Council of Writers
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Sep 12, 2022
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- Announcements
- Writers Cohort Sign-ups open (grant)
- Time to allocate GIVE Coordinape
- Guild Updates
- Talent Scout (hirokennelly)
- Treasurer (EthHunter)
- Governance Coordinator (nonsensetwice)
- Scribe qualifiers
- Number tasks vs. BANK threshold
- Education Coordinator (Trewkat)
- if you are interested in attending a learning session about
- Marketing Coordinator (Winverse)
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- Project Updates:
- Newsletter
- Stopping Dework payments after last week
- Bankless Publishing
- Merge piece!
- FrankAmerica Chapter Deux
- Newsletter soooooon.,.,.,.
- New editing tests coming out soon
- Discussion
- Fight Club content
- AustinFoss good contact
- BP content crafted Web3 venture fund model
- Mapping out the Bankless Journey
- Where does it start?
- Buying crypto
- Dollar-cost averaging
- BTC/ ETH
- Crypto crash, inflation hedge, money printer
- Fall down rabbithole
- Discovery, reading, curiosity,
- Transition from dismissive/scam to curious, use cases
- What’s the point to real world uses
- Scams, phishing, danger
- Technical specs of BTC/ETH
- Smart contracts, setting stage for innovation
- Renaissance
- Finding work in Web3/ crypto
- Accept crypto payments for businesses
- Ownership/ self-sovereignty
- vs. institutional mindset
- DAOs as unique ownership structure
- vs. founder get paid well, but contributors not necessarily
- Get rich quick (to the moon)
- Local currencies inflationary and losing value
- Earning crypto in other countries
- Core Values
- Decentralization
- Self-custody/ self-sovereignty
- Regenerative systems (carbon, impact, etc)
- Build better systems
- Broken systems, outdated, web2 data/ privacy
- Open-source/ transparency
- Permissionless
- Inclusivity
- Global community to make something beautiful
- Moves beyond nation state borders into global citizen
- Freedom of expression: creator economy
- Cryptography: privacy
- What are pressing problems?
- wealth gap, dwindling middle class vs. equitable distribution of wealth
- some hope of addressing that
- where does the value accrue
- Key Actions (how do we participate)
- Two levels Generic journey vs. banklessDAO
- journey of becoming comfortable with crypto in general vs. bankless journey which is more ideological and values based
- positions of power with capacity to act selfishly vs. equitable distribution of wealth
- Self-custody wallet (Metamask, Tally)
- Capital efficiency: swap/ lend/ borrow/ earn yield
- People, finance, tech, org structures
- How we use language
- maxis vs more accessible and inclusive language
- evangelicism vs. open
- BDAO
- Crypto as part of more complete financial health
- vs. going bankless as goal
- Is it a pill (to solve pain) vs. a vitamin (something you desire)
- the goal is to be on the journey
- no end goal, spectrum from beginning to end
- end is emergent state, not end
- bankless journey
- problems: frames everything through economic lens
- enable humans to live better, more productive life
- I am on a journey for freedom
- aware of opportunities and able to act on them
- what does freedom look like?
- Tool belt
- DEX: Uniswap, Balancer
- Gnosis Safe
- Discord
- sesh-bot: calendar, events,
- POAPs
- Voting mechanisms: Governance Basics
- NFTs
- Google docs/ Notion/ Slack/ email/ information sharing platforms
- How do we communicate
- Wallet
- Zapper: connect all wallets together
- What does progress look like?
- Bankless movement (group) vs. Bankless journey (person)
- What is end state?
- Resources
- Goals (from HQ)
- Going bankless is a journey towards freedom—self-sovereignty. Financial independence.
- To maximize your crypto wealth (independence & wealth)
- To become a Bankless Jedi (skills & knowledge)
- It’s about rejecting authoritarianism (read the deeper reason)
- It’s about building it up not burning it down (read the cities burn below)
- It’s about how we can change the world (read the 3.5% rule)
- It’s about access for developing world (read straddling two worlds)
- It’s about a hedge against their money printing (read the cost of money printing)
Why go bankless?
And it’s about a better system for future generations:
Bankless means freedom and upside for each of us as individuals and an opportunity make the world a better place for future generations. If bankless wins, the world wins.
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