Zero Rights Reserved: A CC0 Podcast About Nouns, DAOs, NFTs & Ethereum
Zero Rights Reserved (Zero Pod for short) is the new flagship weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more! Subscribe to Zero Pod and you will also receive our periodic Prop Talk Podcast to stay up to date on all current Nouns DAO proposals, plus bonus interviews from our daily Twitter Spaces over @thenounsquare!
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Episodes
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
SEP 1 / 2023 ------
Welcome to Episode 7 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down with Binji Pande from OPLabs and the Optimism Collective.
The quote in the title is from Jesse Pollak of Coinbase/BASE, and Binji said it sums up what it's like to work daily on scaling Ethereum alongside some of the best minds working on the OP Stack together.
In this pod, we dig into Binji's background, talk about Optimism's commitment to broad collaboration and funding public goods, and we learn that the "Superchain" is a blueprint for an open source hat warehouse in New Jersey?
Enjoy!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode Teaser
1:32 - Intro to Zeropod
2:34 - The Binji Origin Story: Coconuts in Cost Rica
3:44 - College Days: Studying Behavioural Economics
5:49 - Incentives, Incentives, Incentives.
6:08 - Joined Coinbase
7:20 - Joined Optimism
8:14 - Impact Over Profit
9:10 - Is Optimism Nounish?
9:51 - Conviction + Optimism = Success
10:38 - What kind of challenges has Optimism faced recently?
11:23 - The Pros and Cons of Tribalism
13:20 - The Superchain Solution
16:00 - One Super Dream
16:43 - So what exactly is the Superchain?
17:22 - The Hat Store Analogy
18:58 - Optimism is a hat warehouse in New Jersey
20:43 - The Superchain is an open source hat warehouse blueprint
21:52- Builders can now build for all warehouses in the world at the same time
23:00 - Open Source Protocols allow a faster pace of innovation
25:13 - Why is OP Winning The Culture War?
30:05 - Based #OnchainSummer
32:35 - WTF is a PWA?
33:54 - The ease of launching and operating DAOs on L2
35:57 - The importance of Optimism’s Ethereum “sameness”
38:15 - Open source as a Nounish value
39:42 - Nouns + Optimism = Super Alliance?
40:20 - Solving for the current disincentive to working on public goods (great quote!)
42:12 - The importance of retro funding
44:56 - How can builders apply for Optimism retro funding?
47:44 - Where to find ideas to build for OP and information about the next Retro PGF: https://tinyurl.com/OP-PGF
48:58 - How can builders apply for Retro PGF?
50:18 - Telegram is awful and everyone agrees
51:45 - The Nouns x Optimism x Farcaster VIBE
53:04 - How interoperable will OP Stacks be? (NOMO Nouns example)
55:36 - wen Superchain?
59:51 - ZK vs Optimistic Proofs (Back to the hats!)
64:40 - The Farcaster OP Migration
70:00 - Of all the places you could work, why OPLabs?
72:00 - Possible OP x TNS Twitter Spaces Collaborations!
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Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk.
Cohosted by Prof Werder aka The Nounish Prof.
Zero Rights Reserved, remix any of our content as much as you like!
Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more.
Watch the episode in 4K on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/V4raMn3pCjQ
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
SEP 1 / 2023 ------
Welcome to Episode 7 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down with Binji Pande from OPLabs and the Optimism Collective.
The quote in the title is from Jesse Pollak of Coinbase/BASE, and Binji said it sums up what it's like to work daily on scaling Ethereum alongside some of the best minds working on the OP Stack together.
In this pod, we dig into Binji's background, talk about Optimism's commitment to broad collaboration and funding public goods, and we learn that the "Superchain" is a blueprint for an open source hat warehouse in New Jersey?
Enjoy!
---
Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode Teaser
1:32 - Intro to Zeropod
2:34 - The Binji Origin Story: Coconuts in Cost Rica
3:44 - College Days: Studying Behavioural Economics
5:49 - Incentives, Incentives, Incentives.
6:08 - Joined Coinbase
7:20 - Joined Optimism
8:14 - Impact Over Profit
9:10 - Is Optimism Nounish?
9:51 - Conviction + Optimism = Success
10:38 - What kind of challenges has Optimism faced recently?
11:23 - The Pros and Cons of Tribalism
13:20 - The Superchain Solution
16:00 - One Super Dream
16:43 - So what exactly is the Superchain?
17:22 - The Hat Store Analogy
18:58 - Optimism is a hat warehouse in New Jersey
20:43 - The Superchain is an open source hat warehouse blueprint
21:52- Builders can now build for all warehouses in the world at the same time
23:00 - Open Source Protocols allow a faster pace of innovation
25:13 - Why is OP Winning The Culture War?
30:05 - Based #OnchainSummer
32:35 - WTF is a PWA?
33:54 - The ease of launching and operating DAOs on L2
35:57 - The importance of Optimism’s Ethereum “sameness”
38:15 - Open source as a Nounish value
39:42 - Nouns + Optimism = Super Alliance?
40:20 - Solving for the current disincentive to working on public goods (great quote!)
42:12 - The importance of retro funding
44:56 - How can builders apply for Optimism retro funding?
47:44 - Where to find ideas to build for OP and information about the next Retro PGF: https://tinyurl.com/OP-PGF
48:58 - How can builders apply for Retro PGF?
50:18 - Telegram is awful and everyone agrees
51:45 - The Nouns x Optimism x Farcaster VIBE
53:04 - How interoperable will OP Stacks be? (NOMO Nouns example)
55:36 - wen Superchain?
59:51 - ZK vs Optimistic Proofs (Back to the hats!)
64:40 - The Farcaster OP Migration
70:00 - Of all the places you could work, why OPLabs?
72:00 - Possible OP x TNS Twitter Spaces Collaborations!
---
Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk.
Cohosted by Prof Werder aka The Nounish Prof.
Zero Rights Reserved, remix any of our content as much as you like!
Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more.
Watch the episode in 4K on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/V4raMn3pCjQ
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Welcome to TWIN (This Week In Nouns) for the week of Aug 28, 2023, a Bonus episode pushed out to subscribers of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast! Catch up on everything you might have missed in the Nouniverse in 5 minutes or less, directly from TNS's JackWyldes.
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00:00 Intro
00:10 Nouns: A Movie hires Dan
00:28 Nouns eSports makes it to The International
00:51 Nouns Whiskey update
01:16 Nounish ethOS mobile releases
01:39 Nouns Chinese K11 Exhibit
01:58 Prop Talk: Nouns Prop 360
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Shout out to Maty.eth who writes an insanely informative substack newsletter every week to keep us all aprised of all the latest nounish news. Go Subscribe now: https://nouns.substack.com/
And while you're at it, if you enjoy videos like these, please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss an episode! To view the videos (blocked by Spotify, use Apple Podcasts our check them out on the TNS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thenounsquare
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Welcome to TWIN (This Week In Nouns) for the week of Aug 28, 2023, a Bonus episode pushed out to subscribers of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast! Catch up on everything you might have missed in the Nouniverse in 5 minutes or less, directly from TNS's JackWyldes.
____________________________________
00:00 Intro
00:10 Nouns: A Movie hires Dan
00:28 Nouns eSports makes it to The International
00:51 Nouns Whiskey update
01:16 Nounish ethOS mobile releases
01:39 Nouns Chinese K11 Exhibit
01:58 Prop Talk: Nouns Prop 360
______________________________________
Shout out to Maty.eth who writes an insanely informative substack newsletter every week to keep us all aprised of all the latest nounish news. Go Subscribe now: https://nouns.substack.com/
And while you're at it, if you enjoy videos like these, please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss an episode!
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Aug 26 / 2023
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Welcome to Episode 6 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down with Nate Angell from Creative Commons to chat about how his organization created the very licensing protocol that allowed Nouns to be built — CC0.
We delve into the history of copyright, and the delicate balance to strike between protecting creators and the public good. We also talk about the intersection of blockchain and licensing, and the important daily work of the Creative Commons Org.
But don’t worry, it’s not all serious— we also keep it pretty weird with “The Nounicles of Nounlandia” and not just one but, inexplicably, 5 separate mentions of fax machine technology.
As with all our content, this recording is CC0… So please, Copy This Content.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Teaser: I think Joshua is lying.
0:18 - ZEROPOD Intro
01:26 - The Nate Angell origin story
3:16 - Open Educational Resources vs. The Big Textbook Grift
5:30 - Joining the Commons
6:21 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 1
8:37 - The Creative Commons Licenses
9:41 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 2
11:56 - What is Creative Commons?
14:45 - Open Source licensing, but for content.
16:17 - Joshua The Reappearing Man
16:29 - Comic Book Collection Show and Tell
18:57 - Copyright Strikes This Podcast
20:44- The History of Copyright
23:00 - The Copyright Tradeoff
27:09 - The Mickey Mouse Rule
28:16 - What is CC0?
28:48- How does blockchain affect this dynamic
30:30 - Nate on the Nouns Experiment
31:03 - Welcome to Nounlandia
32:40 - Can a brand become ubiquitous faster with open licensing?
34:36 - Nouns: A Movie
37:57 - CC0 in the Context of Education and Science Research
42:20 - The Nonicles of Nounlandia
42:45 - Should works ever automatically go into the Public Domain?
44:32 - Striking the balance
46:17 - The difficulty for artists of making something popular
48:30 - CC0 is an Experiment Too
48:52 - CC0 is actually not a License
49:46 - Special Guest
50:19 - A Day in the Life of Creative Commons work
52:54 - A Day in the Life Part 2
53:59 - AI and Copyright
54:37 - Open Climate Campaign
55:50 - Josh’s Hot Take: No Such Thing as Big Brains
57:29 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 3
59:17 - Copyright as a protector of the gatekeepers
61:01 - Is Creative Commons looking at Smart Contracts?
63:50 - How can Creative Commons stay ahead of the curve?
65:01 - Sustainability and the Future of Creative Commons
68:25 - Nate on Nouns (Again)
69:07 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 4
70:40 - Crypto is like Camping
72:34 - What’s up with Opepen?
73:41 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 5
73:50 - Toady Explains Opepen
76:59 - Opepen and Nouns: The Power of CC0 + LoFi Art
79:14 - Outro
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Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk.
Zero Rights Reserved, reuse and remix any of our content as much as you like.
Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more.
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Aug 26 / 2023
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Welcome to Episode 6 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down with Nate Angell from Creative Commons to chat about how his organization created the very licensing protocol that allowed Nouns to be built — CC0.
We delve into the history of copyright, and the delicate balance to strike between protecting creators and the public good. We also talk about the intersection of blockchain and licensing, and the important daily work of the Creative Commons Org.
But don’t worry, it’s not all serious— we also keep it pretty weird with “The Nounicles of Nounlandia” and not just one but, inexplicably, 5 separate mentions of fax machine technology.
As with all our content, this recording is CC0… So please, Copy This Content.
—
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Teaser: I think Joshua is lying.
0:18 - ZEROPOD Intro
01:26 - The Nate Angell origin story
3:16 - Open Educational Resources vs. The Big Textbook Grift
5:30 - Joining the Commons
6:21 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 1
8:37 - The Creative Commons Licenses
9:41 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 2
11:56 - What is Creative Commons?
14:45 - Open Source licensing, but for content.
16:17 - Joshua The Reappearing Man
16:29 - Comic Book Collection Show and Tell
18:57 - Copyright Strikes This Podcast
20:44- The History of Copyright
23:00 - The Copyright Tradeoff
27:09 - The Mickey Mouse Rule
28:16 - What is CC0?
28:48- How does blockchain affect this dynamic
30:30 - Nate on the Nouns Experiment
31:03 - Welcome to Nounlandia
32:40 - Can a brand become ubiquitous faster with open licensing?
34:36 - Nouns: A Movie
37:57 - CC0 in the Context of Education and Science Research
42:20 - The Nonicles of Nounlandia
42:45 - Should works ever automatically go into the Public Domain?
44:32 - Striking the balance
46:17 - The difficulty for artists of making something popular
48:30 - CC0 is an Experiment Too
48:52 - CC0 is actually not a License
49:46 - Special Guest
50:19 - A Day in the Life of Creative Commons work
52:54 - A Day in the Life Part 2
53:59 - AI and Copyright
54:37 - Open Climate Campaign
55:50 - Josh’s Hot Take: No Such Thing as Big Brains
57:29 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 3
59:17 - Copyright as a protector of the gatekeepers
61:01 - Is Creative Commons looking at Smart Contracts?
63:50 - How can Creative Commons stay ahead of the curve?
65:01 - Sustainability and the Future of Creative Commons
68:25 - Nate on Nouns (Again)
69:07 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 4
70:40 - Crypto is like Camping
72:34 - What’s up with Opepen?
73:41 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 5
73:50 - Toady Explains Opepen
76:59 - Opepen and Nouns: The Power of CC0 + LoFi Art
79:14 - Outro
—
Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk.
Zero Rights Reserved, reuse and remix any of our content as much as you like.
Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more.
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
For Episode 5 of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast, we have stitched together two excerpts from the OnTheGround Livestream at EthWaterloo, where OTG's Aubtoshi and ZEROPOD's Toady Hawk took turns interviewing each other. Enjoy this little podcast host-off!
Be sure to check out the OTG YouTube channel for more Live Streams like this from Nounish events, as well as documentary shorts and more: https://www.youtube.com/@otgwtf
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
For Episode 5 of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast, we have stitched together two excerpts from the OnTheGround (OTG) Livestream at EthWaterloo, where OTG's Aubtoshi and ZEROPOD's Toady Hawk took turns interviewing each other. Enjoy this little host-off!
Be sure to check out the OTG YouTube channel for more Live Streams like this from Nounish events, as well as documentary shorts and more: https://www.youtube.com/@otgwtf
Small note: Because these interviews were filmed on a Live Stream at EthWaterloo with sketchy Wifi, some of the video in the latter half is a little glitched in spots, but most is great and the audio is clear throughout. Cue "We do it LIVE!"
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Aug 9 / 2023
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Welcome to Episode 4 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Robotfishgirl from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down for a fireside chat with Ben West and Azeem from Gitcoin!
We talk about:
- The history of Gitcoin,
- The importance of open source,
- Keeping both Nouns & Gitcoin weird,
- Why impact funding is so crucial
- Plus much, much more... including how you can apply for funding in their current impact round!
Grab a coffee and sit down!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Teaser: “We eat VC’s alive.”
1:31 - Intro
2:40 - The Ben West origin story
4:15 - The Juggler5:11 - The Azeem Villain arc (just kidding)7:28 - Harassing Richard Heart
9:52 - Getting to the kernel of Kernel: https://www.kernel.community/en/
12:05 - WTF are the Quadratic Lands? https://youtu.be/mTU6J4WTPtk
14:04 - The Genesis of Gitcoin
16:00 - Funding public goods
16:30 - The ubiquity of open source in software vs. art
18:08 - We like Short Shorts: https://zora.co/collect/eth:0xd64ce3231839fed12c0ee132d6b33b4238ff9929
18:42 - Quadratic Funding — what is it?
22:02 - Keep Nouns Weird
22:24 - New funding round that just started! #GG18
23:21 - Everything is beta
26:45 - Quadriga X Side quest. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/904-a-death-in-cryptoland ; https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/trust-no-one-the-hunt-for-the-crypto-king-trailer
29:10 - Who can apply for funding in a Gitcoin round?
29:18 - Keep Gitcoin Weird
31:48 - Gitcoin x Nouns Prop House?
34:28 - The Pillars of Gitcoin
36:00 - Hidden benefits of open sourcing infrastructure and software
38:18 - Gitcoin Passport. (Our explainer video: https://youtu.be/z-EiaGbY_2Y)
43:20 - Gitcoin as a bridge for non-crypto people
44:20 - In search of humans who don’t use Linked In
45:34 - Everybody hates CAPTCHAS
46:26 - What are Ben’s favourite projects funded by Gitcoin?
47:51 - The $BALD rug solved
49:02 - Trying to explain crypto things to normal friends
49:28 - Crypto Mom story time
50:07 - Azeem’s favorite Gitcoin-funded projects: “We eat VC’s alive.”
53:40 - Nouns and Attention-ROI
55:01 - Why is it so important to fund Public Goods? Azeem
56:27 - And Ben
01:00 - Turning the tables: Ask us about Nouns
01:20 - Where can people go to learn about Nouns? http://tns.wtf; https://nftnow.com/guides/an-nft-every-day-a-guide-to-the-nouns-nft-project-dao-and-ecosystem/ ; http://nouns.center ; https://metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/nouns-birthday?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
01:05 - Must-follow Nouners
01:07 - Outro
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Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk.
Zero Rights Reserved, remix any of our content as much as you like!
Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more.Watch this podcast in glorious 4K instead on our TNS YouTube (Don't forget to Like & Subscribe) https://youtu.be/fAPxyHl_Yhk
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Aug 9 / 2023
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Welcome to Episode 4 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Robotfishgirl from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down for a fireside chat with Ben West and Azeem from Gitcoin!
We talk about:
- The history of Gitcoin,
- The importance of open source,
- Keeping both Nouns & Gitcoin weird,
- Why impact funding is so crucial
- Plus much, much more... including how you can apply for funding in their current impact round!
Grab a coffee and sit down!
---
Timestamps:
0:00 - Teaser: “We eat VC’s alive.”
1:31 - Intro
2:40 - The Ben West origin story
4:15 - The Juggler5:11 - The Azeem Villain arc (just kidding)7:28 - Harassing Richard Heart
9:52 - Getting to the kernel of Kernel: https://www.kernel.community/en/
12:05 - WTF are the Quadratic Lands? https://youtu.be/mTU6J4WTPtk
14:04 - The Genesis of Gitcoin
16:00 - Funding public goods
16:30 - The ubiquity of open source in software vs. art
18:08 - We like Short Shorts: https://zora.co/collect/eth:0xd64ce3231839fed12c0ee132d6b33b4238ff9929
18:42 - Quadratic Funding — what is it?
22:02 - Keep Nouns Weird
22:24 - New funding round that just started! #GG18
23:21 - Everything is beta
26:45 - Quadriga X Side quest. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/904-a-death-in-cryptoland ; https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/trust-no-one-the-hunt-for-the-crypto-king-trailer
29:10 - Who can apply for funding in a Gitcoin round?
29:18 - Keep Gitcoin Weird
31:48 - Gitcoin x Nouns Prop House?
34:28 - The Pillars of Gitcoin
36:00 - Hidden benefits of open sourcing infrastructure and software
38:18 - Gitcoin Passport. (Our explainer video: https://youtu.be/z-EiaGbY_2Y)
43:20 - Gitcoin as a bridge for non-crypto people
44:20 - In search of humans who don’t use Linked In
45:34 - Everybody hates CAPTCHAS
46:26 - What are Ben’s favourite projects funded by Gitcoin?
47:51 - The $BALD rug solved
49:02 - Trying to explain crypto things to normal friends
49:28 - Crypto Mom story time
50:07 - Azeem’s favorite Gitcoin-funded projects: “We eat VC’s alive.”
53:40 - Nouns and Attention-ROI
55:01 - Why is it so important to fund Public Goods? Azeem
56:27 - And Ben
01:00 - Turning the tables: Ask us about Nouns
01:20 - Where can people go to learn about Nouns? http://tns.wtf; https://nftnow.com/guides/an-nft-every-day-a-guide-to-the-nouns-nft-project-dao-and-ecosystem/ ; http://nouns.center ; https://metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/nouns-birthday?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
01:05 - Must-follow Nouners
01:07 - Outro
---
Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk.
Zero Rights Reserved, remix any of our content as much as you like!
Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more.Watch this podcast in glorious 4K instead on our TNS YouTube (Don't forget to Like & Subscribe) https://youtu.be/fAPxyHl_Yhk
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