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    <description>Exploring blockchain decentralization and the Web3 universe for over 5 years, through in-depth, hour-long conversations with builders, thinkers, and contributors—founders, validators, node operators, CTOs, VCs, DAOs, and privacy advocates. We explore critical topics: privacy, security, decentralization, technological progress, finance and cryptocurrencies dark sides, alongside personal stories of success, failure, and lessons learned.
Blockchain-agnostic and building for decentralization, Citizen Web3 runs off-the-grid, non-custodial validator infrastructure, contributing to public goods and Web3.  Support our work by staking with us: staking.citizenweb3.com/
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Blockchain-agnostic and building for decentralization, Citizen Web3 runs off-the-grid, non-custodial validator infrastructure, contributing to public goods and Web3.  Support our work by staking with us: staking.citizenweb3.com/
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  <title>Breaking Software, VR and Validating as a Business with Mircea Colonescu</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Mircea Colonescu, Infrastructure Engineer at Informal leading the operations of the Cephalopod Validator.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Mircea Colonescu, Infrastructure Engineer at Informal leading the operations of the Cephalopod Validator.
The mission of Informal Systems is a vision is an open-source ecosystem of cooperatively owned and governed distributed organizations running on reliable distributed systems to bring verifiability to distributed systems and organizations.
Cephalopod equipment operate infrastructure for decentralized technologies designed to support new forms of economic coordination and participant-owned networks.
We spoke to Mircea Colonescu (https://github.com/mircea-c) about Cephalopod (https://cephalopod.equipment/) and:
Validating as a business
Validators and operators
Testing &amp;amp; breaking software
VR
Security
Relaying
DLT
Formal verifications
Gaming
Motivation
Cooperation
Disconnecting &amp;amp; burnout
If you like what we do at Citizen Web3:
Stake with Citizen Web3 validator (https://www.citizenweb3.com/staking)
Listen to the YouTube version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziUUcZjLJT0)
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/citizen_web3)
Sign up to the RSS feed (https://www.citizenweb3.com/rss) Special Guest: Mircea Colonescu .
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<p>This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Mircea Colonescu, Infrastructure Engineer at Informal leading the operations of the Cephalopod Validator.</p>

<p>The mission of Informal Systems is a vision is an open-source ecosystem of cooperatively owned and governed distributed organizations running on reliable distributed systems to bring verifiability to distributed systems and organizations.</p>

<p>Cephalopod equipment operate infrastructure for decentralized technologies designed to support new forms of economic coordination and participant-owned networks.</p>

<hr>

<h5>We spoke to <a href="https://github.com/mircea-c" rel="nofollow">Mircea Colonescu</a> about <a href="https://cephalopod.equipment/" rel="nofollow">Cephalopod</a> and:</h5>

<ul>
<li>Validating as a business</li>
<li>Validators and operators</li>
<li>Testing &amp; breaking software</li>
<li>VR</li>
<li>Security</li>
<li>Relaying</li>
<li>DLT</li>
<li>Formal verifications</li>
<li>Gaming</li>
<li>Motivation</li>
<li>Cooperation</li>
<li>Disconnecting &amp; burnout</li>
</ul>

<hr>

<h5>If you like what we do at Citizen Web3:</h5>

<ul>
<li>Stake with Citizen Web3 <a href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/staking" rel="nofollow">validator</a></li>
<li>Listen to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziUUcZjLJT0" rel="nofollow">YouTube version</a></li>
<li>Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/citizen_web3" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Sign up to the <a href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/rss" rel="nofollow">RSS feed</a></li>
</ul><p>Special Guest: Mircea Colonescu .</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Cephalopod equipment" rel="nofollow" href="https://cephalopod.equipment">Cephalopod equipment</a></li><li><a title="Cosmos" rel="nofollow" href="https://cosmos.network/">Cosmos</a></li><li><a title="Cyber" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/cyber">Cyber</a></li><li><a title="Ethan Buchman" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/ethan-buchman-cosmos">Ethan Buchman</a></li><li><a title="IBC" rel="nofollow" href="https://ibcprotocol.org/">IBC</a></li><li><a title="Informal Systems" rel="nofollow" href="https://informal.systems">Informal Systems</a></li><li><a title="Morgan Stanley" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Stanley">Morgan Stanley</a></li><li><a title="Starcraft" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft">Starcraft</a></li><li><a title="Strangelove validator" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.strangelove.ventures/">Strangelove validator</a></li><li><a title="Tendermint" rel="nofollow" href="https://tendermint.com/">Tendermint</a></li><li><a title="Urbit" rel="nofollow" href="https://urbit.org/">Urbit</a></li></ul>]]>
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<p>This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Mircea Colonescu, Infrastructure Engineer at Informal leading the operations of the Cephalopod Validator.</p>

<p>The mission of Informal Systems is a vision is an open-source ecosystem of cooperatively owned and governed distributed organizations running on reliable distributed systems to bring verifiability to distributed systems and organizations.</p>

<p>Cephalopod equipment operate infrastructure for decentralized technologies designed to support new forms of economic coordination and participant-owned networks.</p>

<hr>

<h5>We spoke to <a href="https://github.com/mircea-c" rel="nofollow">Mircea Colonescu</a> about <a href="https://cephalopod.equipment/" rel="nofollow">Cephalopod</a> and:</h5>

<ul>
<li>Validating as a business</li>
<li>Validators and operators</li>
<li>Testing &amp; breaking software</li>
<li>VR</li>
<li>Security</li>
<li>Relaying</li>
<li>DLT</li>
<li>Formal verifications</li>
<li>Gaming</li>
<li>Motivation</li>
<li>Cooperation</li>
<li>Disconnecting &amp; burnout</li>
</ul>

<hr>

<h5>If you like what we do at Citizen Web3:</h5>

<ul>
<li>Stake with Citizen Web3 <a href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/staking" rel="nofollow">validator</a></li>
<li>Listen to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziUUcZjLJT0" rel="nofollow">YouTube version</a></li>
<li>Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/citizen_web3" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Sign up to the <a href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/rss" rel="nofollow">RSS feed</a></li>
</ul><p>Special Guest: Mircea Colonescu .</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Cephalopod equipment" rel="nofollow" href="https://cephalopod.equipment">Cephalopod equipment</a></li><li><a title="Cosmos" rel="nofollow" href="https://cosmos.network/">Cosmos</a></li><li><a title="Cyber" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/cyber">Cyber</a></li><li><a title="Ethan Buchman" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/ethan-buchman-cosmos">Ethan Buchman</a></li><li><a title="IBC" rel="nofollow" href="https://ibcprotocol.org/">IBC</a></li><li><a title="Informal Systems" rel="nofollow" href="https://informal.systems">Informal Systems</a></li><li><a title="Morgan Stanley" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Stanley">Morgan Stanley</a></li><li><a title="Starcraft" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft">Starcraft</a></li><li><a title="Strangelove validator" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.strangelove.ventures/">Strangelove validator</a></li><li><a title="Tendermint" rel="nofollow" href="https://tendermint.com/">Tendermint</a></li><li><a title="Urbit" rel="nofollow" href="https://urbit.org/">Urbit</a></li></ul>]]>
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