Five years of web3, filmed on the ground.
Since 2021 Maceo has been filming the people building web3, wherever that was happening. That archive is going up now. Alongside it, contributors film everyday people on their own streets, in a barbershop in Philadelphia, a market in Lagos, a campus in Nairobi. Seventy-four interviews published so far, free to watch, with no ads and no paywall.
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Durgadas on coordinating people and capital.
Elo of Cr3dentials on income verification and onchain lending.
Arikia Millikan on CTRL+X, and paying journalists peer to peer.
Estonia ran government records on a blockchain first.
One builder on Bitcoin, Chainlink and Ethereum.
The same question, put to strangers on two continents, three months before One Question had a name. Kafani filmed the Lagos half and now runs the programme.
One question, put to strangers on their own streets in more than one place. Every answer is quoted from the transcript and linked to the moment it was said. This is what the archive is for.
All 9 questions → · Search every transcript → · In his own words → · Where we’ve filmed →
The sixth annual Pizza Day, covered in three cities by people who live in them: Maceo across Philadelphia under his Pizza DAO name, Pepperoni Lupin; Lorah in Abuja; Kafani in Lagos. Funded by a $560 community bounty across twenty-three names, and almost nothing about the day gets documented from inside the rooms otherwise.
Kafani asks Lagos four questions about crypto and community.
Benny and Estabon, Temple musicians turned street reporters for the day.
The group photo, and the real conversations that started after it.
Carol on deaf rights, and her family taking on Hollywood’s ADA exemption.
William Entriken, lead author of ERC-721.
Scarlett on crypto as the real free trade, and Philadelphia politics.
Lorah on the ground in Abuja.
Carol, a Philadelphian since 1961, on finding hope in unlikely places.
Carol drops game.
John and an OG Pizza DAO member, shot on an iPad from the floor.
Saucy Saucier, the full conversation.
Sean, on the Crypto Mondays community he helps run in Philly.
Saucy Saucier, Pizza DAO since day one.
Between takes at the interview sessions.
Saucy Saucier, behind the scenes.
The $500 bounty that paid for all of this.
Has the internet made information easier?
What is the American Dream?
How Nigeria has changed.
Internet. Information or misinformation?
El Temascal con Señor César.
Inside a Nigerian church service.
What do Nigerians think of America?
100 interviews before leaving Denver, and building a global network.
This is Maceo's project. It started as homework. He bought a camera and a mic to find out what people were really building in web3, because nobody was explaining it in a way he believed.
Homework turned into a podcast. We Them Niggas: long conversations with the people of color and the creatives doing the building.
The podcast turned into street journalism. Five years, a lot of cities, a lot of conference floors, and the same two questions every time: what are you building, and who is it for? The lens kept widening. Now it points at people on their own streets, in eight countries, talking about the things they live with. That is the footage going up.
The Weekly Connect is our community townhall, back in the Discord room we ran the calls in last year, and the engine room of One Question: 150 street interviews from as many countries as we can reach, by 4 November. Noon in New York, 5pm in Lagos, 7pm in Nairobi. We watch street interviews together, talk about them, and cover what the team is working on. Supporters, contributors, people who only read the newsletter: same call, same room. You do not need to have made anything to come.