I recorded a podcast with Nathan Wrigley from WP Tavern (@wpbuilds on Twitter) before my WCEU talk. Here it is!
Why Web3 and WordPress Might Work Together
I recorded a podcast with Nathan Wrigley from WP Tavern in early July 2022, just before my WordCamp Europe talk. This was right as I’d joined Automattic as Web3 Lead, and the WordPress community was… let’s say divided… about whether Web3 had any place in WordPress at all. Nathan gave me 30 minutes to make […]
WordCamp Europe 2022 talk: WordPress and web3 trends (disruption, challenges, opportunities)
In this talk, David will first give a whistle stop tour of the web3 universe – what is web3? What are DAOs, NFTs, smart contracts, Layer 2s and DeFi? He’ll then move on to focus on why they matter to WordPress. What are potential disruptors? Should we be scared or excited? Or both? What are […]
What You Need to Know About Web3 and WordPress [+ Insights from WCEU 2022 Speaker Dave Lockie]
To help you prepare for how web3 will shape — and already is shaping — WordPress, we attended Dave Lockie’s session “WordPress and web3 trends (disruption, challenges, opportunities)” at WordCamp Europe 2022. We will include insights from this session as we explore what web3 might mean to the open-source content management system and its global […]
What You Need to Know About Web3 and WordPress
HubSpot published an article in June 2022 featuring insights from my WordCamp Europe talk about Web3 and WordPress. This was just days after I’d given the presentation in Porto, and weeks after joining Automattic as Web3 Lead. The timing was interesting – WCEU is a major WordPress event, HubSpot is a massive inbound marketing platform, […]
Cryptocurrency Payments: Opening Doors for Business
I joined the HAYVN Webinar Series in May 2022 as a panelist to talk about something that’s been central to my work at Automattic: cryptocurrency payments for businesses. This was still relatively early days for mainstream crypto payments. Bitcoin had been around for over a decade, but adoption by regular businesses – not crypto-native companies, […]