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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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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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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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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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You can now get The Blockchain Socialist stickers!
Based on the feedback I received in the last patron poll, I’ve changed up a couple of things including the naming of the Patreon tiers and I’ve now made it possible to get a TBS sticker for Tiers 3 and 2! Here are the new levels of patronage and their benefits: Tier 1 Tier 2…
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Bitcoin wouldn’t have fixed this
In light of recent events ongoing in Israel and Palestine, I have decided to not publish any content to encourage my followers and supporters, if they want, to take the time to learn more about the conflict. I know for a lot of people this can seem like a complex issue that seems difficult to…
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Blockchain Radicals Book Launch Event in NYC Recording
This episode is coming out on August 8th, 2023, aka publishing day for my book, “Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It“! On July 23rdI had the privilege to present my new book in New York City at the offices of Metalabel for the official book launch event! I was also interviewed by…
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Book Review of Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
A couple of months ago I received an email from Cory Doctorow, a well known left leaning technology activist and crypto critic whom I’ve interviewed on the podcast before, asking if I would be open to reviewing his latest fiction novel titled Red Team Blues. I was surprised and honoured to be asked to do…
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BLOCKCHAIN RADICALS BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
For the past almost two years I’ve been stealth writing a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who’s work influenced me a lot…
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The First Communist Network State is Already Here: Working Class Sovereignty
A few weeks ago, I visited Granada, Spain, to meet with my friend and comrade Giulio Quarta from the Crypto Commons Association before heading off to another city to meet more friends. On my last day there we decided to rent a car and take a day trip to Marinaleda, a village in the Andalusian…
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FORK YOUR SOCIETY, I WANT OUT
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A Review of Blockchain Socialism in 2022
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A Poem for the Victims of SBF
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‘COWBOY BEBOP’ WAS A WARNING
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Crypto Futures Documentary Teaser
The teaser for the documentary I’ve been filming the past months is finally out! You can follow the developments of the film on Twitter, the YouTube channel, or by checking out the website. If you are interested in helping out the film through grants, have video editing, animation, or graphic design skills and would like…
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The Blockchain Socialist will write on Mirror sometimes now
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Disconnected: Response to Paris Marx on Web3
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” – Brian Massumi’s preface to A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze and Guattari Tech backlash is in vogue and for many good reasons. People are realizing the downsides of big tech and becoming disillusioned…
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What is the CryptoLeftist Subreddit and Discord?
Just a short explainer and run-thru of all the main Crypto Leftist communities that will hopefully simplify and make more sense of the resources available. Be sure to subscribe for more! The Blockchain Socialist site: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Hs78cVM Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBSocialist
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Crypto World needs to tell Larry Summers to f*ck off
If it were possible to reduce modern neoliberalism into a single person, I think Lawrence H Summers would be make the ranking of top 10 people it could be. Larry has had a long career of working with some of the most controversial figures in American politics and is of course one himself. After an…
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I’m a Leftist and Like Crypto, Should I Buy Bitcoin?
HUGE DISCLAIMER: Everything in this article, and anything I publish, is purely meant for educational purposes and should never be considered investment advice. Like seriously, I’m a socialist. I’m not going to tell you where to invest your money besides Bernie Sanders’ campaign if you’re an American citizen, but that’s not a financial instrument you…
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Interview with Jeff Emmett from The Commons Stack
This week I had the opportunity to sit down with Jeff Emmet, a Token Engineering Researcher for Giveth and The Commons Stack. In the interview we discuss how The Commons Stack is trying to create blockchain tools for handling the commons, political biases in crypto, and crypto-economic systems. Note this interview took part over email…
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Commodity Fetishism, Feet Pics, and Ideology
For this article, I was inspired by the book Marx’s Theory on the Genesis of Money: How, Why, and Through What is a Commodity Money by Samezō Kuruma from Haymarket Books. When you think of fetishism the first thing that comes to mind is probably whatever weirdly specific sexual kink you psychologically need to get…
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Yang’s Got a Blockchain Identity Crisis
It is the year 2023. You are climbing into your Tesla Cybertruck to drive to your local small town “entrepreneur and bitcoin enthusiast” meetup event where you will get to listen to a business seminar lead by Pewdiepie. You turn on the Cybertruck self-driving capabilities and pull up some Dave Chappelle standup videos from YouTube…
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Interview with Steve Huckle, Author of “Socialism and the Blockchain”
This week I had the opportunity to interview the main author of Socialism and the Blockchain, Steve Huckle, a researcher at the University of Sussex in Brighton. The article was published in 2016 by Future Internet and one of the only pieces of academic research which takes a closer look at blockchain and how it…
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The Terrible Things that Would Happen in a Capitalist Blockchain World: Libra
Whether you like it or not, it’s very likely that the blockchain is coming to a future near you. As much as it is a buzzword for corporate neoliberal lizards, there’s a reason for it. That’s because their lizard brain pleasure centers have recognized how it could be used in specific ways to improve their…
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Won’t the State just Destroy the Blockchain?
Talk to your average Twitter bitcoin stan and they will tell you, in line with right wing libertarian ideology, the government is at fault for most if not all of the world’s ills and only bitcoin can help us create a more fair world. The problem here is that if you read a bit more…
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Very Big Announcement
Crypto Leftists, comrades, and other weirdos reading my articles, I want to thank you all for the feedback and discussions you’ve all engaged in with me and each other. It’s been an amazing past couple of months when I first started this initiative and the r/cryptoleftists subreddit. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the amount of…
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The Material Evolution of Digital Currency and Crypto (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of The Material Evolution of Digital Currency to Crypto series. You can find Part 1 here. The Great Recession Gave Birth to Bitcoin In case you missed it, back in late 2007, the US subprime mortgage market collapsed and brought down with it banks around the world causing the Great Recession,…
