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Mar 11

🚨Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent I spoke to @nickmvincent, AI researcher and author of the Data Leverage substack, about how AI systems are built on the collective output of humanity's digital labor and what we can do about it. FULL EPISODE⬇️

Feb 24

🚨Delete Coinbase! Use this instead… w/ UnhappyBen I spoke to @unhappyben from @zkp2p which is a service that allows you to officially delete Coinbase and every other CEX account you may have thanks to zkTLS! We don't need centralized exchanges anymore! FULL EP⬇️

Feb 20

What's the answer to catching up to the kids with rich parents to pay the deposit on their first home? It's solidarity and collective finance! 🎉 Join us this Thursday to learn more about the tools we're building to facilitate digital savings and lending circles with your trusted community!

Feb 17

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Feb 16

Happy to share that I was chosen as an Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) fellow this year! Looking forward to connecting the work we're doing at @BreadCoop to the broader platform cooperative movement. https://platform.coop/people/joshua-davila/

Joshua Dávila | Platform Cooperativism Consortium

Platform Cooperativism Consortium

Joshua Dávila | Platform Cooperativism Consortium

Joshua Dávila is a writer and researcher focused on the political economy of blockchain technologies. He is the author of Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It (Repeater…

Feb 15

🚨 Public or Perish: Decentralized Municipal Socialism w/ Boris Mamlyuk I spoke to the co-founder of @CleanApp an AI-powered, crowdsourced environmental app for users to report waste and hazards in real-time, essentially a system for reporting civic feedback. ⬇️ FULL EP

Feb 12

i vibe-coded a website where you can use @zkpassport to prove that you're italian https://italian-passport-verifier-piff34jr7-tbsocs-projects.vercel.app/

Italian Passport Verifier 🍕

Verify your Italian nationality with ZKPassport

Feb 6

i remember one of the definitions of DAOs was "a subreddit with a bank account", but has anyone actually tried just doing that literally? like make people's account a wallet with some kind of governance over a shared fund? besides the dumb moons thing that r/cc tried

Jan 28

Event happening now!

Jan 27

🚨Did we learn anything from Anonymous? w/ @kate_stapes I sat down with Kate Stapleton, a former member of Anonymous and privacy advocate, now able to speak publicly after the statute of limitations expired. FULL EPISODE⬇️

Jan 20

🚨Why did Democracy fail in DAOs? I spoke with @theobtl at @devcon in Buenos Aires about his work with the @ethereumfndn as academic secretariat as well as the failure and future of democracy in DAOs ⬇️ FULL EP

Jan 15

We've been up to a lot and achieved a lot, come check it out!

Jan 12

🚨 Is Crypto Governance Dead? I spoke with @bbeats1 at Devconnect o discuss the current crisis in crypto governance. The general feeling is that governance has been declared dead but there is still important democratic innovation work only crypto can bring to do ⬇️EPISODE BELOW

Jan 7

🚨2025 year in review As we kick off 2026, I'm reflecting on 6 years of The Blockchain Socialist and the developments of 2025. This year we professionalized production, expanded into video, and continued to provide the best left wing analysis of the crypto space. ⬇️ VIDEO BELOW

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Dec 26, 2025

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Dec 22, 2025

How to send cryptocurrency to Gaza🇵🇸 For over a year, I've been helping people send aid to Gaza via crypto because traditional banking systems have failed Palestinians. I cover three methods for sending crypto, how to avoid tax complications, and safety tips https://youtu.be/Px9ohL06jrc You can also find a written guide in English and Arabic (any proofreaders?) here thanks to @fileverse hosting 🫶 https://docs.fileverse.io/0x6a13c07622Cc1685E0a071c0d7b4Cdb41eBE24ca/1#key=alyL1ETXBR_r16AVQuDNArf8IbD5PJXoHIZq7pjh_J7kXsIkC8a-3cR-bdRQdPlw

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Dec 7, 2025

🗽FOR THOSE IN NYC THIS TUESDAY @ontologymachine and I will be giving a workshop with @decentralparkny starting at 7PM in Brooklyn on how we can use decentralized technologies for supporting @ZohranKMamdani's agenda for NYC, see you there! Sign up here: https://luma.com/40m53j9g

Decentral Park Meetup · Luma

Decentral Park Meetup · Luma

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani just won on a platform of rent freezes, free buses, and taxing the rich— how can decentralized tech actually support a progressive…

Dec 4, 2025

🚨Is the state DEAD? Farewell to Westphalia with @jarradhope_ and Peter Ludlow I spoke to Jarrad Hope, founder of @Logos_network and Peter Ludlow, philosopher / research advisor at the University of Hong Kong, and co-authors of the new book ‘Farewell to Westphalia.’ FULL EP⬇️

Nov 20, 2025

🚨Free Markets Are Planned: The Neoliberal Paradox with Christoph Sorg Dr. Christoph Sorg is a social scientist researching theories of economic planning in times of digitalization and the climate crisis. We discussed his publication "Finance as a form of economic planning" ⬇️

Nov 13, 2025

We made a guide for those looking to use multisignature wallets for democratic organizations!

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