Welcome to Layer 0. Layer 0 is a podcast of unscripted conversations with the people that

make up the Ethereum community. Ethereum is built by code, but it's composed by people,

and each individual member of the Ethereum community has their own story to tell.

CypherPunks understood that the code they write impacts the people that use it, and Layer

0 focuses on the people behind the code because Ethereum is people all the way down, and it

always has been. Today I'm talking with Nick Carter, who I don't necessarily think identifies

as part of the Ethereum community, but I think he has impacted it all the same. Nick

Carter is a prolific writer and also content producer and just general Bitcoiner in the

Bitcoin space. He works at his fund, Castle Island Ventures, and also has a podcast, which

I listen to the weekly roll-up every single week, which is actually the inspiration for

the bankless weekly roll-up. They call it the weekly round-up. Some of Nick's writing and

just overall content and conversation has deeply impacted the way I think I've thought

about this industry. It's thanks to Nick that I began to understand crypto and blockchains

as political revolutions rather than just technological ones. In this show, we actually

go and go back even further into the organizational structures of history and talk actually a lot

about religion and the comparisons and comparing and contrasting Bitcoin as a religion and a

blockchain as an omnipotent, omnipresent God. Also, talk about the differences between

the Bitcoin culture and the Ethereum culture. I ask if Nick thought that the Bitcoin community

generally is a more faith-based one as in they tend to go to church more than other crypto

communities out there and Nick agreed with that point. We collectively him and I parsed that

apart and made some jokes. Then I also asked Nick about, what else does he do? He mountaineers

apparently and also spends a lot of time in deep thought mode while writing. Overall, it was

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