Building for Big V Value
summary
Argues that crypto optimizes small numbers like TVL and DAUs over real-world benefits, citing memecoin dominance (Dog with hat token, pump.fun) and day‑one billion‑dollar chain launches that enable insider dumps; describes building fair‑launch tooling that investors rejected; warns Tornado Cash rulings and Worldcoin biometrics undermine privacy; proposes concrete alternatives: quadratic voting used for hackathon judgments and citizens assemblies, decentralized governance of models and system prompts, local open models (running Llama 3 costs ~£3k GPU), DAOs, tokenized land and decentralized credentialing.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:49Ethos values in crypto
- 4:18Problem with small V value
- 9:40Crypto’s lost vision
- 11:45Big V value over numbers
- 12:48Privacy under attack
- 14:57Usable and accessible crypto
- 17:02Permissionless innovation
- 18:29Challenging centralized power
- 20:41Social systems impact
- 22:10Secrecy tactics
- 23:16Independence traps
- 24:40Anti-corporate stance
- 26:06Sustainable economies
- 26:50FOSS as resistance
- 27:32Building for the commons
- 28:35Call for decentralized governance
- 29:38Q&A
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