The Thread
My work clusters around a few recurring themes: decentralized storage, crypto infrastructure, media, and coordination tools.
The earliest public thread is The Bitcoin Podcast Network, which I started co-hosting in 2017 and became a part-owner of in 2020. It’s one of the oldest crypto podcasts. From there I co-host Hashing It Out — a deep technical podcast on blockchain infrastructure running since 2018, now merged with The Bitcoin Podcast content. We also ran Just the Headers, a weekly crypto headline show I co-hosted with Dee (Demetrick).
The podcast work wasn’t separate from building — it was research infrastructure. Hundreds of interviews with protocol teams gave me a deep understanding of how decentralized systems actually work, and that knowledge fed directly into the projects I built.
Dad DAO was one of those projects: started with Michael “The Trosen One” Trosen and Demetrick “Fergulati” Ferguson as a paid learning community and incubator on Algorand. We built NFTs on the ARC-69 standard and created ARC-333, a metadata standard for NFT-controlled DAO governance — but never launched a token or the NFT collection. DAOs still didn’t make sense: the automation required was deeply intertwined with a philosophical problem of not being able to actually run one. The project never launched, but it raised real questions about coordination, incentives, and community ownership.
Durability Labs is the company I co-founded with Mark Spanbroek and Dmitriy Ryajov, where I serve as COO. Our first project is Archivist — a decentralized storage protocol and the clearest current example of the infrastructure work. From April 2021 to June 2025 I was the first Logos Program Manager at the Institute of Free Technology, working on Codex — a decentralized storage protocol focused on strong data durability guarantees. That experience fed directly into founding Durability Labs.
At some point I was involved with Civic, enough to be associated with an AMA they held on X.
The range is wide: podcasting-as-infrastructure, DAOs, identity (Civic), storage (Durability Labs / Archivist, Codex), and whatever comes next. The common thread is infrastructure — I build the layers other things sit on.
Evidence
- The Bitcoin Podcast Network (co-host 2017, part-owner 2020): Amazon listing
- Hashing It Out (2018–present, merged with The Bitcoin Podcast): thebitcoinpodcast.com, YouTube
- Just the Headers (co-hosted with Dee): Bitcoin Podcast Network episode pages
- Dad DAO (ARC-333, ARC-69, learning community): Dad-DAO GitHub, coin.fyi, r/AlgorandOfficial
- COO / Co-Founder of Durability Labs; Archivist is its first project: archivist.storage, x.com/DurabilityLabs
- Co-founders: Mark Spanbroek, Dmitriy Ryajov> - First Logos PM (Apr 2021–Jun 2025), Codex: free.technology, Devfolio
- Civic AMA association: coindar.org event