🚨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.
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🚨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
🚨 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
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🚨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.
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🗽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
🚨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⬇️
🚨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"
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🚨NEW VIDEO: How to NOT get SCAMMED in crypto? (5 Heuristics)
Here are FIVE heuristics (there could be many more but just these for now) to help you navigate the crypto world. Meant as a reminder for those actively engaging in it now and to share with others.
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Weaponized Design and the Digital Identity Event Horizon with Cade Diehm
Cade is Head of Research at World Ethical Data Foundation and founder of New Design Congress, an R&D lab confronting the gap between what is said and what is happening in digital societies
I had him on to talk about his work on Weaponised Design (when an interface or system harms its users whilst performing entirely within its expected behaviour), his recent alarming research on digital identity and his experience with early crypto.
⬇️ FULL EP
https://youtu.be/5MFiY8Q7RfE
