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The Left does NOT hate crypto (script)
Hi Patrons! I hope you enjoyed my first video essay on the actual evidence of the left hating crypto. As extra content to thank you for being a patron, I’m sharing the script I used for making the video in case you want to look deeper into the sources cited through out the video. You…
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The Left does NOT hate crypto
Scroll through the social media platforms that crypto enthusiasts and think bois like to post and you’ll get the idea pretty quickly that a whole lot of them think that the Left is fundamentally opposed to cryptocurrency and its use and the only way to protect crypto from being totally destroyed from the hammer of…
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Who Controls the Killswitch?
I spoke to Eric Alston again! Eric is a professor at University of Colorado and recently completed a fellowship with the Summer of Protocols studying the governance of killswitches. His report is titled “Killswitch Protocols: Or On Engineering Recursive System Death” and co-authored with Seth Killian and Garrette David. During the interview we discussed the history of…
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Tech Workers Coalition: Adapting the Labor Movement for the Digital Age
For this episode I spoke to Simone Robutti. Simone works as an organization designer, adversarial researcher, and teacher. Formerly a software developer, he has been part of different chapters of Tech Workers Coalition since 2018. During the interview we discussed how to start a labor union at your tech company, innovative ways to go on strike, and how…
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Islamic Economics: Solving Wealth Inequality by Mixing Libertarianism with… SOCIALISM??
For this episode I spoke to Ahmed Gatnash, the Executive director of Kawaakibi Foundation. He is also a Strategy Advisor at the Albert Einstein Institution, and is the co-author of Middle East Crisis Factory, a primer on systemic crises and a vision for a positive future for the MENA region. During the discussion we spoke about the context…
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K2: Panic! At the Raave (Audio)
Tiaa makes a big mistake in the cryo-hangar, Bryan Jognson is attacked by adrenochrome junkies, and the Doge is reborn. You can find the full text to read along to here. You can follow along the story here on Paragragh. Don’t forget to Subscribe to get the next installments in your inbox :) If you liked…
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Katabasis Chronicles Part 1 (Audio)
ICYMI last month my friend Beth McCarthy and I wrote the first part of a science fiction series and I’ve recorded an audio version for your listening along! The story is set in the year 2140, right when Bitcoin’s inflation schedule is about to end during EthCC in Neo-Brussels. While Tiaa is walking around Neo-Brussels, taking…
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The Future of Social Media with Suji Yan (Mask Network)
For this episode I spoke to Suji Yan, CEO and founder of Mask Network. Mask’s main product is an open-sourced browser extension that wraps around several web2 and web3 social media networks. Rather than starting a new social media platform, the extension brings the benefits of both kinds of social media. During the discussion we spoke about…
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EthicHub: La lucha por un café Ético / The struggle for Ethical Coffee (CER)
This episode is part of a subseries where I’ve partnered with my comrade Giulio Quarta from the Crypto Commons Association and their initiative called the Commons Economy Roadmap (CER) where we will be interviewing some of the projects listed as part of the CER. In this interview we spoke to Neri Ortiz and Lucía Ruiz who both live in Mexico. Neri…
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It doesn’t matter if the AI is fake, it’s all magic anyways
For this episode I spoke to Nick Susi, Executive Director of Strategy at dotdotdash who recently wrote a really interesting article on his Substack titled magic, online!. The article goes into the history of magical thinking that accompanied many of the past’s technological achievements like phones that let you talk to the dead or fairies that appeared in some…
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I started a sci-fi series with a friend! – Katabasis Chronicles Part 1
My friend Beth McCarthy and I wrote the first part of a science fiction series set in the year 2140, right when Bitcoin’s inflation schedule is about to end during EthCC in Neo-Brussels. While Tiaa is walking around Neo-Brussels, taking in the sights, she spots a mysterious sigil on the Bourse, the old stock exchange,…
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Sovereign Nature Initiative : How to ReFi without carbon credits with Andrea Leiter
This episode is part of a subseries where I’ve partnered with my comrade Giulio Quarta from the Crypto Commons Association and their initiative called the Commons Economy Roadmap (CER) where we will be interviewing some of the projects listed as part of the CER. In this interview we spoke to Andrea Leiter, co-founder of Sovereign Nature Initiative (SNI). SNI uses blockchain to turn…
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Why Socialism Needs Spirituality (Red Enlightenment)
For this episode I spoke to Graham Jones, the author of Red Enlightenment, published through Repeater Books like Blockchain Radicals. Red Enlightenment argues not only for a deepened understanding of religious matters, but calls for the secular left to develop its own spiritual perspectives. It proposes a materialist spirituality built from socialist and scientific sources, finding points of…
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Compeerism: How the Commons can succeed where the Silicon Valley led digital revolution failed
For this episode I spoke to Dr. Hannes Gerhardt, a Professor of Geography at the University of West Georgia. His research spans a range of topics within political geography and geoeconomics. We spoke about his new book FROM CAPITAL TO COMMONS: Exploring the Promise of a World Beyond Capitalism. During the interview we spoke about his…
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Anoma: Undefining Money and Scaling Anarchism with Christopher Goes (CER)
This episode is the start of a subseries where I’ve partnered with my comrade Giulio Quarta from the Crypto Commons Association and their initiative called the Commons Economy Roadmap (CER) where we will be interviewing some of the projects listed as part of the CER. In this first interview we’ve spoken to Christopher Goes, co-founder of Anoma, a framework for an ecosystem…
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GnosisDAO Community Call with Breadchain Cooperative
I recently presented Breadchain Cooperative in the GnosisDAO Community Call! I go through what the project is about, what we’ve been working on, and what to expect in the future (including a Breadchain Launch event during ETH Berlin on May 25th). I am expecting the work we’ve been doing at Breadchain to start revving up…
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Governable Spaces: Designing Democracy for the Internet
I´m once again speaking with Nathan Schneider about his newly released book, Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life. In Governable Spaces, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences of this arrangement matter far beyond…
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OTNS: Mutualism, labor unions and cooperatives (not charity)
We spoke to Sara Horowitz (@Sara_Horowitz), founder of the Freelancers Union and author of the book Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the ground Up . Sara was also one of our co-conspirators in Zuzalu in Montenegro last year who brought her extensive experience and wisdom from building and supporting worker-focused organizations. We spoke about the practical realities…
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Platformization: The platform organizational form is eating the world and we can do better
My friend and researcher of the politics of tech platforms, Gianmarco Cristofari recently had an extended in my apartment and so we thought it’d be a great opportunity to interview each other. He interviewed me here for the Institute for Network Cultures to talk about my book and the left’s relationship with crypto. We spoke about how platforms are…
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Cute anime girl pfps or funding mechanism for esoteric neo-fascism? (Miladys and Remilia Corp)
For this episode I spoke to James Brennan (@jt_bren) who has been finishing up his Masters at the University of Colorado focused on crypto. As part of his research he took a dep dive into the infamous group behind the Miladys NFT collection, Remilia Corp. During the discussion we spoke about esoteric political ideologies professed…
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Obol Network – How DVT helps decentralize Ethereum and incentivize collectivism
I spoke to Oisín Kyne, co-founder and CTO of Obol Network, an ecosystem for trust minimized Ethereum staking that enables people to create, test, run and coordinate distributed validators. Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) enables the duties of an Ethereum validator to be performed across a cluster of nodes in order to improve resilience as compared to running…
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Cryptoleftists won at the ETH London Hackathon!
Hi all! Pleased to share that this weekend I was hacking away with some of the devs at Breadchain Cooperative for the ETH London Hackathon and we’ve won some money [Video proof here]! We competed in the GnosisPay track and built an integration with the new BREAD implementation we are building on Gnosis Chain and…
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From hacking the CIA as a teenager to community computers
I spoke to Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder and CEO of Celestia, a modular blockchain network that makes for others to securely launch their own blockchain. Mustafa was also a member of the black hat hacking group LulzSec under the name T-Flow known for hacking the CIA website, newspapaers owned by Rupert Murdoch, and other corporate and state organizations in 2011.…
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Screw App Stores, we got a Progressive Web App!
The Blockchain Socialist website now has a Progressive Web App you can download on to your phone or desktop! If you’re reading this I’m sure you’re already at least somewhat aware of the incredible downsides of big tech platforms; how they are walled gardens of giant tech companies, make money off of surveillance and selling…
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accelerationism is back and tech elites are making it cringier than it already was (e/acc)
If you’ve been surfing the tech sphere lately, you may have come across the term e/acc or effective accelerationism as if it was something new. But like most of these tech elite driven ideologies, it’s largely a mutation of more naive and sometimes sinister trends. For this episode I spoke to Adam Jones, host of Acid…
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Blockchain Radicals Audiobook Sample
The audiobook for my book Blockchain Radicals is officially out! This is a sample you can listen to if you want to know if it seems like something you’d want to pick up. You can find your audiobook copy in all of the major audiobook platforms including Audible, Libro.fm and audiobooks,com. You can still find all the other places to…
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Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform (gang gang mmm ice cream so good)
Tokens have increasingly more popular beyond just in the crypto world *gang gang mmm ice cream so good*. Tokens are not new, but how they have been used and their proliferation have exploded with the rise of digital platforms. I spoke to Rachel O’Dwyer, writer and a lecturer in Digital Cultures in the National College of…
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How Daft Punk Sold Techno to the World: A Map for Crypto
I wrote a piece published on my Mirror blog which you can find here about the legacy of Daft Punk and what the crypto world can learn from them. Their use of anonymity gave the feeling of a collective authority to remix and match the aesthetics and literal sounds of previous generations’ music. They did…
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A Regenerative Village as a DAO in Portugal (Traditional Dream Factory)
You can find the video version of the interview here where I’ve cut the interview with some film I took while at TDF. In this episode I spoke to Sam Delesque (@samueldelesque), founder of Traditional Dream Factory (TDF), a regenerative village based in Abela, Portugal that is blending crypto with permaculture and community. TDF is the first village part…
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OTNS: Is Praxis a bunch of fascists dressed as libertarians?
In this episode of OTNS, we spoke to Ali Breland, a journalist at Mother Jones who has written on crypto and politics, about his recent publication about the links between Praxis and far right figures. We spoke about his experience of going to a Praxis sponsored party in NYC, his interviews with ex-employees about the fascist sympathies of the…
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The incredible irony of crypto advertising (Video)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years! To end off the year I recorded a video reaction to a few recent crypto advertisements to analyze how they frame cryptocurrencies and their “radical” potential. Of course from a for-profit company’s point of view, what they consider radical and what I would are quite different. I take a…