How You DAOing?

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🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

If you wanted to create an exclusive online community with a shared goal, how'd you go about it? If your answer is, "with crypto, obviously!" then you're in luck. DAOs (those are decentralized autonomous organizations, if that helps) are growing more popular with proponents of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. But what's up for some debate is what these communities are actually good for, and what kind of impact this purposeful gatekeeping can have on the real world.

This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior writer Gilad Edelman joins us to talk about the topsy turvy world of DAOs and his own experience with creating one.

Show Notes:

Read Gilad’s story about his experimental DAO for punchlines.

Recommendations:

Gilad recommends calling the IRS (yes, seriously). Mike recommends the New Yorker Android app. Lauren recommends WIRED’s beginner’s guide to Discord.

Gilad can be found on Twitter @GiladEdelman. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.

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0:00.0	Mike.
0:00.9	Lauren.
0:02.1	Mike, would you like to join my Dow?
0:05.5	I think I'll pass, thanks.
0:07.4	Are you sure?
0:08.7	It's called Good Dow, sir.
0:11.8	Yeah, double sure.
0:14.1	Good vibes only in this Dow.
0:17.5	Well, I don't really know much about Dao's.
0:20.1	All right, well, we have a colleague here at Wired who really wants us to join his Dow.
0:25.3	And there's a New Yorker cartoon caption contest at the end of this wild journey.
0:30.2	So have I intrigued you yet?
0:32.5	I'm going to say yes.
0:33.3	All right.
0:33.9	Let's get started.
0:41.6	Okay. All right, let's get started. Hi, everyone.
0:42.6	Welcome to Gadget Lab.
0:43.7	I'm Lauren Good.
0:44.7	I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:46.4	And I'm Michael Kallori.
0:47.8	I'm a senior editor at Wired.
0:49.1	We're also joined by Wired Senior Writer and Dow creator, Kallad Edelman. So's up, guys? Welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me. Should we just skip your recommendations because we know that's what everyone wants to hear from you. No, because what everyone doesn't know is that I show up every time not having a recommendation in mind and need the time that we're recording the podcast to think of one. I love it. I love it. Maybe by the end of this, you're going to have created a new
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