hello everyone welcome to pride and
welcome to they've come for and for
those of you who haven't met me my name
is aya Miyagi I am executive director of
the theorem foundation I have been to
past that comes in Shanghai and also in
Cancun last year but this one feels
special as this is the first time as an
organizer and I'm excited to see a lot
of familiar faces and also excited to
meet new people we tried our best to
welcome new members of the community to
discount this year and you may have
attended various events throughout the
year in the world and you if you have
heard my talks you probably know I have
spent this year sharing my thoughts on
the values and philosophy of youth am
and the foundation and to kick off today
one of they've come for I like to share
a family of deep thoughts for some
background I've been in the crypto
industry of Fisheries since 2013 and my
original interest in boxing was its
potential to empower the empower the
powerless underserved and also restore
the balance that society has lost and
through my experience I also learned the
biggest obstacle of the blockchain
success is not necessarily in the
implementation but overcoming the
existing systems and people's mindset
for so many people
boxing wasn't an idea to be feared
mainly because
but spooly understood so I needed up
spending a lot of time putting those
gaps but also on education and then III
was born and I felt this this evening
represented hope but I liked about him
originally was how it embraced the
spirit of Kaizen so you you probably
have heard about this word and this is
often used for assembly line or supply
chain but it simply the word simply
means a continuous change for better
improvements and I think that's exactly
how a theorem was created by batalik
return and also how it has evolved and
you will see here about those
improvements in the next batalik talk
about East 2.0 but also from many
speakers at this Def Con every time when
I learn about new project in crypto I
think about two things one is technology
and the other is philosophy technology
can change the world but I believe it's
philosophy that moves people to try to
improve and also philosophy is what
guide us toward the right direction and
with our philosophy the tool cannot
change the world and lately I have had
chances to speak with visionaries and
healers of the early days of the
internet and increasingly I feel that
the internet was created for the freedom
of people's activities voice and rights
however we have also seen how the
Internet has contributed
toward more centralized systems in
especially in the past few years this is
why we need to be cautious as an
industry blogging could create
intentionally or unintentionally more
centralized systems under the name of
decentralization so as I said a team
offers hope with its huge technical
potential but I also believe even more
so for its well-intentioned philosophies
and it's people who continuously try to
improve this and we are lucky to have
this glowing community but we also have
a new challenge to maintain our
philosophies and the culture and this is
exactly why I envision this DEFCON to be
a strong opportunity for us to think not
just about what and how we are building
but about why this is an opportunity for
us to remind ourselves why we are
working on a theme and share our
philosophies and visions with people
around us and there's also a lot we can
learn from the helos of the internet
many of whom share our philosophy a
mission and it is also very important
now for us to learn from our kindred
spirit outside of crypto as well for
that in addition to taken research talks
and discussions
this year we have great risk of
inspiring speakers we have Stewart brand
from the long down Foundation Brewster
Kahle from the Internet Archive
Glanville of the book particle market
Kaspar colleges from the Estonian
government and also call a doctor a
cipher author and activist and I also
like to mention the city of Prague is
perfect for this years they've come many
times in history this city has lost its
identity and its voice and also was
controlled by central power centralized
powers it was absurd for many years and
the Nazis during the World War two and
most importantly during the Cold War the
public actually believed that this city
could be the model of communism
ideologies and lost its freedom again
with the spirit of Kaizen I like to
believe we can always learn from the
history and we can do so by being in
this beautiful city but also we can
learn from people in the city and how
they have achieved their freedom back
again let me talk about the foundation
for a little bit I joined the foundation
early this year and it's been a
thrilling experience when I joined there
was natural requests and pressure to
make the foundation more into corporate
or a startup way and then I thought
about what Ethan was all about but I
also spoke with a lot of people in the
community and also of course focused
with Alec who was the big influence on
this and then somehow it put me into
this like very thin state of mind and I
thought about my roots and why I decided
to support its aim and then I realized
these are overrated
what felt most right to me was this
principle of subtraction in this today's
society we are program to by you
addition and then the society has
trained us to believe that the more is
better the bigger is better
but this addition has dark side more
people comes at the cost of more
resources more money comes at the cost
of exploiting human and more power comes
at the cost of human inequality when we
are thoughtlessly we create embarrass in
the world this is why we have to
increasingly think about this philosophy
of subtraction pursuing the
centralization and also when we are
building this ecosystem and also making
decisions to build an organization and
this philosophy is not really new to me
in Japan we have this expression called
beauty keys and no big aku which
literally means beauty in subtraction
and it's deeply rooted in them Buddhism
it's similar to minimalism but not quite
the same
subtraction allows ideas taste or
strength to exist in their purest form
the idea is used in food martial arts
design everywhere and you can also find
this idea in the Western culture - and I
believe this community would understand
this and one of the reasons why this
open-source project has attracted the
many of people and one of the reasons
why I wanted to support idiom
so going back to how to build a
foundation building it in a corporate or
startup structure they don't feel right
these can be quite different one is in
more hierarchy structure and the other
can be flat but both in to grow bigger
add more at the foundation we actually
aim to grow small that doesn't mean we
are not hiring but hiring should be
where only the foundation can do and we
try to minimize power wherever we can as
much as possible because what we want to
glow is the entire ecosystem not just
the eternal foundation so as the
community grows and then there's the
industry goal naturally we can be tiny
part of it and we see the entire
attorney work system like a
constellation in this concentration
there are developers researchers
enterprises and then different stars
create different shapes and then it's
the Chiefs can be different depending on
what we are improving scaling the
security UX privacy or like who is
affected and user the apps government
enterprises or nonprofits each group and
individual is connected by their work
solution and impact in the foundation is
the one who tries to coordinate these
collaboration and collaborations and
communications between those stars and
power them where we can buy either
directly funding them or connecting with
other stars I would also like to mention
there are many hidden stars you probably
most of the time you hear big public
names but the more I learned about this
community I believe like there are many
hidden stars who are critical to
maintain this decentralized structure
and then most of the time they don't
want to be public but you know like
these hidden stars are inevitable
without them we can connect these dots
and speaking of empowering one of our
main activities is giving grants you
know this year we have provided about 20
million u.s. dollar amount of grants to
more than 70 individuals and
organizations and we invited them to Def
Con and probably you saw some of them at
grantee showcase if you like like we
invited them so that you can talk to
them and then you can ask their
experience and we would like to continue
and continue doing this hopefully more
more a quicker and also how we dip one
is in the decentralized way this is
something like people a lot not many
people know we work with actually
community members to identify what are
the missing pieces in the development
and research work and then we actually
work with community members to decide on
who should work on these missing pieces
and also we work with community members
to fund together or sometimes let them
fund directory so there are many funding
mechanisms
it's existing in the system and we do
not care where the money is from as long
as we are making creating positive
impact and it looks a little chaotic now
but in order for us to maximize our
impact this is at this at this moment
this is where we are and we were trying
to organize and coordinate better but
that that's what we chose to do okay
lastly I like to give special thank you
to the city of plug other than offering
this beautiful city in place the city is
providing the free transportation to
Epcon attendee during DEFCON time so
thank you sorry anyway
it's ok and also I have to mention that
there are many volunteers from the city
community members I I don't know if they
can be here but the community members
here have been really supportive in
helping throughout the entire time since
we decided on the city and that I like
to give big thanks to those people thank
you very much
[Applause]
Joseph Joseph is the leader of the
community members and he is going to
come on the stage in a minute but so to
close this I like to encourage you to
exploit this beautiful city apply as
much as possible but also Huli extra
napkin and then get to know each other
and then share your values and
philosophies with others and enjoy the
event thank you very much
[Applause]
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