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
158 episodes since 2020
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...
August 19, 2024
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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
August 11, 2024
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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
July 31, 2024
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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
June 30, 2024
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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
June 24, 2024
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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
June 09, 2024
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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 ...
June 02, 2024
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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...
May 04, 2024
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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...
April 21, 2024
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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...
April 14, 2024
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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...
April 07, 2024
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1:02:33
Obol Network - How DVT helps decentralize Ethereum and incentivize collectivism
I spoke to Oisín Kyne, co-founder and CTO of Obol Network, an ecosystem for trust minimized Ethereum staking that enables people to create, test, run and coordin...
March 31, 2024
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51:55
Fund evacuations from Gaza with ETH - ethevacuations.xyz
I spoke to Kat (katalunia.eth) who is behind a project called ETH Evacuations which is taking donations to pay for families to get out of Gaza through the Rafah crossing. Kat is a product manager an...
March 21, 2024
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21:40
From hacking the CIA as a teenager to community computers
I spoke to Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder and CEO of Celestia, a modular blockchain network that makes for others to securely launch their own blockchain. Mustafa was...
March 05, 2024
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53:33
accelerationism is back and tech elites are making it cringier than it already was (e/acc)
If you've been surfing the tech sphere lately, you may have come across the term e/acc or effective accelerationism as if it was something new. But like most of these tech elite driven ideologies, it's largely a mutation of more naive and somet...
February 18, 2024
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1:04:10
Blockchain Radicals Audiobook Sample
The audiobook for my book Blockchain Radicals is officially out! This is a sample you can listen to if you want to know if it seems like something you'd want to pick up. You can find your audiobook copy in all of the
February 06, 2024
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4:02
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform (gang gang mmm ice cream so good)
Tokens have increasingly more popular beyond just in the crypto world *gang gang mmm ice cream so good*. Tokens are not new, but how they have been used and their proliferation have exploded with the rise of digital platforms.
February 04, 2024
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1:13:38
A Regenerative Village as a DAO in Portugal (Traditional Dream Factory)
You can find the video version of the interview here where I've cut the interview with some film I took while at TDF. In this episode I spoke to Sam Delesque (
January 21, 2024
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56:37
OTNS: Is Praxis a bunch of fascists dressed as libertarians?
In this episode of OTNS, we spoke to Ali Breland, a journalist at Mother Jones who has written on
January 07, 2024
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1:00:53
China is a Process: Understanding the Chinese Crypto Diaspora Community
In this episode I spoke to Afra Wang, a Chinese diaspora journalist who has been in crypto now for a year and a half with Mask Network and organizer of the
December 17, 2023
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1:11:04
Safeguarding Ethereum's Soul: Protocol Guild and governing the digital commons
In this episode I spoke with Trent Van Epps, who is part of the Ethereum Foundation and a key member of Protocol Guild (PG). PG is a collective of 1...
December 10, 2023
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1:16:25
Web3 Workers Rights, Exit to Community, and Solidarity Primitives
In this episode I spoke to my friend and scholar Tara Merk who is part of BlockchainGov and has been focusing her PhD thesis on Exit to Community (E2C). E2C is proposed as ...
December 03, 2023
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1:11:03
Building autonomous infrastructure for tactical media
In this episode I spoke to Geert Lovink, a Dutch media theorist and founder of the Institute of Network Cultures who has been engaged with internet culture sin...
November 26, 2023
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1:03:28
Seeing crypto for what it is and how to live with contradiction with Brett Scott
In this episode I spoke with Brett Scott, an independent scholar, writer, and defender of physical cash from a left point of view. Brett was involved in the early Bitcioin communities and one of the
November 12, 2023
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