Citizen Web3 Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Validators”

Web3 Vibes, Community Building and Infrastructure with Dilan Asatekin

serejandmyself — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Dilan Asatekin founder at Imperator.co

Dilan delves into a wide range of topics and shows us the people and passion behind the providers of decentraliced infrastructure. Dilan also explains that you don’t choose the Vvlidator Life, the validator life chooses you.

Imperator.co aims to make staking easy.Their website states that they facilitate investors and token holders in securing proof-of-stake networks through non-custodial staking.

We spoke to Dilan Asatekin about Imperator and:

Why Web3
Mission goals
The power of luck
Betting on education
Importance of open source
Defining red flags
Decentralisation
Infrastructure
The secrets of community building
Web3 vibes
Chain selection criteria
Challenges of a fully remote team
Putting people into the light

* Why you would choose to be a validator

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Hardware, Data Centers and Life Cycles with Isaac Zarb

serejandmyself — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0000

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Isaac Zarb, CTO and co- founder of Simply Staking

Simply Staking aims to offer self-managed, self-owned, secure. They also say that they are a Tier 3 data centre with immediate onsite access without the need for 3rd party or public cloud providers. They claim to offer maximum privacy and security, ensuring multiple layers of redundancy.

Our guest Isaac Zarb has had an interesting journey and we discuss many of his experiences. He provides insight on what it takes to start a data centre, what is at the heart of blockchain, as well as how important governance is. He also discusses how improved connectivity will eventually be the key in uniting the tribes in Web3 and the importance of testnets.

00:00 -- 01:21 : Intro
01:21 -- 09:52 : Isaac explains the start of his journey and the birth of Simply Staking
09:52 -- 13:00 : A discussion about the need for validator tools.
13:00 -- 20:37 : Isaac details how they set up the origial data centre and their expansion.
20:37 -- 24:44 : Isaac explains when they feel refurbished hardware is permissible.
24:44 -- 32:59 : Isaac gives his opinion on initial start up costs and hardware needed for a new validator.
32:59 -- 36:18 : Isaac explains how they select which networks they validate and the importance of testnets.
36:81 -- 39:42 : What is the goal and what are the values?
39:42 -- 43:09 : What should validators do with regards to governance and KYC?
43:09 -- 47:22 : Potential dangers of KYC for a validator and how ZK Proofs could solve it.
47:22 -- 55:56 : Isaac gives his opinions on tribalism.
55:56 -- 58:30 : Simply staking projects in the pipeline and the outro

We spoke to Isaac Zarb about SimplyStaking and:

What is the heart of defi
Data sovereignty
Risks and rewards of KYC
Dangers of cloud services for decentralization
Refurbished hardware
Tax compliance
How validators add value outside of providing nodes
Scalability for validators
Challenges of running a business through Covid
The importance of governance and voting with regards for validators
The pros and cons of Island life
The value of participating in testnets
The life cycle of projects and founders
Cloud vs Bare Metal
Origins of Simplystaking
Adapting projects to be profitable
Costs of launching a startup
True use case for NFT’s

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Semantics, Modular Architecture and Predicting the Future with Marko Baricevic

serejandmyself — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:00:00 +0100

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Marko Baricevic Co-founder of Binary Builders, focused on providing a range of services to the interchain such as contributing to the Cosmos SDK

Binary builders also is developing Numia an interface that makes stored data from a veriety of Cosmos SDK chains accessible to users, as well as The interchain Builders Program, which provides mentorship, structured support and guidance for teams who build in the Interchain, using at least one component of the Cosmos Stack

We spoke to Marko about Binary Builders and:

The birth of IBC
The vision of Jae
Solving governance in a decentralized way
Modular architecture
How and why modularity in software is lost.
Sovereign Rollups
Semantics
Perseverance as the key to achieving your goal
Creating the best possible user experience
Predicting the future/Predicting future trends
Being a Tech Maxi instead
The role of validators in an ecosystem
Learning from each other across different ecosystems
The challenges of getting started as a validator
Changing the paradigm for teams in the workplace
Interchain semantics
ZK technology and the future
What drives different people
How to achieve happiness

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Special Guest: Marko Baricevic.

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Validation Management, the Engine of Progress and Liquid Staking with Julius Schmidt

serejandmyself — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Julius Schmidt - COO of Staking Facilities, staking service provider on Cosmos, Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot and other networks.

Stakign Facilities strives to develop industry standards for convenient staking with compelling project selection while retaining outstanding security standards. They have been running secure, available and performant staking infrastructure since 2017.

We spoke to Julius Schmidt about Staking Facilities and:

Staking Facilities values
The socio-economical side of crypto
Incentives
Blockchain as one of the most important engine of progress
Validation and staking infrastructure
Atom 2.0
Team structures
Institutionals vs non-institutionals
Validation management
Transparency in desicion making
Liquid staking design
Motivation and goals

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