🎙 Welcome To Bankless | 2021 Edition
What Does It Mean To Go Bankless? What Is DeFi? How Do I Get started?
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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?
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🎙 Welcome to Bankless
March 8th, 2021
Table of Contents:
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
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