The Blockchain Socialist
A podcast by The Blockchain Socialist (@TBSocialist) giving a platform for those at the intersection of blockchain and Left politics.
Subscribe to the Patreon to get access to bonus content and support my work: https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist
Episodes
171 episodes
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
•
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...
•
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...
•
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...
•
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...
•
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...
•
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 ...
•
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 ...
•
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 ...
•
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...
•
1:12:39
Who Controls the Killswitch?
I spoke to Eric Alston again! Eric is a professor at University of Colorado and recently complete...
•
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
•
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-...
•
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...
•
1:06:18
EthicHub: La lucha por un café Ético / The struggle for Ethical Coffee (CER)
Note that this interview was done in Spanish, you can find the youtube video with english subtitles if you need here.This episode is part of a subseries where I've partnered with my comrade
•
45:08
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
•
1:01:17
Sovereign Nature Initiative : How to ReFi without carbon credits with Andrea Leiter (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
•
54:52
Why Socialism Needs Spirituality (Red Enlightenment)
For this episode I spoke to Graham Jones, the author of Red Enlightenment, published through Repeater Books like
•
57:35
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
•
55:31
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 ...
•
1:19:43
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 phe...
•
44:56
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 Mutual...
•
1:02:15
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...
•
56:29
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 g...
•
1:02:33