33 - Slaying Moloch | Ameen Soleimani & Kevin Owocki
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🗓️ 5 October 2020
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33 - Slaying Moloch | Ameen Soleimani & Kevin Owocki
Moloch is the god of human coordination failure; the reason why we can't have nice things; the embodiment of the Prisoners Dilemma. The story of humanity is a never-ending iterative process of discovering new tools and mechanisms to coordinate against Moloch.
Is Ethereum the Sword that Humanity needs to finally slay Moloch? Why is Ethereum different than previous instances of coordination mechanisms, such as Religion or the Nation-State.
Tune in to this extremely important episode, and join the army of coordinators to help Slay Moloch!
Meditations on Moloch blog post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
This is the original source of information which all Moloch-related conversation spawns from
Read aloud on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeohwQls2GE&t=5660s
David's Bankless Piece: Ethereum: Moloch Slayer https://bankless.substack.com/p/ethereum-slayer-of-moloch-
Gitcoin & MolochDAO https://gitcoin.co/hackathon/gitxchange2/?tab=hackathon:16
https://gitcoin.co/grants/238/bankless?tab=description
https://www.molochdao.com/
POV Crypto Podcast on MolochDAO origins w/ Ameen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oU5jjyHWxE&t=4s
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of Internet Money and Internet Finance. |
| 0:19.0 | This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front run the opportunity. |
| 0:23.2 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more |
| 0:29.2 | bankless. |
| 0:30.2 | David, I know you love this episode. |
| 0:33.0 | Did you love it as much as I think you do? |
| 0:37.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:38.0 | We have a common enemy in Molok and we need a nation to help slay him right and so we brought Amin |
| 0:46.0 | Solomani and Kevin O'Waki two individual Molok's layers to come onto the |
| 0:50.8 | bankless pod to talk about what Molok is and why we are trying to slay him |
| 0:56.1 | and what is different this time now that we have Ethereum and all the tools in the |
| 1:01.4 | Ethereum tool belt to help slay Molok. |
| 1:04.0 | So that's what this episode is all about and I'm pretty passionate about getting |
| 1:08.0 | this message into as many years as possible. |
| 1:11.0 | Well, I'm passionate about it too because I think that you have correctly identified in your past |
| 1:18.8 | writings, as have others, as have many of this kind of Molok-Slaying tribe, that Molok is really, he's the |
| 1:26.0 | god of coordination failure, is really the biggest problem that humanity faces and maybe the only problem. So if we are going to have an |
| 1:36.4 | enemy as the bankless nation it should definitely be Molok. Yeah, I really like that phrase. |
| 1:43.6 | I think we can all label some problems that we have in our lives. |
| 1:47.6 | And I think if you keep on pulling back the layers, |
| 1:50.2 | every single problem that we have, Molok is at the end of it, right? |
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