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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 (https://twitter.com/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 group beh
Obol Network - How DVT helps decentralize Ethereum and incentivize collectivism
I spoke to Oisín Kyne (https://twitter.com/OisinKyne), co-founder and CTO of Obol Network (https://obol.tech/), an ecosystem for trust minimized Ethereum staking that enables people to create, test, run and coordinate distributed validators
Fund evacuations from Gaza with ETH - ethevacuations.xyz
I spoke to Kat (katalunia.eth) who is behind a project called ETH Evacuations (https://ethevacuations.xyz/) which is taking donations to pay for families to get out of Gaza through the Rafah crossing. Kat is a product manager and startup bu
From hacking the CIA as a teenager to community computers
I spoke to Mustafa Al-Bassam (https://twitter.com/musalbas), co-founder and CEO of Celestia (https://celestia.org/), a modular blockchain network that makes for others to securely launch their own blockchain. Mustafa was also a member of th
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 s
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 major audiobook platfor
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. I spoke to Ra
A Regenerative Village as a DAO in Portugal (Traditional Dream Factory)
You can find the video version of the interview here (https://youtu.be/L7RYGsLedTI) where I've cut the interview with some film I took while at TDF. In this episode I spoke to Sam Delesque (@samueldelesque (https://twitter.com/samueldelesqu
OTNS: Is Praxis a bunch of fascists dressed as libertarians?
In this episode of OTNS, we spoke to Ali Breland (https://twitter.com/alibreland), a journalist at Mother Jones who has written on https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/who-goes-crypto-eth-bitcoin-etc-financialization-gamestop-class-
China is a Process: Understanding the Chinese Crypto Diaspora Community
In this episode I spoke to Afra Wang (https://twitter.com/afrazhaowang), a Chinese diaspora journalist who has been in crypto now for a year and a half with Mask Network and organizer of the ZuConnect (https://www.zuzalu.city/dashboard/home
Safeguarding Ethereum's Soul: Protocol Guild and governing the digital commons
In this episode I spoke with Trent Van Epps (https://twitter.com/trent_vanepps), who is part of the Ethereum Foundation and a key member of Protocol Guild (https://twitter.com/protocolguild) (PG). PG is a collective of 152 Ethereum core pro
Web3 Workers Rights, Exit to Community, and Solidarity Primitives
In this episode I spoke to my friend and scholar Tara Merk (https://twitter.com/mpg_dd) who is part of BlockchainGov and has been focusing her PhD thesis on Exit to Community (https://e2c.how/) (E2C). E2C is proposed as an alternative to IP
Building autonomous infrastructure for tactical media
In this episode I spoke to Geert Lovink (https://twitter.com/glovink), a Dutch media theorist and founder of the Institute of Network Cultures (https://networkcultures.org/) who has been engaged with internet culture since at least the 80s.
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 first guests of the podcast (https://theb
OTNS: Prophets are dangerous and Capital doesn't care about your feelings
In this episode we spoke to Wassim Alsindi (https://twitter.com/WassimAlsindi), founder of MIT's blockchain journal and the 0xSalon (https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/) research collective based in Trust in Berlin. During the discussion we spoke a
Postcapitalist Computing & Currency with Zachary Marlow from the Moneyless Society Podcast
During this last Crypto Commons Gathering I had the pleasure to meet Zachary Marlow (https://twitter.com/zacharycmarlow) from the Moneyless Society Podcast (https://moneylesssociety.com/). We had the idea of recording a joint podcast with Z
OTNS: Transitioning ReFi DAO to a Coordi-Nation
In this episode we spoke to Monty Merlin Bryant (https://twitter.com/MontyMerlin), a co-founder of ReFi DAO (https://linktr.ee/refidao) and environmentalist to discuss the movement behind ReFi or Regenerative Finance. ICYMI, ReFi DAO had pr
OTNS: Scaling Collective Action for Millions of People
In this episode we spoke to co-founder of DAO Stack now working on Common (https://common.io/), Matan Field who joined us at Zuzalu. During the discussion we talk about the need for scaling collective action, using fractal organization, and
Open-Source Funding vs Venture Capital with Scott Moore
In this episode I spoke with Scott Moore (https://twitter.com/notscottmoore), the co-founder of Gitcoin (https://twitter.com/gitcoin) and Public Works (https://twitter.com/publicworksfm). Scott was one of the pioneers in public goods fundin
What is Left Accelerationism and Post-Work? Interview with Nick Srnicek
I spoke to Nick Srnicek, author of 'Platform Capitalism', 'Inventing the Future' and the 'MANIFESTO FOR AN ACCELERATIONIST POLITICS (http://www.cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/assets/writings/library/accelerate_manifesto.html)'. Together we dis
OTNS: Is Code still Law? Interview with Lawrence Lessig
In this episode we had the pleasure of speaking to Lawrence Lessig, the legal scholar known for coining the term "code is law" which if you've been in crypto, you'll know that this phrase has been very influential on the space. During the d
Venture capitalists steal from the future with David Z Morris
In this episode I spoke to David Z Morris (https://twitter.com/davidzmorris), Chief Insights columnist at Coindesk who wrote a really nice book review of Block Radicals (https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/08/03/crypto-and-the-
Blockchain Radicals Book Launch Event in NYC
This episode is coming out on August 8th, 2023, aka publishing day for my book, "Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It (https://theblockchainsocialist.com/blockchain-radicals-book-announcement/)"! On July 23rdI
Crypto in Africa and the Communism of Ubuntu
In this episode I spoke to Eric Annan (https://twitter.com/e_annan24), founder of Aya (https://twitter.com/ayagigs), a startup in Africa trying to bring more Africans into the crypto space I met while at Zuzalu. We had some very interesting
ReSource Finance: Building Bridges to New Monetary Systems
In this episode I spoke with Ashley Buck (https://twitter.com/ashtaybuck), the founder of ReSource Finance (https://resource.finance/) and was also the first employee of Consensys. ReSource Finance is a decentralized mutual credit protocol
OTNS: Cosmo-Localism, Beyonders, and the Medieval Parallels to Digital Nomadism
In this episode we continue Phase 2 of OTNS with Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation. We discuss his concept of cosmo-localism which advocates for everything heavy to be local, and everything light to be global, how many medieval
OTNS: Building Exclosures and the Institutional Scaffolding for Overlapping Sovereignties
While at Zuzalu, Primavera and I spoke with Jessy Kate Schingler (https://twitter.com/jessykate) who also attended and contributed to the coordi-nations private workshops. During the interview we spoke about her work on extitutional theory,
Collaborative Finance: Credit clearing for collectively doing more with less capital
For this episode I spoke to Ethen Buchman (@buchmanster (https://twitter.com/buchmanster)) and Tomaž Fleischman (@T_Fleischman (https://twitter.com/T_Fleischman)) in person while at the Commons Hub in Austria from May 22nd to 28th for the C
OTNS: The Rise of Coordi-Nations (Phase 2 has begun)
Last month Primavera and I spent about two weeks at Zuzalu (https://zuzalu.city/) 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
OTNS: DAOs and Decentralized Mafias
Primavera and I have been at Zuzalu and took the opportunity to speak with Ameen Soleimani (@ameensol (https://twitter.com/ameensol)) about his role in Ethereum history and the creation of Moloch DAO and Privacy Pools. We also discussed the
