

GreenPill
Kevin Owocki
GreenPill is about crypto-economic systems that create positive externalities for their neighbors & for the world.
We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design. We search for powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, & market regenerative web3-era applications and digital assets. We launch the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world.
Ethereum is the ultimate substrate for human coordination. Learn about the web3 builders who are solving coordination failures and creating a more regenerative infrastructure for the world using Ethereum.
Take the Green Pill!
We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design. We search for powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, & market regenerative web3-era applications and digital assets. We launch the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world.
Ethereum is the ultimate substrate for human coordination. Learn about the web3 builders who are solving coordination failures and creating a more regenerative infrastructure for the world using Ethereum.
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May 30, 2023 • 53min
118 - The Tinder of On-Chain Voting with Griff Green
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://pod.link/1609313639 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Can we simplify and democratize Voting? Joining the podcast today is Griff Green, Co-Founder of Giveth, Commons Stack, General Magic, and Dappnode, Leader of the TEC DAO and Steward in other DAOs like Gicoin and Optimism. Pairwise has been his most recent effort, an App for On-Chain Voting with a Tinder-style User Experience. The first part of the Podcast is dedicated to Pairwise, and in the Second, Griff explores his personal philosophy and the promise of Public Goods Funding. Take the green pill, anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 👩 ATHENA DAO | ADVANCING WOMEN'S HEALTH https://bankless.cc/AthenaDAO ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 4:32 Pairwise 101 10:11 Tinder for Voting 13.55 The Purpose of Pairwise 18:09 Griff’s Secret 24.06 The Promise of PGF 47:08 Green Pill V2 Book 49:07 Closing Thoughts ------ Speakers: Griff on Twitter https://twitter.com/thegrifft Kevin on Twitter https://twitter.com/owocki ------ Resources: Pairwise https://pairwise.generalmagic.io/ Coordination Mechanisms https://supermodular.xyz/coordination-mechanisms/ ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- 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. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

May 26, 2023 • 59min
117 - Summoning Ether's Phoenix with Karl Floersch
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://pod.link/1609313639 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Ether's Phoenix has risen. Today, we welcome back Optimism founder and Public Goods champion Karl Floersch to join Kevin for a rousing conversation around the next phases of Public Goods. The conversation touches upon the current state of affairs of Ether's Phoenix, what a world looks like with many different 'competing' public good services available, and we end on discussing the future of AI alignment and Karl's take. Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 👩 ATHENA DAO | ADVANCING WOMEN'S HEALTH https://bankless.cc/AthenaDAO ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 2:00 Ether's Phoenix Review 7:38 Gitcoin Round 2 14:14 Round 3 Considerations 22:13 Plurality of Public Goods 35:05 Philosophies of the Future 39:00 AI Alignment 49:51 Karl's Unix Case ------ Resources: Karl Floersch https://twitter.com/karl_dot_tech -- Optimism https://www.optimism.io/ -- GreenPill - Ether's Phoenix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slMdeSBwC7I ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- 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. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

May 24, 2023 • 57min
116 - Solving Crypto Hacks with Taylor Monahan
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://pod.link/1609313639 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Did you know that there was $3.2b lost to crypto hacks in 2022? Today we are joined by Taylor Monahan, founder of MyEtherWallet and MyCrypto as well as building MetaMask at Consensys. Taylor spends a significant portion of her days investigating hacks, rug pulls, and determining attack vectors. Given her considerable background in the space, Kevin dives deep into the nuances and motivations behind why hacks occur and if there's a way to improve the landscape—ultimately helping people save their lost funds. Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 👩 ATHENA DAO | ADVANCING WOMEN'S HEALTH https://bankless.cc/AthenaDAO ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 3:35 Background and Motivations 9:19 Hackers in Web3 14:56 Root Causes 21:45 White Hat Ossification 29:07 Beating the Clock 37:42 Scam Prevention 45:44 Real-World Solutions 51:45 Final Thoughts ------ Resources: Taylor Monahan https://twitter.com/tayvano_ MyEtherWallet https://www.myetherwallet.com/ MyCrypto https://mycrypto.com/ ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- 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. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

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May 19, 2023 • 53min
115 - The Regenaissance with Gnoman
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://pod.link/1609313639 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Are you ready for the Regenaissance? Kevin is joined today by Gnoman - a Regen theorist, philosopher, entreprenuer, and design lead at Weco. Weco is the we(collective), an open source coop social network platform experimenting with democratic governance processes and social network features. Together, we discuss the current paradigms and define the Regenaissance and explain what Holos is and how it can fundamentally drive change as we navigate the Metacrisis of the 2020s. Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 👩 ATHENA DAO | ADVANCING WOMEN'S HEALTH https://bankless.cc/AthenaDAO ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 1:28 The Regenaissance 14:02 Defining Holons 22:31 Weco 34:53 A Brighter Tomorrow 38:12 Getting There 43:32 The Current Paradigm 49:01 Closing Thoughts ------ Speakers: Gnoman on Twitter https://twitter.com/gneversaygnever ------ Resources: Playdrive - June 4 - June 11 https://www.regensunite.earth/event/playdrive Weco https://weco.io/#/ Holos: A Holonic Community Computer https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lLlXFSMNUNnIU8K2ltVpT3aROcIosbkhuupQQFBubag/ The Regenaissance - A Metamodern Playbook https://docs.google.com/document/d/1toqpJ8IcOnc-TeP_-AnGNEKz5jTIZk6OeWj2XD1REuE/ ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- 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. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

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May 17, 2023 • 47min
114 - Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity with Simon Johnson
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://pod.link/1609313639 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Do we get to choose the outcomes of our Technology? Joining the podcast today is Simon Johnson, former Chief Economist at the IMF and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT. He recently co-authored Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. A book that explores the history and economics of major technology developments. Simon shares his valuable advice on how the next generation can redirect technology away from Vision Oliigarchs in a Bottoms Up Fashion. Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 👩 ATHENA DAO | ADVANCING WOMEN'S HEALTH https://bankless.cc/AthenaDAO ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 3:58 Technology Consequences 7:43 Coordination & Web3 13:06 Are we on the Right Track? 19:46 The Role of Decentralization 30:39 Advice for the Next Generation 37:18 Top Down vs. Bottomps Up 43:06 Closing Thoughts ------ Speakers: Simon on Twitter https://twitter.com/baselinescene Kevin on Twitter https://twitter.com/owocki ------ Resources: Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity https://www.amazon.com/Power-Progress-Thousand-Year-Technology-Prosperity/dp/1541702530 ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- 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. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

May 12, 2023 • 56min
113 - Protocol Guild: 1 Year In with Tim Beiko and Cheeky Gorilla
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://pod.link/1609313639 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Public goods are good. Today, we're checking in with Tim Beiko and Cheeky-Gorilla from The Protocol Guild. It's been a year since we last spoke with The Protocol Guild, and we use our time today to take a moment and provide reflections and updates from what has happened in the last year. The Protocol Guild is a new public goods funding mechanism that aids in alligning incentives for publici goods and Ethereum protocol developers. Want to get involved? Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 💈 HAIRDAO | SOLVING HAIR LOSS https://bankless.cc/HairDAO ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 2:01 What is Protocol Guild? 9:03 Updates & Challenges 20:52 One Year Reflections 27:52 Getting Involved 33:16 Recent Raise & Future Plans 41:40 The 10 Year Horizon ------ Resources: Cheeky Gorilla Twitter - https://twitter.com/cheekygorilla0x Tim Beiko Twitter - https://twitter.com/TimBeiko Protocol Guild Twitter - https://twitter.com/protocolguild Discord - https://t.co/vQ2eo6zdLA Greenpill Episode 10, Protocol Guild - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE9a9COahc ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- 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. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

May 9, 2023 • 44min
112 - Hypercerts.org with Carl Cervone
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://pod.link/1609313639 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ ----- Web3 needs to reward positive impact, but how do we measure it? Joining the podcast today is Carl Cervone, Startup Operator at Protocol Labs, building Hypercerts, an open data layer for tracking and rewarding positive impact. Using the same hypercert primitive, funders and projects create a scalable, interoperable, and transparent funding environment for innovative public goods. Carl is helping Web3 PGF scale to the real world and unlock its deserved legitimacy. Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 💈 HAIRDAO | SOLVING HAIR LOSS https://bankless.cc/HairDAO ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 1:52 What are Hypercerts? 4:02 How to Measure Impact 9:03 Improving Public Goods Funding 12:48 Scaling Web3 18:23 Hypercerts Roadmap 29:09 Unlocking Legitimacy 35:46 The Green Pill Movement 39:42 Closing Thoughts ------ Speakers: Carl on Twitter https://twitter.com/carl_cervone Kevin on Twitter https://twitter.com/owocki ------ Resources: Hypercerts https://hypercerts.xyz/ GiveGratitude https://www.givegratitude.io/ ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- 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. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

May 2, 2023 • 44min
110 - The Memetic Tribes of the Meta-Crisis with Brandon Nørgaard
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://pod.link/1609313639 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- What do you know about cartography? Today we are joined by Brandon Nørgaard, founder of The Enlightened Worldview Project as well as a published author, researcher, and community organizer. Quite recently, Brandon gave a talk at The Stoa entitled 'The Memetic Tribes of the Meta-Crisis' and has spent a considerable amount of time and thought behind some of the ways to tackle this head on. Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 💈 HAIRDAO | SOLVING HAIR LOSS https://bankless.cc/HairDAO ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 1:55 Mission Statement 5:43 Inspiration and Background 10:53 Memetic Tribes of the Meta-Crisis 17:11 Roger Walsh's Warnings 24:15 Mapping the Tribes 28:06 Meta-Crisis Course 36:40 Towards a Sustainable Future 40:30 Final Thoughts ------ Resources: The Enlightened Worldview Project https://twitter.com/EWorldview https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/ -- The Memetic Tribes of the Meta-Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxHwkb35MkQ -- Gitcoin Grant Link https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0x8aa06b3b8cac2970857f4e0fd78f21dc01aade94/0x8aa06b3b8cac2970857f4e0fd78f21dc01aade94-14 ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- 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. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

Apr 27, 2023 • 39min
109 - Next Generation Quadratic Funding with Joel Miller
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://pod.link/1609313639 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Are you ready for cluster mapping? Joel Miller is preforming research at the intersection of computer/socials sciences and economics as a Computer Science PHD candidate at the University of Illinois Chicago. Together, along with co-authors Glen Weyl and Leon Richsen, has authored a paper in December 2022 that explores an array of pluralistic quadratic funding, collusion resistance, and incentivization across social differences entitled 'Beyond Collusion Resistance: Leveraging Social Information for Plural Funding and Voting'. Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 💈 HAIRDAO | SOLVING HAIR LOSS https://bankless.cc/HairDAO ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 2:13 Joel's Motivation 6:16 QF Optimal Assumptions 15:50 First Mechanism 19:06 Second and Solution Mechanism 28:14 Efficiency at Scale 32:45 Pluralism ------ Resources: Joel Miller https://twitter.com/CS_Synthesist Plural QF Github https://github.com/Jmiller4/plural-qf Beyond Collusion Resistance: Leveraging Social Information for Plural Funding and Voting. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4311507 Plural Voting Tool https://pluralvote.radicalxchange.org/ Gitcoin Proposal https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gcp-evolving-gitcoin-grants-the-q-e-d-quadratic-experimentation-and-development-program/14174 ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- 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. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

Apr 25, 2023 • 47min
108 - Gitcoin Beta Round with Ben West, Michelle Ma, Nate Gosselin
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://pod.link/1609313639 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- The next Gitcoin Quadratic Funding round is here! Starting on April 25th and going until May 9th, you'll be able to participate in funding your favorite upcoming ReFi and Green Pill projects and help democratize public goods. We're joined today by Nate Gosselin and Michelle Ma, Product Leads at Allo Protocol and Gitcoin, as well as lead trouble maker and Grants Program Lead Ben West to discuss what to expect with the upcoming round and dive deep on the subject of quadratic funding and the next chapter of public goods. Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 💈 HAIRDAO | SOLVING HAIR LOSS https://bankless.cc/HairDAO ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 3:07 The Grants Round 16:27 Grants Stack 26:17 Democratizing Quadratic Funding 32:12 Allo Protocol 38:42 High Level Gitcoin Reflections 44:31 Closing Thoughts ------ Resources: Nate Gosselin https://twitter.com/heynate_g Ben West https://twitter.com/BenWest Michelle Ma https://twitter.com/musingsbymima To contribute to current round: https://grants.gitcoin.co/ To run a QF round on your own (avail May 15): https://manager.gitcoin.co/ Grantee Portal: https://Link.Gitcoin.co/grantee Join the Greenpill Discord: https://discord.gg/NDAzFSvJdx ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- 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. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures