ZEROPOD #26 - Synchronous Signals with UFO Founder Nick Hollins

On episode 26 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down for part one of a two part Home & Away podcast with Nick Hollins from UFO. In this one, Toady puts Nick in the hotseat to find out all about his career and crypto journey. We talk about everything from onchain media and web 3 distribution to open source and DAOs, and we hear firsthand what’s next for UFO. Next week, Toady and Benbodhi from The Noun Square / ZeroPod will join Nick on the UFO pod to chat about TNS, the pod, The Yellow Collective and more. Make sure you subscribe at https://ufo.fm/ so you don’t miss it! If you enjoy this conversation, please mint it here for free and share with a friend! Timestamps: 00:00 - Open source wins. 01:54 - ZeroPod Intro 03:40 - Nick’s origin story 05:33 - Intro to crypto and podcasting 07:08 - ETH Berlin pre-covid 07:44 - 0x Labs & Matcha 08:20 - Meeting UFO cofounder Ivano Salonia 10:06 - Voyager Artist Collective 11:05 - UFO Radio / Podcast 14:25 - Onchain Distribution vs web 2 Distro 16:40 - Onchain podcast pioneers - UFO as an Onchain Radio Station 19:35 - “Everything that happens onchain is a broadcast event.” 21:00 - Experimenting with Hypersub 23:00 - What does an onchain radio station look like? 25:00 - The Synchronous Signal 26:05 - Discoverability for onchain media 32:00 - Higher: A new model for DAOs? 33:00 - The Yellow Collective 35:00 - Why “Yellow”? 38:00 - Emojis and Brands — the new flags of Network States? 40:49 - Farcaster chat 47:00 - Twitter’s fall from grace 51:41 - Decentralized orgs and Open Source FTW 53:00 - Retro funding as a key unlock 1:00:00 - Positive Sum mindsets 1:00:51 - Nick on Nouns 1:09:00 - Favourite guests from UFO pod 1:14:20 - Onchain media as Onchain Anthropology 1:16:00 - Outro --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by Toady Hawk x Suno AI. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit https://tns.wtf to learn more.