55 - Welcome To Bankless | 2021 Edition
This Week’s Episode marks the 1-year Anniversary of the Bankless Podcast. We sum up the show’s first nine episodes in this single canonical mega-podcast, updating our answers to the big questions – What Does It Mean To Go Bankless? What Is DeFi? How Do I Get started?
TIMESTAMPS
I. Why Are We Going Bankless? (0:00 - 29:29)
- Need for Self-Sovereign Money
- Problems in Legacy Finance
II. How Crypto Fixes Money (29:30 - 42:11)
- Protocols are Credibly Neutral
- An Accessible Parallel Financial System
III. What Does This Look Like? (42:12 - 1:14:11)
- What is Money?
- Cryptography & Your Keys
IV. The Bankless Money Stack (1:14:12 - 2:11:49)
- Settlement Layer
- Asset Layer
- Protocol Layer
- Application Layer
- Aggregation Layer
V. Why Crypto Is Inevitable (2:11:50 - 2:24:59)
- Game Theory & Gresham’s Law
- The Triple Point Asset
VI. How To Get Started (2:25:00 - 2:33:22)
- Get Crypto Money
- Take Self-Custody
- Start Using DeFi
VII. The Journey West (2:33:22 - 3:00:01)
- Once-In-A-Lifetime Multi-Decades Event
- The Bankless Journey is Ambitious, Risky, and Highly Rewarding
RESOURCES
- 🌅 Field Guide 1: Going Bankless Starter Guide
- 🔴 Field Guide 2: Using the Bankless Badge
- 🛠️ Field Guide 3: Tactics & Tools Index
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