All right. All you good, wonderful citizens of Crip Nation. It is your co-host, Bryce here.

Unfortunately, not joined by my good buddy, Brendan, today, whose schedule, he's got pulled in a million different directions.

And so he was unable to join us today. So all of you, you folks who are listening maybe on the way to work or, you know, chilling, chilling at home.

You're stuck with just me today. But luckily, I've got a great guest who's going to be doing much of the talking.

I'm going to sit back. I'm going to be learning all about the polka dot ecosystem from Bill Laboon,

who's joining us today, who's the Director of Education and Governance Initiatives at the Web 3 Foundation.

Bill, thanks for joining me today. And how are you doing? Yeah, thanks for having me, Bryce. I'm doing great. It's a wonderful evening here in Switzerland.

Oh, Switzerland. Very nice. I've never been to Switzerland. I heard it's like the most gorgeous country in Europe, though. Is that hyperbole?

Not at all. It is amazing. Like, you know, you can see the mountains from the roof of our building. There's

wonderful, like, pristine lake in front of it. It looks like a postcard. So you should come.

It's the crypto valley here in Zug. Yeah, I've heard the crypto valley, kind of like the play on

Silicon Valley. And, yeah, Switzerland, right? I mean, it's famous for its banking laws.

So it makes sense that crypto is going to have a big presence in Switzerland or vice versa.

That Switzerland has a big presence with crypto.

And maybe we'll get into that in a little bit.

But let's kind of backtrack here.

Let's touch on your background just to get our audience acquainted

with who they're listening to right now um they might not be understanding uh that they're going to be

getting schooled by a former professor uh so get your guys as pens out turn your phones on silent

bill take the floor yeah make sure those pencils are number two pencils for filling in the little circles.

So, yeah, so my name's Bill Laboon. I was originally a software engineer for 15 years before teaching at the University of Pittsburgh, the computer science department.

I was a lecturer, so I really, you know, I focused on teaching. I taught what I think is, as far as I know, the first class, like university level class on blockchain in Pittsburgh.

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