Name: Head to Head with Andre Cronje || a Defiant SPECIAL
Uploaded: 2022-01-28T11:00:29+00:00
Duration: 1 h 8 min 22 s
Description: What a difference a few days make. I filmed this interview with Andre on tuesday. Everything seemed fine. And then ZachXBTs tweet dropped. A bombshell for Wonderland, for Dani Sestagalli, for the Frog

2 years ago

What a difference a few days make. I filmed this interview with Andre on tuesday. Everything seemed fine. And then ZachXBTs tweet dropped. A bombshell for Wonderland, for Dani Sestagalli, for the Frog Nation and for Andre. Not exactly guilty by association but certainly tainted. 0xSifu, Wonderland’s treasury manager, was doxxed as Michael Patryn, co-founder of QuadrigaCX the canadian exchange that went bust after CEO Gerald Cotten died and it was revealed he was the only one with the keys to the cold wallets that held users funds. It remains one of the strangest stories I’ve ever seen in crypto. But this story isn't about Dani, or Michael, it's an interview with one of the most honest and humane developers working in the space. He may not be everyone's cup of tea but he's definitely not boring.

Andre Cronje, a special interview from the Defiant.

00:00 Dani, 0xSifu and unexpected FUD
02:39 Reviewing code and being an outlier
05:48 Why had nobody done this before?
06:48 Andre is too humble, Andre is a contrarian
07:43 Andre loves to call out BS but is more cautious, dangers of being public
11:35 Getting big on social has cons but some serious pros as well
13:03 Andre's unfavorable review of Harmony and burnout
14:54 The constant attacks that nobody knows about
15:29 Not enough that I succeed, others must fail
17:15 Building in DeFi sucks
17:45 My relationships have deteriorated, my mental health has deteriorated
18:26 What's keeping him going? Rage quits and death threats
21:46 The need to do something better than what we already have
23:40 Fair launch, no good deed goes unpunished
26:23 Abundance theory + UBI
28:50 Solving mortality
31:57 Impending arrival of AI, not worried about it
36:26 His take on the metaverse
38:42 Stronger believer in AR than VR
39:51 Remote Amazonian pygmy tribes and abundance theory
41:25 Fantom and the challenges of building a L1 in a bear
44:27 Building for builders and the problem of true finality
46:19 Fantom's untapped speed and running nodes on phones
50:44 Running a node sucks
52:22 How to attract more developers to Fantom - Andre is McDonalds
53:29 Staying humble and remembering your place in the world
57:19 ve(3,3) and Solidly
58:00 NFTs make Andre angry, but why? Solidly's need for them, great for protocols
01:02:31 Building stuff because he needs it and it doesn't exist
01:03:28 VeDAO - he completely missed it, too busy coding
01:05:43 Andre keeps it entertaining
01:06:33 A final message
01:07:05 Reluctant warrior like mandalorian