From normies to degens: solarpunk guidelines and contemplations / Barbara R. Lorincz

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good morning eat the Prague I'm Camille I love you so much and that's why I keep coming back you are my family ethereum and agnostic chains this morning we have Barbara she's been in crypto since 2015. co-founded solar.buzz and they just launched so please let's welcome her to The Institute of crypto Anarchy hi so well I'm Barbara I'm recovering awkward person turned into solar Punk

Enthusiast and today I want to talk to you about normies dragons and our new project solar up on that bus which is like we are aiming to incubate projects that fits the solar panch agenda so well yeah I was an only Enthusiast of gaming and the internet and as an only child I was showered with entertainment goodies so by the age of three I got my first Nintendo and by age four I already have my own computer so assuming I behave well I did my homework I could basically play around

with anything on it my grandma was always super enthusiastic about anything Cutting Edge and jumping on the new projects but my grandpa was super skeptical about the internet and computers in general he thought that computers melted brains and ruined eyesight and yeah let's be honest after three other prescription glasses I think I pretty much agree with him on the latter one so as the years went by I find my becoming the go-to person for my grandpa's internet tasks and while I was helping him I tried to

educate him on that as well so as an Eastern European grandpa I try to come up with a relatable analogy so okay but Grandpa like he likes to go to the pub and drink beer so grandpa that web2 and the internet is like a lively Pub minus the beer but you go there you upload your stories you share comments with your friends and share your ideas and I think he could pretty much relate to that because he he somehow ended up creating your Facebook page and not going to the pub that often anymore

so I figured that by creating these relatable analogies I can inspire people to discover the opportunities that lies in in web 2 even if they are from another generation and it's hard for them to to tackle challenges um like that and web2 had other opportunities and my high school friend Gabor he is actually responsible for me getting into crypto um he came up with the idea that we should play with a game called Satoshi minds

and I think it was 2014 and or 15 and we were around like 16 17 and then we needed to grab some Bitcoins from somewhere to start the game so back then back in the days it wasn't so easy to to get crypto not even when you were 18 but if you were under 18 it was like kind of impossible so we went some forums and then we looked up opportunities to buy any crypto that was possible via cash and um yeah I think it took the first Bitcoin transaction took like two three weeks to go through but in the at the end of the day we

managed to get all of our friends into into crypto and then play with this game and make some money out of it little did we know that garbage Journey just began at that time because he went on eating a crypto exchange he dropped out of high school and now he is responsible for creating the most dominant cryptocurrency Exchange in Hungary and basically he's the go-to guy when it comes to anything crypto related I mean he went quite far from posting ads on Facebook and um and another social medias but

yeah sorry um but yeah basically that to enabled him um to use marketing tools that would not be available in the previous era of of the web of the worldwide web and it's not just that social media reformed web2 it's also the platform economy that came with it because Airbnb Shopify and other big platforms revolutionized the way and provided an easy on and off ramp um or sorry an easy access to to everyone who wanted to to get into

business my other friend Sarah who is who is a painter she set up a store on Etsy and it was quite easy for her to to sell her paintings without renting anything like and any costly um physical space to to trade her artwork later on he went on printing Altos as an artsy um Gateway place and then made money out of that as well but what I actually want to emphasize here that web2 was not some bad thing like it lowered barriers it enabled us to many things was not

possible before we don't need any developers to to set up a new business or move forward with our ideas but what do we need for change if it's all so beautiful and and everything is going well well basically it's not just enabled us it's also webtoona just enabled us it's also enslaved us in many ways because now we share more data than ever before and then data is mostly harvested by big companies which you mostly don't really give consent to let's just think about

the Cambridge analytica Scandal when they harvested millions of data and without the constant of the users and then basically sways elections and ruined democracy if I could go as far as that so apart from the ethical concerns we have three promises as a decentralized and more user-focused bub which we need to push forward to to get more people to to adopt it and then be able to

advocate for this change well I'm sure since it's prague's theme is solar panchum must know most of the essence of solar punks and of course the principles of it so we went social justice promotes equality and we want technology and nature to live together um and I think web3 harmonizes with that one so they have a very good Synergy because we want to take our power back and understand

how we could come up with ways that empower the individual and the community at the same time so just yesterday we we had this this idea that um back in the days you elected your representatives because you trusted them that they're gonna vote in your favor and today with blockchain it will be available that you cast your wrote to the representative if he's voting for something that you agree with and then you could take the power if he is using that um Alexis power to abuse um

some decision that you don't agree with so yeah um yeah sorry guys it's yeah um so we need to overcome these issues and there are projects that are already supporting that um we can just think of the any threat project that is basically a

Google review um almost like a Google review but you don't need the permission of the the pages to to comment on something and you can share your ideas and add your experiences without a third party needing to approve your comments on it we could use blockchain in agriculture and we actually have a project that we are supporting already with solar pan.buzz it's called Essence Foods where they are upcycling foods from the farmers and then they are saving the food that was supposed to go to waste and not to reach even the market

so what we what we want to do as solar pan that buzz is building the bridge and not build any more walls around us so in order to do do that or or build Bridges between web 2 and web 3 people and in general like in these two areas we need developers Technologies and solar panels to work together and embrace the solar panels um I'm sure you guys are here because you probably agree with some of them um and we thought that some of so some parts of the in this agenda is

already like in place by using blockchain but not everything is decentralized and what we think should be focused on more is decentralizing our data um so we found the partner project called swarm I'm sure you most of you know about it they are based on ethereum and um what they actually do is they divide your data into small four kilobyte chunks and you can run a nodes and others are running around and then this way your data is store decentralized but what is more important it's tamper-proof and then so cases couldn't happen like

we had a newspaper in Hungary and then in 2016 um due to political interference basically all the links disappeared so they vibed out of my the whole newspaper out of existence existence and that's how if we if if we all store our data on decentralized platforms and we try to protect um data that is available then we will be able to future proof ourselves and then leave meaningful data behind so

yeah so we have three three different approaches how we want to help help projects that are out there right now um we look for areas where we can make things better um we seek out solutions for sectors like video streamings and actually we already have um a small team working on a solution for that from Life parents farm so by the end of I cut this haircut and we should have a solution for that as well our second Focus lies in areas where innovative solutions can lead to

entirely new applications for example Dynamic nfts and this universe are commenting of any thread that I told you about are verifiable databases um but I'm sure you know mostly know about it and their third area is facilities in Mass transition so mess some boarding from web 2 to web 3 using sperm-based plugins for platform enhancements and there is a couple of solutions like that

one of them is called meta provides and then they provide you with a plugin and then you can use basically as interface similar to to the G Suite but it's all decentralized and um it can be um basically personalized by your needs so in a sense are somehow Matchmaker investor and we are trying to facilitate this change and grow the whole ecosystem but since we have a month into climb I think so like I I don't want to

awkwardly stand here alone I really need your help to to make this happen and in order to do that I need you to help me and educate your peers and we came up with an idea that since I like to make this analogies for my grandpa why not share it with the world so we are going to produce content for you that you can use with your family and friends and maybe try to make them understand what we are doing and and how we are trying to reform I'm not sure like how many of you have any relatives that don't understand what they are actually doing

I'm sure some of you have some it's a yeah my grandpa still thinks I'm working for Bitcoin so I'm there with you but um Yeah so basically I invite you to be the advocate of this this world and join forces with us so yeah let's do this together and then let's build a solar pan card because I'm scared as from the future so if we are building this together then hopefully we actually get there and and it's going to be an Utopia Neta cyberpunk dystopia after all so if you want to reach out get in touch

geek out um play of Legends anything like that just hit us up on telegram LinkedIn on our website and please sign up on to our to our newsletter so you can educate your family and and peers and yeah thank you [Applause] um do you have questions yeah um my question was was if there's

any relation between the solar movement on the refi regenerative Finance movements and if you have worked together in any initiatives to achieve these long-term vision I can give you the mic but yesterday we already like talks about it that we should reach out to them um because obviously like finance and and providing some basic infrastructure should be part of our agenda and yeah so

probably it will be in the next couple of months definitely any other questions thank you guys [Applause] thanks one more thing everyone Seekers and I have stickers for you just in case if you want some I'm not sure I will leave some here in the first chart just in case thank you thank you Barbara [Music] thank you