The Intersection of Blockchain and Left Politics
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After more than six years, I’m retiring The Blockchain Socialist. This isn’t the end but what I believe to be a new beginning that better fits the current moment. I started The Blockchain Socialist in 2019 as a blog, then a podcast, then a YouTube channel, then whatever else it needed to become to keep […] The post This is the end of The Blockchain Socialist appeared first on The Blockchain…
I spoke to Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, at Web3 Summit in Berlin on June 18th, 2026, about why he thinks blockchain is one of the few tools left that can actually pull power away from Big Tech and the banks. Truly a privilege that I had the chance to speak with […] The post Yanis Varoufakis on blockchain, the digital euro and being a class traitor appeared first…
I spoke to Leo Fan, co-founder of Cysic, about what zero-knowledge proofs actually are, and why they might be one of the more promising answers to the internet’s identity problem. We dig into how a ZK proof lets you prove something is true without handing over any identifying personal information, why that matters as digital identity […] The post Zero Knowledge: Solution for Digital Identity? w/…
At Web3 Summit 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 […] The post The K-Hole Economy & The Permanent Underclass appeared first on The Blockchain…
I spoke to Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism, co-author of Inventing the Future, and most recently Silicon Empires, about why AI is consolidating Big Tech’s power rather than disrupting it. We dig into why the AI upstarts remain dependent on the infrastructure of the incumbents, why the gap between open and closed models may widen as frontier training […] The post AI, Empire, and the…
On June 18th, 2026 at Web3 Summit in Berlin I got to do two things I had been looking forward to for a while. The first was my presentation titled The K-Hole Economy and the Permanent Underclass. The second was sitting down with none other than Yanis Varoufakis for a 20 minute Q&A, where I […] The post Five Takeaways From My Q&A With Yanis Varoufakis appeared first on The Blockchain Socialist .
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. We dig into how collective intelligence works at scale, from participatory budgeting experiments in Kitchener to the structural barriers that make setting up a…
I spoke to Evan Miyazono, founder of Atlas Computing, 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 to what he calls the “intelligence curse,” a dynamic where governments lose […] The post The Intelligence Curse w/ Evan…
I spoke to Scoopy Trooples, the pseudonymous co-founder of Alchemix, 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 itself off over time and what’s new in V3. We also get into the broader rot in the space: meme […] The post Self-Repaying Loans and the Fight for Crypto’s Soul w/…
I spoke to Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, an independent journalist and author of The Hidden Globe, about the world of offshore finance, special economic zones, and network states. We dig into her reporting on a proposed crypto enclave in St. Kitts and Nevis, the history and reality of these zones, and what happens when libertarian ideas about sovereignty and markets […] The post Sovereignty for Sale…
