‘The Silver Chair’ EPISODE 2: LODE’s Community Expert Shares His Outlook on the Digital Silver-Money Revolution

EPISODE 2: Meet Grant

This episode of the Silver Chair features Grant, one of the first contributors into the LODE Project. He is in contact with the LODE Community, working behind the scenes in most of the LODE Community channels and speaking directly to most of LODE Community members. In his interview with Nick Prouten, Grant shares his thoughts on the project and why he believes digital silver-money will bring financial freedom to everyone.

Nick: As a starting point, I’d love to get an understanding of what your background was like before joining the project.

Grant: Before joining the project, my working history has been basically in small business and in banking. My first job was actually working in a bank and that’s where I learned about how banking and the money systems work. I eventually ended up being a loans officer as well as in charge of the actual cash that was in the bank vault. We always had $2–3 million in the vault but it never moved, and yet, we were still making loans to consumers. So, this is where I started looking into how they [the bank] were creating money. They were doing it through double-entry booking and then using lending processes to create money and put it out in the system.

N: Wow. I can see why having you, as part of the team, really provides a lot of value. Tell me, when it came to joining the LODE Project, what was it about the project that was most interesting to you?

G: The biggest thing I liked about the project was the fact that it was going back to sound money. Based on my banking experiences, I started doing a lot of research — reading a lot of books about money and banking […] — and that definitely put me on a path to finding more information on the history of money and how silver & gold were both used as money in the past. And, this was a project that seemed to be bringing it back into the fold as a use for monetary exchange.

N: You are a member of our community support team. You’ve spoken to most of our members, at this point, resolving various kinds of issues. Tell me about what that’s like and some of the challenges that you face.

G: At times, it is challenging because you get these fits and spurts, where things go fairly smoothly and then all of a sudden, there’s a panic for one reason or another. So I amm always there to answer a lot of questions about the progress of the project, different features of the project that people are required to be involved in providing information, solving problems, and helping them out to get certain things done so that they’re basically on track as to what’s going on within the project.

N: That is no small feat for sure. So Grant, you’re not just a member of the team, you’re also one of the first contributors to the LODE Project. I would love to get your thoughts on where the project is going.

G: Well, when I first started getting involved in the project — for me, it’s been almost 3 years since I first got introduced to the concept and of course not knowing where it was going. Everybody thought we could put this together and it was a slam dunk. But of course, as we moved along, the complexities of the project started to show themselves and over these past few years — especially since there’s been so many changes in the world of cryptocurrencies — it’s been a challenge for sure. I think with the LODE Project, we’ve basically met all those challenges along the way and I can see a great future for LODE, especially in the business and commercial communities.

N: We’ve taken the project from conception and now we’ve actually put it out into the world as digital silver-money, and so I’m really excited as well to see the next stage of this journey. That’s all the questions that we had for today, but is there anything you’d like to add for the community?

G: There are people out there that have concerns and as I say on the communication side of things, I do my best to address those concerns. But as far as the project goes, I think patience is always a virtue and I think over the long run, the members who are in the project and the new ones that do come onto the project, are going to be benefiting greatly down the road.