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Oct 12, 2022 • 56min

Mini Series: Web3 ID | Verified contributions to build your reputation | Bryan, Sobol;  Aaron, Govrn HQ; Dr. Kelly Page; M Murthy, Show Karma; David & Erick, Orange Protocol.

Welcome to episode 3 of our 4-part mini-series, Web3 ID  on Crypto Sapiens Podcast Network Sponsored by Otterspace. Overview of Web3 ID Web3 Identity is a new Crypto Sapiens series that features discussions with key builders from across the web3 landscape including Gitcoin, BrightID, DAOHaus, Orange Protocol and more to demystify the emerging topic of self-sovereign identity and reputation. We explore the value of owning your digital identity across DeFi, public goods, and DAOs. Today we're talking about verifiable contributions to build your reputation. This week's guests are Bryan, co-founder Sobol;  Aaron, co-founder at Govrn HQ; Dr. Kelly Page; M Murthy at Show Karma; David & Erick, Marketing Lead & Business development Lead, respectively at Orange Protocol. They're going to share their thoughts on what it means to join a DAO today, what role reputation has in that process now, how reputation systems can make DAOs more efficient, and how they think DAOs will evolve in the future. We also delve deep into these questions: How can reputation systems make DAOs more efficient? What "reputation markers" exist today in DAOs? How do today's DAO reputation practices fall short of this vision? What challenges or shortcomings exist when attempting to use them as they are today? When building their reputation models, will DAOs consider any Web2 factors or data points? How can reputation evolve in new ways with web3 technologies? What's the importance of making reputations portable from one DAO to the next? Connect with our speakers  https://twitter.com/mvmurthy https://twitter.com/showkarma_xyz https://twitter.com/BryanPetes https://twitter.com/TeamSobol https://twitter.com/drkellypage https://twitter.com/AaronSoskin https://twitter.com/GovrnHQ https://twitter.com/erickpinos https://twitter.com/DavidHWriter https://twitter.com/OrangeProtocol -- We’re thrilled to be sponsored by Otterspace who are busy making Web3 less financialized. Their protocol and app let communities build and issue badges to members to represent things like levels, roles, achievements, membership, and skills. We’re excited about badges because they are earned, not bought. They are non-tradable coordination primitive for communities. You can use badges for governance in Snapshot, token gating with Guild, and you can build your own custom extensions with their composable tools. If you’ve been thinking about how to run non-financial governance, represent roles and permissions on-chain, or recognize contributions via social recognition, check out Otterspace at otterspace_xyz on Twitter or at otterspace.xyz. ==== Thanks for listening to Crypto Sapiens. It costs zero dollars, means the world to us, and helps others discover this content. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a 5-star review wherever you enjoy your podcasts. You can also find more conversations like this one by visiting our website @ cryptosapiens.XYZ. I look forward to reconnecting with you at our next discussion.  Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi.   https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/ https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC26aOc_4vSGiQATW1V4e9Tw https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018   Connect with Humpty Calderon https://twitter.com/humptycalderon ---   --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. 
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Oct 11, 2022 • 49min

On-Chain Reputation | Orange Protocol - Erick Pinos, Business Development Lead

Today we are talking to Erick Pinos, Business Development Lead at Orange Protocol.  Erick describes the start of his crypto journey at MIT, where he joined the MIT Bitcoin Club, eventually leading him to the Blockchain Education Network, where he serves as President. He also points to the seed for identity and on-chain credentials being planted there, having his diploma issued on the Bitcoin network.  Erick joined Ontology soon after graduating college, where he cut his teeth in decentralized identity and data, helping to expand their ecosystem.  About Orange Protocol, he says, DAOs are interested in Sybil resistance, proving that someone is unique and an active contributor; Orange is nurturing these use cases and providing ways for web3 projects to use reputation-weighted voting and creating value-aligned incentives through a variety of campaigns that measure social contributions, public goods funding, governance activity. Orange enables web3 contributors to build their on-chain history.  He points to a recent campaign that Orange hosted with talentDAO where reputation NFTs were provisioned to contributors who had participated across a variety of web3 activities, including Snapshot, POAP, Gitcoin Grants, Panvala Stamps, Twitter, and Discord too. Lots to unpack here, so without further ado, let's get started That's a wrap. I hope you enjoyed this conversation with Erick. I know I did. If you'd like to connect with Erick, you can find him on Twitter @ erickpinos  And to learn more about Orange Protocol, go to orangeprotocol.io and on Twitter at @ orangeprotocol Thanks for listening to Crypto Sapiens. It costs zero dollars, means the world to us, and helps others discover this content. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a 5-star review wherever you enjoy your podcasts. You can also find more conversations like this one by visiting our website @ cryptosapiens.XYZ. I look forward to reconnecting with you at our next discussion.  Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi.   https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/ https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC26aOc_4vSGiQATW1V4e9Tw https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018   Connect with Humpty Calderon https://twitter.com/humptycalderon ---   --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.   
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Oct 4, 2022 • 50min

Mini Series: Web3 ID | Creating Rich & Robust Member Identities with Lauren - Ceramic Spencer - DAOHaus & Evin - Disco

Welcome to episode 2 of our 4 part mini-series, Web3 ID  on Crypto Sapiens Podcast Network Overview of Web3 ID Web3 Identity is a new Crypto Sapiens series that features discussions with key builders from across the web3 landscape including Gitcoin, BrightID, DAOHaus, Orange Protocol and more to demystify the emerging topic of self-sovereign identity and reputation. We explore the value of owning your digital identity across DeFi, public goods, and DAOs.   Today we're going to be talking about creating rich and robust member identities. We'll be discussing what unique opportunities are unlocked by creating unified, portable identities across DAOs and why they're important. We'll also talk about the implications of centralized identity and reputation for app experiences in web3 and what moments of delight will be enabled by portable identity in the metaverse for individuals. We'll also touch on privacy and consent and what roles they play in the future of identity. For our second episode, We're excited to have Lauren from Ceramic  Spencer from DAOHaus &  Evin from Disco Let's go ahead and jump right into it! Follow our speakers  https://twitter.com/provenauthority https://www.disco.xyz/ – https://twitter.com/web3lauren https://ceramic.network/   – https://twitter.com/spengrah https://daohaus.club/ Thanks for listening to Crypto Sapiens. It costs zero dollars, means the world to us, and helps others discover this content. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a 5-star review wherever you enjoy your podcasts. You can also find more conversations like this one by visiting our website @ cryptosapiens.xyz. I look forward to reconnecting with you at our subsequent discussion.  Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi.   https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/ https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC26aOc_4vSGiQATW1V4e9Tw https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018   Connect with Humpty Calderon https://twitter.com/humptycalderon ---   --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. 
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Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 23min

Special Episode: LIVE at MCON2

Welcome back to another special episode of Crypto Sapiens. Today we are featuring conversations captured LIVE from MCON2. This was an emotional experience for me as MCON1 was my first ETH event; it was also the public debut of Crypto Sapiens. Previous to that, we had published just 2 episodes, and there I was now hosting LIVE interviews!?! Thankfully I was embraced as a longtime contributor and friend. MCON is clearly an important event for the web3 community. MCON2 brought together many builders and enthusiasts to experience “valuable conversations, learnings and experimental growth all about DAOs.” In this episode, we feature a few of those participants to learn from their stories. I hope that you find the conversations fun and engaging and get a sense of the energy from the event.   Our speakers include:  Nathan from Snapshot, Stacy, Mandy, and Kyle with gmBus, 0xJustice from Bankless DAO, Grendel with Polygon DAO, Reese from Coordinape, Diana from Rehash DAO, Sasquatch with RaidBrood, Jen with Crypto Stitch, Peth from Metagame and Andros from Wonderverse.  And an extraordinary conversation with Yalor about the mission of MCON and the impact it has on web3.   I enjoyed every minute of this event, and I truly hope you got a sense of the energy from these conversations. I would highly recommend marking your calendar for MCON3 next year. Because I believe the spectacle will be even more incredible than ever.   To learn more about MCON, go to mcon.fun and on Twitter at @ mcon_world Thanks for listening to Crypto Sapiens. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a 5-star review wherever you enjoy your podcasts. It costs zero dollars, means the world to us, and helps others discover this content too. You can also find more conversations like this one by visiting our website @ cryptosapiens.xyz. I look forward to reconnecting with you at our next discussion.  Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi.   https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/ https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC26aOc_4vSGiQATW1V4e9Tw https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018   Connect with Humpty Calderon https://twitter.com/humptycalderon ---   --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. 
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Sep 23, 2022 • 40min

How to turn a traditional business into a DAO | Samantha Marin, Communications & Growth - Aragon DAO

Guest Intro 0. 00 - 2.37  Transition to Bankless DAO 2.37 - 6.30  Writing and its contribution to DAOs and web3 6.30 - 15.00  Writing and exploration of Aragon 15.00 - 20.03  Expectation, Commitment and the Freedom in BanklessDAO 20.03 - 26.24  Gaining Equity in DAOs 26.24 28.20  Recognition of Plans 28.20 - 29.19  Reasons why Aragon becomes a DAO 29.19 - 37.09     Welcome back to Crypto Sapiens. Today we are talking with Samantha Marin, author of the Quorum Newsletter and Core contributor in writing and comms at Aragon. Samantha recounts her discovery of DAOs as an early subscriber to Bankless and becoming an early contributor to Bankless DAO.  She describes her experience working in a traditional startup wanting equity in the project she was helping to build and how being remunerated for her work at BanklessDAO in $BANK, their governance token, was a monumental step in the direction of what she had been seeking. Of course, there are challenges with bounty pay too.  She recalls times when she attended meetings and participated in retrospectives that added value to the DAO but didn't see any compensation for it. She consistently produced articles and other tangible work to earn a sustainable income.   We compare the flexibility of bounty pay vs the stability of salary payment.  We also talk about the emergent structure in DAOs vs centralized organizations seeking to decentralize and the challenges in both.   I hope you enjoy this conversation with Samantha. She is an incredibly gifted writer tackling many crucial topics both through her blog and at Aragon. Many of the topics we discussed have inspired me to be more thoughtful about how we structure decentralized organizations and build incentive mechanisms.   If you'd like to connect with Samantha, you can find her on Twitter @ samanthajmarin and her blog at quorumnewsletter.xyz  And to learn more about Aragon, go to aragon.org and on Twitter at @ aragonproject Thanks for listening to Crypto Sapiens. It costs zero dollars, means the world to us, and helps others discover this content. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a 5-star review wherever you enjoy your podcasts. You can also find more conversations like this one by visiting our website @ cryptosapiens.xyz. I look forward to reconnecting with you at our subsequent discussion.  Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi.   https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/ https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC26aOc_4vSGiQATW1V4e9Tw https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018   Connect with Humpty Calderon https://twitter.com/humptycalderon ---   --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.         
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Sep 16, 2022 • 44min

Building an NFT Project | Crypto Bushi, Co- founder DAO Punks.

Hello, and welcome back to Crypto Sapiens. Today we are talking with Crypto Bushi, Founder of DAOpunks and now also Memelord at Bankless HQ. We start our discussion with Crypto Bushi describing how he became green pilled and joined Bankless DAO after receiving an airdrop as an early supporter of Bankless HQ. He also recalls the role Bankless DAO community members had in inspiring DAO Punks. We talk about the manifesto which seeks to inspire a movement of CorpRats to become DAO Punks. To this effect, DAO Punks has created a grants program intended to provide individuals with the initial resources needed to take the leap and go full-time DAO.   In our conversation, we also touch on activating new joiners to a DAO, empowering new ideas, and making space for emergent leadership.   I hope you enjoyed this conversation with Crypto Bushi and Livefast. It’s great to see the organic growth of communities, and the value they unlock by empowering their members. I hope to see the flipping of more corpRATS into DAOpunks in the future. If you’d like to connect with Crypto Bushi, you can find him on Twitter @ thecryptobushi  And to learn more about DAOPunks, go to daopunks.io and on Twitter at @ DAOpunksNFT Thanks for listening to Crypto Sapiens. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a 5-star review wherever you enjoy your podcasts. It costs zero dollars, means the world to us, and helps others discover this content too. You can also find more conversations like this one by visiting our website @ cryptosapiens.xyz. I look forward to reconnecting with you at our next discussion.  Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi.   https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/ https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC26aOc_4vSGiQATW1V4e9Tw https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018   Connect with Humpty Calderon https://twitter.com/humptycalderon ---   --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.     
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Sep 2, 2022 • 45min

Contribution Management & Bear Market DAOs | Aaron Soskin -Founder at Govrn

As Aaron puts it, the ultimate usage of DAOs is self-organizing and self-governance. If this concept is applied to our everyday lives, then we would truly be using this technology to its full potential.  This eventually led to him launching Govrn, a platform where you can track, record and manage your DAO contributions. Aaron believes DAOs are not made up of people but instead contributions. And that these contributions belong to individual contributors and not the DAO. Govrn allows you to verify your ownership of your contributions across DAOs. I hope you will enjoy this conversation with Aaron as much as I did. I'm personally very excited to see Govrn continue developing their contribution graph. It has the potential to unlock rich and dynamic experiences for DAO contributors.  If you’d like to connect with Aaron, you can find him on Twitter @ AaronSoskin. And to learn more about Govrn, go to Govrn.io and on Twitter at @ GovrnHQ Thanks for listening to Crypto Sapiens. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a 5-star review wherever you enjoy your podcasts. It costs zero dollars, means the world to us, and helps others discover this content too. You can also find more conversations like this one by visiting our website @ cryptosapiens.xyz. I look forward to reconnecting with you at our next discussion.    Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi.   https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/ https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC26aOc_4vSGiQATW1V4e9Tw https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018   Connect with Humpty Calderon https://twitter.com/humptycalderon ---   --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.   
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Aug 26, 2022 • 52min

Connecting Communities | Niran - Founder, Panvala

Today we are talking to Niran, Founder of Panvala.  We begin our conversation with a brief introduction to Niran and his crypto journey thus far. He recalls his initial thoughts of Ethereum, and crypto as a whole was not very positive. It wasn’t until he learned of Augur that he began to understand the possibilities of crypto and began to contribute to it. This eventually led him down the Ethereum rabbit hole as he realized that Ethereum was a tool that allows for “rules to be written for any interaction between individuals or groups of people, like the rules for a board game. Except this game does not need an intermediary, or game master, because the network (the computers around the world) are promising to be an impartial game master for any rules you publish on the network.”  This made him wonder, what should we do with the technology if we have this toolkit for economic and social coordination that unlocks better cooperation for all of mankind.  Eventually leading him to develop Panvala. And set its mission, as a mass movement to reshape the way value flows in the economy to improve the stuff that we share. There are very few people that ask the types of questions that Niran does, or are able to dissect topics so precisely. I am excited to share this conversation with you; so let’s get started. I really enjoyed my chat with Niran, and I hope you did too. The Panvala movement is a crucial one, not just for the success of web3, but IMO the success of humanity as a whole. If you’d like to connect with Niran, you can find him on Twitter @ niran  And to learn more about Panvala, go to panvala.com and on Twitter at @ PanvalaHQ. https://twitter.com/PanvalaHQ  Thanks for listening to Crypto Sapiens. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a 5-star review wherever you enjoy your podcasts. It costs zero dollars, means the world to us, and helps others discover this content too. You can also find more conversations like this one by visiting our website @ cryptosapiens.xyz. I look forward to reconnecting with you at our next discussion. -- Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi.   https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/ https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018   Connect with Humpty Calderon https://twitter.com/humptycalderon ---   --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. 
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Aug 22, 2022 • 45min

DeSci & TalentDAO | Saulthorin - Founder TalentDAO

Today we are talking to BanklessChick, Core founder of talentDAO.  Our conversation explores her background in research science, her contributions to Bankless DAO including being a member of their Governance Solutions Engineers, and the inspiration for launching talentDAO.  BanklessChick says, “ETHDenver was where she first learned of DeSci and is where talentDAO was born; later at ETHAmsterdam is where talentDAO made its debut.” BanklessChick believes DeSci will use science to save the world, and the role of talentDAO is to make sure that DAOs are using the best science to achieve that mission. Finally, we tackle some of the diversity and inclusion issues plaguing the science community, and present opportunities for DAOs to evaluate these issues to keep from repeating them I really enjoyed my chat with BanklessChick. I especially enjoyed our talk on human coordination, and building the tools we can't see, but know that we need. To connect with BanklessChick, please follow her on Twitter @saulthorin https://twitter.com/saulthorin   And to learn more about TalentDAO, go to talentdao.io and on Twitter at @talentdao_ https://twitter.com/talentdao_  Thanks for listening to Crypto Sapiens. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a 5-star review wherever you enjoy your podcasts. It costs zero dollars, means the world to us, and helps others discover this content too. You can also find more conversations like this one by visiting our website @ cryptosapiens.xyz. I look forward to reconnecting with you at our next discussion. -- Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi.   https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/ https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018   Connect with Humpty Calderon https://twitter.com/humptycalderon ---   --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. 
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Aug 12, 2022 • 30min

Decentralized VC |Fight Club - Tesa

Welcome back to Crypto Sapiens. Today we are talking to Tesa, self-described Cat Herder, at Fight Club. We start the conversation with her describing her journey to becoming a Bankless DAO member in its early days, and the role the DAO played in launching Fight Club. This conversation was super enlightening, especially in learning about the similarities and differences between traditional venture funds and venture DAOs; from membership, deal flows, to governance. We also discuss Fight Club’s upcoming Black Glove public mint, how you can earn your own Glove, and the launch of their 2nd educational cohort. I really enjoyed my chat with Tesa. I especially enjoyed learning about the collaboration happening in the venture DAO ecosystem.    To connect with Tesa, please follow her on Twitter @ defin00b  And to learn more about Fight Club, go to flightclub.vc and on Twitter at @ fight_club_vc https://twitter.com/fight_club_vc https://twitter.com/defin00b   Thanks for listening to Crypto Sapiens. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a 5-star review wherever you enjoy your podcasts. It costs zero dollars, means the world to us, and helps others discover this content too.   You can also find more conversations like this one by visiting our website @ cryptosapiens.xyz. I look forward to reconnecting with you at our next discussion. -- Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi.   https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/ https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018   Connect with Humpty Calderon https://twitter.com/humptycalderon ---   --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. 

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