Great conversation with my friend Julio Linares on his book about Decolonizing Money and abolishing the US dollar https://www.wesmellgas.org/resources/0109-en

Decolonizing Money from Behind the Bar

What would a world without the U.S. petrodollar look like, feel like, smell like? Rooted in abolitionist, anti-colonial and anarchist thinking, Julio Linares takes us from the counter of a community bar onto a journey across debt cancellation, community-owned solar currencies and the burning of dollar bills.

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This statement is super important and totally overlooked by most, in particular by the progressive left. “… for Varoufakis, crypto represents an opposition to cloud capital. Or at least it can be. “

they want to debank leftsits... now what?

AI is becoming the MEV of web search It front runs the financialized attention of web users already monetized by advertising-dominant business models of the internet

🚨Yanis Varoufakis on blockchain, the digital euro and being a class traitor I spoke to @yanisvaroufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, at @Web3summit in Berlin on June 18th, about why he thinks blockchain… https://firefly.social/post/ff-d59534b3068b4d3db635d15a6faa90a5?s=bsky

The US government is directly threatening to debank leftists. I have a book for you if you're worried about it.

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I feel like this should be a bigger story 🤔 www.democracynow.org/2026/7/17/tr...

i know a lot of you guys aren't on twitter but i bring good news, the malaysians are VERY upset about the network school (adult summer camp for people into network states by balaji srinivasan) having israelis around and it seems like they're getting their business licence revoked

Some reflections on speaking to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social at @web3summit.com https://theblockchainsocialist.com/five-takeaways-from-my-qa-with-yanis-varoufakis/

🚨 Zero Knowledge: Solution for Digital Identity? w/ Leo Fan I talked to Leo Fan, co-founder of @cysic_xyz, about zero-knowledge proofs, how they let you prove something's true without handing over your personal data, why… https://firefly.social/post/ff-29575c38d08e4126a4c1d721b117fdde?s=bsky

Thanks for joining us for an eventful Berlin Blockchain Week! 🍞 @tbsocialist.bsky.social interviewed @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social on stage @ Funkhaus 🍞 Our own curated space @ Neocypherpunk Summit 🍞 Showcasing our new savings circle tool @ DappCon Photos and the full write-up linked in bio 🤗

At @Web3Summit 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… https://firefly.social/post/ff-4ff82bafc6604aefb0ec3b077e01048a?s=bsky

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At @Web3Summit 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 representation of a collective k-hole? Yes, that kind of k-hole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XujvC7le9Ww

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🚨AI, Empire, and the Left's Missing Voice w/ Nick Srnicek I spoke to @nsrnicek, author of Silicon Empires, about how AI is consolidating Big Tech's power. We also discuss: - how the left should be involved in AI… https://firefly.social/post/ff-0586eaf9446d475fa967c4931ac092a2?s=bsky

Some reflections on speaking to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social at @web3summit.com https://theblockchainsocialist.com/five-takeaways-from-my-qa-with-yanis-varoufakis/

Read books. These books you could buy @ Neo-Cypherpunk Summit & support freedom cause: "The Politics of Privacy" curated by @pg.web3privacy.info "Vanishing Culture" by @internetarchive.eu "Decolonizing Money" by Julio Linares "Blockchain Radicals" by @tbsocialist.bsky.social

At @protocol.berlin, @ontologymachine.bsky.social and Ryan talked about live events, community weaving, and relational graphs to life. @tbsocialist.bsky.social sits down and joins to explain @breadcoop.bsky.social and why crypto keeps defaulting to financialization. youtu.be/aqPMVT_Xmso

🚨 Harnessing Collective Intelligence better than LLMs w/ Sean Geobey I spoke to Sean Geobey, associate professor at the University of Waterloo and Director of Groupthink Labs, about collective intelligence, cooperative… https://firefly.social/post/ff-8b2fbe9d529747fcbe077d6c1207c594?s=bsky

Why does the world cup need an official crypto exchange?

Why does the world cup need an official crypto exchange?

you guys are missing incredible things on the other app

🚨The Intelligence Curse w/ Evan Miyazono I spoke to @emiyazono, founder of @SafeWithAtlas, 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… https://firefly.social/post/ff-a151a123e5954793a01faa27aa5cfdb3?s=bsky

Our onchain solidarity network has added a new member. Put your hands together for Traditional Dream Factory! Welcome to the Bread Solidarity Fund 🍞! TDF improves our reach in using crypto to meet human need. Article in our bio, more info in the 🧵

BREAD Distribution Cycle #21 is in! We distributed 1,594 BREAD tokens to our 7 member projects, and it was all thanks to you. Baking BREAD generates yield, and the more we bake the more we can generate.

Last 3 days to give for the ongoing QF security round on @giveth ! At @breadcoop we have a project live right now called Etherform (CI/CD for smart contracts) where if you donate $1 we can get nearly $1000 in matching funds 🤑 https://qf.giveth.io/project/etherform?roundId=16

🚨Self-Repaying Loans and the Fight for Crypto’s Soul w/ Scoopy Trooples I spoke to @scupytrooples, the pseudonymous co-founder of @AlchemixFi, about self-repaying loans, the wreckage of DeFi scams, and what ethical… https://firefly.social/post/ff-a6650482af834c528414853452779a62?s=bsky

A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Rodrigo Nunes (University of Essex @universityofessex.bsky.social) about ecologies of organization, the role of political parties, power, and democratic transformation. Link to the full episode: buff.ly/14N8Dms #FutureHistories#Podcast

🚨 Sovereignty for Sale w/ Atossa Abrahamian I spoke to @atossaaraxia about her piece in @nytimes about Destiny, a kind of network state project on the island of Nevis led by @olivierjanss that has deceived local… https://firefly.social/post/ff-aff09b6843eb40dd8a672373b41759c9?s=bsky

🚨MEV Is Broken on Ethereum — Can Encrypted Mempools Fix It? w/ Luis Bezzenberger I spoke to @bezzenberger of @_brainbot and core contributor to @ShutterNetwork, about MEV and threshold encryption for encrypted mempools. FULL EPISODE⬇️

Why the Cooperative Movement Should Care About Crypto Still I recently became an Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) fellow and just published my first article detailing why I think the coop movement… https://firefly.social/post/ff-0c5b0d067fa04900a22180629ce589cf?s=bsky

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Why the Cooperative Movement Should Care About Crypto Still I recently became an Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) fellow and just published my first article detailing why I think the coop movement should still care about crypto. https://platform.coop/blog/why-the-cooperative-movement-should-care-about-crypto-still/

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🚨Crypto and Stablecoins in Tanzania w/ Victor Muhagachi I spoke to @victorthetravlr, co-founder of @NedaLabs, building digital asset payment infrastructure in Tanzania, about what it actually looks like to bring crypto to communities in this context. FULL EPISODE⬇️

@dabit3 on the new reality for developers FULL EPISODE: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/why-he-left-crypto-for-ai-w-nader-dabit/