Foundations, Quality Infrastructure and Batman with Thomas High Stakes

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Citizen Web3 Podcast

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Exploring blockchain decentralization and the Web3 universe for over 5 years, through in-depth, hour-long conversations with builders, thinkers, and contributors—founders, validators, node operators, CTOs, VCs, DAOs, and privacy advocates. We explore critical topics: privacy, security, decentralization, technological progress, finance and cryptocurrencies dark sides, alongside personal stories of success, failure, and lessons learned. Blockchain-agnostic and building for decentralization, Citizen Web3 runs off-the-grid, non-custodial validator infrastructure, contributing to public goods and Web3. Support our work by staking with us: staking.citizenweb3.com/

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Foundations, Quality Infrastructure and Batman with Thomas High Stakes

Citizen Web3 Podcast

55 minutes 37 seconds

8 months ago

Foundations, Quality Infrastructure and Batman with Thomas High Stakes

This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Thomas from High Stakes

Thomas reflected on the crypto space, from vanishing millions and GPU shortages to the importance of strategic positioning through foundations. For him, success comes down to a broad assessment—analyzing white papers, infrastructure quality, and costs—while only engaging in truly interesting projects, all with a bit of a Batman mindset.

High Stakes provides reliable, secure validator services for multiple blockchains, backed by strong Swiss-based infrastructure. Committed to decentralization, they actively engage in governance, develop community tools, and support other validator teams in the open-source spirit.

We spoke to Thomas about High Stakes and:

Seeing about a million dollars that just vanished
Bored out of my mind
You couldn't buy a GPU because of all the miners
Foundations, the fastest way of securing a position
Only get involved with interesting projects
It's about a broad assessment
Reading the white paper
Hobo asking for money
Multiple parameters, quality of the infrastructure, also the cost
Being Batman

Timestamps

00:00 – 05:20 : Intro
05:20 -- 10:41 : The switch
10:41 -- 13:02 : Deciding to go that way
13:02 -- 22:01 : What not to do and chain selection
22:01 -- 29:20 : Validators contributing to adoption
29:20 -- 36:08 : Cosmos and goals
36:08 -- 51:00 : Setup
51:00 – 55:37 : The Blitz

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