The Blockchain Socialist

They say on the internet no one knows you're a dog but this has created a digital space that is dominated by more bots than humans and crypto space that is easily sybil attacked. Worldcoin, a project led by Sam Altman, is purporting to tackle this issue as AI (ironic?) proliferates content by scanning our eyeballs into an orb that they totally aren't taking your data from! Personally I don't trust them. So I spoke to Shady El Damaty, co-founder and CEO of Holonym Foundation which is building human.tech, a suite of different identity solutions that protect user privacy using zero-knowledge proofs. We spoke about how it all works and the implications of people having control of their identities online. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Website: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3geORcile9E1EyPyFiAHhM?si=x7fjsFhURsSBlErXnihh9A   iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blockchain-socialist/id1501607045   Podcast Addict: https://podplayer.net/?podId=2598359  Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBSocialist  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/ Send me your questions or comments about the show and I'll read them out sometime. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/903769/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist] ICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It [https://repeaterbooks.com/product/blockchain-radicals-how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it/] and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who’s work influenced me a lot in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree [https://linktr.ee/blockchainradicals] to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

How can digital cash truly be “trustless”? What does it mean that blockchain offers a new paradigm of the “rule of code”? How are decisions made when a blockchain system faces an emergency, and who gets to make those decisions?  I spoke to Wessel Reijers [https://www.wesselreijers.nl/about-me/] and Morshed Mannan [https://x.com/mannanmorshed?lang=en], both great thinkers and recent authors of the book Blockchain Governance [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549059/blockchain-governance/] (by Primavera De Filippi, Wessel Reijers and Morshed Mannan).  We discussed the history of the legal and philosophical implications that blockchains have brought with them. From the Tornado Cash ruling, North Korean mega hacks, and rethinking of property relations, there was a whole lot to talk about. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist] starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist [https://twitter.com/TBSocialist]) or Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop [https://social.coop/@theblockchainsocialist]) and join the r/CryptoLeftists [https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/] subreddit and Discord [https://cryptoleftists.xyz/] to join the discussion. Send me your questions or comments about the show and I'll read them out sometime. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/903769/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist] ICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It [https://repeaterbooks.com/product/blockchain-radicals-how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it/] and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who’s work influenced me a lot in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree [https://linktr.ee/blockchainradicals] to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

How in the world is anyone meant to derive the "real" value of a crypto token? Especially in THIS market??  I spoke to Vasily Sumanov [https://x.com/vasily_sumanov], founder of Valueverse [https://app.valueverse.ai/] and inventor of the Token Value Capture Mechanism Framework [https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/131932-token-classification-framework-considering-the-origins-of-value-and-their-mechanisms-of-manifestation] to share how he sees it. Valueverse is a utility-centric token tracker that helps you understand the demand-side pressures for token value. Part of the neoliberal ideological turn which has also continued into crypto token releases is an over-focus on supply side economics (problematic).   We discussed token engineering as a discipline in need of an improvement, the most common mistakes people make when designing tokens, and how the VCM framework helps cut through the noise. While I'm no crypto trader and I suspect some may be surprised by an episode like this from me, I do believe that the framework is incredibly useful. I was also very impressed by the page published by Valueverse of BREAD [https://app.valueverse.ai/tokens/bread], the post-capitalist token for Breadchain Cooperative [http://breadchain.xyz/] which I co-founded. The page is super useful for people to understand the tokenomics behind the project. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist] starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist [https://twitter.com/TBSocialist]) or Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop [https://social.coop/@theblockchainsocialist]) and join the r/CryptoLeftists [https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/] subreddit and Discord [https://cryptoleftists.xyz/] to join the discussion. Send me your questions or comments about the show and I'll read them out sometime. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/903769/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist] ICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It [https://repeaterbooks.com/product/blockchain-radicals-how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it/] and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who’s work influenced me a lot in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree [https://linktr.ee/blockchainradicals] to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

I spoke to Thomas Heremans [https://x.com/_Cryptoma], CEO of the Obol Association [https://x.com/Obol_Collective]. Obol is an ecosystem for trust minimized Ethereum staking that enables distributed validators (DVs) across a cluster of nodes in order to improve resilience as compared to running a validator on a single node. Previously I spoke to Osín Kyne [https://theblockchainsocialist.com/obol-network-how-dvt-helps-decentralize-ethereum-and-incentivize-collectivism/], the CTO of Obol Network and they had plenty of updates since last time. Thomas gave us a refresher on what DVs are and what they can enable, some success stories of how communities have funded themselves with Obol DVs and what the future looks like for Obol. They also announced the Obol Incentives Program [https://obol.org/incentives] where you can earn OBOL tokens for staking on distributed validators. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist] starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist [https://twitter.com/TBSocialist]) or Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop [https://social.coop/@theblockchainsocialist]) and join the r/CryptoLeftists [https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/] subreddit and Discord [https://cryptoleftists.xyz/] to join the discussion. Send me your questions or comments about the show and I'll read them out sometime. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/903769/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist] ICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It [https://repeaterbooks.com/product/blockchain-radicals-how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it/] and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who’s work influenced me a lot in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree [https://linktr.ee/blockchainradicals] to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.

I spoke to Ferran Reyes [https://warpcast.com/ferran] and Pau Escrich [https://x.com/wildp4u?lang=en], co-founders of Vocdoni [https://www.vocdoni.io/], a blockchain based voting protocol used by several non-web3 organizations. They were born out of the Catalan independence movement in Spain from which they have designed Vocdoni to be censorship resistant and friendly to your average non-web3 user. During the episode we discussed some of the elections  where Vocdoni was used, the cryptographic primitives that make it all possible and the learnings they have had [https://blog.vocdoni.io/] in their journey so far. We also discussed DAVINCI [https://hackmd.io/@vocdoni/BJY8EXQy1x], their latest evolution of the Vocdoni voting protocol. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist] starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist [https://twitter.com/TBSocialist]) or Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop [https://social.coop/@theblockchainsocialist]) and join the r/CryptoLeftists [https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/] subreddit and Discord [https://cryptoleftists.xyz/] to join the discussion. Send me your questions or comments about the show and I'll read them out sometime. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/903769/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist] ICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It [https://repeaterbooks.com/product/blockchain-radicals-how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it/] and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who’s work influenced me a lot in my thinking. The book is officially published and you use this linktree [https://linktr.ee/blockchainradicals] to find where you can purchase the book based on your region / country.