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 […] The post NETWORKED REALISM: Whoever Controls the Infrastructure, Controls Reality appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […]| The Blockchain Socialist
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. We unpack what Urbit is trying to be (although many don’t […] The post Why Urbit Failed with Adina Glickstein appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […]| The Blockchain Socialist
This is just a clip, but you can watch the full video on Patreon. On an episode of Joshua Citarella’s podcast, he spoke to Mike Pepi, author of Against Platforms, about his book in which he takes tech platforms to task with serious critiques. It’s an interesting convo and I was honored to get a […] The post Socialism vs Blockchain Socialism (Response to Mike Pepi on Doomscroll) appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
During Dappcon and Berlin Blockchain Week (BBW) 2025, I gave a talk on Solidarity Primitives, the techno-conceptual framework that we use for building many of our applications at Breadchain Cooperative (soon Bread Cooperative). Dappcon is one of the biggest events during BBW and is hosted by Gnosis who are local to Berlin, so it was […] The post My talk at Dappcon 2025: Solidarity Primitives appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
In this talk I spoke to Tesla Takedown protestors about the strategy and use of memes in right wing political strategy with Beth McCarthy (she arrives a bit late) and how it links to crypto financial markets. Much of this talk is based on the presentation I gave with Beth McCarthy at Devcon 2024. If […] The post MEMECRAFT: Hypernormalization of Right Wing Meme Culture appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […]| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […] The post Blockchain Governance: North Korea, Tornado Cash, and Trust appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
I did a talk for Tesla Takedown protestors in south Florida to explain more about the philosophy that is undergirding DOGE in a way that is more digestible for people who are not familiar with the work. It ties in significantly with the work I did for the Overthrowing the Network State podcast series I […]| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […] The post What is the REAL value of crypto tokens with Vasily Sumanov appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […] The post How to Stake ETH with your friends with Thomas Heremans (Obol) appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […] The post How to Run an Election without the State with Vocdoni appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
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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 […] The post Conviction Voting for 24/7 Democracy with Paul Glavin appeared first on The Blockchain Socia...| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […]| The Blockchain Socialist
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. The post All my friends hate Google Docs with Andreas Tsamados appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […] The post Alternatives to VC, Digital Governance and Public AI with Josh Tan appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
My article co-written with Beth McCarthy on Memecraft was just published in Eth Investors Club Magazine! It is based on our Devcon talk but with a slightly different twist considering the current state of the Trump administration and the use of DOGE actually now happening in real time as we warned in our talk just […] The post Memecraft: Narrative Dynamics, Discursive Control and Capital in Crypto Culture appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […] The post How to Die a Good Death with Sarah Friend appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […]| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […] The post MEV is a time traveling god and we must nationalize the designers with Anuj Das G...| The Blockchain Socialist
In Thailand I spoke to Florian Glatz, probably the first crypto focused lawyer in Europe and possibly 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 […]| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […] The post Crimson Echo: On-chain art to support those in Gaza appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
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 Stanforf 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 […] The post How to live as a Post-Capitalist appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
Now available to everyone! I recently came back home from Devcon in Bangkok and thought I’d share some of my reflections and findings. In case you don’t know, Devcon is one of the largest Ethereum events held every other year and I attended to give a presentation and a whole lot more. I was in […]| The Blockchain Socialist
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 […] The post Imagining Post-Capitalism through World Building appeared first on ...| The Blockchain Socialist
Trump won and there’s no doubt that Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and crypto prediction markets played a role even though Democrats did everything they could to lose it seems. I spoke with Suji Yan, the co-founder of Mask Network, a web3 social media aggregator live in Bangkok during Devcon 2024 about his thoughts.| The Blockchain Socialist
My collaborator on Katabasis (Beth McCarthy) and I spoke at Devcon, one of the largest Ethereum conferences in the world that happened this past week in Bangkok! In our talk we spoke about the power of memes and the influence of capital on them and vice versa. Beth provides some good frameworks for understanding these […] The post Memecraft: Narrative Dynamics in Crypto appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
There seems to be an ever increasingly thin line between crypto, scams, and financial domination. I spoke to Steve Pikelny, CEO, CTO, CFO, COO of http://FastCashMoneyPlus.biz and Jesus pamphlet collector aka steviep about his newest art project FinSexy to explore the uncomfortable intersection between AI, findom and crypto. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a […]| The Blockchain Socialist
Hi Patrons! I hope you enjoyed my first video essay on the actual evidence of the left hating crypto. As extra content to thank you for being a patron, I’m sharing the script I used for making the video in case you want to look deeper into the sources cited through out the video. You […] The post The Left does NOT hate crypto (script) appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
Scroll through the social media platforms that crypto enthusiasts and think bois like to post and you’ll get the idea pretty quickly that a whole lot of them think that the Left is fundamentally opposed to cryptocurrency and its use and the only way to protect crypto from being totally destroyed from the hammer of […] The post The Left does NOT hate crypto appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
I spoke to Eric Alston again! Eric is a professor at University of Colorado and recently completed a fellowship with the Summer of Protocols studying the governance of killswitches. His report is titled “Killswitch Protocols: Or On Engineering Recursive System Death” and co-authored with Seth Killian and Garrette David. During the interview we discussed the history of […] The post Who Controls the Killswitch? appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist.| The Blockchain Socialist
Last month Primavera and I spent about two weeks at Zuzalu in Montenegro with a team of people from Blockchaingov and elsewhere to concretely define our network state alternative of Coordi-Nations. We had five days of all day intensive workshops and three days of public presentations where we shared our findings to the attendees of Zuzalu. Right […]| The Blockchain Socialist