Citizen Web3 Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Validating”

The Great Chinese Firewall, Sand and Governance with Jacob Gadikian

serejandmyself — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0100

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Jacob Gadikian, the founder of Notional Labs, validating various networks in the Cosmos ecosystem.

Notional uses in-house hardware. Validating outside the cloud increases decentralization and dramatically improves epoch time. As a validator and software developer, Notional performs IBC relayers to support the interchain and provides services for various chains in Cosmos Ecosystem, from RPC, gRPC, WebSocket and API to snapshot service uptime monitor status.

We spoke to Jacob about Notional Labs and:

How Notional Labs took off
Sand and trucks
The first server of Notion
How to relay properly
IBC
DEXs
CosmWasm integration
Governance
What keeps Jacob moving forward
China
The great firewall
Gaining trust
Jacob’s motivation

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Breaking Software, VR and Validating as a Business with Mircea Colonescu

serejandmyself — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:00:00 +0000

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 about Cephalopod and:

Validating as a business
Validators and operators
Testing & breaking software
VR
Security
Relaying
DLT
Formal verifications
Gaming
Motivation
Cooperation
Disconnecting & burnout

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Special Guest: Mircea Colonescu .

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Airdrops, Democracy and Operator Values with Cosmosuplink

serejandmyself — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:00:00 +0000

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features David, founder of CosmosUpLink, a web app that helps follow events, catch airdrops and save time roaming the Cosmos.

We spoke to David about CosmosUpLink and:

His crypto story
Consensus and democracy
The bible
Validating and staking
Saving time for crypto users
Burning out and working
An upcoming airdrop
Future chain launch
Validator operators and their values
Motivation

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Special Guest: David Sen Com.

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Validating, the Cosmos ecosystem and Airdrops with Highlander

serejandmyself — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:00:00 +0000

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Highlander, a validator and a Cosmos ecosystem contributor.

Highlander-Nodes is a Validator and dev contributor, that highly participate in a few Cosmos projects, such as Juno, Comdex, Ki-Network. The Highlander team believes in their experience in validation, as they’re a team that has seen the ecosystem evolve across multiple phases, and saw the potential in Juno to help offload Smart Contract deployment from Cosmos Hub.

We spoke to Highlander, about validating and:

Crypto journey
Ethereum and the Interchain
Honest income and values
Ecosystem development
Decentralization and human choice
Benefits of the community
Airdrops
Web3 for the people
Development
Future plans
New projects in Cosmos
Motivation

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Special Guest: Highlander.

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Intuition, product development and success with David Park

serejandmyself — Mon, 24 May 2021 15:00:00 +0100

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features David Park, co-founder of Cosmostation, one of the biggest staking providers in blockchain industry.

Cosmostation is one of the largest staking providers in the blockchain industry. It also provides various products, such as wallets, explorers, statistics, etc. and allows users to access DeFi right away by delegating your tokens and earning rewards.

We spoke to David about Cosmostation and:

IBC and plans for integration
DeFi and second layers
How to bridge Ethereum and Cosmos
Binance smart chain
Roommates and blockchains
Intuition and blockchains
Failures in crypto-investing
Mintscan and its success
Korea and Seoul on the blockchain map
Founders and crypto projects
Decentralization and validators
A Community network VS a foundation network
Cosmos hub and its bigger role
Ambitions and plans
Exciting projects

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Staking, the cost of freedom and business with Chris Remus

serejandmyself — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0100

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Chris Remus from Chainflow & Staking defense. We discuss the differences between operators and validators, their role and importance in the ecosystem and why it's uber important to decentralize staking power. We talk about the monetary cost of freedom, product management in the validation business and about decentralized projects in general.

Chainflow believes in a decentralized future. They are optimistic that decentralization will decentralize power. That centralization of power causes many of the world’s biggest problems and that decentralization results in a fairer distribution of power, wealth, and opportunity. The Chainflow Staking Systems are a contribution toward manifesting a decentralized future.

We spoke to Chris Remus about Chainflow and:

The differences between operators and validators
Their role and importance in the ecosystem
Why it's uber important to decentralize staking power
The monetary cost of freedom
Product management in the validation business
Decentralized projects

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Adoption, fish and staking with JK

serejandmyself — Fri, 22 May 2020 19:00:00 +0100

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features JK from Stake Fish staking service provider. We discuss the recipe needed to become the biggest fish among Cosmos validators. About languages, location, difficult decisions, the origins of the naming of the fish, the criteria needed for Stake Fish to validate your project and Children of the Earth.

Stake Fish are a leading staking service provider for blockchain projects, that invest a lot of time and effort to set up robust validator nodes and put security measures around nodes. On top of just the infrastructure, stake fish eat lunch by having tokens staked on their own validators.

We spoke to JK about Stake Fish and:

The recipe needed to become the biggest fish among validators
Decentralisation
About languages and location
The origins of the naming of the fish
The criteria needed for Stake Fish to validate your project
Children of the Earth

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Special Guest: Jun Soo (JK) Kim.

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Data Privacy, web3 and risk managment with Lee Hyung Yeon

serejandmyself — Thu, 14 May 2020 15:00:00 +0100

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Lee Hyung Yeon from Bharvest validator and staking services provider. We discuss a risk managers view on the world of blockchain, cryptonomics and Web 3 projects. We also touch on data privacy aspects of the Cosmos protocol.

B-Harvest, from Seoul, South Korea, provides validation services for multiple dPoS networks and is actively engaging in decentralized governance. Among them, such web3 blockchain networks as, Cosmos, Polkadot, etc

We spoke to Lee Hyung Yeon about Bharvest validator and:

Staking
Decentralisation
Risk managers in blockchains
Cryptonomics
Data privacy aspects of the Cosmos protocol

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Next generation socials networks and guitars with Kwun Yeung

serejandmyself — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:00:00 +0100

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Kwun Yeung. Kwun is the Founder of the Forbole validator, the creator of BigDipper explorer and the mastermind behind Desmos. We will discuss next-generation social networks and how your background can help you run a validator business. We also touch on decentralised politics, using GPUs in validating and guitar brands.

Forbole are Co-building Interchain. They are validators, builders & contributors, that provide enterprise-level staking service to both whales and fish. Providing All-in-one non-custodial wallet Staking, Governance, asset Managing.

Desmos, from the ancient Greek δεσμός (“bond, relationship"), is a blockchain built on top of the Cosmos SDK and based on the Tendermint consensus engine specific for social networking apps. It uses game theory and on-chain governance to decentralize the business model of social networks prioritizing the interests of users.

We spoke to Kwun Yeung about Forbole and:

The BigDipper explorer
Next-generation social networks
Validator business
Decentralized politics
Using GPUs in validating
Guitar brands

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