Digital Ownership, First Principles and Arcane Dark Arts with Barry Plunkett

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Barry Plunkett from Skip Protocol

Barry Plunkett, advocates for reclaiming digital ownership and identity from big tech through first-principles thinking and decentralized systems. He sees Cosmos as a platform offering infinite ways to solve problems, where technology, community, and values-aligned tokens converge to reshape the digital future.

Skip Protocol is a Cosmos-based infrastructure platform that helps blockchains and validators capture and distribute MEV through tools like sealed-bid auctions and block SDKs. Its mission is to democratize MEV while protecting users from harmful practices like frontrunning.

We spoke to Barry Plunkett about Skip Protocol and:

• Try to always think from first principles
• Data and our identities are in the custody by big tech
• Taking back digital ownership rights
• Communication is infinite
• Cosmos gives an infinite number of ways to solve problems
• Taking back digital property rights
• Gun to my head, I'm probably picking the community
• Arcane dark art
• We just want to crush the narrative
• Token that aligns with the technology platform and values of the ecosystem

Timestamps

00:00 – 10:32 : Intro
10:32 -- 20:10 : Coming to realization
20:10 -- 27:30 : Deleting others
27:30 -- 38:31 : Decentralized world
38:31 -- 41:40 : Developers or a large community
41:40 -- 50:30 : Things from the Cosmos
50:30 -- 55:20 : Education and leading by example
55:20 – 01:07:06 : The Blitz

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Special Guest: Barry Plunkett.