Conversations #5 - Vinay Gupta

Conversations

Hey Eclectic Spacewalk subscribers!

Last month, after traveling to Copenhagen, Denmark to speak to Ronni Abergel, Founder & CEO of the Human Library Organization (HLO), we headed to jolly ole’ London town (please excuse the cliche lol) to have a conversation with Vinay Gupta, the CEO of Mattereum.

We talked about his early days and influences growing up in Scotland. We spoke about how Buckminster Fuller’s “doing more with less” was the founding principle for him to make a usable shelter at Burning Man, but also the opportunity for the finished product - The Hexayurt - to be deployed in disaster areas. We discussed how cryptocurrencies were almost inevitable because of the problems with payments over the internet, and how he came to help launch Ethereum.

The later parts of our conversation focused on his founding of Matterum, and how it’s main mission is to:

“Turn Law into Code” by “Organizing the world's property and making it universally accessible and useful.”

In their White Paper, Matterum says it is a “commercial infrastructure to turn smart contracts into legal contracts that can be efficiently enforced all over the world, without needing new legislation, creating liquidity for $50 trillion of assets globally.”

By humanizing the singularity, Matterum will not only help in the legitimacy and trust of assets, but it is positioned extremely well to help fight against climate change by “creating digital twins of material objects and using blockchain smart contracts to automate all aspects of how material things are traded, owned, and combined. We aim to squeeze out these systemic inefficiencies and more accurately allocate capital to activities which promote wellbeing.”

Timestamps

• Biggest influences growing up (00:06:57)
  
• Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, & The Hexayurt (00:10:29)
  
• Influence of Twitter in discourse & communication (00:16:32)
  
• Personal philosophy changing over the years (00:25:03)

BEGINNING OF PART TWO (31:59)

• What is the Blockchain? (00:31:59)
  
• Trade-offs of the Blockchain (00:41:21)
  
• Helping launch Ethereum (00:59:43)
  
• Founding Mattereum - “Turning Law into Code.” (01:08:41)
  
• Mattereum proof of concept trust model with William Shatner & his collectibles (01:26:40)
  
• What would you say to the world, if you were experiencing the “Overview Effect?” (01:51:42)
  

More on Vinay Gupta:

Mattereum Website: https://mattereum.com/

Mattereum White Paper: https://cms.mattereum.io/upload/iblock/784/mattereum-summary_white_paper.pdf

Vinay Twitter: https://twitter.com/leashless

Vinay Medium: https://medium.com/@leashless

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