Welcome to Layer0.

Layer0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that make up the Ethereum community.

Crypto is built by code, but it's composed by people and each individual member of the crypto community has their own story to tell.

CypherPunks 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, we are speaking with G-Money, the famous knitted cap ape on Twitter and a prolific, just market investor.

And G-Money has been sharpening his teeth in markets from a very, very early age.

He got into the world of markets at the age of 12.

So the world of finance, the world of markets, definitely pulled him in very, very early and getting those lessons early in his lifetime really helped him get eventually into the world.

I think he's a phenomenal person to actually be able to remove bias and personal interests in markets and really just being able to look at the broad market as a whole and make informed decisions after that.

And that's what allowed him to really establish himself before getting into crypto and then got into crypto in 2017.

Smartly used the lessons of the dot com bubble to time-ish the top of the market and then not have to go through the grilling bear market and then also fantastically timed getting back into crypto.

And so really just used kind of in the same way when we were talking to DC use his experiences in legacy markets to really inform his guidance into crypto markets.

And then we go into his transition into the world of NFT and I really like the juxtaposition between G-Money's time and NFTs versus G-Money's time in the track by markets where one is very transactional, one is very just like performance based NFTs are much more community based and you know what are NFTs other than art so art base as well.

I think it really tells a fantastic story of character development of going from cold traditional markets into warm fuzzy NFT community markets.

So I hope you enjoyed this conversation with G-Money before we get to that conversation however we have to talk for a moment about some of these fantastic sponsors that make the show possible.

The era of proof of stake is upon us and Lido is working to bring proof of stake to everyone. Lido is a decentralized staking protocol that allows users to stake on Ethereum, Terra and Solana and receive an interest bearing token in return.

Stake any amount of your ETH to the Lido Validating Network and receive STETH in return. This STETH can be traded used as collateral for lending or borrowing or leveraged on your favorite DeFi protocol and all this without locking up your ETH in a centralized staking service or exchange.

That's what Lido is here to do. Lido makes staking accessible to everyone at the click of a button.

By delegating your stake to Lido's network of nodes you can access the yield offered by proof of stake systems and claim your share of network transaction rewards.

Do you have 32 ETH and want to stake it to Ethereum but running a node sounds intimidating or maybe you have less than 32 ETH and you need to pool your ETH with others so you can access staking yields?

Lido offers a solution to both. Simply go to lido.fi, choose which assets you want to stake and deposit them to the Lido Validating Network.

...