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Future of Social Networks with Dan Romero from Farcaster Oct 19, 2022

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Dan is the Co-Founder of Farcaster, a protocol for sufficiently decentralized social networking. Instead of whipping up a traditional social network, Dan decided to create Farcaster as a protocol in order to give users a more direct relationship with their audience., as well as give developers direct access to the underlying data and APIs of the ecosystem they are building in. The result is the foundation for a new, flexible social network that is truly in the hands of its user and builders.

Dan walks us through the journey from web1 to web2 to web3, setting the stage for the rest of our discussion. We dive into the user experience for web3 social, and how Farcaster creates a friendly web3 experience for people who may not be familiar with blockchain wallets. On the back end, Farcaster protocol offers developers an entirely new playground to build in and leverage the fact that all Farcaster users have a public and private key.

We talk about how Dan onboarded the first 3000 users of Farcaster and how he sees the protocol reaching critical mass. We discuss the community that resides on Farcaster today and Dan’s views on cultivating community. We also cover decentralized content moderation, Dan’s ideas of conversation liquidity, and we look to the future as Dan shares what he hopes will be built on Farcaster down the line.

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⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:28 Web1, Web2, Web3

9:42 Crypto-powered networks

13:45 Farcaster’s success metrics

17:12 Farcaster’s first 3000 users

20:23 Curating quality communities

24:36 Moderating a decentralized open protocol

29:44 What Dan would like to see built on Farcaster

37:27 Follow Dan!

33:21 Outro

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Global Crypto Regulation and the "Rebecca Decentralization Test" Oct 12, 2022

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Rebecca Rettig is the General Council at the Aave companies, which build open source, blockchain based software for the web3 world. She’s a respected lawyer and longtime friend of our host, Katherine Wu.

We dive right into the episode with Rebecca answering the question that’s on all of our minds - why is regulation so difficult? We discuss the negative narrative that mainstream media portrays about the crypto industry and Rebecca offers some advice on how to flip that narrative.

Because there is such a disconnect between lawmakers and crypto builders, it’s difficult for both sides to find common ground about what crypto is and how to regulate it. Blanket statements like “same risk, same regulation” need to be thought about deeply as blockchain technology, and decentralization more specifically, certainly add levels of nuance to the discussion and change how we think about risk.

At the end of the day, crypto regulation is inevitable. This conversation covers what we should do as crypto community members to help build a future where regulation can guide and help us instead of stopping and stifling us. During our talk we also touch on regulation for DAOs, DeFi, centralized web3 tools, and we get the inside scoop on The Rebecca Test.

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Rebecca’s EthCC talk: https://youtu.be/ifUXVEyF_vQ

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:14 Why is crypto regulation so difficult?

5:03 The negative narrative surrounding crypto

7:15 The future of DeFi

8:39 The disconnect between lawmakers and the crypto industry

9:54 Same risk, same regulation

13:04 Crypto regulation is inevitable

15:00 The Rebecca Test and the 3 prongs of decentralization

17:54 The Ooki DAO case

22:31 Fake decentralization

23:31 DAO governance needs improvement

24:43 How we thought regulation would be vs. how it is playing out

25:52 Policy makers aren’t allowed to hold crypto assets???

27:37 Rebecca’s GC career advice

29:59 Outro

Espresso’s Jill Gunter–Privacy in Web3 and the Fallacy of Choice Aug 17, 2022

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Welcome to Cross-Chain Examination, an inclusive and friendly place for your 102-level crypto/Web3 content.
In this episode of the podcast, host Katherine Wu and Espresso Systems' Jill Gunter about what tornado cash is + the use cases + reactions to tornado cash sanctions, the issues when it comes to privacy in Web3 and how crypto users should have various options when it comes to privacy.
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This season is sponsored by Protocol Labs, creators of IPFS, libp2p, and Filecoin. They are an open-source R&D lab building protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the internet.

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Crypto Council For Innovation's Sheila Warren–Behind the Scenes of Crypto Legislation Aug 10, 2022

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