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Today’s guest was Ward Stirrat, a Canadian decentralist and entrepreneur. We discussed the fires and power shutoffs in California, soil as a carbon sequestration solution, and Ward also spoke about his work in blockchain and cooperatives.
Ward Stirrat links:
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/wardstirrat
https://medium.com/@ward.stirrat
0:00:00 – INTRO
0:02:42 – Nora – Bond Fire – near Orange County, California https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsn… https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn….
0:07:21 – Greg – no powerlines in English countryside
0:08:19 – Ward – Transkarbon
0:23:30 – Ward Stirrat – Formal introduction –
0:24:42 – Ward’s LinkedIn bio
0:26:14 – Ward’s history in blockchain
0:33:54 – Core idea of Credyts
0:37:10 – Greg – Brief explanation of RChain’s Last Finalized State – horizontal and vertical scaling – hardware in throughput out
0:39:38 – Ward – inverting the power dynamic
0:44:41 – Greg – big shifts / small shifts – RChain goal – making tools that empower people, doesn’t necessarily mean that people will use them.
0:47:43 – Looking at other things that have been successful. Douglas Rushkoff – “Find the Others” All about small groups of people with common interests getting together to make stuff happen.