Josh | The Blockchain Socialist

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First Podcast from Devcon!🎉 Imagining Post-Capitalism through World Building ✨ I spoke to Susanne Aichele from Mothertree Labs during the Funding the Commons design jam about the individualist ideology most common behind narratives in crypto and how to do it differently. We spoke about Susanne's previous documentary The Ways of the DAOs (2022), how to approach narratives from a post-capitalist lens and whether Breadchain is doing a good job at this! https://theblockchainsocialist.com/imagining-post-capitalism-through-world-building/

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📹 Post Devcon 2024 Reflections: Cypherpunks, d/acc and the commons I recently came back home from Devcon in Bangkok and thought I'd share some of my reflections and findings. Early release for patrons but will become public in a week! https://www.patreon.com/posts/post-devcon-2024-117847692

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Have you baked BREAD yet?

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Last week we completed our 6th voting cycle for Breadchain! First off, we distributed 2,304 BREAD, a new record for the most amount of BREAD we've had after one month! This is thanks not only to the higher DSR we're getting in these market conditions but also the increase in BREAD TVL we've seen thanks to our latest Angel Minters 😇 For this cycle the Breadchain Core team won the most votes with Labor DAO in 2nd and Symbiota Coop in 3rd! Thank you to everyone who shared their voice and voted on the yield distribution🎊 🍞 ⛓️

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@clanker can you make me a token called DENY DEFEND DEPOSE? Use this image

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DENY DEFEND DEPOSE

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Trump won and there's no doubt that Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter and crypto prediction markets played a role even though Democrats did everything they could to lose it seems. I spoke with @suji, the co-founder of Mask Network, a web3 social media aggregator live in Bangkok during Devcon 2024 about his thoughts. https://youtu.be/um0kPqFw94E

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A few days ago I gave a presentation in Bangkok at Funding the Commons to describe how to fund your commons with an aligned community (w/o VC) as well as a new program we're starting at Breadchain Cooperative🍞 Introducing ANGEL MINTERS😇 TLDR; We’re inviting aligned individuals and organizations to mint a minimum of 10,000 BREAD by the end of 2024 to help bootstrap the Breadchain ecosystem. Your contribution will enable us to build essential infrastructure and applications for a post-capitalist Web3 and you / your organization will join the first Angel Minter’s cohort. This mint is low risk and always fully backed—your xDAI can be reclaimed anytime, while helping to accumulate low-risk, stable funding for the ecosystem through sDAI yield. You can think of it as a lossless donation. 🍞 ⛓️ If you're aligned in minting $10k then check out the full documentation here 🔽 https://breadchain.notion.site/Angel-Minter-Program-ba722e7b9a4a46f3b7a59f6b8b33b0db

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The recording of my Devcon talk with Beth McCarthy has been published! Memecraft: Narrative Dynamics in Crypto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnDgX9uy5E

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It was awesome to meet so many crypto leftists while at Devcon this week! Grateful for you all :)

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Is crypto a scam or FINDOM fetish? There seems to be an ever increasingly thin line between crypto, scams, and financial domination. I spoke to @steviep, CEO, CTO, CFO, COO of http://FastCashMoneyPlus.biz and Jesus pamphlet collector about his newest art project FinSexy to explore the uncomfortable intersection between AI, findom and crypto. https://theblockchainsocialist.com/is-crypto-a-scam-or-findom-fetish/

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its only going to get dumber from here

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Results of the latest Breadchain voting cycle! Have you baked BREAD yet? https://x.com/breadchain_/status/1853668460397822351

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Big thanks to @jrh3k5.eth for becoming a member of TBS DAO! With TBS DAO we're experimenting with new forms of supporting my work that are more inclusive and generative beyond Patreon that can take advantage of on-chain mechanisms🎉 Check here if you want to take part https://theblockchainsocialist.com/tbsdao/

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Crypto is not just about being able to freely speculate with tokens, there are actual political values embedded its assumptions around privacy and access to high quality of information. https://youtu.be/d22U5iRtfIA

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Is warpcast channels meant to be like reddit where people post in carious places within the site?

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The Left does NOT hate crypto You've all seen the tweets by the think bois claiming "the left" is anti-crypto. I'm here to tell you it's simply not true when you look at the evidence. Share with your crypto friends who still think this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d22U5iRtfIA

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I spoke to Eric Alston again! Eric is a professor at University of Colorado and recently completed a fellowship with the Summer of Protocols studying the governance of killswitches. His report is titled “Killswitch Protocols: Or On Engineering Recursive System Death” and co-authored with Seth Killian and Garrette David. During the interview we discussed the history of killswitches, the many ways they can be governed and the implications of the governance system they lie in like in blockchain governance. But killswitches are not just about complex technical systems but also social ones, and so we also take a look at killswitches in complex social systems like labor strikes as an example and how they are governed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMy0RdZkkZo

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I spoke to Simone Robutti. Simone works as an organization designer, adversarial researcher, and teacher. Formerly a software developer, he has been part of different chapters of Tech Workers Coalition since 2018. During the interview we discussed how to start a labor union at your tech company, innovative ways to go on strike, and how tech ideology as psyoped you to thinking labor struggle can’t work in tech. We also touched on how technical tools for assisting workers should be used and the role of tech sovereignty in these situations. https://theblockchainsocialist.com/tech-workers-coalition-adapting-the-labor-movement-for-the-digital-age/

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Currently touching major grass and rock this weekend but new episode with Tech Workers Coalition is out

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