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We're baaaack! With a new episode of the Humans of Crypto Podcast with Lenka Hudakova!

More about Lenka Hudakova:
Crypto and blockchain tech advocate. Culture explorer with the drive for innovative, sustainable, collective, transparent & open. Community builder, event organizer, educator & DAO talent onboarder.

As the Project Lead at the Sustainable Ecosystem Scaling core unit, she is working for MakerDAO on scaling initiatives, including research on decentralized workforce, work and capital.

Previously, as Events Manager for the Maker Foundation, she orchestrated team involvement at events and conferences around the world, ensuring that the organization is well represented, wisdom is shared, and key audiences are reached. Prior to becoming Events Manager, she was the Foundation's Community Lead for Europe, charged with building awareness of MakerDAO, both online and offline.

The Maker Foundation is the organization facilitating the development of MakerDAO. MakerDAO governs the Maker Protocol and Dai, the world’s first decentralized, collateral-backed stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain. Dai mitigates volatility through an autonomous system of smart contracts called the Maker Protocol, and through decentralized community governance.
Before joining Maker, she was Head of Communications at Coinify.

Her other community building involvements are:
- local blockchain fans as the co-organiser of the Eth/Web3 Community;
- women interested in joining the crypto space as the co-founder of #CryptoWomenCPH;
- local startup grass-root movement as a volunteer at #cphftw.

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https://twitter.com/LenklaHhttps://twitter.com/MakerDAO_SES


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Organising ETHDam a conference and hackathon dedicated to DeFi and Privacy builders in Amsterdam, 20-21 of May https://www.ethdam.com/

Delighted to finally share Maria Magenes's story with you all. She took an interesting risk a few years ago, to work at a little startup called ETHLend, better known today as Aave... Over the years she has left her mark in the DeFi world, having worked with the Maker Foundation, Balancer and Oasis.app. I hope you enjoy this episode where you will get to know more from this Italian power house!   Make sure to follow Maria and her endeavors at Oasis  https://twitter.com/mariamagenes1 https://twitter.com/oasisdotapp https://oasis.app


00:00 Intro 
00:20 Getting ready for ETHCC
01:20 Building a better UX
06:00 Getting my first job in crypto…
08:20 Making up your job
09:00 Overworking
09:50 Not working during weekends
12:00 Mountain escapade ruined by a hacker
17:00 Post MakerDAO
20:40 Team and fundamentals
24:20 The best and worst of working with a DAO
30:45 Not everyone is a leader
31:30 What is the “community”?
33:30 Voting in a DAO
35:00 Staying away from the DAO drama
37:45 Dealing with Bitcoin maximalists
40:00 Italian crypto culture
50:00 What about the merge?
51:07 We keep building during the bear market
1:00:00 Jumping into crypto
1:08 Loving our pets
1:13 Bringing back the human in crypto conference
1:17 Online VS in person events
1:20 Building the future of finance
1:24 Religion



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For the 7th episode of the Humans of Crypto Podcast, we have the utmost privilege to share Tey El Rujla’s journey with you all. Tey El Rujla is the founder of Fluus.finance and currently working on https://superstan.market/, connecting the Afghan and Lebanese diaspora and crypto to help people directly on the ground. This episode is dedicated to all the people suffering across the world from inflation and capital control. May Tey’s journey inspire others to embrace financial freedom.    

00:00 Intro 02:04.19 

Tey’s journey  11:56.14 

The syrian civil war 

15:07.53 Pride…  

18:33.76 

Apply for assylum  

34:28.63 Bitcoin Pizza Day 

45:12.65 Global moderator at Bitcoin.com  

47:35.11 Private keys destroyed in Beirut explosion  

50:28.47 Lebanon: inflation and capital control  

53:20.54 Fluus Finance and construction worker  

01:01:54.00 Picnic in Afghanistan  

01:03:27.34 Superman afghanistan supermarket  

01:15:59.66 The best way to understand Bitcoin is to use it. 

01:23:21.14 Second life gamer to miner  

01:44:56.60 Labeled a spy  01:50:43.31 

Hope for Lebanon 

02:03:48.70 Show:  hoodie from Hcpp Conference 

02:08:48.53 “To financial freedom to censorship resistance and to peer-to-peer Electronic Cash”  

Connect with Tey  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tey070/

 https://twitter.com/FluusFinance https://fluus.finance/ 

https://superstan.market 



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Today for the 6th episode of the Humans of Crypto we welcome  Briget Greenwood    Founder of The Bigger Pie, an organisation focused on supporting women in blockchain and emerging tech. As women represent less than 10% of those involved in this sector they focus their efforts on supporting the incredibly talented and pioneering women in blockchain.  Bridget is a firm believer of having more women involved with the design, development and deployment and decommissioning of tech solutions. Bridget has worked with different actors in the blockchain economy since 2017, both retail facing and servicing institutional clients, gaining an insight into the market place, challenges, pitfalls, regulation and breadth of projects and businesses in this rapidly evolving space.  


00:00 Intro 
00:42.39  Down the bitcoin Rabbit hole  
08:13.26 Welcome borderless work 
20:17.35 What diversity? 
26:18.85 The role of education  
33:28.17 Anecdote time: the marshmallow challenge 
44:15.61 The Bigger pie community 
01:03:09.40 What about blockchain use cases?  
01:29:37.58  Show & Tell

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Today for the 5th episode of the Humans of Crypto we welcome the one and only, US based, unbanked Joël Valenzuela. Can he really be living the cypherpunk dream, and how?

Dash Force partner and editor of Dash Force News. He is a veteran writer and journalist in the cryptocurrency space, and had a long professional history in public policy, having worked for organizations such as the Cato Institute and the White House under George W. Bush. He also manages civic action organization the Rights Brigade and runs a taekwondo club, which he tell us a bit more about in the Show & tell.



Timeline

00:00 Intro

04:00 New Hampshire crypto scene

08:50 Free State Project

13:43 Chicago Bitcoin Pizza

15:32 Joel’s origin story

20:20 White House internship

29:00 Back to the Free State Project

35:18 Becoming unbanked

48:30 How to live unbanked

1:02:30 Living outside the system

1:07:20 Spending cryptocurrencies

1:16:40 What is Dash?

1:26:00 Scaling

1:30:00 Funding

1:40:00 Market cap ranking and the free market

1:51:20 Cryptocurrencies have their own use case

1:54:40 Dash Evolution

2:01:30 DeFi & DAOs

2:11:30 Blockchain trilema

2:12:20 Show & Tell



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For the 4th episode of the Humans of Crypto Podcast I had the honour to welcome the CEO and Co Founder of Edge, a self custody wallet and exchange held by more than 2 millions of users. Built in San Diego with a strong ethos of privacy and ownership. We dive into Paul’s journey into crypto, his health, the product, the mishaps and the future.

ps: Sorry for all that lipstick over my teeth, that old crummy tube has been banned.



Timeline

00:00 Intro

05:15 Crypto community of San Diego

10:20 “I’m a privacy hypocrite”

14:40 “I’m a dork and a geek at heart”

18:10 Health issues brought me to crypto

20:00 Questioning authority

22:00 My philosophy, it’s all about large enterprise VS the individual

24:10 “Bitcoin put it all together for me in 2013”

29.58 “After using crypto, bitcoin for a bit I said, It’s still early, there’s a lot to build, let me join this revolution and be part of the history books and here I am today”

32:36 From 3000 users to 2million

34:55 “Yes, that’s me, the convenience and wanting to simplifying it for the user”

37:39 “Bad UX, it physically hurts”

39:15 The pain of demonstrating the Armory wallet

40:00 “I’m convinced the industry will simplify this and I will be part of simplifying this and that’s how Airbitz, now Edge started”

42:00  "Edge is a self custody exchange, where you hold you keys, but you can buy, sell exchange with an elevated level of privacy”

43:45 “We are the bridge from the old to the new, with the user experience you are used to but with the core benefits of  autonomy and privacy of this new financial world”

46:00 Bitcoin was built to have a level of privacy and control, the biggest value proposition is to send money to anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection and that’s gone if you don’t have your keys, which happens in a custodial service.

51:36 Cred is the biggest black eye in our company’s history, we did our best due diligence

54:12 “That’s the last full custodian service that you will ever see inside of Edge”

54:30 “The one time we compromised on the ethos of self custody…”

1:01:12 Forking is freedom

1:04:20 The Paul $

1:05:37 Freedom is messy

1:07:10 Shitcoin, fertilises creativity and innovation, manure for the crypto field.

1:10:00 Where do you learn? Shoutout to Omar Bham

1:13:20 Monthly Crypto Drinks on the last Wednesday of the month + Crypto 101

1:14:10 Does your family get crypto?

1:17:35 Show & Tell



More about Paul Puey

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