Griff Green and the DAO | Layer Zero
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🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Griff Green is a builder and community manager in the Ethereum space. He is also a hippie, a former chemical engineer, and Seattle Supersonics super-fan. A true individual, Griff opted out of society after becoming disillusioned with modern institutions, traveling in a van with gold and silver until he heard about Bitcoin.
Falling down the crypto rabbit hole led Griff to become a deep Ethereum community member, eventually launching The DAO. The story of the DAO's beginnings, hack, and eventual hard for are the stuff of Sci-Fi. Filled with countless stories, this episode follows the life and times of a deeply fascinating member of Layer Zero.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:00 Griff Green & the SuperSonics
13:34 Chemical Engineering
18:20 Bankless with Gold
21:51 Bitcoin & Traveling
29:44 Into the Crypto World
35:07 Crypto Masters Degree
38:00 Ethereum Arrives
44:43 Entering the Community
51:29 Culture vs Price
56:00 Early Ethereum Culture
1:02:43 The DAO
1:07:20 Coming up with the DAO
1:13:25 Exploits
1:16:46 The DAO Token Creation
1:23:20 Explosion & Speculation
1:27:29 The Hack & Hard Fork
1:36:00 Dark DAO and Ethereum Classic
1:40:12 Hard Fork & Edge Cases
1:46:58 Lessons Learned
1:49:24 The Next 4 Years & Giveth
2:02:10 Closing
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Resources:
Griff on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/thegrifft?s=20
Giveth:
https://giveth.io/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Layer 0. |
| 0:15.6 | Layer 0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that make up the Ethereum community. |
| 0:20.7 | Crypto is built by code, but it's composed by people, and each individual member of the |
| 0:25.3 | crypto community has their own story to tell. |
| 0:28.1 | Slytherpunks understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and |
| 0:31.9 | Layer 0 focuses on the people behind the code, because Ethereum is people all the way down, |
| 0:36.8 | and it always has been. |
| 0:38.1 | Today, I'm speaking with Griff Green, who has an fascinating story of Journey Through Crypto, |
| 0:44.5 | and I think the story really starts in many, many places, but it starts with Griff living |
| 0:49.2 | off of the grid and choosing to use gold to store his value in order to live a bankless |
| 0:54.8 | life. |
| 0:55.8 | Griff was off the grid, being kind of a hippie communal-type guy traveling the world that |
| 1:04.2 | really got turned off by some aspects about society, so he just yeeted himself out of society, |
| 1:09.5 | traveled the world, got rid of all his belongings, put everything in a backpack, and started |
| 1:13.4 | using gold to store his value, and then, of course, found his way into the world of |
| 1:18.6 | Bitcoin, and then Ethereum later on, Griff has the most fascinating story about the |
| 1:24.2 | Dow. |
| 1:25.2 | As somebody who had front-row seats of the Dow, the 2016 Dow, we spend at least a second |
| 1:31.0 | half, the whole entire second half of the episode is going through the story of the Dow, and |
| 1:35.7 | that's actually the first time I've heard that story in such granular detail. |
| 1:39.3 | So that really was just the absolute highlight of this interview, in my opinion. |
| 1:42.5 | I had a fantastic time, like speaking with Griff, and getting to know him a little bit |
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