Mariano Conti | Layer Zero
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🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Mariano Conti is a pillar in the crypto space. Known for revolutionizing smart contracts with Maker, he has built a long resume of building and investing in key projects. He's also a fascinating human being with a unique story.
Tune in to hear Mariano's takes on how the pandemic shaped crypto's narrative, Bull vs Bear markets, finding passion and community, and his musings on going anonymous.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
3:30 Mariano Conti’s Travels
8:17 Crypto & COVID
11:58 Financial Concerns
20:42 New Paradigm
28:22 New vs Old
34:32 Attention Maximalist
40:30 Mariano Pre-Crypto
50:14 Early Engineering & Investing
55:48 Work Ethic & Passion
1:01:09 Cult & Society
1:06:55 Churn
1:11:00 Builder-Focused Community
1:15:53 Clout, Ego, and Twitter
1:22:32 Anon & What’s Next
1:32:06 Closing
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Resources:
Mariano on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/nanexcool?s=20
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Layer 0. |
| 0:15.4 | Layer 0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that make up the Ethereum community. |
| 0:21.0 | Crypto is built by code, but it's composed by people, and each individual member of the |
| 0:25.3 | community has their own story to tell. |
| 0:28.1 | LiferPunks understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it. |
| 0:32.1 | Layer 0 focuses on the people behind the code, because Ethereum is people all the way down, |
| 0:37.3 | and it always has been. |
| 0:39.3 | Today we're talking with Mariano Conti, who is one of my best friends in this space absolutely, |
| 0:45.3 | and is one of the most foundational builders, I would say, he worked at the Maker Foundation, |
| 0:52.3 | working on basically all aspects of the MakerDow contracts. |
| 0:57.0 | But he got actually into Ethereum before Ethereum was even a thing. |
| 1:01.2 | So he was one of the first people to live a bankless life, if you will, and receiving |
| 1:07.6 | money for his code in Bitcoin, and that's how he got introduced into the whole Bitcoin space. |
| 1:14.8 | And a lot of people know Mariano's story, it's his story, so every time he goes onto |
| 1:20.3 | a podcast and anyone ever asks, like, hey, Mariano, how did you get into crypto? |
| 1:23.6 | He tells the story. |
| 1:25.0 | And as soon as Mariano and I are done having reflections about the current state of crypto |
| 1:29.0 | in 2021, I start at that point in the story where he got into crypto, but then I start going |
| 1:34.4 | backwards, not forwards, which is something new that I haven't heard before out of Mariano's |
| 1:39.8 | background. |
| 1:40.8 | And then, of course, we finished right where we left off back around to the current state |
| 1:44.8 | of crypto in 2021, but this time with a different angle. |
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