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MetaView #17 - The Economy of GIVing

January 08, 2022 21:11 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MB

Lauren, aka karmaticacid, is a Giveth comms steward, GIVeconomy product manager, TEC steward & self-proclaimed hippie living in the jungles of Costa Rica. She usually lurks behind the scenes as a MetaGame Player writing shownotes for our podcast… like this one. She escaped her soulless 9-5 as a mechanical engineer some years ago to study permaculture & organic farming. She discovered Giveth & the DAO space through a friend from an intentional community and fell in love with the concept of sa...

Frontiers of Coordination #2 with David Ehrlichman The Impact Networks Coordinator

December 27, 2021 18:55 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MB

Peth and David Ehrlichman, author of the new book Impact Networks discuss his background, experiences with social impact networks as well as the importance of leadership & collaboration between multiple sectors to tackle core systematic issues. In a classical story of disillusionment with his corporate job, helping share holders grow more wealthy whilst living amongst such obvious systematic problems like homelessness, David went on to work for a nonprofit organization - where he noticed a ...

Frontiers of Coordination #1 with Richard D. Bartlett The Pre-DAO DAO OG

December 09, 2021 21:35 - 59 minutes - 82 MB

Richard D. Bartlett, aka “Rich dB”, has been working in pre-blockchain “DAOs” since the 2011 Occupy Wallstreet Movement. An engineer by training, Rich has merged his problem solving skills with his passion for compassionate, intelligent and inclusive ways of being together. He is the co-founder of Loomio and The Hum, and a director and longstanding member of Enspiral. Rich is rich with thoughts about “small-scale, high-trust cooperative organizing” and is now on a mission to fill in his know...

Humans of MetaGame #5 - Alec The Game B Builder

December 03, 2021 21:22 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MB

Alec is an experienced software developer, a parent and passionate about building a world on more resilient foundations. He currently lives in Salt Lake City and is a proud builder of MetaGame. Alec had had a very successful career as a software developer for 15 years and worked on various challenging projects, but yearned for something more fulfilling. His experience as a developer however enabled him to set up a well-balanced life and have time for adventure and self-exploration. Growing ...

Share What You're Makin' w/ Chair & Bacon #4 - Dekan Brown

November 07, 2021 20:41 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MB

Dekan is a Solidity developer & web3 shadowy super coder extraordinaire. He’s a lead at DAOhaus, a project dedicated to giving people the functionality to make DAOs run. In this episode Chair, unfortunately with no side of pork, catches Dekan in the wake of MCON and the two discuss reflections on web3’s past, and expectations for the next 2 years. Dekan is a beacon of knowledge and experience in web3 development. He’s been building since days when every app had its own wallet, and DAO membe...

MetaView Episode 16 - Liminal Village with Roberto and Laura

November 05, 2021 17:15 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MB

Roberto and Laura are co-founders of Liminal Village - a living and co-creating space in the center of Italy. In part inspired by Jacques Fresco’s idea of a Resource Based Economy, Liminal, meaning “a place of transition” or “a place that occupies both sides”, aims to bring value-aligned people together to build networks and co-create the future. They aim to support people to create value for the world, heal themselves and heal the collective, emphasizing the balance of personal, local and g...

MetaView #16 - Liminal Village with Roberto and Laura

November 05, 2021 17:15 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MB

Roberto and Laura are co-founders of Liminal Village - a living and co-creating space in the center of Italy. In part inspired by Jacques Fresco’s idea of a Resource Based Economy, Liminal, meaning “a place of transition” or “a place that occupies both sides”, aims to bring value-aligned people together to build networks and co-create the future. They aim to support people to create value for the world, heal themselves and heal the collective, emphasizing the balance of personal, local and g...

Share What You're Makin' w/ Chair & Bacon #3 - Ross From LexDAO

October 04, 2021 14:40 - 50 minutes - 74.7 MB

Ross Campbell is the self-described “summoner” of LexDAO - a group of “shadowy super lawyers” on a mission to “research, develop and evangelize first-class legal methods and blockchain protocols that secure rules and promises with code rather than trust”. He’s a corporate lawyer turned crypto enthusiast who found web3 through his job (of all places) when clients started asking questions about the legal status of bitcoin. In this episode, Chair & Bacon interview Ross about all things legal & ...

Share What You're Makin' w/ Chair & Bacon #2 - Rambling w Yalor

September 12, 2021 12:00 - 48 minutes - 70.5 MB

Chair and Bacon are back! But not for long as they’re going on the roooad!! The road to MCON! With them on this journey is one of the mangers of MCON, Yalor! Except…they don’t talk about MCON at all… Instead they have an interesting talk where they ramble through various topics surrounding governance and DAOs. Listen in for new insights and their opinions on the future of DAOs! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

MetaView #15 - Collaboration and Regenerativity with LuukDAO

September 02, 2021 16:53 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MB

Luuk is a Curaçao-born, Netherlands-dwelling, self-proclaimed “DAOist”. Starting his career learning administrative philosophy, he quickly fell down the DAO rabbit hole looking for ways to put abstract concepts into action. He is passionate about building organizations that leverage the efficiency, transparency and decentralization of web3 infrastructure and apply them to real-world problems. In collaboration with DAOstack, Luuk started CuraDAO, a community-driven, blockchain-powered social...

Share What You're Makin' w/ Chair & Bacon #1 - Penguin on Never Touch Fiat Again

August 17, 2021 20:27 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MB

Welcome to the inaugural episode of a new MetaGame Series called “Share What You’re Making” where our hosts, Chair and Bacon interview web3 people with innovative ideas and projects. In this episode, the benevolent flightless bird Penguin makes an appearance introducing his latest endeavour: NTFA.io. NFTA, “Never Touch Fiat Again” is an exciting project that bridges crypto markets and traditional financial markets by creating and selling NFTs that actually own gold. When you buy an NFT from...

Humans of MetaGame #4 - Dan The Ram

August 09, 2021 13:48 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MB

Dan is a software developer, born and raised in Bangalore, India, who jumped into MetaGame in the summer of 2020. In his former life, he studied mathematics and computing, and went on to join Flipkart as a full stack developer. Two years of working on the security team brought some interesting and valuable learning experiences, and a bit of an ominous forecast of what his future might look like - sitting in traffic for hours to suffer through corporate arguments while working on someone else...

MetaView #14 - Building Decentralized Systems & Impact Pirates with Sebnem of TokenEngineeringCommons

July 07, 2021 13:55 - 59 minutes - 82 MB

Sebnem is a researcher, entrepreneur, computer scientist, systems thinker and all-around superstar who has been deep in the token engineering space since 2016. Before jumping into the space, she specialized in peer-to-peer energy sharing systems, and was interested in decentralized business models that would make these systems viable. Token Engineering offered the potential to build the infrastructure and tooling to manage decentralized organizations and provide resiliency to inherently comp...

Autonomous B2 - Nelson Melina & Diana Morret on Rebuilding Rural Areas

July 01, 2021 21:30 - 48 minutes - 67 MB

The Autonomous Podcast B series explores the ideas of “fixing the world” through Grassroots movements and non-profits. In this episode, our host Nelson interviews Diana Morret, creator of Pandora Hub, Civic Hub, and other changemaking projects. Diana comes from rural Spanish roots. Her Father’s family was forced to abandon their village because of the miscalculation of a dam that was built next to the riverside. Diana’s history and the history of villages in Spain inspired her to start Pand...

Humans of Metagame #3 - Luxumbra the Swiis Knife

June 18, 2021 21:26 - 40 minutes - 55.8 MB

Luxumbra is a manual-laborer-turned-developer-turned-cat-herder that found MetaGame initially as DAO newbie researching Bitcoin use cases. In his crypto research, he stumbled upon Aragon and communities powered by Aragon. From there it was a classic story of falling into the rabbit hole and falling in love with communities that are genuinely more interested in creating value than extracting value. In his past lives, Luxumbra has been a developer, a construction worker, an educator, a travell...

Humans of Metagame #3 - Luxumbra the Swiss Knife

June 18, 2021 21:26 - 40 minutes - 55.8 MB

Luxumbra is a manual-laborer-turned-developer-turned-cat-herder that found MetaGame initially as DAO newbie researching Bitcoin use cases. In his crypto research, he stumbled upon Aragon and communities powered by Aragon. From there it was a classic story of falling into the rabbit hole and falling in love with communities that are genuinely more interested in creating value than extracting value. In his past lives, Luxumbra has been a developer, a construction worker, an educator, a travell...

Humans of Metagame #2 - Penguin The High Flying Flightless Bird

June 12, 2021 19:58 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MB

Penguin slid into the MetaGame and out of his 9-5 thanks to a classic pandemic story including working-from-home and a covid layoff. He found the DAOspace originally by alpha-testing a text-based game called waterdeep. He learned about NFTs and started asking questions, the answers to which hurled him down the rabbit hole of discovery, finding MetaCartel, MetaGame and other online communities. He started as a developer, and never expected that he’d be playing an instrumental piece in buildin...

MetaView #13 - Proof of Humanity & Democracy on the Blockchain with Santiago Siri

May 31, 2021 13:34 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MB

Santi Siri, founder of Democracy Earth Foundation, has been working with technologies attempting to advance democracy for over a decade. He began in Argentina with an internet-based political party that was proposing candidates committed to using their power according to the peoples’ interests online. With help from a grant in 2015 from Y Combinator, he started Democracy Earth Foundation, a non-profit building open source & censorship-resistant democracies that can be deployed anywhere with ...

Humans of Metagame #1 - METADREAMER of many DAOs

May 17, 2021 20:52 - 48 minutes - 66.7 MB

Hammad is a human of MetaGame; a software engineer, a designer, a futurist & a DAOist. Contributor to MetaGame, MetaFactory, Sourcecred & MetaCartel. he began contributing to MetaGame in late 2019. He was our very first serious builder, bringing us Sourcecred, building the first landing page & setting the foundations of the MetaOS. Suffice to say, we owe him a lot. In this episode we explore Hammad’s personal history; from crafting & trading in Runescape, to turning down Microsoft & his jou...

MetaView #12 - Deliberately Developmental Organizations with Durgadas of TEC

April 26, 2021 16:42 - 46 minutes - 64.5 MB

Durgadas is a self-proclaimed polymath. His background includes everything from professional bike racing, to website development, to a 5-year stretch learning about the internal self in monastaries. As a person on the autism spectrum, he says there is no “turning off the input”. He learned how to accept that and use it as a synesthetic ability to think about and imagine things in three dimensions. He has a diverse set of skills and life experience that come together in the crypto space, maki...

MetaView #11 - Adoption Where It Matters with Nadia of MakerDAO & MetaGammaDelta

February 05, 2021 01:48 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MB

In this episode Peth interviews Nadia Alvarez, who handles business development with Maker and has seen first-hand the power of crypto. In Latin America, people regularly deal with unstable national currencies. They need ways to store value because of crazy inflation, and DAI has given it to them. “There are many stories in Argentina and Venezuela, countries with the worst currencies in the region, that when they started to use DAI, their lives changed." They were able to save their money f...

MetaView #10 - Building Decentralized Organizations with Luke of 1Hive

January 14, 2021 19:44 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MB

Peth sat down with Luke from 1Hive to see what drives him, exchange knowledge & discuss the points of alignment. The thing that really pulled Luke into the space was getting to experiment with community run organizations aka DAOs & decentralization in general. This led him to work at Aragon, building DAO infrastructure for a while before starting 1Hive - a decentralized collective of builders - continuing to do just that. “It’s as much a social thing as it is a technical thing - you can ha...

Autonomous B1 - Smart Villages & Crypto Networks with Nelson Melina & Magenta Ceiba

December 18, 2020 03:55 - 49 minutes - 67.8 MB

In this second episode of the Autonomous B, Magenta sits down to chat with Nelson Melina. Nelson comes from the world of fintech & blockchains but is now focused on regenerative villages and how to use these new tools for new governance & business models. Not for-profit, not non-profit, but with-profit! Looking at the crypto graveyard, it becomes clear that it is not just about creating new things, but understanding what do people actually need. Maybe it’s actually about connecting existing...

Autonomous A1 - Taming Capitalism with Vinay Gupta of Mattereum

December 02, 2020 15:40 - 1 hour - 127 MB

Vinay got his start in software engineering, then spent about half his career in defense and energy policy think tanks working on the big “save the world” questions - food, shelter, pandemics, and all the rest of the worst-case scenario planning stuff. Then he decided to get a “real job” and ended up managing the launch of Ethereum back in 2015. Finally, he went on his way to found Mattereum. The discussion kicks off around the problem of capitalism with being extractive at one end, and pol...

Autonomous Genesis - Real World DAOs & Regenerative Economies with Magenta of Bloom Network

November 18, 2020 18:48 - 55 minutes - 75.9 MB

Note: This is the genesis episode of two wannabe-autonomous podcasts called Autonomous A & Autonomous B. If you want to know what the hell we mean by that, you're going to have to listen through at least the intro. 🙃 Bloom Network is a kind of a real world DAO focused on building regenerative economies. Unlike currently dominant extractive practices turning everything into profit & externalizing as much cost to the environment and the workers; regenerative economies are a practice of reve...

MetaView #9 - Owocki of Gitcoin on Public Goods Funding, Onboarding & Rewarding Systems

November 04, 2020 22:33 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MB

Besides being a family man, Kevin is devoted to getting more money into the hands of public good builders. At Gitcoin, they've been experimenting with the "Capital-constrained Liberal Radicalism" (or ‘CLR’) mechanism for funding public goods. The way it works is that the people vote with money, and then the "public fund" gets allocated to the most beloved public goods. Best part? The ones who receive the most from the matching pot are the ones with the most unique voters, not the ones who j...

MetaView #8 - The Power of Communities, Currencies & Other Things with Griff Green

October 14, 2020 12:39 - 1 hour - 85.9 MB

“My mission is not about the infrastructure - it’s kind of weird how we focus so much on the chain, and we almost lose sight of what is the point, what are we trying to do, what problems are we trying to solve?” As always, this episode covers a fairly broad range of subjects. From creating strong, healthy & value-aligned communities to creating value and rewarding value that has often been overlooked, to the power unlocked for the collectives and communities with the ability to create their...

MetaView #7 - Onboarding, Prototyping & Sidechaining with Austin Griffith

September 23, 2020 13:24 - 45 minutes - 63 MB

Peth talks to the GOAT Ethereum developer, tool builder, and one of the first quadratic freelancers through Gitcoin CLR grants - Austin Griffith. No matter what perspective you take, Austin has a wealth of experience to share on the Ethereum ecosystem and how to effectively onboard new developers into the space. There are certainly holes in the space that need to be filled, and people willing to experiment and build are helping to fill them. Main Topics: Onboarding Developers to Web3 Sca...

MetaView #6 - Local Economies & Decentralized Societies with Hammad, Peter, James & Drew

August 24, 2020 12:40 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MB

Summary 2020 has seen some monumental changes, and it’s hard to know exactly what ripple effects we will see in many areas of our lives. Trust is breaking down in a fundamental way throughout the world. A balance of global communication or knowledge and local action seems to be needed to address some of the issues we are facing today. Will a breakdown of supply chains fuel a shift to more local economies? Will we be able to create systems that more efficiently allocate resources like food t...

MetaView #6 - Local Economies & Decentralized Societies

August 24, 2020 12:40 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MB

Summary 2020 has seen some monumental changes, and it’s hard to know exactly what ripple effects we will see in many areas of our lives. Trust is breaking down in a fundamental way throughout the world. A balance of global communication or knowledge and local action seems to be needed to address some of the issues we are facing today. Will a breakdown of supply chains fuel a shift to more local economies? Will we be able to create systems that more efficiently allocate resources like food t...

MetaView #5 - Personal Tokens: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly with Elizabeth Renieris & Simona Pop

June 24, 2020 09:53 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MB

In this takeover episode, recorded on Juneteenth, we chat personal tokens in Ethereum and their implications against a broader backdrop of slavery, control and the negative aspects of imbuing humans with attributes we reserve for property. Our guest is Elizabeth Renieris, an entrepreneurial attorney, policy advisor, and strategic consultant passionate about the impact of emerging technologies on privacy, identity, civil society, and collective consciousness. Our conversation tackl...

MetaView E04 - Defying Status Quo & Building SourceCred

June 13, 2020 14:53 - 54 minutes - 75 MB

Today we welcome Decentralion from SourceCred to MetaView. The TL:DR on SourceCred = A new way for people to organize economically. One that isn't based on upfront transactions. Somewhere in between having a sleepover with Vitalk and losing millions of dollars (one of those private key stories, yikes!), they started working at Google and learned all about the pagerank algorithm, which inspired the idea of building a reputation platform. Offered support to build it inside Google, they saw ...

MetaView #4 - Defying Status Quo & Building SourceCred

June 13, 2020 14:53 - 54 minutes - 75 MB

Today we welcome Decentralion from SourceCred to MetaView. The TL:DR on SourceCred = A new way for people to organize economically. One that isn't based on upfront transactions. Somewhere in between having a sleepover with Vitalk and losing millions of dollars (one of those private key stories, yikes!), they started working at Google and learned all about the pagerank algorithm, which inspired the idea of building a reputation platform. Offered support to build it inside Google, they saw ...

MetaView with Niran - Past & Future of the Self-Organizing Societies

June 01, 2020 11:49 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MB

Taking a walk with Niran Babalola, the founder of Panvala https://panvala.com, telling us about his passion of organizing civic life in cyberspace through initiatives like DAO Rush Week https://daorushweek.com. He shares insights and wisdom from his journey exploring ways of organizing and the historical evolution of communities. He shows how empowering individuals with technology could lead humanity to a golden era of productivity and greater value distribution. An age of self-organizing,...

MetaView #3 - Past & Future of the Self-Organizing Societies with Niran Babalola

June 01, 2020 11:49 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MB

Taking a walk with Niran Babalola, the founder of Panvala https://panvala.com, telling us about his passion of organizing civic life in cyberspace through initiatives like DAO Rush Week https://daorushweek.com. He shares insights and wisdom from his journey exploring ways of organizing and the historical evolution of communities. He shows how empowering individuals with technology could lead humanity to a golden era of productivity and greater value distribution. An age of self-organizing,...

MetaView #2 - Lane Rettig of Spacemesh

May 12, 2020 11:58 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MB

Lane Rettig joins us to discuss what drew him into the Ethereum ecosystem and what keeps him here. Talks about big companies becoming public utilities, goes through aligning of incentives, tokenization of assets, and exiting to the community vs to VCs. Continues by discussing DAOs, values of the community, experimentation and a bunch of other things. Why are you still reading this? Just listen to it :) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/mes...

MetaPerspectives - Lane Rettig of Spacemesh

May 12, 2020 11:58 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MB

Lane Rettig joins us to discuss what drew him into the Ethereum ecosystem and what keeps him here. Talks about big companies becoming public utilities, goes through aligning of incentives, tokenization of assets, and exiting to the community vs to VCs. Continues by discussing DAOs, values of the community, experimentation and a bunch of other things. Why are you still reading this? Just listen to it :) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/metagame/message

MetaPerspectives - TJ Rush Founder of QuickBlocks

April 28, 2020 17:36 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MB

From diskettes to Dapps, TJ has seen it all. Our discussion at ETHdenver 2020 begins scratching the surface of what's possible with Web3 and how to avoid the same catastrophes the web2 movement has fallen victim to. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/metagame/message

MetaView #1 - TJ Rush Founder of QuickBlocks

April 28, 2020 17:36 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MB

From diskettes to Dapps, TJ has seen it all. Our discussion at ETHdenver 2020 begins scratching the surface of what's possible with Web3 and how to avoid the same catastrophes the web2 movement has fallen victim to. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

MetaFam and TJ Rush Founder of QuickBlocks

April 28, 2020 17:36 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MB

From diskettes to Dapps, TJ has seen it all. Our discussion at ETHdenver 2020 begins scratching the surface of what's possible with Web3 and how to avoid the same catastrophes the web2 movement has fallen victim to. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/MetaGame/message

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