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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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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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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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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…
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Unlocked: The best leftist hot take on NFTs you’ll ever listen to (Remix)
I wanted to unlock this episode for the public because there’s been some serious confusion around what NFTs actually are even though everyone seems to have an opinion on it
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The dystopian future of smart cities built by LLCs and the socialists that ignore the signs
For this week’s episode I took a closer look at the company Blockchains LLC which bought the German startup Slock.it who was working on creating blockchain-enabled smart locks. Digging deeper I found out that Blockchains LLC is currently in the works of creating its own smart city “enabled by the blockchain” next to Reno, Nevada.…
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What Erik Voorhees and Other Crypto-Libertarians Get Wrong
This week I decided to do something a little bit different and go solo. For this episode I wanted to analyze the mindset and beliefs in a lot of the mainstream cryptocurrency discourse. In order to do that I wanted to use someone who is a popular figure and thought leader in the space, Erik…
