The Orchestra, Decentralization and Macroeconomics with David Blackstone

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This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features David Blackstone from Symphony

David Blackstone, founder of Symphony, critiques the influence of governments and corporations on censorship, business decisions, and economic policies, including excessive money printing and bailouts like those for Silicon Valley. He advocates for decentralization of the ledger as a solution to these issues.

Symphony, built on Cosmos, offers a crypto-native solution for trading real-world assets like real estate and gold, without relying on traditional banking. Its open-source documentation covers the Symphony tech stack, advanced use cases, and encourages community contributions via GitHub.

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We spoke to David Blackstone about Symphony and:

• They'll be able to censor people
• To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back to the crowd
• Shut up your poor
• Random guy on the internet, so no one listened
• CEO probably isn't listening to the developers
• Copy pasting solutions all over the place
• Government influencing businesses
• Currently in the cycle of printing more and more money
• US government bailing out Silicon Valley
• Decentralization of the ledger

Timestamps

00:00 – 05:00 : Intro
05:00 -- 12:00 : Becoming a founder
12:00 -- 16:00 : Solve a particular problem
16:00 -- 23:08 : The hamster cycle
23:08 -- 29:55 : Not getting depressed
29:55 -- 43:00 : Macroeconomics
43:00 -- 54:28 : Real world assets
54:28 – 01:03:15 : The Blitz

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Special Guest: David Blackstone.