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9 - Going Bankless with Maker | Mariano Conti

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Episode: #9
April 27, 2020

Ryan & David talk with Mariano Conti about Dai, Maker, & his epic bankless journey. Learn how Maker can help you go bankless through this conversation with Mariano.

We talk:

  • Mariano's life in midst of Argentina's capital controls
  • Why Mariano moved from Bitcoin to DAI and Ether
  • The components of Maker including:
    • DAI (stability)
    • Vault/CDP (credit)
    • Dai Savings Rate (interest)
    • Governance (MKR token)
  • Centralization risks of Maker
  • Is Maker the last say on decentralized stablecoins?
  • What's it going to take to see 1m people into DAI?
This is our first of three episodes in the "King Money Protocols Series" where we talk through the three most important DeFi protocols. Stay tuned for the next two episodes!
 
Before the episode begins we also talk about:
  • The Lendfme hack & what it implies
  • Insanity of negative oil prices! 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dless, 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.

0:23.0

This is Ryan Sean Adams.

0:24.0

I'm here with David Hoffman once again,

0:26.0

and we're here to help you become more bankless.

0:30.0

David, I am super excited about our guest today and about the topic.

0:34.6

Can he tell us about it?

0:36.0

Mariano Conte, who I call the King Midas of Ethereum,

0:40.1

because everything he touches turns to Ether.

0:43.0

We all know and love Mariano Conte.

0:46.0

He is the head of smart contracts at the Maker Foundation.

0:50.0

He has been absolutely critical in the rollout of the Maker Dow system and he's been there from day one back when the

0:59.1

Maker Dow system was what they called Proto-Sai,

1:02.7

that's the Cy before the current-Sai,

1:05.3

which is the-Sai before the current die.

1:07.2

So he's been there all the way

1:09.2

in the history of Maker Dow.

1:11.1

The really cool thing about Mariano Conte in my opinion is that he is from

1:15.7

Argentina which is one of the many countries in the world that really needs

1:20.3

crypto as a as infrastructure for value management and just for living your life.

1:27.0

So at the same time that Mariano is living on crypto using crypto systems to support his personal

1:32.4

finances, he's also building the platform,

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