Vitalik Buterin Discusses The 2-Month Zuzalu Experiment
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🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. In this 8-episode series, we are exploring some new frontiers. New frontiers in new technologies, all of which are poised to completely revolutionize the world and change everything about the operating system that society is currently running.
In this first episode with Vitalik, we kick off by discussing the concept of Zuzalu with a birds-eye view. Vitalik helps us unravel the meta-quest of understanding the essence of Zuzalu and its role in curating communities. Discover why Zuzalu was structured in this unique manner, touching upon intriguing elements such as Zupass, zero-knowledge infrastructure, ZuPoll, and Stamps.
Keep an eye out as we roll out the rest of these boundary-pushing episodes!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:20 What is Zuzalu?
4:15 The Content Roadmap
5:12 Ethereum the Sibling
7:20 A Taste of the Future
8:45 Front-Run the Opportunity
12:00 VITALIK BUTERIN
14:00 The Zuzalu Experiment
19:00 Technological Seasons
22:50 ZuPass
25:00 Curating Topics
29:55 Cross-Pollination
33:05 Zuzalu Culture
37:30 The Future of Zuzalu
41:00 What it Means to be a Zuzalian
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Resources:
Vitalik Buterin
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin?s=20
Zuzalu
https://zuzalu.city/
ZuPass
https://zupass.org/#/login
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. |
| 0:08.7 | By here today on Bankless, we are exploring some new frontiers. |
| 0:12.1 | New frontiers in new technologies, all of which seem poised to completely revolutionize |
| 0:17.1 | the world and change everything about the operating system that society is currently running. |
| 0:21.7 | In fact, there are as many as five other technologies out there that are all accelerating |
| 0:25.6 | in progress, and while each one of these new technologies are pioneering into their |
| 0:29.6 | respective frontiers, they are also all beginning to converge with each other, |
| 0:34.0 | and the intersections of these various frontiers are fertile grounds for massive disruption |
| 0:38.8 | of the status quo. AI, longevity, synthetic biology, network states, and coordination, |
| 0:44.7 | and zero knowledge cryptography. Each of these are paradigm changing technological frontiers, |
| 0:50.0 | and each of these industries are in various stages of development and maturity. |
| 0:53.7 | But Bankless Nation, I'm here to tell you that each one of these frontier technologies |
| 0:57.7 | is a tidal wave coming for society. The crypto wave hit society in 2021, now society is learning |
| 1:04.2 | how to deal with his nascent but powerful technology, and society is in the middle of being hit |
| 1:09.0 | with the AI wave now in 2023, and that wave only appears to be growing in size. |
| 1:13.7 | The waves of synthetic biology, longevity, network states, zero knowledge cryptography, |
| 1:18.4 | and other technology frontiers are still to come. This was the main subject of a two-month |
| 1:23.0 | long experiment called Zuzalu. Bankless viewers who were watching the background of my podcast |
| 1:28.9 | shift in the last two months will notice I was gone from my Brooklyn apartment for two months. |
| 1:33.0 | I was in Montenegro of all places at this thing called Zuzalu. Zuzalu was an experiment in a |
| 1:40.3 | temporary community. The idea here is that we have crypto conferences or conferences in general, |
| 1:46.0 | which are between two and 20,000 people for anywhere between two days to a week, |
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