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Public Goods Are Good – Kevin Owocki

Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 12:00 AM

This talk is from ETHDenver, the world’s largest Web3 BUIDLathon and Community Gathering. ETHDenver’s content is crypto and blockchain focused. Subscribe to our channel to learn more + connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EthereumDenver. Speaker: Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin Abstract: Public goods (clean air, open source software, sanitation, schools, national defense) benefit all members of society. As we move from an industrial world where public goods were primarily funded by coercive taxation, to an information age, what does the future hold for public goods funding? In this talk, Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki will explore Gitcoin's mission to Grow & Sustain Open Source software using Ethereum & programmable money, and the possibilities for public goods funding in the information age. This talk was recorded Friday, February 15, 2020. ETHDenver 2020’s content themes included DeFi; DAOs and Token Engineering (TE); Gaming and Usability; Protocols and Interoperability; and Public Good and Social Impact. Industry experts also weighed in on topics like decentralization, privacy, identity, non-fungible tokens, scaling, governance, diversity, and arts and culture in blockchain technology. The 2020 event was February 14-16 in Denver, Colorado and hosted 2000+ blockchain enthusiasts, developers and community members from 50 countries and 50 U.S. states. 🔴 SUBSCRIBE ETHDenver’s YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgz9NU06t_FkT0Py1Vadczw 💡 LEARN ETHDenver’s Official Website https://www.ethdenver.com/ 👋 CONNECT ETHDenver Twitter https://twitter.com/EthereumDenver 📖 READ ETHDenver News on Medium https://medium.com/ethdenver 🛍️ SHOP ETHDenver Official Merchandise bufficorn.com 💬 CHAT Telegram https://t.me/Ethdenver Discord https://discord.gg/jteMn5c 📱 FOLLOW LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/ethdenver Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ethdenver/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ETHDenver/

Speakers

Kevin Owocki is a blockchain expert, computer scientist, co-founder of Gitcoin and podcast host at Greenpill.network, a network-society of thousands of hackers, dreamers, and doers focused on using crypto to bring positive digital systems to the world. Kevin co-founded Gitcoin in 2017 where his vision of a positive-sum ecosystem supported by public goods helped raise and distribute over $50 million to projects in the ecosystem.