The Blockchain Socialist

This episode is a continuation of the CCG Chronicles series which is a collection of interviews conducted during the Crypto Commons Gathering (CCG) in Austria back in August 2021. The interviews were also filmed to potentially be a part of a documentary I'm making with a few others. During the CCG I interviewed Scott Morris ( @CS_Morris ) and Moritz Bierling ( @bierlingm ) about how to design...

For this episode I interviewed Danny O'Brien ( @mala ) , current senior fellow at the Filecoin Foundation and special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Danny worked with the EFF for a very long time and has a podcast called How to Fix the Internet . During the interview we talked about  his experience of the early internet and what it was like to see it develop without sign...

For this episode I spoke to Jaya Klara Brekke ( @jayapapaya ), an academic researcher on crypto and Head of Strategy at NYM who recently gave the keynote speech for the Haus Der Kunst DAO Summit. During the interview we spoke about her skepticism and cautious optimism she mentioned in the keynote speech, the contradictory feelings on the market as someone who was raised in traditional leftist spac...

This episode is a continuation of the CCG Chronicles series which is a collection of interviews conducted during the Crypto Commons Gathering (CCG) in Austria back in August 2021. The interviews were also filmed to potentially be a part of a documentary I'm making with a few others. I interviewed Dr. Sarah Manski who I had on the podcast previously about why the left needs to care about value...

This episode is a continuation of the CCG Chronicles series which is a collection of interviews conducted during the Crypto Commons Gathering (CCG) in Austria back in August 2021. The interviews were also filmed to potentially be a part of a documentary I'm making with a few others. I interviewed Peth ( @Petheth ), founder of Metagame , a very interesting project that has been running for a c...

For this interview I spoke to Dr. Paul Dylan-Ennis ( @polarpunklabs ), professor at University College Dublin, and Rose O'Leary ( @lunarmining ), previous writer at CoinDesk and now a programmer for DarkFi . They are both also the editors for a new philosophy journal called Agorism in the 21st Century which recently published its first issue .  Agorism is a heterodox libertarian political ten...

This is a teaser of a Patreon bonus episode. For this bonus episode I spoke to Marisa and James who are working on PactDAO , a mutual aid network in NYC, and had the opportunity to take part in the events around ETHDenver. Since I didn't get to go, I thought it would be interesting to hear from them about their exoerience, the good and the bad parts. Get the full version on Patreon or you can...

This episode is a continuation of the CCG Chronicles series which is a collection of interviews conducted during the Crypto Commons Gathering (CCG) in Austria back in August 2021. The interviews were also filmed to potentially be a part of a documentary I'm making with a few others. I interviewed Matthew Slater , creator of the Credit Commons Protocol which is a mutual credit accounting softw...

This episode is a continuation of the CCG Chronicles series which is a collection of interviews conducted during the Crypto Commons Gathering (CCG) in Austria back in August 2021. The interviews were also filmed to potentially be a part of a documentary I'm making with a few others. I interviewed Grace Rachmany ,  founder of Voice of Humanity and DAO Leadership , a consultancy that helps DAOs...

For this episode I spoke to Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan ( @TinaRiversRyan ), Assistant Curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, art historian, critic, and educator. She's been involved in digital art on the internet well before NFTs were ever a thing but has written some interesting critiques about it all. During the interview we talk about the history of artists using computer...

This episode is a continuation of the CCG Chronicles series which is a collection of interviews conducted during the Crypto Commons Gathering (CCG) in Austria back in August 2021. The interviews were also filmed to potentially be a part of a documentary I'm making with a few others. I interviewed Denis 'Jaromil' Roio , founder of Dyne a "think and do tank" and Devuan GNU/L...

For this interview I spoke to @againstutopia he's known as on anarchist and crypto Twitter. He has a background in working in tech, platform cooperatives, and is one of the stewards of PrimeDAO . We  had followed each other online but finally had the opportunity to meet in person during The DAOist in Lisbon a few months ago. During the interview we discuss why he thinks the anarchist communit...

This is a teaser of a patreon exclusive episode. As a patron you have the ability to vote on the topic / question of a monthly patreon exclusive podcast. For this month the topic voted on Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake from a socialist point of view. Get the full version on Patreon or you can unlock this episode on my website for 3 xDai. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on you...

For this episode I spoke to James Muldoon ( @james_muldoon_ ), a researcher at Autonomy in the UK, senior lecturer at University of Exeter, and author of the book Platform Socialism , coming out with Pluto Press on January 20th.  You may have seen that I also reviewed Platform Socialism on my site so check that out as well if you want to know more about my thoughts and why I recommend it for those...

For this episode I spoke with Harry Halpin ( @harryhalpin ), open internet advocate, professor, internet researcher, and the current CEO of Nym . Nym is  a project trying to build a global privacy commons for the internet using mix nets, crypto, and anonymous credentials. During the interview we talk about the current issues with privacy on the internet today, how crypto changes the game for creat...

This week, after a a few delays, I was finally able to interview  a couple of the masterminds behind DisCO (Distributed Cooperative Organization). I spoke to Stacco Troncoso (@ StaccoP2P ) and Natalia Avlona who are both members of the crew working on DisCO, also called DisCONAUTS. A DisCO is an alternative / critique / complement to DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) that focuses more...

This episode is a continuation of the CCG Chronicles series which is a collection of interviews conducted during the Crypto Commons Gathering (CCG) in Austria back in August 2021. The interviews were also filmed to potentially be a part of a documentary I'm making with a few others. I interviewed Vangelis Papadimitropoulos , a political theorist, social scientist and post doc researcher holdi...

For this week's episode I spoke to Ori Shimony ( @orishim ),  co-founder of dOrg , a full-stack Web3 development collective. dOrg is incredibly interesting because it is run similarly to a worker-owned cooperative but functions as a DAO while also being at the forefront of building some of the most cutting-edge crypto platforms and products. During the interview we spoke about his experience...

Hi all, I have a pretty big announcement to make which is that I'm filming a documentary about the cryptocurrency space! As part of the film I've been doing a bit of traveling going to different crypto-related conferences and filming the events. The first event I joined was the Crypto Commons Gathering (CCG) in Austria back in August 2021 where we also shot full podcast episode-worthy in...

While I was in Lisbon a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet in person and interview Amir Taaki ( @Narodism ), one of the first Bitcoin core developers and a part of the original team building Ethereum. For a long time Amir has been involved in left wing activism including volunteering in Rojava and is a big digital privacy advocate. While at Liscon, Amir also presented his latest project...

For this interview I spoke with Alexandra Elbakyan ( @ringo_ring ) the founder of Sci-Hub , the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of academic research papers for absolutely free. As you can imagine, what she's doing is illegal and has had countless issues with government and privately owned journals that paywall science funded by the publi...

For this week's episode I spoke with Ethan Buchman ( @buchmanster ), the founder of Cosmos and the CEO of  Informal Systems , a worker-owned cooperative helping build the infrastructure of the Cosmos Network . Cosmos is a particular blockchain with the goal of creating the internet of blockchains by creating a layer that facilitates interoperability between different blockchains.   During the...

For this episode I spoke with Maryam Monalisa Gharavi ( @wcncnd ), an Iranian-American artist, writer, and theorist whose work explores the interplay between aesthetic and political valences in the public domain.. She conceived of the Oil Research Group, a one woman collective exploring the relationship between oil, data, and bitcoin. "Data is the new oil" was coined by the British mathe...

For this interview I spoke with Rhea Myers ( @rheaplex ),  an artist, hacker and writer originally from the UK now based in Vancouver. Her work places technology and culture in mutual interrogation to produce new ways of seeing the world as it unfolds around us. She’s been involved in the blockchain art world probably for as long as it has existed and has had her art recently featured in Sotheby’s...

Bailbloc is a cryptocurrency scheme against bail through The New Inquiry , in which you can  download the app and a small portion of your computer's unused processing power is redirected toward mining Monero . At the end of every month, Bailbloc exchanges the Monero for US dollars and donates the earnings to one of the bail funds in the National Bail Fund Network on a rotational basis. Due to...