The Blockchain Socialist
A podcast by The Blockchain Socialist (@TBSocialist) giving a platform for those at the intersection of blockchain and Left politics.
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Episodes
180 episodes
How Urbit Failed with Adina Glickstein
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 Spi...
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1:05:23
Free Market Friends with Naomi Oba
About a month ago I spoke at Dappcon about Solidarity Primitives we've been building at Bread Cooperati...
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51:16
Holonym: Digital Identity without Scanning your Eyeballs
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 t...
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1:15:41
Blockchain Governance: North Korea, Tornado Cash, and Trust
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 sp...
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59:34
What is the REAL value of crypto tokens with Vasily Sumanov
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 Valueve...
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58:03
How to Stake ETH with your friends with Thomas Heremans (Obol)
I spoke to Thomas Heremans, CEO of the Obol Association. Obol is an ecosystem for trust minimized Ethereum staking that enables distributed validators (DVs) acros...
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39:45
How to Run an Election without the State with Vocdoni
I spoke to Ferran Reyes and Pau Escrich, co-founders of Vocdoni, a blockchain based voting protocol used by several non-...
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1:03:12
Conviction Voting for 24/7 Democracy with Paul Glavin
I spoke with Paul Glavin, contributor to 1Hive and founder of Gardens v2, a platform for communities to manage assets democratically using
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52:44
How to Build Community in Crypto with Beth McCarthy
While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Beth McCarthy, program director of Funding the Commons which I als...
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30:53
All my friends hate Google Docs with Andreas Tsamados
While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Andreas Tsamados, cofounder of Fileverse and anime gif connoisseur. I highly recommend trying out
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29:26
Alternatives to VC, Digital Governance and Public AI with Josh Tan
While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Josh Tan, the founder of Metagov, a laboratory for digital governance and lead of DAOstar, a DAO standa...
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39:39
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 F...
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43:27
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 sec...
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24:33
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, de...
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56:06
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 possible the world and co-founder of Common Ground, an on-chain social network. Flo...
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26:39
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 ...
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53:01
How to live as a Post-Capitalist with Tony Lai
While in Thailand during the Funding the Commons design jam, I spoke to Tony Lai a co-steward of Mothertree Labs with ...
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36:19
Imagining Post-Capitalism through World Building with Susanne Aichele
While in Thailand during the Funding the Commons design jam, I spoke to Susanne Aichele from Mothertree Labs. Susanne is a filmmaker, researcher, and ...
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27:18
Is crypto a scam or FINDOM fetish?
There seems to be an ever increasingly thin line between crypto, scams, and financial domination. I spoke Steve Pikelny, CEO, CTO, CFO, COO of http://FastCashMoneyPlus.biz and Jesus pamphlet collector aka s...
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1:12:39
Who Controls the Killswitch?
I spoke to Eric Alston again! Eric is a professor at University of Colorado and recently complete...
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1:04:22
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
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1:06:15
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-...
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57:43
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 extensio...
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