Episode 13: Show Notes
While we may have been negative about WEB3 on many occasions, today we are talking about a company implementing WEB3 technology in a way that truly seems to be a good idea. Hivemapper is a crowdsourced open source mapping platform. As the world’s first crypto-enabled dashcam, Hivemapper mines HONEY Tokens and grows a map while you drive. Tuning in you’ll hear how Hivemapper identified gaps in the marketplace and is using crypto to help fill them, how you can make money through this platform, and how different parties can benefit from it. To hear more about the effects and disappointments of crypto, some of the lessons that crypto is avoiding, and why we believe that Hivemapper is a great use of WEB3 technology, tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
Tweetables:
“[Hivemapper] They’ve identified gaps in the marketplace, or opportunities in the marketplace, for freshness of data, coverage, etc, that they are then using crypto to help fill .” — Jon Gallagher [0:05:44]
“Video games I’m sure have contributed to how they’re setting up some of the incentive structures and game mechanics of this project.” — Logan Gallagher [0:10:22]
“If there’s a project that actually looks solid on its fundamentals, like this appears to be, we’ll applaud it. As technologists, we’re about the technology and we’re skeptical when technologies get a little too hyped.” — Logan Gallagher [0:15:47]
“What I think really appeals to us is the alignment, not just of crypto as a way of people getting paid but of the incentivization on both sides of it.” — Jon Gallagher [0:16:49]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
How HiveMapper Works: The HONEY Token
Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism
Cory Doctorow: A useful, critical taxonomy of decentralization, beyond blockchains
Cory Doctorow: Undetectable backdoors for machine learning models
Episode 13: Show Notes
While we may have been negative about WEB3 on many occasions, today we are talking about a company implementing WEB3 technology in a way that truly seems to be a good idea. Hivemapper is a crowdsourced open source mapping platform. As the world’s first crypto-enabled dashcam, Hivemapper mines HONEY Tokens and grows a map while you drive. Tuning in you’ll hear how Hivemapper identified gaps in the marketplace and is using crypto to help fill them, how you can make money through this platform, and how different parties can benefit from it. To hear more about the effects and disappointments of crypto, some of the lessons that crypto is avoiding, and why we believe that Hivemapper is a great use of WEB3 technology, tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
Tweetables:
“[Hivemapper] They’ve identified gaps in the marketplace, or opportunities in the marketplace, for freshness of data, coverage, etc, that they are then using crypto to help fill .” — Jon Gallagher [0:05:44]
“Video games I’m sure have contributed to how they’re setting up some of the incentive structures and game mechanics of this project.” — Logan Gallagher [0:10:22]
“If there’s a project that actually looks solid on its fundamentals, like this appears to be, we’ll applaud it. As technologists, we’re about the technology and we’re skeptical when technologies get a little too hyped.” — Logan Gallagher [0:15:47]
“What I think really appeals to us is the alignment, not just of crypto as a way of people getting paid but of the incentivization on both sides of it.” — Jon Gallagher [0:16:49]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
How HiveMapper Works: The HONEY Token
Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism
Cory Doctorow: A useful, critical taxonomy of decentralization, beyond blockchains
Cory Doctorow: Undetectable backdoors for machine learning models