NETWORKED REALISM: Whoever Controls the Infrastructure, Controls Reality
It's feeling like we're living in a very strange moment in time where liberal norms of openness have been shattered by the same class of tech industry titans who expressed these values just a decade a...
28 Aug 20251h 38min
Slavoj Zizek on Network States
The one and only Slavoj Zizek published a piece on Network States and of course I had to read it and share it with you all. It's normally behind a paywall on his Substack but was put on Fileverse by r...
17 Aug 202517min
How Urbit Failed with Adina Glickstein
In this episode, I talk with Adina Glickstein — Master’s student in Media Studies under Nathan Schneider at UC Boulder and editor-at-large at Spike Art Magazine — whose recent Compact Mag article, The...
8 Aug 20251h 5min
Free Market Friends with Naomi Oba
About a month ago I spoke at Dappcon about Solidarity Primitives we've been building at Bread Cooperative. Before my talk, Naomi Oba gave her own wonderful presentation titled Crypto Culture and its D...
1 Aug 202551min
Holonym: Digital Identity without Scanning your Eyeballs
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 ...
24 Maj 20251h 15min
Blockchain Governance: North Korea, Tornado Cash, and Trust
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 ge...
4 Maj 202559min
What is the REAL value of crypto tokens with Vasily Sumanov
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, founder of Valueverse and inventor of the Token Value Capture Mec...
14 Apr 202558min
How to Stake ETH with your friends with Thomas Heremans (Obol)
I spoke to Thomas Heremans, CEO of the Obol Association. Obol is an ecosystem for trust minimized Ethereum staking that enables distributed validators (DVs) across a cluster of nodes in order to impro...
6 Apr 202539min
