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0:01Okay, so, um, are we gonna start? Yeah, right now. She’s at 1232. Apparently, she’s like one of the oldest Pizza DAO members, which is pretty sick. So, she’s next after you. So, you should be honored. You’re proceeding great. Oh, yeah. What a great honor. Welcome, welcome. Oh, she, if she wants, she can go first. No, you’re going first. It’s too bad. So, what’s your name? Scarlett. Okay, where are you from? I’m from, um, Philadelphia. Yeah, but I’m originally from China. Okay, grateful, grateful. And how are you? You know, in China usually they don’t ask this question Because I’ve been doing journalism, I’ve been trying to get profiles of people to kind of be able to document demographics
0:42I’m in my 30s Oh, thanks! Okay, and what brings you out to Pizza Day today? To Pizza Day, so it’s more from my friend Will, he’s very connected to the community Okay, go ahead, I can hold it if you want Yeah, no, that’s fine. Yeah, so he’s the author for the ERC 721. Yeah, for the blockchain. That’s a big deal. Yeah, I guess he’s a big guy and he’s very connected with the community and he told us about this event and he said like this is the annual event for the Pizza DAO and actually I was quite involved with all the DAO, the NFT because I was working as his assistant.
1:27so I’ve been to the NFT conference in New York City in Miami so yeah I’ve seen some of the things and I’m interested in the technology. I want to stay up to date. I have a question. What’s most exciting to you and what’s most confusing to you? what’s the most exciting for me yeah I think what mostly I’m exciting for me is like I guess the decentralized the decentralized of the yeah of the crypto and so we’re not we can really be our true sell we’re really not gonna be manipulated by any governments or organization and also yeah it’s like a it’s almost like really the free trade the real free trade anybody who has a
2:39need for transaction they can go to their crypto and they don’t have to be They are governed by the government or organization. I think that’s really cool about it. And like the DAOs, it’s like you’re forming your own organization or group of people who have similar thoughts, like a vision. So, yeah, I think that’s what I’m most excited about. If you don’t have anything that’s confusing to you, what do you feel like confuses most people that you feel like you have some insight on, or like for the person that knows nothing, what would you tell them to start? I guess I probably like I can speak
3:26most about the NFT, they call it non-fungible token, it’s based on the blockchain and also So there are a lot of usage of the NFT is not only I know it’s like a big on the arts like they have a lot of some of the auction like of the NFT arts they were auctioned for high price that’s how people get to know it but also there’s also other functionality of you can use it for yeah because you can logistically it can be like as non-fungible so it can it’s very unique you know like like a barcode we can run out of it but we can use the NFT to identify a specific item and make it unique
4:16Okay, and then I’m going to pivot. I’m curious, how long have you been here in the U.S.? You say you were from China originally? Um, like 2010? 2010? Quite a long time. I’m curious like coming into the U.S. from China, how would you say you described how we evolved?
4:38I love Philly. I think Philly is really cute, cozy, melting pot. So as we know, the US is like a melting pot. It’s very diversified and people are creative and open-minded and also Philly, it is two people are friendly, welcoming, I mean, you just feel like you belong to here. Also not to mention like Philly also because it was like the first capital and has a lot of really beautiful historical, historic architectures. So it’s like also very cute, beautiful city to visit and the people are very nice and friendly.
5:28Do you know they were trying to put a basketball stadium in Chinatown? Do you know about that? Oh yeah, I’ve heard of it and I know there were protests. I don’t know if you have any thoughts, but you don’t have to have any thoughts. That’s all. I’ll just ask. Um, no, I, yeah, I’m like, I don’t know. I know, in Chinatown doesn’t mean you have other thoughts, but I would just ask. No, I do. I do. I can speak of my mind. I’m not afraid to, like, because I don’t want to stand on the left side or right side. I just want to speak my mind. I feel like, because I like basketball. Growing up in a family, like, my dad has really liked watching NBA, and I’ve taken them to a lot of basketball games here, and six, we support, like, Sixers,
6:20and I’ve been to the stadium at the Wells Fargo in South Philly and I just feel like I don’t know what’s like the meaning of really bring it to like nearby the Chinatown because I think the the Wells Fargo one is like good it’s already a good one and it has a lot of space for parking and it has the train the subway get you there as well so I don’t know what’s the purpose of What’s the purpose of bringing the stadium to Chinatown because I’m more afraid that because of that it may cause more inconvenience for people who want to just go to Chinatown or who really live in there and also for the businesses that are already there.
7:15I just don’t want to hurt authenticity and cause inconvenience, but I’m not trying to stand on my side or whatever. I think what you said is perfect, right? You just don’t understand what’s the incentive and why does this make sense? I think you’re asking a really good question.
7:39Yeah, no problem. Thank you for the interview. They want to put a stadium in Chinatown. Philadelphia has one of the longest in Chinatowns in the country. Yeah, and it’s a special place. It’s very cultural. And it’s also some of the people’s favorite spot to visit on the weekend. and people like to go to dim sum there and also bubble tea and also just the end of the gate is very pretty. It shows my culture, heritage. I mean don’t get me wrong, I love basketball. I like NBA.
8:20Yeah, I like basketball and I want to keep supporting it but I just don’t say like you said. what it has to be in Chinatown it can be like there and also especially the city is already very packed like of course you want a big stadium you want to have a place convenient for people to visit and also you want to be able to host a large crowd imagine we already have so many traffic jam in the cities we have narrow streets and imagine we bring like too much too much too many people that we can we cannot color it, we cannot stand. It’s gonna cause inconvenience. And I just need a little bit more justification for the benefits.
9:07As you should, as you should. It’s really nice to meet you. Yeah, nice to meet you. I’ll keep watching your channel. It’s pretty cool. You see, we’re like crypto, but we’re also doing cultural journalism. We’re holding them accountable. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Keep it going.
9:28Yeah, you should. You should follow us on Twitter, too. Yeah, and also I like it. As you should. I like that. Yeah, I want to watch our anchor. You’ll see a lot of them. I’m trying to do like 15 to 20 interviews tonight.
9:44Yeah, yeah. What was your name one more time? Scarlett. Scarlett, yeah. Maceo. Oh, Maceo.
9:59Don’t forget your other drinkers there.
