🎉 The BIG ‘introduce yourself’ thread

[Web3developer]

Hello all,

I’m Aaron Anderson and I rolled a shaman character for this IRL playthrough. After grinding out some levels in the church, military, and corporate zones, I reached the endgame content in the web3 expansion where my team buffs and focus effects have been beneficial for other player characters.

Groups I’ve teamed up with include Alfred, Ching!, BlocX, web3devs, MakerDAO Com-dev, Burner Wallet (EthDenver 19, 20, & DevCon5), and Pluracle (EthBuenosAires 18).

Like others have said in this thread, my path here was divinely inspired. Decentralization is key to our survival and propagation throughout the galaxy. And unfettered access to base reality is a fundamental right of conscious beings.

“Don’t fight forces. Use them!” -R. Buckminster Fuller, 1932

[itsencrypted]

Hey everyone!
Juliana here. I’ve been in the Ethereum ecosystem for the past 2 years. Met Metacartel back in July 2019 in a crazy party in Berlin. But got closer to most of you at ETH Denver.
I’m the summoner of Meta Gamma Delta,
YouTuber at It’s Encrypted! (new subscribers always welcome: https://www.youtube.com/c/JulianaPassos),
Community Manager at ETH Devs Sao Paulo,
Developer and Creator of dPlasma & Favela Sem Corona,
Flutter Developer, Beach lover, Ski junkie,
Some curious facts about me: I worked in Wall Street during Lehman Brothers collapse, my country had 7 different currencies, I lived in the Bahamas and was a triathlete (2009-2018). I studied Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s in London.
I’ve been a developer since 2019, and really happy to be an awarded hackathon winner at DragonQuest. It means the world to me

[Albert]

Hey there, been wanting to get involved with Metacartel for a while! I’ve come to work and chat with members of the community quite often, but didn’t really know where to start contributing myself. So I’ll start with an intro!

• Worked @ Aragon for a year, mainly as a program coordinator for the —now defunct— Flock and Nest grant programs
• My current projects
  • Joined the researchcollective team to keep hacking on their expert DAO for COVID related things
  • Thinking and writing here, real id here
• I can write, coordinate, connect people. I can organize projects and I’m working on my technical chops as well these days hacking on stuff.

Currently I’m focusing on determining the different types of value that make DAOs and online communities appealing and sustainable. Also looking forward to concrete use cases for ExpertDAOs in things like journalism and activism.

[Mars]

Arriving from DragonQuest hackathon discord:

I would like to give any interested members of the Estonia DAO squad a chance to join the MetaCartel DAO. Once we decide how many of you are interested in joining we can figure out how much DAI vs DAO shares to dish out.

Estonia DAO

I was working on Estonia DAO because it is a bridge betweed real-life and on-chain world. Estonia is a small (less than 1.5m) digital society and they have capacity to implement this in practice.

Check the hackathon submission: https://estoniadao.org/hack

Change the law, change the game, change the incentives for humanity.

I actually wrote a book called “system change”: System Change - Actionable Policies to Handle Climate Emergency

And the recent talk:

Mars Robertson - Unit Unconference Global - May 2020 - Operating System for the Planet(s)

BaseX island

• Currently, I’m focusing on the island: https://basexisland.com
• See also the pitchdeck: https://basexisland.com/deck

Starting from the business plan and cashflow, companies do not run on karma and good vibes. Still researching legal structure and progressing on all the fronts. Just got a reply from a law firm, €1000 + VAT and some other ongoing fees just to have a meeting is uncool, my research continues.

Mailhustle

Parallel to that is https://mailhustle.com analyzing 15 years of my email history, uncovering relationships from the past. Currently there is no AI ML NLP involved, only doing some basic math, how many emails in and out. Longer term I can totally building my AI avatar and my AI avatar doing business with your AI avatar.

I’ll use https://mailhustle.com to promote https://basexisland.com that’s why these two can run in parallel… Many other crazy ideas that I put on the backburner to focus on my attention on the stuff that truly matters and falls within my jurisdiction. For example:

Land in Ukraine: Anti TODO - land in Ukraine · Issue #36 · marsrobertson/one-life-true-self · GitHub

5G citizen science: London Real Citizen Science

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I have a background as a web developer, this is “selling time for money” way of generating income, 10k on StackOverflow: User Mars Robertson - Stack Overflow

I code some solidity too, I’m just too busy with projects to refresh my CV, the hustle on the island consumes most my attention…

I’m a member of Peter Diamandis Abudance Community, I promote exponential mindset and effective altruism.

My ETH address: 0x85A363699C6864248a6FfCA66e4a1A5cCf9f5567 or dearMoon.eth

It’s not about the price, it’s about this guy: https://dearmoon.earth/

Of course, I want to fly to the moon with artists!

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marsrobertson/

Follow me on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/marsxrobertson/status/1254323877183983617

My biggest skill: connectedness

Connecting and integrating various worlds, dimensions, entities, people, modalities… I’d be greatly honoured to join the DAO, join the forces, go beyond exponential!

[BruceTheGoose]

Hello everyone, I’m BruceTheGoose, a cryptoartist and NFT enthusiast attempting to build a NFT creation platform that also holds a number of other useful features, and a list of creative resources and other NFT projects that align with our vision or that our community would take an interest in. For more about me, or about the project, check out linktr.ee/brucethegoose

[joe]

Hey all,

I’m Joe, part of our Aragon. Most of my time is spent on finance related matters from token listings to treasury management and tokenomics.

I’m also part of Estonia DAO which was a recent Dragon Quest hackathon winner. With Estonia DAO, we’re aiming to connect the 70k+ e-residents from around the world to a DAO and lobby for legislative changes using a DAO.

Look forward to meeting everyone and spending more time in this amazing community.

[lsdan]

I’m Dan. I’m a DAO maximalist. Been watching the space since the BTC whitepaper. I got involved with trading in May 2015. After liquidating my crypto holdings at the height of the boom (and paying most of the gains to the IRS thanks to Coinbase losing that court case / being required to report my account) I started running DPOS nodes and developing. In mid-2018 I sold everything I owned, moved to Europe, and started focusing exclusively on DeFi. My wife, kids, dogs, and I spent 8 months living in Croatia (relatively near PETH) and now live in Tallinn, Estonia. I was a digital nomad before the virus hit and look forward to being one again.

My experience in DeFi / DAOs:

MARKETProtocol - lead engineer
LSDai - Berlin 2019 hackathon win
Pi-Rate $HIP NYC - First hacker in residence
HoneyLemon - Team member
MetaGame - Early lurker, Diamond member through donation
PieDAO - CTO
EstoniaDAO - Tech and Legal teams
BaseX Island - Pledged member, ground team Estonia
AuditDAO - Founder
PanDAO - Co-Founder (stealth mode)

I’ve obviously been circling MetaCartel for a while and am looking forward to getting more involved. It’s hard to encounter a cool project in the space without seeing the dancing chili pepper and / or Peter.

[Matthias]

Hey,

I’m Matthias, been around the space since TheDAO and working in the security space. Lot’s of start-up experience, including a recent exit. I am here for something very hands-on: How to setup a DAO-powered community with the target to allow people to find their individual perfect place to live. Consisting of scouts, builders and of course the ones looking for something perfect.

I got sparked by the new evolution of Metacartel: https://medium.com/metacartel/metacartel-is-evolving-️-350a64b39f3c

Looking forward to whatever is next on this road, and please reach out to me in case you are interested to share your insights or to join/contribute in one way or another.

[youngkidwarrior]

Hey guys/girls, I’m Victor, founder at Shenanigan. I joined the ETH nation pretty recently, somewhere around 2017/18. When I joined the first article I read was about cryptokitties and miraculously, I became obsessed. I think the main reason was it was so obvious where developers hearts lied and that place was Ethereum. Bitcoin seemed cool when I heard about it in 2016, but Ethereum was obviously revolutionary. Moving more than just data around the internet had use cases out of my comprehension. So, I started brainstorming to grasp at one of those incomprehensible use cases rattling through my brain. Shenanigan is the result

Prelude

Shenanigan aims to solve the problem every athlete faces during their career.

“If I cant go professional, what do I do when I’m done?”

Besides joining a circus? Nothing.

Every year, thousands of young adults turn away from there passions and start remedial jobs. And this is our core demographic at Shenanigan.

Betting on sporting events is a human pastime as old as history. That’s why last year, Nevada handled $8billion in bets and brought in $543million in revenue. All this money going back and forth and the athletes never see a dime. Shenanigan wants to open the door to a new paradigm.

Product Description

Shenanigan wants to remove the middleman and pay the athletes directly with a cut of the winnings.Utilizing LivePeer’s streaming technology and the Shenanigan mobile app, athletes will set up a live wager for the app community. Athletes will set their own goals or challenges and then livestream their attempts. If they complete their goal, live for everyone to see, they receive a cut of the betting pot. Winning bets are then paid out accordingly. And Everyone’s Happy! (except the losers)

DAO

A Shenanigan DAO will be set up on the Aragon platform to handle betting disputes from the app, as well as company financing, decisions, etc. Shenanigan will host some version of an ICO later this year. Owners of the token will receive in app benefits like extra in-app tokens and the ability to vote on disputes. The unofficial plans for the DAO include MolochDAO rage-quitting, bounties, fundraising, and community voting. See you there!

Social Links

• Follow us on Twitter
• Join our chat on discord

[money47327]

Hello Everyone! I am beginner trying to feel my way around. Love Dapps. Looking forward to meeting others.

[AnneConnelly]

Hi all,

I’m Anne Connelly and I have been in the space since 2012. I was part of the original DAO and connected with the MetaCartel crew while backpacking in New Zealand earlier this year. I looked up a random bitcoin meetup and…

My passion is the intersection of blockchain and social impact. You can watch my tedx talk to get a sense of why I care about decentralization.

Right now I am working with an artist in Kenya on a graphic novel about a young African woman who learns about blockchain and uses it to transform her community. The digital version will be available for free! Coming early 2021…

[nirbhik]

Hello everyone,

I’ve been in the crypto space for last 2+ years.
Helped Matic with building community & growth strategies.

Currently, advising a few teams on the marketing & community end. Also, I’m working on organising an event around NFT. Would love to get in touch with others with similar interest

Thanks & looking forward to meeting everyone!

[SaeedIV]

Hi all,

I am Saeed. I’m working on building a dapp in education/research/ publishing for a community based in East Africa. Looking for some assistance here (it’s a paid gig), so please i need serious experience.

Thank you:)

[thekerp]

Hey everybody! @Yalor sent me over here to introduce myself. Wassup?

I’m Adam, but I’m thekerp pretty much everywhere on the webz. But if you want to start at the closest to a central hub for my digital presence/portfolio that’d be https://thekerp.com. Maybe some of you have caught me on Meta Media.

I was drawn to MetaCartel through LexDAO and then Raid Guild, which lead to MetaMedia, DAO Rush Week, and DAOHaus. It’s become clear that MC is the nexus of teams and projects that are fun to work on, good for the world, while not afraid to get a little spicy. Community driven development FTW.

Me: I’m a lifetime generalist and storyteller. I grew up playing DnD, building computers, disassembling cameras, and finding ways to monetize that shit so I didn’t have to get a “real job.” (I also spent that time training for the Olympics in swimming. Swam at 2004 US Olympic Trials. Didn’t make the team. So, that was a whole thing, but doesn’t really have anything to do with why I’m here. Inquire if you want to hear all manner of stupid tales.)

I started a video production and software development company with some friends right out of college and basically ran some version of that for 10 years by staying at the edge of digital tech. It was always a small team, so we all had to learn all the things. After that I took a break to go to law school full time, while working as a digital marketing strategist. I didn’t plan to practice as a lawyer, but school was an excuse to just do academic stuff. I spent a lot of that time researching government and decentralization, and writing papers like “version control and the law.” All the while I was watching Bitcoin and then Ethereum do their thing, buying and selling. After school I wrote a white paper about smart contract dispute resolution, and launched a project called Juris to work on future of the legal system kinda stuff. We raised a bit of capital, frens and fam, not through an ICO, and have been working on that since. Through that project, I was pulled into LexDAO by @Ross … Raid Guild… so on…and here I am. Stoked to be here!

For what it’s worth, I don’t really care about DeFi and chasing gains, although I love the theoretical implications, and throw what I can at the projects I find compelling. These mechanics are the obvious future of everything—with an uncertain timescale. DeFi will solve for a bunch of really cool monetary incentives, and I’ll get enough of that to survive.

I’m here because I believe that open source software, community driven development, and community ownership through DAOS is the future… and the only thing that can solve for a whole host of society level problems… like lack of access to judicial systems. Also, none of this means all this shit shouldn’t be fun.

When I’m not at a screen I’m usually on a trail, a bike, or building something out of wood.

Kerp

[ewoud]

Hey guys,

I’m Ewoud, and I’m starting the In our nature initiative, which is about a new economy based on donations and relations. It’s basically a place to make the world more friendly by recognizing how we’re all related and can make it easier to donate to projects with or without monetary returns.

The In our nature project is like a crowdfunding platform, solving the scarcity problem simply by opening a space for initiatives. We’ll still have to figure this out practically, but we’re working on it.

I’m here actually also to present this initiative and find people to collaborate and start a DAO with, while also exploring what’s already available in similar projects of Metacartel, Democracy.earth and some other initiatives that I’m getting to know now.

Just let me know if you’d like to have a chat.

Ciao, Ewoud

[mamba4life32]

My name is Casper. I stand behind https://t.me/defisearch who has one goal and that one is to educate people about DeFi space which is by every day becoming bigger. I am in crypto since 2016 where Ive been part of ICO mania and learned many things. Join your #1 resource for DeFi projects .

[Ferran]

Hi all!

I’m Ferran, from Vocdoni.io We’re working on the first digital voting system that is universally verifiable and anonymous thanks to zk-SNARKs!

On the personal side, I’m on the cryptosphere since 2015 when Vitalik recommended me to join Bitcoin Magazine team.

Looking forward to discovering more about MetacartelDAO!

[malandraj]

Hi all,

I’m Christian product designer in love with UX/UI. I’m involved in Potion, DeFi protocol born during the HackMoney hackathon.

On personal side, I love to design typefaces and I started to focus on NFT space where I see many potential benefits for digital foundries struggling with piracy and license management. I would like to establish the first NFT native digital foundry and I’m here to meet smart people from the community and grow my network.

Few days ago I minted the first collectible token $FONT on Rarible.

[Joan]

Hey,

Passionate about everything payments. I have worked in recent years in London as Product Managers for Worldpay (financial institution) and Curve.com (fintech).

Earlier this year finished the Consensys Ethereum Bootcamp. And also started freelancing as ecommerce specialist.

I am glad to join Metacartel to help the community (Design/UX/User Research/Product Management) and also to find feedback and support for a crypto payment acceptance application based on Layer 2 technologies that I am building.

Joan

[HelloShreyas]

Hello! My name is Shreyas Hariharan and I’m in Bangalore, India. I’m building Llama, a tool to manage a crypto community treasury - set a budget, track inflows and outflows, and access a real-time community treasury dashboard. The goal is to make it easier for the treasurer and increase visibility for the community. I won an award at the Seed Club hackathon and was offered grant support from MetaCartel post the ETHGlobal hackathon. I currently help manage the treasury for $JAMM, a social token community. I previously worked for 3 years on the investment team at Duke University’s $18 billion endowment. Among other things, I helped lead Duke’s efforts in crypto.