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Crypto Leftist Heuristics: What is a DAO?
It’s been a while since I wrote the first Crypto Leftist Heuristics article – book promotion is taking more of my time than I naively thought it would! For this one I thought I’d focus on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) since I’ve had some conversations with some newbies recently to help them make sense of…
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Crypto Leftist Heuristics Pt. 1: Essential Tips on Navigating Crypto Territory
In the past I’ve described the feeling of navigating the crypto world as like walking through a wall of shit. Every day a seemingly endless barrage of new information gets pumped out from various news outlets as well as independent sources like personal Twitter accounts. While most of this information is valueless noise for those…
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Crypto Glossary for Leftists
This is a glossary of some frequently used terms in the cryptocurrency space to help those who want to have a quick overview of some of the terminology used. This is far from complete of all of the different crypto terms used as new terms are seemingly being created every day, but if this is…
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First Blockchain 101 for Socialists Live Session Recording
Thanks to everyone who joined the very first Blockchain 101 for Socialists Live session. This was held on May 2nd, 2020 through the Crypto Leftists Discord channel. If you wish to join, click on the invite here. This was the very first time we’ve done an event like this and it was a resounding success!…
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Blockchain 101: What Can Blockchain Give to The Left? (Part 3)
This is Part 3 of the Blockchain 101 series of posts. If you haven’t already, check out Blockchain 101 (Part 1) and Blockchain 101: The Technical Stuff (Part 2). In order to first understand what blockchain can give to the Left, let’s define what the Left broadly wants to achieve. We could reduce it to…
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Blockchain 101: The Technical Stuff (Part 2)
Alright, now it’s time to get down and dirty. I won’t bore you with the super technical details of what blockchain is but I’ll try to point out the parts that are most relevant for a Leftist™ like yourself. So let’s start with the big picture. Traditional vs. P2P Networks When nerdy tech guys are…
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Blockchain 101 for Socialists (Part 1)
This is the first part in a 3 part series to help explain the basics of blockchain. “Are you seriously going to try to say Bitcoin is going to get us to socialism? Wow, you need to read more theory on that one bud. It doesn’t help achieve any of our goals and right wing…
