Anthony D’Onofrio, better known as Texture, started coding at a young age by learning BASIC on his grandma’s computer. From there, he became a full-stack developer and got involved in different projects that ultimately failed, but always with a mindset of embracing opportunities while developing himself, which led him to be one of the co-founders of Ethereum.
“As long as you can handle what most people might consider failure for an indetermined amount of time and not lose that drive, success is just a matter of time”, he says.
Sounds like a usual story to success but you’ll learn Texture is far from an ordinary person.
In this episode, he chats with Chair and Bacon about his personal journey, the ups & downs, his role on the genesis and early days of Ethereum, his NFT project Texture Punx which started as a joke, and his perspectives on Web3.
Some of the topics are:
- His origins as a developer
- The concept of success
- Contributing in Web3 vs extracting value
- Big corporations’ adoption of the technology
- The genesis and early days of Ethereum
- The importance of a good website
- The problem of scams and misinformation
- Future of Web3
- Texture Punx NFT project
Now he wants to start his own podcast, not exactly about Web 3 but instead as a way to make a bridge to other things that interest him in all areas of culture and keep adding to the future of the space. “I really want to see a world in which people can offer value, other people can be inspired by that system of value whether it be very small or something local (…) I would like to see people be able to take ownership of their world a bit more”.
Resources:
- Speaking of Bitcoin show (formerly Let’s Talk Bitcoin)
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