The Blockchain Socialist

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 was about the connection between blockchain and cooperatives. Get the full version on Patreon . If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like th...

The Drivers Cooperative is a ride-hailing platform similar to Uber except owned by the workers not venture capital starting in NYC. They are currently having a fundraiser here where you can invest in and support the workers' movement in the US directly while receiving potentially a 2.5x return. For this interview, I spoke with Jason Prado (@jasonpjason), an ex-Silicon Valley developer and sta...

It has been reported lately in the news about how the country of Iran has been using bitcoin to get around sanctions imposed by the United States and how the population is using it as a hedge for inflation. To get a better understanding on the situation, I spoke to Salman Sadeghi ( @salman_sadeghi ), a Masters student at GCAS studying cryptoeconomics based in Iran. During the interview we discuss...

For this week's interview, I spoke with Murtaza Hussain ( @MazMHussain ), reporter at The Intercept focused on Foreign Policy with an interest in cryptocurrency. The past year Murtaza has been researching and learning more about cryptocurrencies specifically because of the its anti-imperial potential. During the interview we spoke about how the United States specifically uses US Dollar hegemo...

Although it feels like the Bitcoin Miami Conference was ages ago, it still only happened a little over a month ago. There were plenty of memorable events, like Laura Loomer heckling Jack Dorsey , the weird doge coin guy who took his pants off on stage , and the announcement that El Salvador will pass a law to make bitcoin legal tender . It's obvious that many bitcoiners would celebrate the an...

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 question most voted on was "Centralization vs Decentralization, which is better for socialism?". Get the full version on Patreon . If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platfor...

For this week's episode, I spoke with Caleb James Delisle ( @cjdelisle ),  founder of PKT Cash , the world’s first bandwidth-hard blockchain meant to support de-monopolizing internet access through mesh networking. Previously he also founded Cjdns, which implements an encrypted IPv6 network using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing, and Pack...

For this week's episode I spoke with Samer Hassan ( @SamerP2P ), activist, researcher, and Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense Madrid and Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. His current focus is his work on P2P Models ( @P2PMod ), a project to build collaborative economy organizations that are decentralized, democratic & distribute their profits through th...

This week I spoke with Dr. Filipe Calvao ( @filipecalvao ), a  socio-cultural anthropologist and professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies in Geneva and trained gemologist with ethnographic research in diamond mines in Africa. He is the author of two different papers published comparing crypto mining with physical mining : “ Crypto-miner...

For this week's episode, I spoke with Austin Robey , cofounder of Ampled , a cooperatively owned music platform owned by artists and workers similar to Patreon. He recently published an article through Forefront titled “ How Community Tokens Can Power Cooperatives .” During the interview we talk about how Ampled is working to create a cooperative alternative to Patreon for musicians, the stru...

For this week's interview I spoke with Kris Jones ( @KrisJ_Official ) who wrote his Masters thesis in 2018 titled " Toward a Political Sociology of Blockchain ” as well as another article titled " Blockchain in or as governance? Evolutions in experimentation, social impacts, and prefigurative practice in the blockchain and DAO space . " He also has a Medium profile where he exp...

For this week's episode, I have unlocked a previously patreon exclusive podcast episode I did about a month ago during NFT mania. I wanted to unlock this episode for the public because there’s been some serious confusion around what NFTs actually are even though everyone seems to have an opinion on it or should I say want to be angry about it and I wanted to get my, what I believe to be, more...

For this week's episode, I spoke with 1Dime ( @TheRapNerd7 ), a youtuber who focuses on videos about politics, critical theory, and pop culture.  During the interview we talk about his latest video which was a Marxist analysis of the stock market, how Karl Marx would probably be a dogecoin trader, and why many of the left's criticisms of crypto tend to hinge on a liberal moralism rather...

For this interview I spoke to Julio Linares ( @Julio_Linares_ ) an Economic Anthropologist studied under David Graeber at the LSE, Social Outreach at the Basic Income Org, and Research & Community for CirclesUBI ( @CirclesUBI ). CirclesUBI is a project seeking to provide people a universal basic income using the xDAI ethereum sidechain based on mutual credit. You may have heard about CirclesUB...

For this episode I spoke to Chris D'Costa ( @cjdcosta ), the founder of Totem Live Accounting ( @totem_live_ ). Totem is building a real-time global accounting ledger built on the Polkadot blockchain to compete against traditional accounting and ERP software. I thought it was interesting to hear how blockchain could potentially be used to develop alternatives to the bureaucratic free market w...

***This is just a teaser. Check out the full episode on Patreon *** The patreon democratic economic planning council has spoken. With a choice between discussing NFTs and the left’s reaction against centralization vs decentralizataion, the former has won. Some have speculated that the topic of centralization was too spicy for the council as they didn’t want to butt heads with the anarchists. It se...

This week's episode is dedicated to the crypto influencers. For the first half I give a crash course on the history and some of the more well known influencers and for the second half I have an interview with Tom Gillespie ( @TomPeterGill ), former currency trader on the Perth stock exchange turned TV investigator and filmmaker for the upcoming documentary " The Fakefluencer " comin...

For this week's episode I spoke to Dr. Emaline Friedman ( @emalinus4 ). She is  a network activist for the Commons Engine , part of Holochain, a social critic and theorist, has a PhD in psychology, a writer for Mad In America , a researcher at GCAS , and author of the recent book Internet Addiction: A Critical Psychology of Users . During the interview we talk about her research for her new b...

For this week's interview I spoke with Mike Watson ( @_leftaesthetics ),  co-host of The Acid Left and author of “ Towards a Conceptual Militancy ” and “ Can the Left Learn to Meme: Lessons for the cultural left, from cat memes to gaming, to Stranger Things, and more .” with an upcoming book “ The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to do About...

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 question most voted on was "What is the relationship of blockchain and the evolution of capitalism?". Get the full version on Patreon . If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast pl...

For this week's interview I spoke with Ruth Catlow,  Artistic Director at Furtherfield ( @furtherfield ), a not-for-profit international community hub for arts, technology and social change founded with Marc Garrett in London, in 1996. Co-editor of Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain ,Director of DECAL (Decentralised Arts Lab), a Furtherfield initiative which exists to mobilise research and de...

For this week's interview I spoke with Matt Cropp ( @MattCropp ), a Co-Director of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center , where he works on public education, outreach, and the conversion of businesses to employee ownership for ownership succession. Matt has a really interesting profile in that he was involved in bitcoin during the early years and actually used it during the Occupy Wall Stree...

For this week's interview I spoke with Jay Smith ( @jaynemesis ) one of the top earning traders on eToro , a social trading platform where people can “copy” the trades of traders and a percentage of the money they earn goes to them. What’s interesting about Jay is that while doing this he’s also openly left wing as he’s a Green Party voter in the UK, a social democrat, a vegan, and owes a bit...

This is  a teaser for the third episode in the patreon exclusive Q&A series where I talk about my thoughts on the STABLE Act, which has become infamous in the crypto world, and how I think the cryptoleftist movement should understand and view it. If you don't know, the Stablecoin Tethering and Bank Licensing Enforcement (STABLE) Act , proposed by  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), requires st...

For this episode I interview Dandelion Mané ( @decentralion ) and talk about their work on SourceCred ( @sourcecred ), a tool for communities to measure and reward value creation, which they founded. As the name suggests, Cred is the core idea of SourceCred. Cred is a score which is earned by making contributions to a project. A participant's score reflects how valuable their contributions we...