19 - DeFi vs Banks | Hasu
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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2020
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Episode: #19
June 29, 2020
Hasu is a free-thinker. A truth seeker. A rare voice in crypto. He's not afraid to push back on tribal dogma. He breaks rank with Bitcoiners on some topics and Ethereans on others. Yet he still considers himself a member of both tribes and respects the mysticism (and even dogma) of these deeply social systems.
In the spirit of Satoshi he's pseudonymous. We don't know his actual identity. But we know who he is from his body of writing that has influenced our thinking on many crypto topics.
What does he think about Ethereum?
About crypto banks?
About DeFi?
We covered it all:
- Hasu's fave writers
- Body and Spirit of crypto networks
- Is Hasu an Etherean?
- Why Bitcoin might not survive
- How Maker is like a central bank
- Is EIP1559 bullish for ETH?
- The best Rick & Morty episode
Join us next Monday for a fresh episode!
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Resources discussed:
- (Article) A Bankless Nation (Part 1)
- (Article) A Bankless Nation (Part 2)
- (Listen) The above articles read by David
- Hasu Articles:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and |
| 0:17.2 | internet finance. This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front run |
| 0:21.6 | the opportunity. |
| 0:22.7 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm here with David Hoffman, |
| 0:25.3 | and we're here to help you become more bankless. |
| 0:28.9 | David, we have a fantastic show with Hasu. Tell us about it. |
| 0:33.4 | Hazu is one of the few people that I consider a secular thinker in the crypto space. |
| 0:39.4 | He's very sober in his thoughts, he thinks clearly clearly and there have been just he's |
| 0:44.8 | produced a ton of content that the most incredible thing that I think about the |
| 0:49.6 | content that he produces is that we've seen companies make choices based off of the content that |
| 0:56.0 | Hazu and the content that comes out of uncommon court. |
| 1:00.5 | So Hazu, we would call him a person that is the M0 of thought, I would say. |
| 1:07.0 | There's just a lot of memes, a lot of ideas, a lot of concepts that comes out of what Hazu produces. |
| 1:13.2 | So getting Hazu onto the Bankless Podcast |
| 1:16.4 | was an absolute necessity and he did a great job |
| 1:18.8 | walking us through how he thinks about this base. |
| 1:22.2 | We talk a lot about the concept of a blockchain |
| 1:25.9 | crypto system as kind of like an organism, kind of a a cohesion of stakeholders |
| 1:32.3 | that creates some sort of that has a body and then also a spirit right it has the |
| 1:37.2 | the physical code and the in the physical people running their nodes but then it also has like the social contract right it has the |
| 1:44.0 | implied values of that system and how these things interact and the different ways |
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