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  • We Need More Sociologists in the Blockchain Space!

    For this week’s interview I spoke with Kris Jones (@KrisJ_Official) who wrote his Masters thesis in 2018 titled “Toward a Political Sociology of Blockchain” as well as another article titled “Blockchain in or as governance? Evolutions in experimentation, social impacts, and prefigurative practice in the blockchain and DAO space.” He also has a Medium profile where he…

    May 8, 2021
  • 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

    May 2, 2021
  • Would Marx Have traded Dogecoin? Interview with 1Dime

    For this week’s episode, I spoke with 1Dime (@TheRapNerd7), a youtuber who focuses on videos about politics, critical theory, and pop culture.  During the interview we talk about his latest video which was a Marxist analysis of the stock market, how Karl Marx would probably be a dogecoin trader, and why many of the left’s criticisms of crypto tend…

    April 18, 2021
  • The Promise of People Powered Money with CirclesUBI

    For this interview I spoke to Julio Linares (@Julio_Linares_) an Economic Anthropologist studied under David Graeber at the LSE, Social Outreach at the Basic Income Org, and Research & Community for CirclesUBI (@CirclesUBI). CirclesUBI is a project seeking to provide people a universal basic income using the xDAI ethereum sidechain based on mutual credit. You may have…

    April 11, 2021
  • ERP Technology Companies are Centralized Planners of the Economy

    For this episode I spoke to Chris D’Costa (@cjdcosta), the founder of Totem Live Accounting (@totem_live_). Totem is building a real-time global accounting ledger built on the Polkadot blockchain to compete against traditional accounting and ERP software. I thought it was interesting to hear how blockchain could potentially be used to develop alternatives to the bureaucratic free…

    April 4, 2021
  • Crypto influencers, The Fakefluencer, and the dirty underwear of capitalism

    This week’s episode is dedicated to the crypto influencers. For the first half I give a crash course on the history and some of the more well known influencers and for the second half I have an interview with Tom Gillespie (@TomPeterGill), former currency trader on the Perth stock exchange turned TV investigator and filmmaker…

    March 21, 2021
  • Moral Panic! about the Internet? Try data sovereignty

    For this week’s episode I spoke to Dr. Emaline Friedman (@emalinus4). She is a network activist for the Commons Engine, part of Holochain, a social critic and theorist, has a PhD in psychology, a writer for Mad In America, a researcher at GCAS, and author of the recent book Internet Addiction: A Critical Psychology of Users. During the interview…

    March 14, 2021
  • Haha meme printer go brrrrr feat. Mike Watson of The Acid Left

    For this week’s interview I spoke with Mike Watson (@_leftaesthetics),  co-host of The Acid Left and author of “Towards a Conceptual Militancy” and “Can the Left Learn to Meme: Lessons for the cultural left, from cat memes to gaming, to Stranger Things, and more.” with an upcoming book “The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School…

    March 7, 2021
  • Using blockchain to make the artworlds we want with Furtherfield

    For this week’s interview I spoke with Ruth Catlow,  Artistic Director at Furtherfield (@furtherfield), a not-for-profit international community hub for arts, technology and social change founded with Marc Garrett in London, in 1996. Co-editor of Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain, Director of DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab, a Furtherfield initiative which exists to mobilise research and development by leading artists, using…

    February 14, 2021
  • Early bitcoin politics: Digital metallism vs Infrastructural mutualism

    For this week’s interview I spoke with Matt Cropp (@MattCropp), a Co-Director of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center, where he works on public education, outreach, and the conversion of businesses to employee ownership for ownership succession. Matt has a really interesting profile in that he was involved in bitcoin during the early years and actually used…

    February 7, 2021
  • Day trading our way to the revolution feat. Jaynemesis

    For this week’s interview I spoke with Jay Smith (@jaynemesis) one of the top earning traders on eToro, a social trading platform where people can “copy” the trades of traders and a percentage of the money they earn goes to them. What’s interesting about Jay is that while doing this he’s also openly left wing as he’s a…

    January 31, 2021
  • Recognizing value in open source communities with SourceCred feat. Dandelion Mané

    For this episode I interview Dandelion Mané (@decentralion) and talk about their work on SourceCred (@sourcecred), a tool for communities to measure and reward value creation, which they founded. As the name suggests, Cred is the core idea of SourceCred. Cred is a score which is earned by making contributions to a project. A participant’s score…

    January 17, 2021
  • Avoiding co-optation of the commons under capitalism

    For this interview I sat down with Hannes Gerhardt, professor of Human Geography at the University of West Georgia and author of a recent piece in ROAR Magazine titled, Blockchains: Building blocks for a postcapitalist future? . He has published on a wide range of political and economic issues and is currently working on a book exploring pathways to…

    January 10, 2021
  • Designing post-capitalism with the Economic Space Agency feat. Akseli Virtanen

    For this week’s podcast I spoke to Akseli Virtanen (@econaut6), one of the founders of the Economic Space Agency (@ecospaceagency) (ECSA), an organization for exploring protocols for post-capitalist economic expression. Akseli previously founded the Robin Hood Cooperative Hedge Fund and has been referred as The Andy Warhol of Finance. During the interview we talk about how ECSA is …

    January 3, 2021
  • GCAS: The Cooperatively owned College on the Blockchain

    This week I spoke to Creston Davis, founder of the Global Center of Advanced Studies (@GCASCollege), the first cooperatively run college using their own ethereum-enabled token (called GCASY) that represents shares in the college that can be used for paying for tuition and other expenses. Many well-known academics are a part of GCAS, including Alain Badiou and they’ve hosted seminars from…

    December 13, 2020
  • Enabling Blockchain to Fight against Imperialism in the Caribbean feat. Stefen Deleveaux

    This week I spoke with Stefen Deleveaux (@stefdelev), the president of the Caribbean  Blockchain Alliance (CBA). The CBA is an organization that advocates for the use of blockchain in Caribbean, educates developers , and collaborates with regulators to create regulatory frameworks in the region. One of the purposes of the organization is to help create a more…

    December 6, 2020
  • Technical Analysis is Just Horoscopes for Chart People feat. Andrew Ancheta

    This week I interviewed Andrew Ancheta (@TrampAbroad1), a freelance journalist who previously wrote for crypto publications, but most recently wrote an article in the leftwing journal Current Affairs called The Crypto Casino.  It’s a great article, and I don’t say that just because I’m featured in it :). The article is in the currently most recent issue of…

    November 29, 2020
  • What Cooperatives and Blockchain Can Learn From Each Other feat. Morshed Mannan

    This week I spoke with Morshed Mannan (@MannanMorshed), a PhD candidate at Leiden Law School in The Netherlands and  Research Fellow at the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School. His research interest in cooperatives and digital technologies eventually led him to blockchain and he’s produced some really interesting research and seminars…

    November 22, 2020
  • Commons Based Peer Production on the Blockchain feat. Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation

    This week I spoke to Michel Bauwens, the  founder  of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property and is known for his work on The Political Economy of Peer Production. Much of his work revolves around exploring peer production as…

    November 1, 2020
  • One WEIRD trick: A Radical Strategy to Finance the Revolution feat. Jonathan Beller

    This week I spoke to Jonathan Beller,  a professor of Media Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY with a forthcoming book “The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism.” He recently wrote “How We Short Capitalism – And Finance the Revolution” in CoinDesk. The article is really interesting in that it proposes we invest in…

    October 18, 2020
  • 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.…

    October 11, 2020
  • A Use Case for Blockchain Socialism during an Evictions Crisis: The Housing for All Token

    Due to the fragility of capitalism and the inept response by the government to help those who are economically affected by COVID-19, the United States is currently at the precipice of an eviction crisis. The CARES Act eviction moratorium expired at the end of July. Somewhat thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…

    October 4, 2020
  • What Would Marx think about Cryptocurrency? feat. Mark Alizart, author of Cryptocommunism

    This week I spoke with  Mark Alizart, a philosopher and the author of The Climate Coup, Dogs, and most recently Cryptocommunism which has recently been translated into English  from French and published by Polity Books. In the book, Mark argues that the significance of cryptocurrencies goes well beyond cryptoanarchism. In so far as they allow…

    September 27, 2020
  • Why the Left Should Care about Value Accounting feat. Dr. Sarah Grace Manski

    This week I spoke with Dr. Sarah Grace Manski, she has a PhD in Global Studies from UC Santa Barbara and is now a professor at George Mason University. On one side she’s done quite a bit of work for unions and written for Jacobin and on the other side she’s the founder of the International Society…

    September 13, 2020
  • Extra! Extra! Famous Greek Marxist says Blockchain essential in building a socialist economy

    Read all about it! It’s very rare when a socialist speaks about blockchain and even more rare when they speak of it positively so I was extremely delighted when I learned former Greek Minister of Finance, current Secretary-General of DiEM25, erratic Marxist, and bald Spock lookalike Yanis Varoufakis had come out with a new essay…

    August 23, 2020
  • Art, Weed, and Blockchain feat. Chibu Ichiban of afuturemodern

    This week I spoke to Chibu Ichiban, a founding member of afuturemodern, a network of coops delivering liberation tech to the masses through art, culture, and basic services. Their mission is to drive mass adoption of humanity’s most radical innovations by shaping them for society’s most marginalized and revolutionary communities. They leverage art, culture, service,…

    August 15, 2020
  • 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

    August 9, 2020
  • Giving the Power of Money to the People through Decentralized Mutual Credit Networks ft. Aleeza Howitt from Trustlines

    This week I spoke to Aleeza Howitt (@aleezagroks),  a contributor to the Trustlines protocol. Trustlines is a mPoS (minimal viable Proof of Stake) sidechain to Ethereum and stores transactions for a system of decentralized mutual credit. Mutual credit is an alternative medium of exchange to most money that we use today in which “money” is created through…

    July 30, 2020
  • Are Public Goods Always “Good” and Will Personal Tokens Just Lead to Slavery ft. Annaliese Milano

    This week I sat down with  PhD student at the London School of Economics under David Graeber and Laura Bear in Anthropology and occasional CoinDesk contributor, Annaliese Milano (@AnnalieseMilano). In this episode we spoke about her current research interests in public goods, or what she prefers to call public things. Her research suggests that studying…

    July 26, 2020
  • Screw capitalism, start a cult, and burn your money ft. Jonathan Harris aka Money Burning Guy

    For this episode I spoke with Jonathan Harris (@jonone100) aka Money Burning Guy who was recently featured as a panelist at the Consensus: Distributed conference on their panel Soft Money hosted by Joon Ian Wong and Annaliese Milano and was joined by Brett Scott, who was last episode’s guest. Jonathan is the author of The…

    July 19, 2020
  • The War on Cash and The Coercive Nature of Money ft. Brett Scott

    This week I spoke to financial activist and author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance Hacking the Future of Finance Brett Scott (@Suitpossum). His last book was written in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests and is a guide to the world of high finance and the emergent forms of alternative finance, alternative currencies and…

    June 28, 2020
  • 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…

    June 21, 2020
  • Musicians of the World Unite and Decolonize the Music Industry feat. Rich Jensen from Resonate

    This week I spoke with Rich Jensen (@richjensen), Co-op Executive of Resonate (@ResonateCoop). Resonate is a cooperatively owned music streaming platform aiming to give more power to artists rather than corporate record labels and VC-funded tech companies.On average their model gives a larger payout to artists as compared to other music streaming platforms like Spotify. Rich has…

    June 14, 2020
  • 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…

    June 7, 2020
  • From Feudalism to Capitalism to (Hopefully) Beyond feat. Dr. Joel Garrod (Part 2)

    This is Part 2 of my interview with Dr. Joel Z Garrod, a sociologist based in Canada and author of a recently published article, “On the property of blockchains: comments on an emerging literature.” The paper focuses on blockchain and property relations in connection to global property relations and the evolution of capitalism.  For this…

    May 24, 2020
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