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
195 episodes
Why he left crypto for AI w/ Nader Dabit
I spoke to Nader Dabit, longtime crypto developer and educator who built at Aave, Lens, and Developer DAO, about what it felt like to be at the frontier of Web3 and why he eventually left.Nader s...
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Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage
I spoke to Nick Vincent, assistant professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University and author of the Data Leverage substack, about wha...
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1:03:12
Delete Coinbase! Use this instead... w/ UnhappyBen (Peer.xyz)
I spoke to UnhappyBen, head of growth and marketing at Peer (formerly known as ZKP2P) which is a service that allows you to officially delete Coinbase and every other centralized exchange account you may have. Pe...
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Public or Perish: Decentralized Municipal Socialism w/ Boris Mamlyuk
I spoke to Boris Mamlyuk, co-founder of Clean App an AI-powered, crowdsourced environmental app designed for users to report waste and hazards in real-time, essentially a system for reporting civic feedback....
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What if AI was Cooperative instead? w/ Tan Zhi Xuan
I spoke to Tan Zhi Xuan, Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore's Department of Computer Science and founder of the Cooperative Intelligence and Systems Lab, a research group confro...
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Did we learn anything from Anonymous? w/ Kate Stapleton | Devconnect 2025
Continuing the publication of interviews from DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sat down with Kate Stapleton, a former member of Anonymous and privacy advocate, now able to speak publicly after the statute of...
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Why did Democracy fail in DAOs? w/ Theo Beutel | Devconnect 2025
Continuing the publication of interviews from DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sat down with Theo Beutel (academic secretariat at the Ethereum Foundation, researcher at Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, Un...
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Is Crypto Governance Dead? w/ Eugene Leventhal | Devconnect 2025
In this episode recorded at DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sit down with Eugene Leventhal (researcher at Metagov, podcaster at Govern...
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How to send cryptocurrency to Gaza
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 bankin...
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Is the state DEAD? Farewell to Westphalia with Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow
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 '
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Free Markets Are Planned: The Neoliberal Paradox with Christoph Sorg
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.Durin...
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1:06:39
Weaponized Design and the Digital Identity Event Horizon with Cade Diehm
I spoke to Cade Diehm, Head of Research at the World Ethical Data Foundation and founder of New Design Congres...
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1:39:07
Nepal, DAOs and Secret Voting with Aragon CEO Leuts.eth
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 pr...
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NETWORKED REALISM: Whoever Controls the Infrastructure, Controls Reality
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 an...
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Slavoj Zizek on Network States
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
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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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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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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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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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