Down the rabbit hole

Waiting for the perfect post to write takes too long. I figured I would write about what I assimilate from what I am reading. As I go deeper into the rabbit hole (https://garywoodfine.com/going-down-the-crypto-rabbit-hole/), I hope that others in my network connect and we get enough people interested and contributing to the discussion. I hope to distill some of these journeys into more coherent posts, but cant wait for the perfect opportunity. So here goes. ?My journey over the past two days

Started my Monday morning with a dose of the #greenpill (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639) , during the drive to school. New podcast that I discovered from the Bankless podcast network. Think Red pill / Blue Pill and now the Green pill. Vitalik Buterin chatting with Kevin Owocki about funding public goods by creating mechanisms such as quadratic funding. Took the green pill and ordered the book - https://greenpill.party/ . This aligned well with my prior explorations of applications of blockchains for sustainability.

Always fascinated by Quadratic funding and its role in funding open source software at Gitcoin(founded by Kevin Owocki). Since I didn’t want to get into reading the paper by Vitalik on quadratic funding, I landed up at Radical Xchange and joined their discord as well. If you want a primer, that discusses all things quadratic, I highly recommend https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/hitzig/files/buterin_hitzig_weyl_draft.pdf

During the same podcast, I heard about ‘retroactive public goods’ funding, which bought me to https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/retroactive-public-goods-funding-33c9b7d00f0c

Outcome1 - Support https://gitcoin.co/grants/ and I recommend that you learn about all things the gitcoin community does and participate as a grant applicant, grant funder, developer or just a community member.

I probably went down several other rabbit holes in this journey, but this is an abridged version. I wish there was an app that kept track of my browsing history and visualized it for me to edit/annonate/comment.