Take the Green Pill - Kevin Owocki

hello hello hello gm gm uh hey i'm kevin owaki i founded git coin we funded 52 million dollars worth of public goods in the ethereum ecosystem [Applause] i believe that it is all coordination and it always has been we've been put here to coordinate the creation of a better future and i am asking you to embark on an experiment in coordination with me tonight and just bear with me because it's gonna get weird hey hey hey send it back [Applause] all right louder this time hey hey hey [Music] well this is the last one let's make it good hey hey hey [Music] once it wasn't was a git connect yo we are so coordinated right now and poor all the poor people who joined this ecosystem in 2020 don't even know about this meme you sweet summer children wait let's get connected with why we're here that's my segue everyone um i believe that ethereum is a transparent global incorruptible and programmable substrate for creating global coordination and that's a big deal because it's all coordination and it always has been so what are we coordinating what kind of world are we trying to bring into being with this technology well traditionally blockchain technologies have been associated with the cypherpunk ethos which advocates for widespread cryptography and privacy enhancing technologies and decentralization as a route to social and political change in the last several years i've noticed an increasingly solar punk strand of the community an art movement that envisions how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving its contemporary coordination problems with a focus on sustainability and problems such as climate change and pollution so i think that these are the values that we are manifesting in which we are trying to create a world that maximizes humans thriving both on the sovereignty cypherpunk vector and also on the solar punch sustainability vector what's at stake as we do this is public goods like fresh air herd immunity open source software public roads and the many many other public goods that are out there and the paying down of global existential risks from things like climate change or underfunded digital infrastructure these are coordination failures i believe that the atomic building block of a more regenerative crypto-economic world is an impact owl any dow that creates a positive externality for the public by the public proof of humanity creates civil resistance on the ethereum blockchain and that allows thousands of people in argentina and elsewhere to live on top of ubi climadow creates carbon credits on the blockchain which will allow us to pay down the carbon impact of the ethereum ecosystem and the broader world getcoindao creates funding and coordination for public goods there are many many different types of capital and so do do not let yourself believe that it is just financial capital that this blockchain ecosystem is about shout out to greg landua and the region network who tells us about eight different types of capital social material financial living capital intellectual capital experiential capital spiritual capital and cultural capital will be the vectors through which impact dao x impact al's export positive externalities to the world impact owls can stack upon each other each impact dowel benefits from all of the impact dials adjacent to them and the impact owls that are below them in the stack and this is how impact al's the core atomic unit of a more regenerative crypto economic infrastructure are going to create a more positive impact on community what i think is really cool is how quadratic funding can stack you may have noticed that at get coin which we've funded 52 million dollars worth of public goods so far we are no longer just focused on the ethereum ecosystem but we are doing climate rounds longevity rounds advocacy rounds and we are starting to partner with ecosystems like uniswap tally cash and uh polygon in order to build their ecosystems i believe in quadratic funding but i do not think that it is the only mechanism and funding source for a regenerative crypto economic infrastructure impact else can vary in mechanism and funding source bitcoin grants leverages quadratic funding and its funding source has been the ethereum foundation d5s and nfts but look at molok dao which has a completely different and novel mechanism for pooling funds and allowing you to rage quit from those those dolls the token engineering commons has been experimenting with putting tokens on bonding curves in order to fund public goods and retroactive public goods and my homies at optimism have been working on badge holders and funding with three million dollars per month of optimism sequencer fees in order to fund public goods the way these impact owls can stack is is that we are creating a pluralistic infrastructure for funding public goods quadratic funding is one of the amazing mechanisms but it is only one of the mechanisms and i think that we talk a lot about client diversity at the base layer creating anti-fragility foundation for the ethereum network we should also be thinking about anti-fragility in the form of pluralism and how we fund our public goods and public goods are good and we want to create a stable foundation in order to do that because once we create a pluralistic civilizational skill infrastructure for funding public goods we can cross-pollinate what is working in the crypto ecosystem to open source software which will allow us to pollinate out to the rest of the world the public good that we are funding in the ethereum ecosystem software is eating the world and crypto is eating software and we will ride this wave to a pluralistic civilizational scale infrastructure for funding public goods thank you gm uh we uh my goal tonight is to create a stigmatic feedback loop in which we all realize that coordination is a choice and we must all collectively take the green bill in order to create a more solar punk world by taking the greenfield pill which is just a metaphorical way of saying that you're choosing to create a world that is more solar punk we will all individually make the choice to coordinate instead of defect and to build this world the title of my book that i wrote is how crypto can regenerate the world and i would love to title the next edition how crypto will regenerate the world but all coordination is a choice and we can create the most best systems in the world out there but without the individual choice to use them to coordinate it will all be for naught please help me in taking it from how crypto can regenerate to the world to how crypto will regenerate the world and in order yeah sure thanks um i would like to invite you to take the green pill which is just a metaphor for choosing to create this world i would like to remind you as you choose whether or not you're going to take the green pill that um for most people the amount of happiness that they feel in their lives only scales up to 100k along with the amount of money that they make and then it starts to plateau so after you're making 100k per year you're able to provide for your basic necessities and your happiness becomes decoupled from the income that you can do for the world but the good of what you can do for the world continues to scale along with your income and it is here that i see an area of opportunity in which many of us had made generational wealth over the last several years to do something greater than ourselves and to choose to coordinate by giving back to this infrastructure building a legacy for ourselves and creating a positive regenerative crypto economic world so i would like to lead the charge tonight by taking the green pill and going to greenpil.party and pledging one percent of my net worth to funding public goods and anyone else who wants to join me can go to greenpill.party and you can subscribe to the new podcast about green pill that i've got going out on bank lists you can read the book about regenerative crypto economic infrastructure and you can choose to take the green bill yourself by funding public goods with a percentage of your net worth i believe that you should take the green pill because you want to create human thriving you want to pay down existential risks like decaying infrastructure to create a world in which your children's children will want to live in to be a part of something that is bigger than yourself and because the wealth that could be that that you could use to help the world won't make you any happier but it'll help you make an impact and to increase your legacy take the green pill at greenpill.party peace out ethereum i love you [Applause]