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How to Die a Good Death with Sarah Friend
While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Sarah Friend,an artist and software developer from Canada and based in Berlin. In 2023, she was a research fellow at Summer of Protocols, led by Venkatesh Rao and the Ethereum Foundation, studying the death of protocols and published a paper on “Good Death“. We discussed her findings in her…
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How to do resilient Global Collaboration on decentralized protocols with Jake Hartnell
In Thailand at Funding the Commons I spoke to Jake Hartnell, co-founder of Layer, a modular tech stack to build decentralized protocols using Eigen Layer’s shared security. Jake is also a contributor to Juno and DAO DAO in the Cosmos ecosystem. During the discussion we simplify how Eigen Layer works, what new affordances it brings, and what…
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MEV is a time traveling god and we must nationalize the designers with Anuj Das Gupta
While at Devcon I spoke to Anuj Das Gupta, co-founder of Smart Transactions with Vlad Zamfir. Smart Transactions offers advanced blockchain solutions with context-aware, decentralized, and customizable transaction capabilities. We spoke about how MEV (maximum extractable value) gives someone the ability to control time for a split second, how the control of time has influenced the transition to…
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How to play the legal system for post-capitalism with Florian Gatz
In Thailand I spoke to Florian Glatz, probably the first crypto focused lawyer in Europe and possibly the world and co-founder of Common Ground, an on-chain social network. Florian also helped author some part of the MiCA legislation in the EU which lays out the legal framework for cryptocurrences. We spoke about his experiences in the early…
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Crimson Echo: On-chain art to support those in Gaza
To finish off the year I spoke again with Chainleft, a pioneer in the on-chain art world and my online dopple ganger. We spoke about his newly released piece Crimson Echo (codename: Blood Journey) which is “A generative film, built by Ethereum Virtual Machine, compressed and stored fully on Ethereum, exploring how stories emerge through permanent acts of…
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How to live as a Post-Capitalist
While in Thailand during the Funding the Commons design jam, I spoke to Tony Lai a co-steward of Mothertree Labs with Susanne Aichele who I spoke to in the last episode and Founder of the Blockchain Group at CodeX Stanforf and an Edmund Hillary Fellow. We spoke about Tony’s interest in how to embody being a post-capitalist, Buddhist vs. Christian imagery, as well…
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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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Imagining Post-Capitalism through World Building
While in Thailand during the Funding the Commons design jam, I spoke to Susanne Aichele from Mothertree Labs. Susanne is a filmmaker, researcher, and communication practitioner focused on the intersection of ecology, community, and identity, leveraging experience with BBC, National Geographic, the UN, and WHO to create projects that foster interconnected ecologies and non-extractive practices. We spoke about…
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Post-Election Reflections with Suji Yan at Web3 Social Day in Bangkok 2024
Trump won and there’s no doubt that Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and crypto prediction markets played a role even though Democrats did everything they could to lose it seems. I spoke with Suji Yan, the co-founder of Mask Network, a web3 social media aggregator live in Bangkok during Devcon 2024 about his thoughts.
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Memecraft: Narrative Dynamics in Crypto
My collaborator on Katabasis (Beth McCarthy) and I spoke at Devcon, one of the largest Ethereum conferences in the world that happened this past week in Bangkok! In our talk we spoke about the power of memes and the influence of capital on them and vice versa. Beth provides some good frameworks for understanding these…
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Is crypto a scam or FINDOM fetish?
There seems to be an ever increasingly thin line between crypto, scams, and financial domination. I spoke to Steve Pikelny, CEO, CTO, CFO, COO of http://FastCashMoneyPlus.biz and Jesus pamphlet collector aka steviep about his newest art project FinSexy to explore the uncomfortable intersection between AI, findom and crypto. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a…
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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…
