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Cyberbuzz Radio is a love affair with neon drenched disruptive tech and great synthwave music
I livestream every week with new music and artists to share, do Q&A about the Hive blockchain and beyond, with great discussions and dance parties around some of the changing aspects of our world, the crypto space, blockchain, and community. Have fun, learn a little, chat a lot, ponder whether or not we're all just replicants... what are you waiting for? Come join me in the neon~
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In this episode...
I've been away for WAY too long! The holidays are over, but in the past few weeks, where I live in British Columbia, Canada, we've been getting hit with some pretty insane weather. While a lot of the world is prepared for cold and wet, things have been ratcheted up to over 9000 here in BC. After months of unprecedented flooding and destruction, we've now faced weeks of record low temperatures, heavy snowfall combined with ice rain and flash freezes, followed finally by relentless high winds and yet more flooding. SO, you know. I've been having intermittent power outages and very cold appendages that have been making it very difficult to stick to my regularly scheduled set of shows. However, we're back on track and ready to dive into the neon.
Over the course of this episode we tackle a couple of pretty big topics, with the first being hardware wallets. There's some discussion on what a hardware wallet is, what it can do, and why it's worth getting one to help secure your self-held assets. We talk through how digital extensions and wallets are awesome but have also helped a majority of new (and even some veteran) crypto users become a little too complacent when it comes to understanding and dutifully checking on signing verification. Also, I talk about how Ledger is potentially part of the Google family (it's not! I'm an idiot; they're a French startup. I was fairly certain there was some sneaky ties in the background through capital investing but I was le wrong. However, Google did have a fun little data leak that did target Ledger owners.) and how Trezor and Coldcard are some other common options that allow you to verify and sign transactions without exposing your keys via your browser or other machines.
Regardless of my well meaning stupidity, we spend a little bit of time talking about wallet solutions like Argent - which is focused on making safety, self custody and recovery easier to understand via social guardians. You're able to help secure your assets in a way that allows you to lean on a web of trust versus solely relying on a seed phrase or keys. Do you think you would feel more comfortable and safe if you could set your family and friends as known "multi-sig" style trustees that all come together to confirm information without the need for technical signing?
Electric Snow is both the name of the first track (off one of my fave synthwave albums, no less) and also all of my current problems.
The bulk of the show is a deep dive into the idea of "blockchaining yourself" in web3, and that the rise of decentralized blockchain gaming is a honeypot for children, especially under the guise of play to earn. We discuss the macro concerns: children are vunerable on the internet and in regards to personal information and making good financial and social choices; and the micro concerns: that far enough along this slippery slope, poverty stricken children in third world countries will be targeted by blockchain games to onboard them into digital slavery that will lay the foundation for teaching children to trade tech interaction for pocket change, ultimately leading to babies as kinetic crypto mining batteries.
Yeah, there's a lot to unpack here.
In the process of breaking down what's useful inside this crazy context (are children sovereign? should they be able to use blockchain freely since blockchain is meant to be used freely? should centralized layers on top of blockchain spend more time thinking about the implications of web3 on a child's development?) we discuss topics like KYC, immutability, the difficulty curve of all things blockchain, and that children (and their parents) are generally pretty dumb.
Speaking of how we're all probably a little bit dumber than we think we are.... We Are One & the Same seems like it would fit here pretty well.
From here on out the children, play to earn gaming, and web3 discussion spins off right off the rails a little bit. We talk more about digital slavery, matrix goo pod infant foot kick crypto mining, video gaming, and a gentle reminder that sometimes the wildest versions of our fears that are expressed via quack theories are still valuable to us because they allow us to spend time developing the skills to distill down information to the root issues that actually do deserve our attention. These are good skills! Exploring big existential fears couched in dramatic science fiction is fun, cathartic, and sometimes pretty motivational.
We also ended up having a fun little back and forth with a good matured normie who wandered in, skeptical of crypto- it's always great to welcome new people and see our bizarre show topics through their eyes, and we get on to a great tangent about how the perception of crypto is largely shaped by an existing information network that hinges on our need for the most interesting and outrageous stories. Sometimes we miss out on a lot of the less egregious and more representative things that are happening because they just don't drive the algos the same way.
In cases like these, the only thing that will save us is contemplating Visions of our future, created with Maximum Love.
And finally, I break the suspension of disbelief and let people in on the not-really-secret that Rambo and the X Files were filmed in Vancouver- not to mention that in general, if you see a large US city that doesn't feature any geographical landmarks in a movie.... well, that's Vancouver too. Otherwise, if you're wanting to see a little bit about what's been going on around the province, here are a few links I reference in the episode about what's been happening weather wise in BC, plus one bonus feel good story about a piece of storm debris that stole our hearts and a video from the year I was born about the prowess of retro engineering:
- Jericho Pier is all smashed up
- Stanley Park Seawall got heckin' crunched
- Entire chunks of the Trans Canada Highway are underwater
- The Coquihalla has large pieces that have just noped right outta here
- But there was a brage that ran away in the rain and nos we love it
Here's a video about the building of the Coquihalla that is SO worth your time and the perfect hopeful retro future note to end on.
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Catch you out there in the flickering neon sometime?
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