The Blockchain Socialist

Note that this is from a video essay published on YouTube here . For over a year, I've been helping people send aid to Gaza via cryptocurrency because traditional banking systems have failed Palestinians. PayPal and GoFundMe freeze accounts, banks block transfers, and those that go through can take weeks or months. Cryptocurrency offers instant, censorship-resistant transfers that offer higher guarantees. This comprehensive guide covers three methods for sending crypto (SimpleSwap, Revolut, and zkP2P), how to avoid tax complications when fundraising, critical safety tips to prevent irreversible mistakes, and everything you need to know about wallets, networks, and the OTC desk system in Gaza. 📖 Written Guide: https://docs.fileverse.io/0x6a13c07622Cc1685E0a071c0d7b4Cdb41eBE24ca/1#key=alyL1ETXBR_r16AVQuDNArf8IbD5PJXoHIZq7pjh_J7kXsIkC8a-3cR-bdRQdPlw 💡 Three Methods Explained: Method 1: SimpleSwap - Buy crypto with your debit card and send directly. May require KYC verification. Method 2: Revolut - Best for regular sending. Buy and send crypto within the Revolut app. Convenient but creates a transaction record. Method 3: zkP2P (Zero-Knowledge Peer-to-Peer) - Best for privacy. No KYC required. Uses apps like Wise, PayPal, Venmo, etc. More complex but maintains privacy. 🤝 Support Ibrahim in Gaza: Ibrahim has been surviving the genocide while supporting his extended family and local community. To send crypto aid: ENS Name: casinoberlin.eth Full Ethereum Address: 0xFe70d2Fe8a0cCce98fB595f0Ef98C1522d6310b6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulses_of_mercy/ Chuffed: https://chuffed.org/project/117754-support-for-survival-from-genocide This is our verified collective wallet that we've been using for months to get funds directly to Ibrahim and those who need it most. ⚠️ Important Disclaimers: I am not a lawyer or tax accountant—check your country's laws Different countries have different donation limits and tax obligations Cryptocurrency transactions are irreversible so be careful Always verify everything before sending If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

In this episode I spoke to Jarrad Hope, founder of Logos , and Peter Ludlow, philosopher and research advisor at the University of Hong Kong, and co-authors of the new book ' Farewell to Westphalia .' In the book they detail the historical trajectory of nation states and what they perceive to be their failures as well as propose an alternative to Network States through Blockchain Communities. We discuss critiques of traditional nation states, the potential of blockchain for decentralized governance, and the importance of transparency and privacy. This episode is sponsored by NYM , the world's most private VPN. Unlike traditional VPNs, Nym uses a decentralized mixnet to scramble your internet data — hiding who you're talking to, when, and how often. You can switch between full mixnet mode for maximum anonymity, or a faster VPN mode for everyday use. Use the code blockchainsocialist when signing up and get an extra month! If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

Dr. Christoph Sorg is a social scientist at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He researches theories of capitalism and post-capitalism and the new debate on economic planning in times of digitalization and the climate crisis. During the interview we spoke about his work around understanding economic planning and his recent publication Finance as a form of economic planning . His work shows how even in the free market capitalism we live in today, there is actually a significant amount of planning, it's just that the planning is for facilitating capitalist economies, the neoliberal paradox. As the co-founder of projects like Bread Cooperative where we are trying to build out apps that facilitate post-capitalist economic relations, I think it's important for us to properly understand the current state of capitalism so that we know the kind of meaningful interventions we could make. This episode is sponsored by NYM , the world's most private VPN. Unlike traditional VPNs, Nym uses a decentralized mixnet to scramble your internet data — hiding who you're talking to, when, and how often. You can switch between full mixnet mode for maximum anonymity, or a faster VPN mode for everyday use. Use the code blockchainsocialist when signing up and get an extra month! If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

I spoke to Cade Diehm , Head of Research at the World Ethical Data Foundation and founder of New Design Congress , an independent research group confronting the gap between what is said to be happening and what is actually happening in digital societies. His career also involves working at Deloitte Australia, as leading design for CoinJar, the largest crypto exchange in Australia and Tactical Tech. I had him on to talk about his work on Weaponised Design (when an interface or system harms its users whilst performing entirely within its expected behaviour), his recent alarming research on the brittleness of digital identity and his experience with crypto. This episode is sponsored by NYM , the world's most private VPN. Unlike traditional VPNs, Nym uses a decentralized mixnet to scramble your internet data — hiding who you're talking to, when, and how often. You can switch between full mixnet mode for maximum anonymity, or a faster VPN mode for everyday use. Use the code blockchainsocialist when signing up and get an extra month! If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

I spoke to Leuts.eth , CEO of Aragon , a DAO tooling protocol that gives organizations the tools to build, govern, and accrue value effectively onchain. Aragon was probably the first organization I became interested when I got into crypto since they were the first to take seriously the potential for DAOs and onchain governance, We spoke about the history of Aragon, their latest feature enabling private voting and whether Nepal is actually a DAO now. This episode is sponsored by NYM , the world's most private VPN. Unlike traditional VPNs, Nym uses a decentralized mixnet to scramble your internet data — hiding who you're talking to, when, and how often. You can switch between full mixnet mode for maximum anonymity, or a faster VPN mode for everyday use. Use the code blockchainsocialist when signing up and get an extra month! If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

It's feeling like we're living in a very strange moment in time where liberal norms of openness have been shattered by the same class of tech industry titans who expressed these values just a decade ago. In this episode I spoke to Nick Houde and Severin Matusek from co-matter , a research and strategy studio based in Berlin, who recently published an incredible memo that is chock full of incredible analysis and insight into our current moment. "New World Order: The Return of Hard Power and Soft Beliefs is a 35-page research memo about what happens when power, infrastructure and ideology collide. A manual for anyone trying to make sense of the present, New World Order contains ideas, context and language to participate in shaping the world that emerges in front of our eyes." The memo is chock full of useful and powerful concepts that help explain this moment. You can order a copy of the memo on Metalabel here . (I've already got my copy!) Lots of great quotes like "Yesterday's moral stance is tomorrow's liability" and "Whoever controls the infrastructure controls reality itself." This episode is sponsored by NYM , the world's most private VPN. Unlike traditional VPNs, Nym uses a decentralized mixnet to scramble your internet data — hiding who you're talking to, when, and how often. You can switch between full mixnet mode for maximum anonymity, or a faster VPN mode for everyday use. Use the code blockchainsocialist when signing up and get an extra month! If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

The one and only Slavoj Zizek published a piece on Network States and of course I had to read it and share it with you all. It's normally behind a paywall on his Substack but was put on Fileverse by recent guest Naomi for all to read. Check out the article on Fileverse here . I really want to know who is in Zizek's ear talking about crypto stuff so much that he knows what DAOs are... If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

In this episode, I talk with Adina Glickstein — Master’s student in Media Studies under Nathan Schneider at UC Boulder and editor-at-large at Spike Art Magazine — whose recent Compact Mag article, The Rise and Fall of Urbit finally gave me the excuse to talk about Urbit on the podcast and why its failing. We unpack what Urbit is trying to be (although many don't seem to agree), its creator Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug, philosopher of the alt-right), and how its governance structure mirrors his anti-democratic ideals. Adina shares her experience moving from enthusiasm to disillusionment — from Berlin meetups to Urbit Assembly, to witnessing the project lean into neo-colonial “exit” politics. We also get into the reactionary politics inside the Urbit community, the recent leadership coup pitting long-time developers against Yarvin and his backers, and how this drama unexpectedly created a demand for “voice” in a system designed entirely around “exit.” Links: User Error — Adina’s monthly tech column for Spike Art Magazine The Rise and Fall of Urbit — Adina’s piece in Compact Mag Adina on Instagram This episode is sponsored by NYM , the world's most private VPN. Unlike traditional VPNs, Nym uses a decentralized mixnet to scramble your internet data — hiding who you're talking to, when, and how often. You can switch between full mixnet mode for maximum anonymity, or a faster VPN mode for everyday use. Use the code blockchainsocialist when signing up and get an extra month! If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

About a month ago I spoke at Dappcon about Solidarity Primitives we've been building at Bread Cooperative . Before my talk, Naomi Oba gave her own wonderful presentation titled Crypto Culture and its Discontents that unknowingly set the stage quite well for mine so I had to ask her on the podcast. We discussed the issues with crypto culture including obsession with quantification and financialization, and how to feel emotions instead. Naomi also helped write the Sapphire Punk manifesto , an exploration of a post-cypherpunk politics that reject the extreme individualism rooted in the original cypherpunk movement. " All that is solid turns into data points." - Engels probably if he was still around This is also the first episode that is sponsored by NYM , the world's most private VPN. Unlike traditional VPNs, Nym uses a decentralized mixnet to scramble your internet data — hiding who you're talking to, when, and how often. You can switch between full mixnet mode for maximum anonymity, or a faster VPN mode for everyday use. Use the code blockchainsocialist when signing up and get an extra month! If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

They say on the internet no one knows you're a dog but this has created a digital space that is dominated by more bots than humans and crypto space that is easily sybil attacked. Worldcoin, a project led by Sam Altman, is purporting to tackle this issue as AI (ironic?) proliferates content by scanning our eyeballs into an orb that they totally aren't taking your data from! Personally I don't trust them. So I spoke to Shady El Damaty, co-founder and CEO of Holonym Foundation which is building human.tech, a suite of different identity solutions that protect user privacy using zero-knowledge proofs. We spoke about how it all works and the implications of people having control of their identities online. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Website: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3geORcile9E1EyPyFiAHhM?si=x7fjsFhURsSBlErXnihh9A iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blockchain-socialist/id1501607045 Podcast Addict: https://podplayer.net/?podId=2598359 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBSocialist Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/ Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

How can digital cash truly be “trustless”? What does it mean that blockchain offers a new paradigm of the “rule of code”? How are decisions made when a blockchain system faces an emergency, and who gets to make those decisions? I spoke to Wessel Reijers and Morshed Mannan , both great thinkers and recent authors of the book Blockchain Governance (by Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers and Morshed Mannan). We discussed the history of the legal and philosophical implications that blockchains have brought with them. From the Tornado Cash ruling, North Korean mega hacks, and rethinking of property relations, there was a whole lot to talk about. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

How in the world is anyone meant to derive the "real" value of a crypto token? Especially in THIS market?? I spoke to Vasily Sumanov , founder of Valueverse and inventor of the Token Value Capture Mechanism Framework to share how he sees it. Valueverse is a utility-centric token tracker that helps you understand the demand-side pressures for token value. Part of the neoliberal ideological turn which has also continued into crypto token releases is an over-focus on supply side economics (problematic). We discussed token engineering as a discipline in need of an improvement, the most common mistakes people make when designing tokens, and how the VCM framework helps cut through the noise. While I'm no crypto trader and I suspect some may be surprised by an episode like this from me, I do believe that the framework is incredibly useful. I was also very impressed by the page published by Valueverse of BREAD , the post-capitalist token for Breadchain Cooperative which I co-founded. The page is super useful for people to understand the tokenomics behind the project. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

I spoke to Thomas Heremans , CEO of the Obol Association . Obol is an ecosystem for trust minimized Ethereum staking that enables distributed validators (DVs) across a cluster of nodes in order to improve resilience as compared to running a validator on a single node. Previously I spoke to Osín Kyne , the CTO of Obol Network and they had plenty of updates since last time. Thomas gave us a refresher on what DVs are and what they can enable, some success stories of how communities have funded themselves with Obol DVs and what the future looks like for Obol. They also announced the Obol Incentives Program where you can earn OBOL tokens for staking on distributed validators. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

I spoke to Ferran Reyes and Pau Escrich , co-founders of Vocdoni , a blockchain based voting protocol used by several non-web3 organizations. They were born out of the Catalan independence movement in Spain from which they have designed Vocdoni to be censorship resistant and friendly to your average non-web3 user. During the episode we discussed some of the elections where Vocdoni was used, the cryptographic primitives that make it all possible and the learnings they have had in their journey so far. We also discussed DAVINCI , their latest evolution of the Vocdoni voting protocol. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

I spoke with Paul Glavin, contributor to 1Hive and founder of Gardens v2 , a platform for communities to manage assets democratically using conviction voting . 1Hive was one of the first projects in the crypto space to explore alternative governance mechanisms on Gnosis Chain which is the chain where we've build Breadchain Cooperative . We discussed what conviction voting is, how to better fund public goods in crypto with it and the learnings so far. I also wrote about conviction voting and 1Hive in my book Blockchain Radicals if you want to learn more about innovative voting mechanisms in crypto. Breadchain also has two ongoing conviction voting proposals in the 1Hive Gardens to increase BREAD adoption. If you have HNY we hope you'll consider delegating to our proposals! You can get HNY on any DEX with Gnosis Chain . BREAD x HNY Liquidity Pool Add BREAD to 1Hive Treasury If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Beth McCarthy , program director of Funding the Commons which I also spoke at in Bangkok about our progress on building on-chain post-capitalism with Breadchain Cooperative. Beth is also my co-author for the Katabasis crypto science fiction series and we spoke together at Devcon about the meme power of capital and why it's bad. We discussed Beth's suggestions for building community when things are so online, the importance of in-person events, and her experience of being up close and personal with many of the previous phases of crypto. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Andreas Tsamados , cofounder of Fileverse and anime gif connoisseur. I highly recommend trying out ddocs.new as a decentralized alternative to google docs. We spoke about the issue of radical communities using google docs, the importance of decentralized and censorship resistance knowledge sharing systems, and how this is all possible on Fileverse. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Josh Tan , the founder of Metagov , a laboratory for digital governance and lead of DAOstar , a DAO standards body (that I have also been doing some work with as well). We spoke about making democracy just as available as autocracy in digital systems, making alternatives to venture capital, and AI as collective intelligence. We also spoke a bit about the DAOIP-5 web3 grants metadata standard that I've been helping DAOstar with. If you want to listen to my review of Devcon 2024, check it out here . If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

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 research on how and when protocols are considered dead, how different human cultures view death and the silliness behind the longevity movement. If you want to listen to my review of Devcon 2024, check it out here . If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

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 it means for collaborating across state lines. What is something that is normally being associated with hyper-financialization of computation can also be used to build the international commons. If you want to listen to my review of Devcon 2024, check it out here . If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

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 capitalism and why we must nationalize designers. We also talk about communism and why it's free time, or real freedom. If you want to listen to my review of Devcon 2024, check it out here . If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

In Thailand I spoke to Florian Glatz , probably the first crypto focused lawyer in Europe and possible 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 days of the ICO boom, the unpreparedness of the legal system for crypto, and how Common Ground is leading the way for fairer ways to do ICOs. You can also join the Breadchain community on Common Ground here . Those who signed up with 100 BREAD in their wallet qualified for an airdrop of their token. If you want to listen to my review of Devcon 2024, check it out here . If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

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 individual and collective conscience." Be sure to be a part of the on-chain history being made to show that you did not support the ongoing genocide in Gaza. By taking part in the mint, you are supported ETH Evacuations and the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund . Google Aaron Bushnell. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

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 Stanford 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 as his recent trip to Bhutan where he and others advised on a new ecological special economic zone initiative funded by the bitcoin they've been accumulating . And no it has nothing to do with network states thankfully. If you want to listen to my review of Devcon 2024, check it out here . If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

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 Susanne's previous documentary The Ways of the DAOs (2022), how to approach narratives from a post-capitalist lens and whether Breadchain is doing a good job at this! If you want to listen to my review of Devcon 2024, check it out here . If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month . It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter ( @TBSocialist ) or Mastodon ( @[email protected] ) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion. Support the show ICYMI I've written 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 in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.