Danny Ryan | Layer Zero
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🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Danny Ryan is an Ethereum 2.0 researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, but he is also a cat owner, husband, and outdoors enthusiast. With some of the longest hair in crypto, Danny is solving extremely difficult and important problems at the protocol level for Ethereum. He is a communicator and a thinker—he is technical but also personable.
Danny is a human at the center of this movement, navigating through high-stakes subjective decisions and surrounded by smart, passionate people. This conversation also covers what it’s like working for a protocol. What’s it like working without a boss and concrete job description?
Danny’s answer? He cares a lot.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:00 Danny Ryan & His Hair
8:50 Coding & Building
12:45 Communicating
19:37 Subjective Decisions
25:05 Existential Risks
31:35 Work Culture & Accountability
38:08 After Ethereum
41:21 Proof of Stake
45:36 Social Interactions
51:42 More Proof of Stake
55:40 Bitcoin
58:10 Clean Money
1:00:15 Happy Devs & the Mock Merge
1:06:01 Personal Stuff
1:14:55 Closing
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Resources:
Danny on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/dannyryan?s=20
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Layers0. Layers0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that |
| 0:18.8 | make up the Ethereum community. Crypto is built by code, but is composed by people, and |
| 0:24.1 | each individual member of the crypto community has their own story to tell. CypherPunks |
| 0:29.1 | understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and Layers0 focuses on the |
| 0:33.3 | people behind the code, because Ethereum is people all the way down, and it always has been. |
| 0:38.2 | Today, I'm talking with Danny Ryan, who is the coordinator of the Greater ETH to effort, |
| 0:45.0 | and Danny is in an interesting position. He's one of those people that can go deep into the |
| 0:49.6 | weeds with code, but then also zoom all the way out and explain it to the non-technical |
| 0:54.4 | folk like me. And so we went through a little bit of Danny's pre-eatherium history, and where he |
| 1:00.8 | got his skills from, and then it turns out he's got a little bit of an entrepreneur in him. |
| 1:05.6 | And then we asked some greater questions as to why Danny feels as somebody who works for the EF |
| 1:12.0 | and kind of doesn't really have a boss, where he gets his accountability from for waking up |
| 1:17.3 | every single day and contributing to Ethereum, when no one actually forces him to do that. |
| 1:23.2 | And then also expanding that to the other developers as well. We also talk a lot about this |
| 1:28.3 | recent dev interop event, and what it's like to be there as a developer, and then also I share my |
| 1:34.7 | perspective as what it's like to view these things from the outside. And then we finished off with |
| 1:39.4 | an interesting conversation about Iastani, whether he is an optimist or a pessimist, and what about |
| 1:45.4 | the world makes him what it is. And I thought his answer for that was pretty interesting. So without |
| 1:49.7 | further ado, let's go ahead and get right into this conversation with Danny Ryan. But first, |
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