{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"070. Kevin Owocki on Gitcoin, Open Source, and Earning Crypto on the New Internet","description":"Open Source Technology and Blockchain Technology have created these base layer technologies with billions of dollars\u2019 worth of value. Like what happened open source and the internet, now with blockchain, a few large players with buckets of money are going after only a small segment of developers to maximize profits for their investors. But what about developers? Shouldn\u2019t they be able to capture some of that value \u2013 whether they\u2019re building on open source or blockchain platforms? \u201cOpen source software creates billions of dollars a year in economic value for the world, and software developers don't have the opportunity to capture the value that they've created in the world because of because of open source\u2026 and in a lot of ways, it's a tragedy of the commons.\u201d Kevin Owocki, founded Gitcoin, which brings together funders and developers in a peer to peer job network.  We talk about what Gitcoin is all about and how to get started. I asked him about how it would work if I wanted to hire a developer to create an online shopping cart for speakingofcrypto.com to sell SOC podcast merch and walks me through it. We also talk about the new paradigm of getting paid in ways we couldn\u2019t in the past (like earning crypto for block rewards or for maintaining a network). \u201cSince we value the work that miners are doing, we're paying them a block reward. But what if you also added a 10% overhead for the people who are actually building the open source software that the miners are running in order to secure the network, then you could have point to either go to a group of software developers who built the who built the ecosystem. And I think that that's the ultimate example of programming your values into your money, because it's a fundamentally new thing that could exists before the blockchain internet.\u201d We also chat about globalization and the exportability of law and culture through blockchain\u2019s borderless structure. Can developers from countries in Venezuela, Argentina, or Egypt where there has been a history of extreme inflation benefit from accessing American systems of freelance work structure? \u201cWe talk about the exportability of law through blockchain\u2019s borderless structure. \u201cone of the primary features of blockchain is that you can export the rule of law and faith in faith in your investments that you would get in somewhere like America, to a place where they don't have great rule of law and there's a lot of corruption.\u201d We also talk about the idea of nations competing for citizens and Kevin recommends the book, The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg  https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information\/dp\/0684832720 Kevin also shares some great things about the  Boulder, Colorado developer community. \/\/   Kevin Owocki https:\/\/twitter.com\/owocki Gitcoin https:\/\/gitcoin.co\/mission Gitcoin Mission https:\/\/gitcoin.co\/mission How is Gitcoin doing? Check out their earnings here:  https:\/\/gitcoin.co\/results ","author_name":"Speaking of Crypto podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/speakingofcrypto.com","html":"