55 - Welcome To Bankless | 2021 Edition

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?

TIMESTAMPS

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

RESOURCES

• 🌅 Field Guide 1: Going Bankless Starter Guide
• 🔴 Field Guide 2: Using the Bankless Badge
• 🛠️ Field Guide 3: Tactics & Tools Index
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