COINBASE for Crypto has come

[vimothy]

I've not watched the whole thing yet bc it's about ten hours long but seems pretty on point so far

 

[Clinamenic]

Not really work, but I've done some graphic design for a couple DAOs and have been compensated in a couple different crypto assets. The three that I'm working with are all pretty much emergent from the community itself, so its not like anyone really works for CityCoins or for PubDAO or for Lobby 3, as from maybe the core team members who are still mainly doing it in their spare time.

Aside from graphic design work, I'm helping with DAO structural ideation, aiming to establish ambassador programs in these DAOs to foster partnerships and collaboration.

This is another example of blockchain going beyond crypto. Social institutions are being built out of code. While web3 itself is still more or less entirely a frontier, DAOs are the frontier within the frontier.

 

[Clinamenic]

I've not watched the whole thing yet bc it's about ten hours long but seems pretty on point so far

Yeah I only watched the first twenty minutes, so there could be more substantial stuff later on for all I know.

 

[vimothy]

first twenty mins is pretty solid I thought, what did you disagree with?

 

[Clinamenic]

first twenty mins is pretty solid I thought, what did you disagree with?

Honestly I didn't disagree with his technical points (e.g. bitcoin being far too volatile to function as a currency, the whole space being too jargony for normal people to discern, etc), I just didn't wanna watch two hours of axe-to-grind polemics.

 

[vimothy]

he makes a lot of good points, I don't think you can just dismiss them as polemic without going into specifics

 

[IdleRich]

The video I shared was terrible though, let me be clear.

 

[Clinamenic]

he makes a lot of good points, I don't think you can just dismiss them as polemic without going into specifics

I would probably agree with much of what he would say about NFTs.

 

[vimothy]

first 40 mins btw are a really good - critical - general overview of crypto

 

[Clinamenic]

he makes a lot of good points, I don't think you can just dismiss them as polemic without going into specifics

He did get to name calling pretty quickly, though.

 

[vimothy]

I don't recall any name calling. he seemed critical, but in an informed way

 

[Clinamenic]

first 40 mins btw are a really good - critical - general overview of crypto

Yeah he did seem to know what he was talking about, enough to explain the basics of blockchain to a lay audience.

 

[vimothy]

ok, he slates crypto, but is that fair, or not? if it's not, then where is he wrong

 

[vimothy]

also, what's his background? where's he come from? he seems really up on all of this stuff, even on the finance side of things, which is very unusual

 

[vimothy]

the section on nfts is like 🤯

 

[Clinamenic]

I don't recall any name calling. he seemed critical, but in an informed way

"failed-journalist-turned-crypto-shill Camilla Russo" not quite name-calling but certainly needlessly pejorative, considering her podcast, newsletter, and youtube content is among the highest quality informational content out there. The "shill" part, while pejorative, is somewhat accurate insofar as she and her platform embody the kind of uncritical utopianism that people reasonably take issue with. But really she's no shill.

But his critique of her, namely that she isn't critical enough, I think is sound and also applies to crypto culture at large.

 

[vimothy]

what's your take on her book then, is it critical? he makes it seem like it's not

 

[Clinamenic]

I haven't read that book, nor do I really want to. I learned about it maybe a year and a half ago, when I first heard her featured on another podcast, and it seems like a thorough history about Ethereum's founding. But even then it seemed like it was written through a pro-crypto lens, almost as if approaching the founding like it was lore or legend or some such.

 

[vimothy]

did you see the graph overlaying all of the historical bubbles where ethereum completely dwarfs them all?

 

[Clinamenic]

Which is fine, I mean her audience is definitely a pro-crypto audience. Her platform is arguably the premier DeFi news source.