papers on cryptography, distributed computer systems and blockchain If you are interested in finding out more, check out apograf.io (http://apograf.io) or this link to a curated list of cryptocurrency course materials: https://apograf.io/c/cryptocurrency_class If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Support our Gitcoin Grant - https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ
It’s a snowy day in Denver and we are surrounded by a cornucopia of intelligence and creativity at ETHDenver. The State of Colorado is a thriving hub of Ethereum blockchain innovation and today we’re going to bring you proof. John Paller was and Kevin Owocki are going to join us for a special panel where we’ll explore the future of work. Sean Li of Formatic is going to tell us about buidling a mo’ betta Metamask. And several unsuspecting audience members are going to have their 30 seconds in the spotlight to share their crypto pitch. Imagine coming to hear Andreas Antonopolous speak and realizing that he doesn’t come on for another hour. That’s what’s happening now on episode #247 of The Bad Crypto Podcast. Full Show Notes at: http://badco.in/247 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: Apple Podcast: http://badco.in/itunes Google Podcasts: http://badco.in/google Spotify: http://badco.in/spotify FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: @BadCrypto - @joelcomm - @teedubya Facebook: /BadCrypto - /JoelComm - /teedubyaw Facebook Mastermind Group: /BadCrypto LinkedIn: /in/joelcomm - /in/teedubya Instagram: @BadCryptoPodcast Email: badcryptopodcast[at]gmail[dot]com Phone: SEVEN-OH-8-88FIVE- 90THIRTY DONATE CRYPTO TO THE SHOW: If you'd like to donate a bit of cryptocurrency to The Bad Crypto Podcast, feel free to send copious amounts to the following locations: $BTC: Bitcoin: 3GMgCH4dFUHSLdrPnLwEsfKPVnLnoGbzGZ $ETH Ethereum: 0x1ccE8A04fa6743eD1D24cA063c7543D43B42F328 $LTC Litecoin: LavXqTWVHebEgVhBXdg3Hue3xEAmgtxLgr $DOGE Dogecoin: DMngvNMX1U8Sg8PkDjCC3UTS8Mmn9RqTP5 GET STARTED WITH CRYPTO WITH $10 BITCOIN FREE:We have an affiliate code with Coinbase. If you decide to buy some crypto on Coinbase, you get $10 of free BTC, when you spend at least $100 in crypto. The Bad Crypto Podcast also gets $10 BTC, as well. Win-Win. Coinbase is one of the most popular and well-known brokers and trading platforms in the world. Their platform makes it easy to securely buy, use, store and trade digital currency. Users can purchase bitcoins, Ether and now Litecoin from Coinbase through a digital wallet available on Android & iPhone. Do your own due diligence, some people have had some customer support issues. Neither Joel nor Travis can attest to that. If you do use Coinbase, once your coins clear, move it to an offline wallet or if you choose, move them over to another exchange. Here is a list of all of the top crypto-currency exchanges. Choose one that you like. DISCLAIMER: Do your own due diligence and research. Joel Comm and Travis Wright are NOT FINANCIAL ADVISORS. We are sharing our journey with you as we learn more about this crazy little thing called cryptocurrency. We make NO RECOMMENDATIONS. Don't take anything we say as gospel. Do not come to our homes with pitchforks because you lost money by listening to us. We only share with you what we are learning and what we are investing it. We will never "pump or dump" any cryptocurrencies. Take what we say with a grain of salt. You must research this stuff on your own! Just know that we will always strive for RADICAL TRANSPARENCY with any show associations. Show Edited By: Aaron The Tech (http://aaronthe.tech) Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Building open source software is a collaborative process which relies on good faith and willingness of volunteers. While most of the software we use daily relies heavily on open-source libraries, incentive models are broken. Repo maintainers are eager to see their projects evolve, but have little leverage to encourage developers to contribue. And projects contributors create enormous value by dedicating their time and expertise while getting little in return. Both open and closed-source projects utilize bountied to source engineering talent. Combined with blockchain technologies, there is a potential to create efficient, two-sided markets which align incentives for all participants. We’re joined by Kevin Owocki, who is the Founder of Gitcoin. The Ethereum-based platform leverages the open source community to incentivize and monetize work, remunerating developers for pull requests made to projects. Gitcoin was itself built using Gitcoin and is today facilitating bug bounty payments for dozens of blockchain projects. At the time of writing, over 200 projects have used the platform to distribute over $340,000 in bounties to developers. As Gitcoin continues to grow, the goal is to expand its reach to the broader open-source ecosystem. Topics covered in this episode: Kevin’s background as a software engineer The fundamental challenges in open-source development and funding What is Gitcoin and how it addresses incentive alignment How Gitcoin works from the perspective of both project funders and contributors The platforms usage statistics (projects funded, contributors, bounties paid, etc.) How Gitcoin may be used to fund closed-source bountied and public goods Kevin’s proposal for recurring payments in Ethereum (EIP1337/ERC948) How Gitcoin is funded and the project’s business model Gitcoin’s roadmap moving forward Episode links: Gitcoin website Gitcoin leaderboard and top earners Gitcoin stats 1337 Alliance EIP 1337 - Subscriptions on the blockchain ERC948 - Recurring Subscription Models on Ethereum Delphi Systems Bountysource Thank you to our sponsors for their support: The open, decentralized trading protocol for ERC20 tokens using the Dutch auction mechanism. More at epicenter.tv/dutchx. Deploy enterprise-ready consortium blockchain networks that scale in just a few clicks. More at aka.ms/epicenter. This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/257
We talk with Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin. No joke, this episode is compelling. Gitcoin is a decentralized application which incentives open source contributors with bounties for bugs and features. Kevin tells us about the creation of Gitcoin, how their incentive models work, their architecture, and their alternate funding mechanism for open source projects, CodeFund. We then take a trip to Jupiter and dream of the future of decentralization, theorycrafting what that world will look like and what we need to build to get there. Exciting topics!
We talk with Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin. No joke, this episode is compelling. Gitcoin is a decentralized application which incentives open source contributors with bounties for bugs and features. Kevin tells us about the creation of Gitcoin, how their incentive models work, their architecture, and their alternate funding mechanism for open source projects, CodeFund. We then take a trip to Jupiter and dream of the future of decentralization, theorycrafting what that world will look like and what we need to build to get there. Exciting topics!
In this episode, I chat with Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin - an platform where teams/projects like ConsenSys, Ethereum, Metamask can pay bounties in cryptocurrency to fund open source work. We discuss: Challenges facing open source work Why Gitcoin chose ETH as its native asset Why Gitcoin refused to raise an ICO Please rate and subscribe to help us get this podcast to more people! Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi) ****** Show links: Libsyn: bit.ly/blockcrunch_libsyn Apple Podcast:bit.ly/blockcrunch_apple Stitcher: bit.ly/blockcrunch_stitcher Spotify: bit.ly/blockcrunch_spotify ****** Transition music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo Sound and outro music by Garreth Chan: https://www.garrethchan.com/ Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch podcast series is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Conduct your own research and invest at your own risk.
Most technology companies rely on open source software projects. But open source software projects are often maintained by a group of people that is not affiliated with any particular company. When an open source project develops too much technical debt, it can become a tragedy of the commons. Who is responsible for maintaining these open The post Gitcoin: Open Source Bounties with Kevin Owocki appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Most technology companies rely on open source software projects. But open source software projects are often maintained by a group of people that is not affiliated with any particular company. When an open source project develops too much technical debt, it can become a tragedy of the commons. Who is responsible for maintaining these open The post Gitcoin: Open Source Bounties with Kevin Owocki appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Episode #11 – The analogy that I’ve been using is that blockchain could do the financial and insurance industries what the information revolution did to our media or what Napster did to record companies. WARNING: Some of this stuff is pretty complex. I spent a while on Wikipedia reading up on the things Kevin talks about just to write this post. Kevin Owocki is a leader in the Boulder tech community and helps run Boulder Startup Week and leads the Boulder Blockchain Meetup group. He is also a co-host of the StartupCTO podcast. Kevin’s most recent project blends his passion for building Open Source software and his interest in Blockchain as an industry disruptor. Kevin recently launched Gitcoin, a platform that for allows for an Open Source repo owner to create a bounty, or smart contract, using the Blockchain for someone to work on their project. What this means is Developers can choose which Open Source projects to work on and get paid in the cryptocurrency Etherium. A little background on what some of this stuff means… Open Source software Most of the Internet and many of the devices we use each day to connect to it are built using Open Source software. From the Andriod phone in your pocket to the Chromebooks used in many schools, to the Apache webservers that serve up pages on your favorite website, chances are your experience on the Internet is due in large part to software that was created by an army of unpaid volunteers. Anyone can download and use Open Source software, free of charge and free from restrictions. You can even download the source code and use it on your own projects or contribute your enhancements back to the original project, allowing everyone to share in the collective wisdom of Developers all over the world. Blockchain Bitcoin and Etherium are cryptocurrencies that are built using Open Source and are independent of any centralized organization. This means no government or bank is needed to complete a financial transaction using a cryptocurrency because the transaction ledger is stored in on the Blockchain. Super strong encryption is used to ensure the integrity of the Blockchain so any tampering or attempts to break the Blockchain are automatically detected and discarded. The Blockchain can be used for more than just financial transactions, Kevin talks about a few examples of using Blockchain to create Smart Contracts that take the place of brokers or officials. GitCoin GitCoin has a strong potential to change the way Open Source software is developed. There are thousands of old and stale code repositories that no one contributes towards. Using GitCoin the ower of that repository can now attract developers to contribute to their project and reward them using Etherium, streamlining the transaction. LINKS TO THINGS WE TALK ABOUT: GitCoin Etherium Project Boulder Blockchain Meetup StartupCTO Podcast IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR, PLEASE: Subscribe to our list Connect with us on Twitter Email us and tell us what you think! Colorado TechCast brings you interviews with entrepreneurs from around the state. We provide a behind the scenes look at who’s doing what, why, and how you can get involved. Join us each episode to hear the exciting stories of technology happenings in our state. I want this show to be relevant to you, so please send me your feedback. My email address is trapper@coloradoTechCast.com. You can also hit me up on twitter @CoTechCast. I read and respond to all messages so drop me a line and tell me what you think.
Today we are posting an interview for The Changelog that StartupCTO.io host Kevin Owocki recently did. From The Changelog:We’re joined by Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin. Gitcoin is a platform to monetize or incentivize work in open source software. We talked about how Gitcoin sits at the intersection of sustaining open source and cryptocurrencies, their history and roadmap, their decision to leverage the brand name of Git, bug bounties, funded issues, web3, MetaMask, and the future of Gitcoin and how open source benefits.
We’re joined by Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin. Gitcoin is a platform to monetize or incentivize work in open source software. We talked about how Gitcoin sits at the intersection of sustaining open source and cryptocurrencies, their history and roadmap, their decision to leverage the brand name of Git, bug bounties, funded issues, web3, MetaMask, and the future of Gitcoin and how open source benefits.
We’re joined by Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin. Gitcoin is a platform to monetize or incentivize work in open source software. We talked about how Gitcoin sits at the intersection of sustaining open source and cryptocurrencies, their history and roadmap, their decision to leverage the brand name of Git, bug bounties, funded issues, web3, MetaMask, and the future of Gitcoin and how open source benefits.
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