Citizen Web3 Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Money”

Foundations, Quality Infrastructure and Batman with Thomas High Stakes

serejandmyself — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:00:00 +0000

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Thomas from High Stakes

Thomas reflected on the crypto space, from vanishing millions and GPU shortages to the importance of strategic positioning through foundations. For him, success comes down to a broad assessment—analyzing white papers, infrastructure quality, and costs—while only engaging in truly interesting projects, all with a bit of a Batman mindset.

High Stakes provides reliable, secure validator services for multiple blockchains, backed by strong Swiss-based infrastructure. Committed to decentralization, they actively engage in governance, develop community tools, and support other validator teams in the open-source spirit.

We spoke to Thomas about High Stakes and:

Seeing about a million dollars that just vanished
Bored out of my mind
You couldn't buy a GPU because of all the miners
Foundations, the fastest way of securing a position
Only get involved with interesting projects
It's about a broad assessment
Reading the white paper
Hobo asking for money
Multiple parameters, quality of the infrastructure, also the cost
Being Batman

Timestamps

00:00 – 05:20 : Intro
05:20 -- 10:41 : The switch
10:41 -- 13:02 : Deciding to go that way
13:02 -- 22:01 : What not to do and chain selection
22:01 -- 29:20 : Validators contributing to adoption
29:20 -- 36:08 : Cosmos and goals
36:08 -- 51:00 : Setup
51:00 – 55:37 : The Blitz

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Special Guest: Thomas Lafaille.

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DeAI, Going Nuclear and Validating with Brad Fuller

serejandmyself — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:00:00 +0000

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Brad Fuller from NorthTensor

Brad Fuller, is a key figure in crypto, emphasizing adaptability, meaningful work, and decentralized AI while cautioning against short-term financial mindsets. He believes AI should minimize losses and acknowledges the human tendency toward centralization.

orthTensor is a leading validator in the Bittensor ecosystem, specializing in decentralized AI and offering up to 15% APY on TAO staking. The company allocates staked TAO to innovative projects within the decentralized Bittensor AI network, ensuring both security and high returns for stakeholders.

We spoke to Brad Fuller about NorthTensor and:

Signing up for the next cool thing
You must be dynamic
It's not pump and dumps and making money
Work means more than just being rich
AI is about minimizing the loss
The next big thing
Drawn to power
Going Nuclear
Decentralized artificial intelligence
Rich people hacker culture kind of thing
People are drawn to centralization

Timestamps

00:00 – 06:38 : Intro
06:38 -- 20:00 : Digging into Bitcoin
20:00 -- 22:50 : Decentralized AI
22:50 -- 28:54 : Consensus
28:54 -- 34:50 : Validating
34:50 -- 37:00 : Electricity and AI
37:50 -- 46:20 : Bias models
46:20 -- 48:03 : The goal
48:03 -- 49:57 : Community
49:57 – 53:48 : The Blitz

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Special Guest: Brad Fuller.

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Nothing is Unbreakable, Orchestrators and Politicians with PFC Ian

serejandmyself — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 20:00:00 +0100

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Ian from PFC

Ian criticized the difficulty of doing the right thing, the current state of Bitcoin, and the uselessness of politicians. He emphasized innovation driven by great ideas, advocated for avoiding the traditional banking system, and acknowledged significant progress in the space.

The Panamanian Flower Company (PFC) leads the web3 industry by offering dependable infrastructure, technical expertise, and tools for web3 ecosystems, along with developing dApps.

We spoke to Ian about PFC and:

They don't make it easy to do the right thing
Bitcoin being at 60 or 61 is not helping
Politicians are useless cunts
Nothing is unbreakable
It's just how much money you need to spend
Unbanked the banked
Not touching the banking system at all, is quite amusing
Shout out to Strangelove
It's not necessarily about the money it’s about great ideas
Lots of innovations going on

Timestamps

00:00 – 02:57 : Intro
02:57 -- 12:39 : All about the name
12:39 -- 20:51 : Anonymity
20:51 -- 26:45 : The attraction of this industry
26:45 -- 43:58 : Perks & cons of white labelling
43:58 -- 56:05 : Introducing this to the real-world assets
56:05 – 01:02:03 : The Blitz

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Answers, Research and Community with Nimit Girnaar

serejandmyself — Thu, 02 May 2024 18:00:00 +0100

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 about Girnaar Nodes 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

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