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hey happy Halloween everybody and
welcome to Def Con 2018 Prague Edition
is everybody good
y'all get some little little you get
some breakfast get some little
sandwiches with the crusts cut off like
mom used to do we are really excited
that you're here this is super insane
this stage is very large and we have a
really fun morning planned for you and
I'm your host my name is Jonathan Mann
and I'm a songwriter and I write a song
a day and one of the things I do in that
capacity as the song a day guy as I'm
sometimes called as I make songs for
conferences like this one very often
these songs that I do these conferences
are in industries that I kind of don't
really know anything about or frankly no
offense to them but like care about like
you know speech-language pathology and
home health care and carpet salesman and
things of this nature
but that's not the case today and I'm
really excited to tell you about that
and why that is but first I'm gonna
introduce myself a little bit like I
said my name is Jonathan Mann I'm a
songwriter my favorite food is pizza
yeah pizza let's hear it for pizza my
favorite color is purple as is evidenced
by this song that I wrote one time
called all my shirts are purple
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you get the idea goes out like this in a
while so my parents are both
psychologists which is maybe not
surprising but um this is them exactly
four years ago and Halloween four years
ago they were Freud my dad was Freud and
my mom had a little sign on her that
said slip come on
my parents they're done but I love them
this is my family I live with my family
my wife and my two kids in Jersey City
writes out of New York a little bit of
history about me in the mid-2000s I was
writing and performing a rock opera
based on the Super Mario Brothers around
Los Angeles indeed thank you and a
little while after that I was making
early YouTube videos as game Jew and
games you went around and sang songs
about video games and interviewed people
about video games and games use two
biggest achievements were waiting 36
hours in line to be the first person to
get a Wii on the west coast yeah I did
that rather he did that and I tracked
him down
some might say stocked which I think is
a little strong but I tracked down
Shigeru Miyamoto creator of Mario Donkey
Kong and Zelda and every game that you
love you guys know who Shigeru Miyamoto
is I wrote him a song I tracked him down
some might say stocked and I sang it to
him in a hallway and he was very
gracious so that was my biggest
achievement as as games you by far
thank you so in late 2008 almost exactly
10 years ago you know I just looked it
up today is actually the tenth
anniversary today of the Bitcoin white
paper October 31st
how could how auspicious is that so
right around that time I was living this
is around that time I was living in
Berkeley California and I was unemployed
it was the height of the financial crash
I was sort of done with game jus once
you seem to be a Moto it's like where
else you gonna go frankly and so I was
looking for a new project
and I decided that starting in January I
was gonna write a song a day 31 songs 31
days January post in the YouTube that
was gonna be my next project so I did
that I did 31 days and it was going
pretty well so I decided to try for a
year and all of 2009 came and went and I
decided to just keep going and going and
going and that is how I stand before you
now having written three thousand five
hundred and ninety one songs in as many
days thank you very much I'm in the
Guinness Book of World Records this is
true they made a new category for me
called most consecutive days writing a
song didn't exist before I did it
and as long as I keep going and no one's
no one yeah as long as I keep going I
think I'm gonna hold it for a while
because someone would have had to start
younger what ya longest chain exactly
longest chain unbroken chain it's
exactly right one of the animating
theories behind song 'days called
70-20-10 and this applies to any
creative endeavor including the things
that you all do in this room which is
70% of everything you make is going to
be mediocre 20% is going to be bad
shitty throw it out and 10% is gonna be
great so the more songs I write the more
songs end up in that 10% category that's
my theory anyway
about a year ago I was at a conference
in the backwoods of Canada Northern
Ontario was very cold I was singing in
front of a lake
and one of the tracks at this conference
was cryptocurrency you all remember what
was happening this time last year things
were going a little little crazy little
nuts my impression of the whole
situation was bit you know gave me the
heebie-jeebies the finance bros frankly
and the you know Lambos and the
speculation so i was like yeah whatever
out of the woods came walking this
etherion magician he was not called that
at the time but that's what he was and
he took me under his wing and this is a
true story
he showed me crypto Punk's and blew my
mind I got really excited by this thing
that someone had built on the blockchain
that was fun and interesting and unique
and weird and I loved it
this etherion magician gave me $40 in
ether and said go play with this and I
spent many long hours on telegram with
him saying things like okay like what so
what's gas and what am I being asked to
accept / reject here and did it work did
that go through I'm really confused by
all these things that are popping up at
many screen and yelling at me in meta
mask sorry madam asked but that was my
experience but I bought my first crypto
Punk his name is lucky dan and I fell
completely down the rabbit hole I became
obsessed with the idea of digital
scarcity I became obsessed with the idea
of like what gives things value I have
my I've been working for the last year
on my own NFT project based on crypto
Punk's where I'm tokenizing every single
song from song a day and releasing them
as a one of one collectible I started a
podcast yes a podcast big surprise
called digitally rare about digital
scarcity and two weeks ago I was at the
NFT summit in San Francisco
where I met aya me Iguchi who you hear
from in just a minute
and she invited me to come here and make
a song for you all and so that's uh
that's what I've done thank you go clap
yet you haven't heard the song alright
okay so this is the song this is the
official Def Con 2018 prog edition theme
song this is the chorus we're gonna
learn the chorus we're all gonna sing it
together I'll sing it first to teach you
and then you guys are all gonna sing it
with me and then and then I'm gonna
bring aya up on stage and she's gonna
talk and Vitalik sing and talk there
should be a bunch of talks and then I'll
be back at the end of this morning
session to recap everything that we just
heard in the talks along with this
chorus so the chorus goes like this so
that's it that's the chorus thank you
thank you so now let's just sing in a
couple times let's just get it into our
brains let's let's let's get that in
there I didn't put the bu IDL part the
word part where I repeat that because
it's just spelling it out which I
figured you guys can handle so let's
work on it so here we go why the B is
like a lead-in so it goes B you IDL's
that makes sense
all right one two three
Bui DL Casper's comedy's 2.0 new ways to
govern not yet not yet you can't take it
away yet guys okay that's for the next
part let's try it again I want to hear
you much louder I know you guys can do
this all right
one two three coming to you don't I see
you when there's work to do you gotta be
you I Bui yeah very good except you're
singing way too soft so let's try the
whole thing again
one two three
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do you got it very good
gotta be very good you guys are getting
it I said some hesitancy
again just one more thing before I leave
the stage Bonita this is the sponsored
portion of the song
so I'm going to say the name of a
sponsor tier and you're going to
alternate and so so for instance I'll
say sponsor sponsor John yet not yet
bring it back ray back sponsor sponsor
that's it
okay you ready here we go one two three
four
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