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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · 2d

🚨How to not lose $2 billion

Just published about my experience having a call with a potential North Korean hacker and some of the signs that made me realize so you can see them too.

You can find the audio of the call in the post as well.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 12d

Bluesky is a site explicitly founded by cryptocurrency libertarians with the idea that it would be a decentralized platform where users would be free to choose the open-source moderation and algorithmic feed tools they wanted, and by accident acquired a power userbase that hates all of those things.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12d

Are people mad at the Bluesky ceo for a real reason or an internet madness reason?

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · 14d

Just received a video from one of the families in Gaza that now have a tent to sleep in thanks to the donation from @chainleft's proceeds from Crimson Echoes 🇵🇸

If you would like to help out, please donate to casinoberlin.eth

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BREAD Cooperative @breadcoop.bsky.social · 15d

From today, Breadchain will now be known as Bread Cooperative.

This is an evolution driven by community feedback and a focus on making sure the tools we build reach those who need them most.

Same mission. Same team. Clearer path forward.

Check the 🧵 for links!

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Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy.info · 26d

Blockchain socialist, post-capitalist economy researcher, activist, and public speaker - @tbsocialist.bsky.social x @breadcoop.bsky.social

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Sep 15

My collaborator on Katabasis @bethmccarthy.bsky.social and I spoke at Devcon last year about memes and the influence of capital. I was quite proud of our presentation and warning about the normalization of right wing meme culture within crypto.

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Memecraft: Narrative Dynamics in Crypto - The Blockchain Socialist

My collaborator on Katabasis (Beth McCarthy) and I spoke at Devcon, one of the largest Ethereum conferences in the world that happened this past week in Bangkok! In our talk we spoke about the power o...

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Sep 15

For nearly a decade Citarella has been tracking the trends of Gen Z and their shifting and extreme online politics that have led to extreme actions. If anyone predicted this trend, I would say its him. I published this interview back on October 30, 2022.

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Why Socialists should NOT cede crypto to the Right - The Blockchain Socialist

For this interview I spoke to Joshua Citarella (@JoshuaCitarella on social media), an artist, researcher, and Twitch streamer who studies niche online communities. He authored the book the Politigram ...

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Sep 15

Rather than writing out a response or hot take to the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, I thought it would be more interesting instead to point out two pieces of content from my library that I've been thinking about a lot in light of it.

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Mia Winther-Tamaki @miawintam.bsky.social · Sep 12

new yorkers, come hang with us next wed (9/17) to learn more about the political theory + purpose behind blockchain socialism.

we’ll read excerpts from @tbsocialist.bsky.social ’s book “Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and how to fix it,” discuss and ask questions as a group

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Sep 12

If you're based in NYC, decentralpark will be having a meetup and reading of my book! Some copies will be given away as well

September 17th @ 7PM

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Decentral Park Meetup · Luma

Come hang out (hosted at The Convent) , there will be pizza , vibes and BYOB! We will read and discuss excerpts from Joshua Davila's book; Blockchain…

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Sep 11

i keep getting ppl trying to tell me that network states are not neocolonial so gonna leave this here

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Alex Van de Sande @avsa.eth.xyz · Sep 8

I was lucky to see an advance screening of Code is Law, featuring interviews with Griff, Christoph, Fabien and others. It's a really good snapshot of The DAO hack, the Indexed Finance and Kyberswap.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhYy...

Code Is Law (2025) - Trailer - Feature Length Documentary

YouTube video by Au Fait Films

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 28

You can get a copy of the memo via @metalabel_

Lots of great quotes like “Yesterday’s moral stance is tomorrow’s liability” and “Whoever controls the infrastructure controls reality itself.”

https://comatter.metalabel.com/new-world-order?variantId=1%20

New World Order 2025

New World Order: The Return of Hard Power and Soft Beliefs is a 35-page research memo about what happens when power, infrastructure and ideology collide. A manual for anyone trying to make sense of the present, New World Order contains ideas, context and language to participate in shaping the world that emerges in front of our eyes.

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 28

New World Order: The Return of Hard Power and Soft Beliefs is a manual for making sense of the present, it contains ideas, context and language to shape the world emerging.

https://theblockchainsocialist.com/networked-realism-whoever-controls-the-infrastructure-controls-reality/

NETWORKED REALISM: Whoever Controls the Infrastructure, Controls Reality - The Blockchain Socialist

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 ago. In this episode I spoke to Nick Houde and Severin Matusek from co-matter, a research and strategy studio based in […]

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨NETWORKED REALISM: Whoever Controls the Infrastructure, Controls Reality

i spoke to Nick Houde and @severinmatusek from @co_matter about their latest research memo describing how power, infrastructure and ideology have collided and warped reality.

FULL EPISODE ⬇️

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 20

playing around with some more bluesky tools, some of my links

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Ladder of Participation is a framework by Sherry Arnstein (1969) to classify the degree of citizen power in decision-making processes

The model highlights democratic participation needsthe redistribution of actual power, not just the appearance of involvement

DAOs take heed

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 17

FULL VIDEO HERE (also find on the podcast)

https://theblockchainsocialist.com/slavoj-zizek-on-network-states/

Slavoj Zizek on Network States - The Blockchain Socialist

he 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 recent guest Naomi for all to read. Check out  the article on Fileverse here. I really want to know who […]

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 17

🚨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 recent guest @naomiii for all to read.

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mettodo @mettodo.bsky.social · Aug 15

☀️ What are you reading this summer ?

Commons-based, collaborative and shared forms of cultural production and economic distribution anyone? 🧠

Grab the Telekommunist manifesto 📰 by @dmytri.to and see you in a couple of weeks

🗓️ Thursday, 21st August, 18UTC
📍 cryptoleftists.xyz

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 8

Also the recent leadership coup pitting developers against Yarvin and his backers and how this drama created a demand for “voice” in a system designed entirely around “exit.”

https://theblockchainsocialist.com/why-urbit-failed-with-adina-glickstein/

Why Urbit Failed with Adina Glickstein - The Blockchain Socialist

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 Rise and Fall of Urbit finally gave me the excuse to talk about Urbit on the podcast. We unpack what Urbit is trying to be (although many don’t […]

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 8

Why Urbit Failed with @haunt0l0gy

We discuss Adina's recent piece in @compactmag_ about her experience in the Urbit community moving from enthusiasm to disillusionment as the reactionary politics became more clear.

The same politics that has driven Urbit into the ground.

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 5

What are things you like to do onchain but is really expensive to do?

Josh | The Blockchain Socialist @tbsocialist.bsky.social · Aug 4

tbh very cool that Corbyn's new party will allow for members to vote on the name of the party

a first start at practicing democracy within a party