PleasrDAO's NFT Auction House with Jamis Johnson

Welcome, Bankless Nation, to a special live stream because we have a very special event that I want to talk about. Pleaser Dow is launching something extremely cool. And so we are bringing on the chief pleasing officer out of Pleaser Dow to discuss what exactly they are building in the Web3 world. If you are unfamiliar with Pleaser Dow, Pleaser Dow, we'll go through the beginnings with Jameis, the guests I'm going to bring on here in a second, and we'll talk about how Pleaser DAO was created. But it really got started with the release of Uniswap V3 and an artist called People Pleaser who release an NFT, which a an or uh just a random collection of friends decided to get together to form a DAO to purchase it. But that's really just where the story began. And now Pleaser DAO has taken on a life of its own to do some very ambitious things in the world of internet culture and NFTs on Ethereum and also fighting for freedom in so many different ways and respects. An adventure that has brought in Edward Snowden into the org as well as a number of other people as well. So we're going to tell a little bit of that story and also what Pleaser DAO is releasing into the world of Web3 today. So I'm very excited to tell this story, and just as a disclaimer, I am a member of Pleaser DAO. And so I own the Peeps token, which is the Peeps token is the token of Pleaser DAO. And so this is a uh a DAO I'm a part of as well. Uh and so we're going to tell this story and more as soon as we get back from hearing about some of these fantastic sponsors that make this episode possible.

Bankless Nation, I am here with Jameis Johnson out of uh Pleaser Dow. Jameis, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me back, David.

Yeah, it's good to good to have you back, my man. And uh it's been a while since we've talked about Pleaser Dow on the show. I've mentioned it a few times in weekly roll ups here and then. Uh, but uh there's been a bunch of new listeners into the bankless world since I've had you last on to talk about the last innovation out of Pleaser Dow. So maybe you could introduce yourself a little bit. Who is Jameis and how did he become the chief pleasing officer at Pleaser Dow? And what the hell does that even mean?

Yeah, I mean,

Pleaser Now is a very

interesting organization with a very fun history, but it all goes back to

a Friday in March

of 2021

when Uniswap V3 was basically doing an NFT auction to commemorate their new protocol launch,

as you mentioned earlier.

People Pleaser

was the artist behind that piece. And I think that um

You know, if you were in DeFi Summer, if you participated, you knew her as kind of the tone setter of all designs back then.

So it was kind of this obvious moment of everyone wanting to bid on this piece. Uh Leighton Cusack tweeted we should form a DAO.

So I grabbed him, I grabbed Blue Kirby, and I grabbed Andy 8052,

and it just began to snowball from there.

We threw a ton of people into a telegram chat.

Uh I chose to name it Pleaser Dow

as a tribute.

And it's kind of just been this snowballing, crazy,

almost like Katamari Domasi ball effect since then.

Um

I think the things that we're more well known for

uh are our acquisitions. So, you know, we've been a part of some very fun auctions.

And to name a few, we have a um

Nadia from Pussy Riot. We have a vial of her blood in cold storage,

literal cold storage.

What?

We bought Jimmy Whale's iMac

that he programmed Wikipedia on.

That also came with the uh an NFT that was the original code for Wikipedia.

And then I think the two that we're probably most known for are the Doge, the image of the original Doge from Atsuko Seido from Japan, who owns Kabuso, who is now, I believe, 17 years old

and on her last leg. We bought that.

The Doge. And

and that was minted into an NFT during the NFT season, uh which which pleased RDAO purchased. So the Doge is what you're talking about.

The Ethereum Foundation has a close relationship with Atsuko. Atsu, I believe is it's pronounced.

And so the woman who took the photo on, you know, the origin actually took the original JPEG from her camera

and uh uploaded it as an NFT. So we got that provenance locked in.

Mm-hmm.

Um, we did end up fractionalizing that

on SushiSwap

and got it out to the masses so you can own a piece of the Doge today.

And uh and then I think maybe the most notorious thing that we are known for is.

We purchased the

Never Before Heard album Once Upon a Time Shaolin, uh, the Wu Tang album

from

the Department of Justice.

Legally speaking, it was not actually directly from the Department of Justice, but

this album used to be owned by Martin Schreli. He uh forfeited it

when he went to prison, and we were able to acquire it.

We are working on something for everyone, but I'm not

totally at liberty to talk about that.

We got the uh we got the Woo York Knicks going on here.

Beautiful.

You can see that in the video stream if you're watching the video stream.

But I mean,

you know, that that first run was just so unbelievably exciting. Uh, we helped raise a lot of money for really good causes,

raised a ton of money for free Ross, Ulbricht, uh, free Ross Dow.

Um