ZEROPOD #20 - "Building the Ownable Internet" with BoysClub Cofounder Deana Burke!

Zero Rights Reserved: A CC0 Podcast About Nouns, DAOs, NFTs & Ethereum

It's the crossover episode you never knew you needed -- on episode 20 of ZEROPOD, our very last episode of 2023, BoysClub cofounder Deana Burke joins us to talk about building a community media organization on the new "ownable internet." We hear about her background, how BoysClub came to be, and what to expect in 2024, with many more interesting topics sprinkled throughout. We really enjoyed this conversation with Deana, and we hope you will too! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Art Basel flu 00:50 - Intro 02:11 - The Deana origin story 03:30 - Shitcoin-trading beginnings 04:08 - The rabbit hole: Levelling the playing field. 05:28 - A Bitcoin Wallet for Teenaged Girls 07:09 - Crypto: “I love that for you” 07:45 - The birth of Boys Club 08:39 - When Boys Club interviewed Toady about Nouns fork: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ETx8SBvPR4ggUzom5bNPU?si=8ovBntM2TaunabFJuGQStA 09:25 - “Wherever you meet us on our journey is perfect.” 10:00 - The Boys Club name 11:45 - “We have an opportunity to shape the new internet and be involved int it, and speak to what it becomes, but only if we have a seat at the table if we are learning about it and understanding and building things in and around it.” 13:57 - The Boys Club DAO 16:15 - Going full time 17:00- Boys Club Events 18:16 - Basel… we are so back? 19:45 - Check the receipts! 20:00 - The Boys Club Zine 23:00 - The impact of physical products in the onchain space 26:30 - Experimenting with different minting mechanisms for physical editions: “Trading scarcity for attention.” 29:24 - Boys Club as an Offchain DAO 34:00 - Protocol DAOs vs Onchain Social Club DAOs 37:00 - AirPod Malfunction 38:11 - The struggles of new onchain media 43:29 - Onchain Spotify wen 44:26 - Crowd-funding PTSD 46:11 - If you build it, they will… not necessarily come. 48:03 - The importance of minimum viable community 49:28 - “Find a parade and get in front” 51:38 - Deana on Nouns 55:00 - The power of absurdity 56:53 - Boys Club live covering the SBF trial 58:42 - Daylight is the best disinfectant (Woohoo!) 1:00:02 - What’s next for Boys Club in 2024? boyclub.vip for more --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody. 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 about us.