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
🚨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!
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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!
Banking was never built for collectives. Savings circles were. ROSCAs have helped communities access lump sums without loans or credit for generations, a $500B+ market running on trust.
We've brought this model online. Free session, early look at Bread Stacks.
Register: https://dandelion.events/e/v5cp2/
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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.
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🚨 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.
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i vibe-coded a website where you can use @zkpassport to prove that you're italian
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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
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🚨What if AI was Cooperative instead? w/ @xuanalogue
I spoke to Tan Zhi Xuan, Assistant Professor at the NUS Department of CS and founder of the Cooperative Intelligence and Systems Lab.
I had her on to talk about her work on cooperative AI
FULL EPISODE⬇️
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Event happening now!
Today 3PM EST/9:00pm CET: Live session with @unhappyben , founder of ZKP2P, on Discord.
Learn how to buy crypto without centralized exchanges, straight from your Venmo, Cash App, or Zelle.
Ask questions, see it in action.
https://discord.com/events/649359982424358952/1369759332497096855/1466160906240000000
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🚨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⬇️
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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
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We've been up to a lot and achieved a lot, come check it out!
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🚨 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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