
Josh | The Blockchain Socialist
@tbsocialist
I blog and podcast about crypto and the left | @breadchain_ | Patreon bit.ly/3yVo2Cv | Mirror bit.ly/37g4KOx | Podcast bit.ly/3myLNuW | Tip me normie.tech/josh
🚨 Zero Knowledge: Solution for Digital Identity? w/ Leo Fan
I talked to Leo Fan, co-founder of @cysic_xyz, about zero-knowledge proofs, how they let you prove something's true without handing over your personal data, why that matters as governments push digital ID systems, and how Cysic lets you use your own hardware...
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At @Web3Summit this past month, I gave probably what was one of the strangest presentations I've ever given. Over the past year I've been mulling over some big concepts and trying to put them all together in one coherent narrative.
What if all this talk about the K-shaped economy is actually just a visual representati...
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🚨AI, Empire, and the Left's Missing Voice w/ Nick Srnicek
I spoke to @nsrnicek, author of Silicon Empires, about how AI is consolidating Big Tech's power.
We also discuss:
- how the left should be involved in AI development
- why the gap between open and closed models may widen as frontier training costs spiral upw...
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I just baked some BREAD to help fund on-chain post-capitalism thanks to bread.coop!
I grew the bakery to 405,000 BREAD! 🍞 🍞 🍞
fund.bread.coop
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Some reflections on speaking to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social at @web3summit.com
theblockchainsocialist.com/five-takeawa...
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🚨 Harnessing Collective Intelligence better than LLMs w/ Sean Geobey
I spoke to Sean Geobey, associate professor at the University of Waterloo and Director of Groupthink Labs, about collective intelligence, cooperative economics, and what decentralized technology could actually offer the solidarity economy.
FULL EPISODE⬇️
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🚨The Intelligence Curse w/ Evan Miyazono
I spoke to @emiyazono, founder of @SafeWithAtlas, about the neglected risks of advanced AI and what it would actually take to govern it.
We dig into the threats he thinks aren't getting enough attention, from asymmetrically offensive cyber capabilities and economic disruption...
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Last 3 days to give for the ongoing QF security round on @giveth !
At @breadcoop we have a project live right now called Etherform (CI/CD for smart contracts) where if you donate $1 we can get nearly $1000 in matching funds 🤑
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🚨Self-Repaying Loans and the Fight for Crypto’s Soul w/ Scoopy Trooples
I spoke to @scupytrooples, the pseudonymous co-founder of @AlchemixFi, about self-repaying loans, the wreckage of DeFi scams, and what ethical crypto finance could actually look like.
We dig into how Alchemix works, allowing your debt pays itsel...
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🚨 Sovereignty for Sale w/ Atossa Abrahamian
I spoke to @atossaaraxia about her piece in @nytimes about Destiny, a kind of network state project on the island of Nevis led by @olivierjanss that has deceived local Nevisians in various ways to the point some made a diss track about it.
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🚨MEV Is Broken on Ethereum — Can Encrypted Mempools Fix It? w/ Luis Bezzenberger
I spoke to @bezzenberger of @_brainbot and core contributor to @shutter, about MEV and threshold encryption for encrypted mempools.
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Why the Cooperative Movement Should Care About Crypto Still
I recently became an Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) fellow and just published my first article detailing why I think the coop movement should still care about crypto.
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🚨Crypto and Stablecoins in Tanzania w/ Victor Muhagachi
I spoke to @victorthetravlr, co-founder of @NedaLabs, building digital asset payment infrastructure in Tanzania, about what it actually looks like to bring crypto to communities in this context.
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