Our 25th episode of The Juicecast features Xin, also known as Livid from Planet. Planet is an open source tool that makes it easy to build your own decentralized website using IPFS and ENS. For example, if you own the ENS jango.eth, you can create a website accessible in almost any browser at jango.eth.limo.

In this episode, we talk about Livid’s interest in retro gaming and how they discovered Ethereum, the importance of decentralized websites and content distribution, and how experiments like Croptop might emerge as a decentralized lo-fi version of tumblr.

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:49 Welcome

00:01:01 The story behind the name Livid

00:02:12 Livid’s interest in Sim City and other early video games

00:04:08 Livid’s background and entry to crypto

00:06:28 The lessons learned from building V2EX.com

00:10:13 What is Planet and how it works

00:11:46 Where the name Planet comes from

00:13:04 “Proof of Release” and other projects built using Planet

00:15:27 How Livid found Juicebox and how Croptop got started

00:17:21 Juicebox as a tool for open-source software

00:18:09 Croptop as a low-fi tumblr

00:23:17 Using ENS on Planet as an extension of our online identity

00:26:53 How Pinning works and Planet’s pinning-as-a-service on Juicebox

00:29:41 What’s coming next for Planet

00:31:48 Livid’s reflections on being involved in crypto since 2011 and what web3 means to him

00:34:24 Planet and the Internet Archive at upcoming Dweb Camp in June

00:36:04 Livid demos Game DB from his past work with the Internet Archive

00:42:16 Wrap up

Topics Discussed:

SimCityPlanet

Planetable on Juicebox

https://v2ex.com/IPFSENSFirebasePinataWeb3 StorageCroptopThe Internet ArchiveThe Wayback Machine

Dweb Campgame DB

Follow Livid on Twitter: @Livid

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh

Credits:

Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Engineering: Matthew Brooks

Music: "EastAndW" by Romariogrande