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
After 6+ years, I'm retiring The Blockchain Socialist.
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This isn’t the end but what I believe to be a new beginning that better fits the current moment.
🧵 Why and what's coming next
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Great conversation with my friend Julio Linares on his book about Decolonizing Money and abolishing the US dollar
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AI is becoming the MEV of web search
It front runs the financialized attention of web users already monetized by advertising-dominant business models of the internet
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🚨Yanis Varoufakis on blockchain, the digital euro and being a class traitor
I spoke to @yanisvaroufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, at @Web3summit in Berlin on June 18th, about why he thinks blockchain is one of the few tools that can pull power away from Big Tech and the banks.
Truly a privilege ...
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🚨 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! 🍞 🍞 🍞
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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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