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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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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>Answers, Research and Community with Nimit Girnaar</title>
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  <description>This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Nimit from Girnaar Nodes
Nimit, an entrepreneur, prioritizes bare-metal infrastructure over mainstream cloud providers, emphasizing the synergy between technology and capital. He champions decentralization, community, and continuous learning as key drivers of innovation, advocating for efficient compute power utilization through research-backed solutions.
Girnaar Nodes offers staking services designed to facilitate passive income generation and the expansion of your crypto portfolio, all while dedicated machines and expert teams handle the heavy lifting.
00:00 – 01:06 : Intro 
01:06 -- 03:58 : Nimit tells us about himself.  
03:58 -- 05:31 : Talks about involvement with LIDAR Finance
05:31 -- 08:19 : Take on centralized and decentralized networks.
08:19 -- 11:00 : The correct way to act to a story like Juno?
11:00 -- 15:54 : The mission and values of Girnaar
15:54 -- 21:42 : What a decentralized validator would look like.
21:42 -- 30:57 : Capital and increasing it with other revenue streams.
30:57 -- 33:31 : Thoughts on bare metal and cloud 
33:31 -- 35:55 : Decentralized cloud projects
35:55 -- 39:15 : The biggest challenge and what helped
39:15 -- 44:30 : How do you build the community
44:30 -- 49:58 : Showing your value to the community
49:58 -- 54:22 : How does a staker today should find the right validator?
54:22 -- 57:26 : The Blitz
We spoke to Nimit Bavishi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimitbavishi/?originalSubdomain=in)  about Girnaar Nodes (https://x.com/girnaarnodes) and:
Cloud credits
Never build on AWS or Microsoft
Bare metal or nothing
Compute power into money
2017 bull market
The right thing to do is decentralizing
Who have the capital?
Success is limited
The capital can't override the tech
The tech can't override the capital
Staking a positive flywheel effect
Account abstraction
Community
Learning was mindset
The answer is research
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://youtu.be/oZitakaMCao)
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/citizen_web3)
Sign up to the RSS feed (https://www.citizenweb3.com/rss)
Special Guest: Nimit Bavishi  .
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<p>This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Nimit from Girnaar Nodes</p>

<p>Nimit, an entrepreneur, prioritizes bare-metal infrastructure over mainstream cloud providers, emphasizing the synergy between technology and capital. He champions decentralization, community, and continuous learning as key drivers of innovation, advocating for efficient compute power utilization through research-backed solutions.</p>

<p>Girnaar Nodes offers staking services designed to facilitate passive income generation and the expansion of your crypto portfolio, all while dedicated machines and expert teams handle the heavy lifting.</p>

<p>00:00 – 01:06 : Intro <br>
01:06 -- 03:58 : Nimit tells us about himself.<br><br>
03:58 -- 05:31 : Talks about involvement with LIDAR Finance<br>
05:31 -- 08:19 : Take on centralized and decentralized networks.<br>
08:19 -- 11:00 : The correct way to act to a story like Juno?<br>
11:00 -- 15:54 : The mission and values of Girnaar<br>
15:54 -- 21:42 : What a decentralized validator would look like.<br>
21:42 -- 30:57 : Capital and increasing it with other revenue streams.<br>
30:57 -- 33:31 : Thoughts on bare metal and cloud <br>
33:31 -- 35:55 : Decentralized cloud projects<br>
35:55 -- 39:15 : The biggest challenge and what helped<br>
39:15 -- 44:30 : How do you build the community<br>
44:30 -- 49:58 : Showing your value to the community<br>
49:58 -- 54:22 : How does a staker today should find the right validator?<br>
54:22 -- 57:26 : The Blitz</p>

<hr>

<h5>We spoke to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimitbavishi/?originalSubdomain=in" rel="nofollow">Nimit Bavishi</a>  about <a href="https://x.com/girnaarnodes" rel="nofollow">Girnaar Nodes</a> and:</h5>

<ul>
<li>Cloud credits</li>
<li>Never build on AWS or Microsoft</li>
<li>Bare metal or nothing</li>
<li>Compute power into money</li>
<li>2017 bull market</li>
<li>The right thing to do is decentralizing</li>
<li>Who have the capital?</li>
<li>Success is limited</li>
<li>The capital can&#39;t override the tech</li>
<li>The tech can&#39;t override the capital</li>
<li>Staking a positive flywheel effect</li>
<li>Account abstraction</li>
<li>Community</li>
<li>Learning was mindset</li>
<li>The answer is research</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://youtu.be/oZitakaMCao" 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: Nimit Bavishi  .</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Avail" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.availproject.org/">Avail</a></li><li><a title="AWS" rel="nofollow" href="https://aws.amazon.com/blockchain/">AWS</a></li><li><a title="Azure" rel="nofollow" href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/web3">Azure</a></li><li><a title="Citizen Cosmos" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/citizen-cosmos/?trk=ppro_cprof">Citizen Cosmos</a></li><li><a title="DeFi Llama" rel="nofollow" href="https://defillama.com/">DeFi Llama</a></li><li><a title="Ethereum" rel="nofollow" href="https://ethereum.org/">Ethereum</a></li><li><a title="Ginar" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginar">Ginar</a></li><li><a title="Girnaar Nodes" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.girnaarnodes.live/">Girnaar Nodes</a></li><li><a title="Helium Decentralized Cloud" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.helium.com/technology">Helium Decentralized Cloud</a></li><li><a title="Justin Drake" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/drakefjustin/?originalSubdomain=uk">Justin Drake</a></li><li><a title="Lido" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/lido">Lido</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft</a></li><li><a title="Podcast with P2P founder " rel="nofollow" href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/p2p">Podcast with P2P founder </a></li><li><a title="Polygon" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon_(blockchain)">Polygon</a></li><li><a title="Polygon 2.0" rel="nofollow" href="https://polygon.technology/roadmap">Polygon 2.0</a></li><li><a title="RPCs" rel="nofollow" href="https://unchainedcrypto.com/what-are-rpcs-in-crypto/#:~:text=A%20Remote%20Procedure%20Call%20(RPC)%20is%20a%20software%20communication%20protocol,on%20a%20different%20blockchain%20network.">RPCs</a></li><li><a title="Silicon Valley" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/">Silicon Valley</a></li><li><a title="Snapshot" rel="nofollow" href="https://snapshot.org/#/">Snapshot</a></li><li><a title="Stakepool" rel="nofollow" href="https://stakepool.fr/">Stakepool</a></li><li><a title="Start-Up" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12867810/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_start">Start-Up</a></li><li><a title="Tenderize" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tenderize.me/">Tenderize</a></li><li><a title="TVL" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.techopedia.com/definition/total-value-locked-tvl">TVL</a></li><li><a title="Web3" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3">Web3</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<hr>

<p>This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Nimit from Girnaar Nodes</p>

<p>Nimit, an entrepreneur, prioritizes bare-metal infrastructure over mainstream cloud providers, emphasizing the synergy between technology and capital. He champions decentralization, community, and continuous learning as key drivers of innovation, advocating for efficient compute power utilization through research-backed solutions.</p>

<p>Girnaar Nodes offers staking services designed to facilitate passive income generation and the expansion of your crypto portfolio, all while dedicated machines and expert teams handle the heavy lifting.</p>

<p>00:00 – 01:06 : Intro <br>
01:06 -- 03:58 : Nimit tells us about himself.<br><br>
03:58 -- 05:31 : Talks about involvement with LIDAR Finance<br>
05:31 -- 08:19 : Take on centralized and decentralized networks.<br>
08:19 -- 11:00 : The correct way to act to a story like Juno?<br>
11:00 -- 15:54 : The mission and values of Girnaar<br>
15:54 -- 21:42 : What a decentralized validator would look like.<br>
21:42 -- 30:57 : Capital and increasing it with other revenue streams.<br>
30:57 -- 33:31 : Thoughts on bare metal and cloud <br>
33:31 -- 35:55 : Decentralized cloud projects<br>
35:55 -- 39:15 : The biggest challenge and what helped<br>
39:15 -- 44:30 : How do you build the community<br>
44:30 -- 49:58 : Showing your value to the community<br>
49:58 -- 54:22 : How does a staker today should find the right validator?<br>
54:22 -- 57:26 : The Blitz</p>

<hr>

<h5>We spoke to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimitbavishi/?originalSubdomain=in" rel="nofollow">Nimit Bavishi</a>  about <a href="https://x.com/girnaarnodes" rel="nofollow">Girnaar Nodes</a> and:</h5>

<ul>
<li>Cloud credits</li>
<li>Never build on AWS or Microsoft</li>
<li>Bare metal or nothing</li>
<li>Compute power into money</li>
<li>2017 bull market</li>
<li>The right thing to do is decentralizing</li>
<li>Who have the capital?</li>
<li>Success is limited</li>
<li>The capital can&#39;t override the tech</li>
<li>The tech can&#39;t override the capital</li>
<li>Staking a positive flywheel effect</li>
<li>Account abstraction</li>
<li>Community</li>
<li>Learning was mindset</li>
<li>The answer is research</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://youtu.be/oZitakaMCao" 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: Nimit Bavishi  .</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Avail" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.availproject.org/">Avail</a></li><li><a title="AWS" rel="nofollow" href="https://aws.amazon.com/blockchain/">AWS</a></li><li><a title="Azure" rel="nofollow" href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/web3">Azure</a></li><li><a title="Citizen Cosmos" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/citizen-cosmos/?trk=ppro_cprof">Citizen Cosmos</a></li><li><a title="DeFi Llama" rel="nofollow" href="https://defillama.com/">DeFi Llama</a></li><li><a title="Ethereum" rel="nofollow" href="https://ethereum.org/">Ethereum</a></li><li><a title="Ginar" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginar">Ginar</a></li><li><a title="Girnaar Nodes" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.girnaarnodes.live/">Girnaar Nodes</a></li><li><a title="Helium Decentralized Cloud" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.helium.com/technology">Helium Decentralized Cloud</a></li><li><a title="Justin Drake" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/drakefjustin/?originalSubdomain=uk">Justin Drake</a></li><li><a title="Lido" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/lido">Lido</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft</a></li><li><a title="Podcast with P2P founder " rel="nofollow" href="https://www.citizenweb3.com/p2p">Podcast with P2P founder </a></li><li><a title="Polygon" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon_(blockchain)">Polygon</a></li><li><a title="Polygon 2.0" rel="nofollow" href="https://polygon.technology/roadmap">Polygon 2.0</a></li><li><a title="RPCs" rel="nofollow" href="https://unchainedcrypto.com/what-are-rpcs-in-crypto/#:~:text=A%20Remote%20Procedure%20Call%20(RPC)%20is%20a%20software%20communication%20protocol,on%20a%20different%20blockchain%20network.">RPCs</a></li><li><a title="Silicon Valley" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/">Silicon Valley</a></li><li><a title="Snapshot" rel="nofollow" href="https://snapshot.org/#/">Snapshot</a></li><li><a title="Stakepool" rel="nofollow" href="https://stakepool.fr/">Stakepool</a></li><li><a title="Start-Up" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12867810/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_start">Start-Up</a></li><li><a title="Tenderize" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tenderize.me/">Tenderize</a></li><li><a title="TVL" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.techopedia.com/definition/total-value-locked-tvl">TVL</a></li><li><a title="Web3" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3">Web3</a></li></ul>]]>
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