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176 | ConstitutionDAO’s Julian Weisser and Will Papper: We’re Trying to Buy the Constitution

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Will Papper, co-founder of SyndicateDAO and Julian Weisser, On Deck co-founder and ODX investor, join The Realignment to discuss their work as contributors to ConstitutionDAO to purchase one of 11 surviving copies of the U.S. Constitution from a Sotheby’s auction this Thursday via a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO. They discuss their interest in Web3 projects, how Web3 concepts like DAO can fix the internet, and why decentralized organizational models hold so much promise. For more on ConstitutionDAO and additional Web3 resources:https://www.constitutiondao.com/ Packy McCormick, Let’s Buy the Constitution: https://www.notboring.co/p/lets-buy-the-us-constitution Jack Raines, We the Peopl3: https://youngmoneyweekly.substack.com/p/we-the-peopl3?r=lpgtd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

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0:00.0

Marshall here, welcome back to the Realignment.

0:02.8

The purpose of decimbalization is not to enable the best of times.

0:12.7

It's to protect against the worst of times.

0:15.1

Where it is true that companies are more efficient.

0:19.9

It is true that companies can make this as an ambassador.

0:22.3

It is true that we had three different coder repositories for Constitution doubt.

0:28.0

When the first few days, it is true that decimbalization is much more messy.

0:33.2

But that does hinder in some ways the best of times.

0:37.8

It took longer to set this all up because we're decentralized.

0:40.5

It took longer to set this up as a doubt.

0:42.6

But the flip side is that it protects against the worst of times.

0:46.2

Is that because there are so many more people involved, because everyone has a voice,

0:50.9

because no single person has a say, it is harder for any one person to take control of

0:56.4

this initiative, and to subvert the voice of the people and everyone involved in the community.

1:10.0

Last week, Sagar and I really enjoyed interviewing Kylo Scanlon about pretty much everything

1:15.1

forward-looking in the finance and tech categories that you could imagine.

1:19.1

We covered the metaverse, supply chains, inflation, and web3.

1:23.6

So far, it's actually been one of our highest downloaded episodes ever.

1:27.4

Still, if there was one complaint we got from the audience, it was despite the hype and

1:32.1

the big talk.

1:33.1

When it came to the actual discussion of web3, which is best understood as a conversation

1:37.7

about what the internet can or should look like, we were all still too vague.

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