The Blockchain Socialist

Dec 17 2024 163 ep. 58 mins 430

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A podcast by The Blockchain Socialist (@TBSocialist) giving a platform for those at the intersection of blockchain and Left politics.

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Imagining Post-Capitalism through World Building

Dec 17 2024 27 mins

While in Thailand during the Funding the Commons design jam, I spoke to Susanne Aichele from Mothertree Labs. Susanne is a filmmaker, researcher, and communication practitioner focused on the intersection of ecology, community, and identity, leveraging experience with BBC, National Geographic, the UN, and WHO to create projects that foster interconnected ecologies and non-extractiv

Is crypto a scam or FINDOM fetish?

Nov 19 2024 72 mins

There seems to be an ever increasingly thin line between crypto, scams, and financial domination. I spoke Steve Pikelny, CEO, CTO, CFO, COO of http://FastCashMoneyPlus.biz and Jesus pamphlet collector aka steviep about his newest art project FinSexy to explore the uncomfortable intersection between findom and crypto. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your pref

Who Controls the Killswitch?

Oct 21 2024 64 mins

I spoke to Eric Alston again! Eric is a professor at University of Colorado and recently completed a fellowship with the Summer of Protocols studying the governance of killswitches. His report is titled "Killswitch Protocols: Or On Engineering Recursive System Death" and co-authored with Seth Killian and Garrette David.During the interview we discussed the history of killswitches,

Tech Workers Coalition: Adapting the Labor Movement for the Digital Age

Oct 11 2024 66 mins

For this episode I spoke to Simone Robutti. Simone works as an organization designer, adversarial researcher, and teacher. Formerly a software developer, he has been part of different chapters of Tech Workers Coalition since 2018.During the interview we discussed how to start a labor union at your tech company, innovative ways to go on strike, and how tech ideology as psyoped you t

Islamic Economics: Solving Wealth Inequality by Mixing Libertarianism with... SOCIALISM??

Oct 01 2024 57 mins

For this episode I spoke to Ahmed Gatnash, the Executive director of Kawaakibi Foundation. He is also a Strategy Advisor at the Albert Einstein Institution, and is the co-author of Middle East Crisis Factory, a primer on systemic crises and a vision for a positive future for the MENA region.During the discussion we spoke about the context of the political economic situation where I

The Future of Social Media with Suji Yan (Mask Network)

Aug 19 2024 66 mins

For this episode I spoke to Suji Yan, CEO and founder of Mask Network. Mask's main product is an open-sourced browser extension that wraps around several web2 and web3 social media networks. Rather than starting a new social media platform, the extension brings the benefits of both kinds of social media.During the discussion we spoke about Suji's journey from journalist to founder,

EthicHub: La lucha por un café Ético / The struggle for Ethical Coffee (CER)

Aug 11 2024 45 mins

Note that this interview was done in Spanish, you can find the youtube video with english subtitles if you need here.This episode is part of a subseries where I've partnered with my comrade Giulio Quarta from the Crypto Commons Association and their initiative called the Commons Economy Roadmap (CER) where we will be interviewing some of the projects listed as part of the CER. In t

It doesn't matter if the AI is fake, it's all magic anyways

Jul 31 2024 61 mins

For this episode I spoke to Nick Susi, Executive Director of Strategy at dotdotdash who recently wrote a really interesting article on his Substack titled magic, online!. The article goes into the history of magical thinking that accompanied many of the past's technological achievements like phones that let you talk to the dead or fairies that appeared in some of the first photogra

Sovereign Nature Initiative : How to ReFi without carbon credits with Andrea Leiter (CER)

Jun 30 2024 54 mins

This episode is part of a subseries where I've partnered with my comrade Giulio Quarta from the Crypto Commons Association and their initiative called the Commons Economy Roadmap (CER) where we will be interviewing some of the projects listed as part of the CER. In this interview we spoke to Andrea Leiter, co-founder of Sovereign Nature Initiative (SNI). SNI uses blockchain to turn

Why Socialism Needs Spirituality (Red Enlightenment)

Jun 24 2024 57 mins

For this episode I spoke to Graham Jones, the author of Red Enlightenment, published through Repeater Books like Blockchain Radicals. Red Enlightenment argues not only for a deepened understanding of religious matters, but calls for the secular left to develop its own spiritual perspectives. It proposes a materialist spirituality built from socialist and scientific sources, finding