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  Fund evacuations from Gaza with ETH I spoke to Kat who is behind a project called ETH Evacuations which is taking donations to pay for families to get out of Gaza. Kat is a product manager and startup builder in web3 and travelled to Gaza in June 2023 to be a mentor at Gaza Sky Geeks. She is accepting donations on mainnet, Optimism, or Base to get the money to those on the ground. Donations address – 0x8D5bF23b181EA94d3104d4192acb52427E54875A https://buff.ly/3TqeOsE

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  Obol Network - How DVT helps decentralize Ethereum and incentivize collectivism I spoke to Oisin Kyne, co-founder and CTO of Obol Network, an ecosystem for trust minimized Ethereum staking that enables people to run distributed validators. We spoke about how DVT works, its implications for community funding, and how it supports the decentralization of Ethereum. DVT is one of the most exciting technologies for allowing new forms of online collectivism. https://buff.ly/43I9YLK

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  🚨 NEW PODCAST Cute anime girl pfps or funding mechanism for an esoteric neo-fascist cult? I spoke to James who as part of his Masters research, took a dep dive and infiltrated the infamous group behind the Miladys NFTs, Remilia Corp We spoke about the esoteric political ideologies professed by Remilia, their financialized tactics, and how they use edginess to keep out normies. We also asked the uncomfortable q of whether the left could learn from their tactics. https://buff.ly/3U6zlDQ

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  🚨 NEW PODCAST Platformization: The platform organizational form is eating the world and we can do better I spoke to Gianmarco Cristofari author of  "The Politics of Platformization" about the socialist history of platforms and cybernetics. We also spoke about crypto and he gave some thoughts on the relation between platforms and protocols in web3 as well as reflections on his experiences being in groups like Extinction Rebellion and their relationship with tech. https://th...

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  🚨 OTNS: Mutualism, labor unions and cooperatives (not charity) Primavera and I spoke to Sara Horowitz, founder of the Freelancers Union and author of the book Mutualism. Sara was a co-conspirators ay Zuzalu who brought her extensive experience of building worker-focused orgs. We spoke about the practical realities of building mutualistic orgs, the history of workers’ movements, and how crypto can build this thru solidarity primitives. https://buff.ly/4aJ7Lme

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  Just published a quick piece about how I recently almost fell for a discord bookmark scam when asked about my other projects crypto leftists and Breadchain on Mirror, I hope this cautionary tale helps others not fall for it as well! https://buff.ly/4dl4MSL

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  🚨 Anoma: Undefininig Money and Scaling Anarchism with Christopher Goes (CER) Giulio Quarta from the Commons Economy Roadmap and I spoke to Christopher Goes, co-founder of Anoma, a framework introducing an “intent-centric architecture” for decentralized systems. During the interview we discuss what intents actually are, the potential socio-political implications of the technology, and how Anoma intends to help us rethink money and value. Full episode here 🔽 https://buff.ly/455CDey

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  🚨 NEW PODCAST: Compeerism: How the Commons can succeed where the Silicon Valley led digital revolution failed I spoke to Dr. Hannes Gerhardt, about his new book FROM CAPITAL TO COMMONS: Exploring the Promise of a World Beyond Capitalism. During the interview we spoke about his concept of compeerism as an alternative political economy, where distrbuted ledgers play in this, and how capitalism limits our current technological landscape. https://buff.ly/4aUQ0zt

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  Happy Birthday to Blockchain Radicals! 🎉 It's been one year since my book came out and I've been pretty happy with the results. The purpose of the book was to bridge the gap between those interested in the technical aspects of blockchain and those more into the socio-political implications of it. I've gotten praise from crypto OGs to people who knew nothing about it so I think I've bridged that gap. Find your copy here in physical, digital, or audiobook form....

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  🚨 EthicHub: La lucha por un café Ético / The struggle for Ethical Coffee (CER) Just published my first episode in Spanish with Giulio Quarta for the Commons Economy Roadmap where we spoke to Neri and Lucía who work directly with @ethichub in México using crypto to help coffee farmers struggling with exploitative loan agreements. https://buff.ly/46Kv7qv You can find a transcription of the full interview on the CER website here. https://www.notion.so/commonseconomy/EthicHub-The-Struggle-for-Et...

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  I spoke to Simone Robutti an organization designer, adversarial researcher, and teacher. Formerly a software dev, he has been part of Tech Workers Coalition since 2018. We discussed starting a labor union at your tech company, innovative ways to go on strike, and how tech ideology as psyoped you to thinking labor struggle can’t work in tech. We also touched on how technical tools for assisting workers should be used and the role of tech sovereignty in these situations. https://theblockchainso...

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  Who Controls the Killswitch? 🎚️ I spoke to @incompleterules about his latest publication through the Summer of Protocols titled “Killswitch Protocols: Or On Engineering Recursive System Death”. We discussed the history of killswitches, the many ways they can be governed and the implications of the governance system they lie in like in blockchain governance. Turns out labor strikes are killswitches for capital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMy0RdZkkZo

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  Is crypto a scam or FINDOM fetish? 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. https://theblockchainsocialist.com/is-crypto-a-scam-or-findom-fetish/