Layer Zero | Eric Conner
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🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Eric Conner joins the second episode of Layer Zero. Eric is the co-founder of EthHub along with Anthony Sassano, and is a recurring Bankless guest as well as a crypto twitter staple.
From the early days of Ethereum to golf and Porsches, David and Eric discuss things at large — what does Ethereum have left to prove? How do you manage Ethereum Brain? What will the next generation of crypto natives look like?
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
0:00 Intro
4:00 Eric Conner & Podcasting
7:00 Early Liquidity
15:53 Regulators Protecting Investors
25:28 Finance Background
31:12 Integrating Digital Finance
38:58 Bitcoin and Maximalism
46:27 Punks vs BTC
51:00 Ethereum Brain
56:18 The Space Never Sleeps
1:01:30 Marrying Ethereum
1:05:36 Golf
1:06:44 Porsche & Electric Cars
1:10:40 Governance Tokens
1:19:19 Closing & Disclaimers
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Resources:
Eric on Twitter
https://twitter.com/econoar?s=20
EthHub
https://ethhub.io/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Layer 0. |
| 0:15.3 | Layer 0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that make up the Ethereum community. |
| 0:20.6 | Ethereum is built by code but is composed by people and each individual member of the Ethereum |
| 0:25.4 | community has their own story to tell. |
| 0:28.1 | CypherPunks understood that the code they write impacts the people they use it. |
| 0:32.1 | In Layer 0 focuses on the people behind the code because Ethereum is people all the way down |
| 0:37.7 | and it always has been. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm David Hoffman and today we are talking with Eric Conner. |
| 0:42.7 | Eric Conner is what I have been calling the unofficial community manager of Ethereum. |
| 0:48.8 | The metaphor I like to use is that he was stoking the fire during the 2018-19-20 bear |
| 0:55.6 | market keeping the fire warm for all of us while we all kind of coped with having absolutely |
| 1:02.0 | no interesting price action at all while the innovation and development behind Ethereum |
| 1:08.2 | and what was going on in the early stages of DeFi was absolutely insane. |
| 1:12.6 | Eric was one of those people who helped everyone I think understand that no, we're not crazy. |
| 1:20.8 | Everything that's happening here is insanely awesome and cool and just because the prices |
| 1:24.9 | don't reflect that doesn't mean that it's not awesome and cool. |
| 1:28.4 | Eric has gone in and out of being a prominent crypto-twitter individual. |
| 1:32.5 | As soon as the bull market came on he started to kind of take a step back and now he's kind |
| 1:36.4 | of graduated into more or less just a ship-posting position and I actually kind of find his journey |
| 1:42.8 | in relationship to Ethereum pretty interesting. |
| 1:46.3 | As we all know Ethereum is very, as an ecosystem, is very dominating, very overwhelming and |
| 1:51.8 | Eric has gone through the whole entire stages of early stage interest in Ethereum, deep |
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