Welcome to Layer0. Layer0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that

make up the Ethereum community. Crypto is built by code, where it's composed by people,

and each individual member of the crypto community has their own story to tell. The cipherpunks

understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and Layer0 focuses

on the people behind the code, because Ethereum is people all the way down, and it always

has been. Today on Layer0, I'm talking to Amin Soleimani, and I've said his name on

the bankless podcast a number of times before. He's been on the bankless podcast a number

of times before. He helped meme MoLock into existence in 2018 and 2019. He's the creator

of MoLock Dow, one of the first dows to come out of Ethereum after the Dow, and he makes

this joke about how he made MoLock Dow with many purposes, one of them being to help

the Ethereum community get over what he calls PTS Dow, as in PTSD over the 2016 Dow that

caused the Ethereum classic hard fork. What we talk about MoLock coordination dows, and

what dows can do for the landscape of both Ethereum when it comes to coordination, but

also for the broader world. Really, why Ethereum is just coordination tools all the way down?

Then we get into some broader subjects, such as his recent fight against the Federal Reserve,

and how the Federal Reserve has this relationship with the broader world that is unsavory, and

how we as a people need to resist what is going on with the Federal Reserve. Amin has always

been a very big, patterned thinker, a big philosophical person who can see the biggest patterns

that the world has put in front of us, and sees them for what they are. He's a pretty

controversial guy. He's pretty sharp around the edges. He's definitely not afraid of putting

his foot down and making people be very uncomfortable, so I actually do not recommend that you listen

to this episode with kids in the car, or young ones who aren't ready for very mature subjects,

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