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Post Devcon 2024 Reflections: Cypherpunks, d/acc and the commons
Now available to everyone! I recently came back home from Devcon in Bangkok and thought I’d share some of my reflections and findings. In case you don’t know, Devcon is one of the largest Ethereum events held every other year and I attended to give a presentation and a whole lot more. I was in…
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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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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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Zuzalu Presentation on Network States – or why Network States are silly
As some of you probably know, in May I was at Zuzalu, a “pop-up city” sponsored by the Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin in Montenegro, where I was with Primavera and the rest of Blockchaingov to work out our conceptual framework for “Coordi-Nations” our Network State alternative. During the public part of our residency, I…
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My First Video (Reaction to The Deprogram and Hasan Piker)
So now that I’m officially soft doxxed with the launch of Blockchain Radicals coming up (up for pre-order), I thought I’d start trying to expand from writing and podcasts into video. For this first try I thought I’d keep it simple and do a reaction video to some comments that were made in a recent…
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An Anticapture framework for left organizing
For this bonus episode, I dive into the Anticapture framework by Spencer Graham which professes a taxonomy and structure for creating “capture-resistant governance” for an organization. While the piece itself was meant for DAOs, I think there were some interesting things said in the piece that are very relevant for socialist organizations. The piece also…
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Review of Decentralized Society and Soulbound Tokens Paper by Vitalik
In this bonus episode I give my review of the recent article published titled Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul written by Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, Glen Weyl, and Puja Ohlhaver. The paper received a bit of attention as it goes into some high level details about how the authors view a potential future with the…
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Crypto Leftists go to ETHDenver
This is a teaser of a Patreon bonus episode. For this bonus episode I spoke to Marisa and James who are working on PactDAO, a mutual aid network in NYC, and had the opportunity to take part in the events around ETHDenver. Since I didn’t get to go, I thought it would be interesting to hear…
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Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake From a Socialist POV
After being pulled in many different directions the past couple of months, I’ve finally had time to record this episode which was based on the results of the last patron poll. This one also required a little bit more research and thinking on my part because it started to get more complicated the more I…
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My Review of Lisbon Blockchain Week
This past week I was attending the Lisbon Blockchain Week in person attending a few of the events while I was there. The main events I attended were TheDAOist event and the second day of Liscon. It was an incredible experience being able to meet so many people in person. The day after I got…
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The Connection between Blockchain, Cooperatives, and DAOs
For this Patreon-exclusive episode, I discuss my views on the relationship between blockchain and cooperatives. The latest patron poll showed that people were really interested in this topic, which was very cool to see as I’ve had many people in the cooperatives space on the podcast in the past. During this episode I give a…
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Teaser – Centralization vs Decentralization, which is better for socialism?
This is a teaser of a patreon exclusive episode. As a patron you have the ability to vote on the topic / question of a monthly patreon exclusive podcast. For this month the question most voted on was “Centralization vs Decentralization, which is better for socialism?”. To gain access to the episode you can either…
