ZEROPOD #23 - "Everybody Loves Rainbows" with Mike Demarais, cofounder Rainbow Wallet

Zero Rights Reserved: A CC0 Podcast About Nouns, DAOs, NFTs & Ethereum

On episode 23 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square sit down with Mike Demarais, cofounder of Rainbow Wallet to hear his story. We go deep down the Rainbow Road and chat about buying weed on the Silk Road, why he built a crypto wallet and why they called it Rainbow, his thoughts on Farcaster, BASE and Nouns, and much, much more... including a few pieces of juicy alpha! If you enjoy this conversation, please Rate this Podcast 5 Stars & Subscribe so you don't miss an episode! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Will “Mike Rainbow” Ever Make it Official? 01:00 - ZeroPod intro 02:00 - Mike likes TNS and ZeroPod 03:27 - Mike’s origin story - B2B SAAS roots 04:24 - “Crypto really scratched an itch for me.” 05:20 - Originally thought Bitcoin was a scam 05:50 - Buying weed on the darknet 07:00 - Attracted to the composability of Ethereum 09:20 - The importance of crypto wallets for mainstream adoption 10:11 - Why “Rainbow”? 10:26 - Importance of ‘Emojiability’ 11:10 - CryptWallet Pro Coming Soon 12:49- Rainbow’s mobile-first approach 16:22 - The new desktop extension: Going after power users (and aspirational power users) 19:44 - Cross-chain compatibility 22:24- The Vampire Attack: “It is always acceptable for David to take shots at Goliath.” 24:00 - Rainbow POINTS 27:28 - Fartcaster 29:00 - Twitter API woes 31:00 - Having fun on Farcaster 33:00 - We meme the ones we love 34:55 - On being an unhinged founder, and the importance of approachable raw brand voice 37:36 - Everyone DM Mike all your problems (jk) 37:56 - The Top Signal for this bull run 38:44 - Mike on the growth of BASE 43:00 - Farcaster flippenings 44:00 - Mike asks about Nouns x Farcaster 47:06 - Mike on Nouns, possible future Rainbow ⌐◨-◨ collab 50:00 - The importance of open source 52:00 - ERC 4337 - Account Abstraction: Rainbow Mini wallets 57:00 - What is Mike most excited about for 2024? --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit https://tns.wtf to learn more.