Episode: #15 June 3, 2020 The bankless boys think ETH is undervalued and they explain why. Also, a talk on governance why putting it on-chain is a money killer. Join Ryan and David in this special bonus episode. Covered: ETH fundamentals are fire Metrics Gas usage at all time higher Daily active users up Stablecoins on Ethereum up BTC tokenized on Ethereum up Network fundementals up! So why isn't price up? Maybe ETH is Undervalued! New Crypto.com wallet is protocol sink thesis! Maker on Coinbase...
Jun 02, 2020•52 min
Episode: #14 June 1, 2020 Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss on Bankless! The mainstream world knows them as Zuckerberg's bane from " The Social Network " but the bankless world knows them as multi-faceted entrepreneurs, early believers in crypto, and the founders the Gemini exchange. Whatever you think you know about the Winklevoss twins you have to admit...these guys have an uncanny ability to see the future. So what do they see in our future? Future of crypto? Future of DeFi? Of the world? They b...
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 33 min
Episode: #13 May 25, 2020 Argent is the closet thing we've seen to a mainstream ready bankless wallet. Is this crypto's Netscape moment? Ryan & David sit down with Itamar the co-founder of Argent to find out. Coming off a big week of releases, Itamar tells us how DeFi's almost reached parity with traditional finance, hasn't quite found product market fit in developed countries, but why he's incredibly bullish about the future. We cover: The why: Why Itamar's here Argent's ethos What makes Ar...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 27 min
Episode: #12 May 18, 2020 When someone gives you money how confident are you that it's really yours? That's a settlement guarantee. It operates at the base layer of our societal tech stack and usually requires law and nation-states to enforce. With crypto we have something new, we have settlement assurances. That changes everything. Protocols with higher settlement assurances are more dense. They sink to the bottom of our societal tech stack and become the foundation for everything else. This is...
May 18, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Episode: #11 May 11, 2020 Your savings account, your high-yield bank deposits, a CD. Can we replace these bank functions with a protocol? Compound seems to think so. Compound is a two-sized money robot that provides borrowing and lending to create something new: interest. Learn what it does, why it's powerful, and how it's evolving as we talk with Robert Leshner. We even ask if there's a way for the community to get its hand on some Comp tokens and start shaping the future of the protocol. We co...
May 11, 2020•1 hr 27 min
Episode: #10 May 4, 2020 Uniswap isn't a bank, isn't a company, isn't a website. It's a liquidity robot, an unstoppable trading layer for the bankless money system, the first of its kind. Ryan & David talk with Caleb Sheridan about using Uniswap for trade & profit, its ability to serve as a public good for the Ethereum economy, and the coming liquidity robot wars. We cover: An explanation of Uniswap in 10 sentences What you can do on Uniswap Trading Suppling liquidity (for profit!) Listi...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 28 min
Episode: #9 April 27, 2020 Ryan & David talk with Mariano Conti about Dai, Maker, & his epic bankless journey. Learn how Maker can help you go bankless through this conversation with Mariano. We talk: Mariano's life in midst of Argentina's capital controls Why Mariano moved from Bitcoin to DAI and Ether The components of Maker including: DAI (stability) Vault/CDP (credit) Dai Savings Rate (interest) Governance (MKR token) Centralization risks of Maker Is Maker the last say on decentraliz...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 26 min
Episode: #8 April 20, 2020 Where the rubber meets the road... this episode is all about both the mental mindset and the actual tools needed to go Bankless. Bankless is a state of mind! It's a lifestyle centered around independence and freedom! This episode discusses the tools that you can use in your life to support that mindset and enable Bankless growth. How to go bankless: Start with why (“goals”) Set a weekly plan (“process”) Start doing things (“implement”) Measure outcomes (“measure”) ----...
Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Episode: #7 April 13, 2020 Ether has some native mechanisms that contribute to its scarcity and value. David and Ryan explore these value mechanisms and compare/contrast them with money printer go brrrr. This episode covers: 1. Scarcity mechanisms and fair games 2. Ether’s value mechanisms 3. How USD will fare vs. ETH ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ " BANKLESS ") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lendi...
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 18 min
Episode: #6 April 6, 2020 Different Ethereum applications require different amounts of trust, depending on how each app is designed. This episode discusses how to think and measure the trustlessness of each app, and where the humans and computers meet. ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax shelter your crypto ($50 w/ " BANKLESS ") Monolith - holy grail of bankless Visa cards Aave - money lego for lending & borrowing Zerion - portal to your DeFi portfolio ----- Res...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Episode: #5 March 30, 2020 Most people identify memes are internet images with text, or reaction gifs. Memes are much more than that; they are a tool for information transmission at the largest possible scale. Memes are little packets of data that hop from brain to brain. They can transfer data across the globe and also across time! Join David and Ryan as they explore the role that memes have in crypto, and some of cryptos best and worst memes! ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocke...
Mar 30, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Episode: #4 March 23th, 2020 There are three asset "superclasses" - Store of Value - Capital Asset - Commodity Asset Join Ryan and David as they explore the boundaries between asset types, and discover where Ether lies in relation to these three classes. Additionally, Ryan and David compare and contrast the economic and financial institutions that make up the world we know, and how they relate to these three classifications. Links mentioned in podcast: (Article) Ether: A New Model for Money (Vid...
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Episode: #3 March 15th, 2020 While the internet revolution is all about data, the crypto revolution is all about value. Scaling the internet is all about scaling data bandwidth, but scaling crypto is all about economic bandwidth. Join Ryan and David as they explore the concept of economic bandwidth and how it relates to crypto-systems. Links mentioned in podcast: (Article) Ethereum is an emergent structure (Article) ETH and BTC are economic bandwidth (Article) The trillion dollar case for ETH (A...
Mar 16, 2020•1 hr 10 min
March 9th, 2020 Episode: #2 How did money get to where it is today? David and Ryan explore the historical progress of money, and the management of money, across time. We ask questions like "what makes good money" and "how does money get managed" and "who gets to manage money, and why" We end with a comparison of the different money management policies of each respective crypto-system, and how each system arrived at that conclusion ----- Tools from our sponsors to go bankless: Rocket Dollar - tax...
Mar 09, 2020•1 hr 29 min
Date: Monday, March 2nd Episode: #1 Bankless is a podcast about leveraging the revolution in Internet money and internet finance to benefit you as an individual. Join Ryan and David for a journey into the frontier, where both treasure and bandits await! Bankless is all about replacing the traditional financial system with internet protocols for money and finance. Ryan and David are here to discuss how these protocols work, how they benefit the individual, and how the world may come to adopt and ...
Mar 02, 2020•57 min
