BLOCKCHAIN RADICALS: HOW CAPITALISM RUINED CRYPTO AND HOW TO FIX IT

Very excited to officially announce that I have a book coming out with Repeater Books on August 8th, 2023! For the past almost two years I’ve been stealth writing a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework based on the past few years I've spent in the space.

Learn more in the official announcement on my site 🙂

theblockchainsocialist.com/blockchain-radicals-book-announcement/

Inside the Cybernetic Forest: Terra0’s Vision for Nature to Own Itself

In this episode I spoke with Paul Seidler (@brachlandberlin,) a member of the Terra0 artist collective. Terra0 has been around since 2016 when it released a whitepaper outlining how a technologically enhanced forest combine with blockchain could own itself and exert autonomy. Since then the collective has organized several exhibitions exploring this theme including Flowertokens, an experiment with tokenization and verification of natural commodities, and an early attempt at creating a combined crypto-collectible physical asset in 2018.

During the interview we talk about how Paul’s thinking has evolved with Terra0’s experience with various art installations, dystopian sci-fi, and Regenerative Finance. We also discuss how DAOs could be a trojan horse for introducing employee ownership into the economy.

OTNS: How to Optimize for Reality

Michael Zargham (@mZargham,) the CEO of Block Science comes back on the show to help us continue to overthrow the ontological framework of network states from the perspective of complex systems engineering. During the discussion we talk about how network states don't optimize for reality, not confusing the map with the territory, and how an alternative to network states should handle infrastructures.

Overthrowing the Network State (OTNS) is a series in collaboration with Blockchaingov where we critique The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan while also pulling out the salvageable parts and concepts in discussion with a variety of guests. We are overall critical of Balaji’s specific ideas in the book, but we want to discuss it with intellectual honesty and highlight the larger concepts around how these technologies are and could subvert state structures. You can find the first episode of OTNS where we give our initial criticisms and alternatives here.

Blockchaingov is a 5-year long, transdisciplinary research effort aimed at restoring trust in institutions at the community and global levels, by promoting better on chain and off chain distributed governance practices. Throughout the series, each discussion will include me and a member of Blockchaingov with either a new guest each episode or just a discussion between us to tackle various topics from the book.

OTNS: How to Optimize for Reality

Michael Zargham, the CEO of Block Science comes back on the show to help us continue to overthrow the ontological framework of network states from the perspective of complex systems engineering. During the discussion we talk about how network states don’t optimize for reality, not confusing the map with the territory, and how an alternative to network states should handle infrastructures.

theblockchainsocialist.com/otns-how-to-optimize-for-reality/