The Blockchain Socialist

Crypto and Stablecoins in Tanzania w/ Victor Muhagachi

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Victor Muhagachi, co-founder of NEDA Labs, building digital asset payment infrastructure in Tanzania and East Africa, about what it actual...

Why he left crypto for AI w/ Nader Dabit

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Nader Dabit, longtime crypto developer and educator who built at Aave, Lens, and Developer DAO, about what it felt like to be at the fronti...

Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Nick Vincent, assistant professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University and author of the Data Leverage substack, about what it a...

Delete Coinbase! Use this instead... w/ UnhappyBen (Peer.xyz)

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to UnhappyBen, head of growth and marketing at Peer (formerly known as ZKP2P) which is a service that allows you to officially delete Coinbase...

Public or Perish: Decentralized Municipal Socialism w/ Boris Mamlyuk

15 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Boris Mamlyuk, co-founder of Clean App an AI-powered, crowdsourced environmental app designed for users to report waste and hazards in real...

What if AI was Cooperative instead? w/ Tan Zhi Xuan

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Tan Zhi Xuan, Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore's Department of Computer Science and founder of the Cooperat...

Did we learn anything from Anonymous? w/ Kate Stapleton | Devconnect 2025

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing the publication of interviews from DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sat down with Kate Stapleton, a former member of Anonymous and privacy adv...

Why did Democracy fail in DAOs?

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing the publication of interviews from DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sat down with Theo Beutel (academic secretariat at the Ethereum Foundation...

Is Crypto Governance Dead? w/ Eugene Leventhal | Devconnect 2025

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode recorded at DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sit down with Eugene Leventhal (researcher at Metagov, podcaster at Governance Futures, new ...

How to send cryptocurrency to Gaza

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note that this is from a video essay published on YouTube here.For over a year, I've been helping people send aid to Gaza via cryptocurrency beca...

Is the state DEAD? Farewell to Westphalia with Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke to Jarrad Hope, founder of Logos, and Peter Ludlow, philosopher and research advisor at the University of Hong Kong, and co-au...

Free Markets Are Planned: The Neoliberal Paradox with Christoph Sorg

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Christoph Sorg is  a social scientist at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He researches theories of capitalism and post-capitalism and the new ...

Weaponized Design and the Digital Identity Event Horizon with Cade Diehm

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Cade Diehm,  Head of Research at the World Ethical Data Foundation and founder of New Design Congress, an independent research group confr...

Nepal, DAOs and Secret Voting with Aragon CEO Leuts.eth

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Leuts.eth, CEO of Aragon, a DAO tooling protocol that gives organizations the tools to build, govern, and accrue value effectively onchain....

NETWORKED REALISM: Whoever Controls the Infrastructure, Controls Reality

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 tec...

Slavoj Zizek on Network States

17 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

How Urbit Failed with Adina Glickstein

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Spik...

Free Market Friends with Naomi Oba

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Holonym: Digital Identity without Scanning your Eyeballs

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 spa...

Blockchain Governance: North Korea, Tornado Cash, and Trust

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ma...

What is the REAL value of crypto tokens with Vasily Sumanov

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, found...

How to Stake ETH with your friends with Thomas Heremans (Obol)

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Thomas Heremans, CEO of the Obol Association. Obol is an ecosystem for trust minimized Ethereum staking that enables distributed validators...

How to Run an Election without the State with Vocdoni

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Ferran Reyes and Pau Escrich, co-founders of Vocdoni, a blockchain based voting protocol used by several non-web3 organizations. They were ...

Conviction Voting for 24/7 Democracy with Paul Glavin

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke with Paul Glavin, contributor to 1Hive and founder of Gardens v2, a platform for communities to manage assets democratically using conviction ...

How to Build Community in Crypto with Beth McCarthy

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Beth McCarthy, program director of Funding the Commons which I also spoke at in Bangkok about our progress on building...

All my friends hate Google Docs with Andreas Tsamados

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Andreas Tsamados, cofounder of Fileverse and anime gif connoisseur. I highly recommend trying out ddocs.new as a decen...

Alternatives to VC, Digital Governance and Public AI with Josh Tan

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Josh Tan, the founder of Metagov, a laboratory for digital governance and lead of DAOstar, a DAO standards body (that ...

How to Die a Good Death with Sarah Friend

02 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to Sarah Friend,an artist and software developer from Canada and based in Berlin. In 2023, she was a research fellow at S...

How to do resilient Global Collaboration on decentralized protocols with Jake Hartnell

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Thailand at Funding the Commons I spoke to Jake Hartnell, co-founder of Layer, a modular tech stack to build decentralized protocols using Eigen La...

MEV is a time traveling god and we must nationalize the designers with Anuj Das Gupta

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While at Devcon I spoke to Anuj Das Gupta, co-founder of Smart Transactions with Vlad Zamfir. Smart Transactions offers advanced blockchain solutions ...

How to play the legal system for post-capitalism with Florian Gatz

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Thailand I spoke to Florian Glatz, probably the first crypto focused lawyer in Europe and possible the world and co-founder of Common Ground, an on...

Crimson Echo: On-chain art to support those in Gaza

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To finish off the year I spoke again with Chainleft, a pioneer in the on-chain art world and my online dopple ganger. We spoke about his newly release...

How to live as a Post-Capitalist with Tony Lai

22 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While in Thailand during the Funding the Commons design jam, I spoke to Tony Lai a co-steward of Mothertree Labs with Susanne Aichele who I spoke to i...

Imagining Post-Capitalism through World Building with Susanne Aichele

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While in Thailand during the Funding the Commons design jam, I spoke to Susanne Aichele from Mothertree Labs. Susanne is a filmmaker, researcher, and ...

Is crypto a scam or FINDOM fetish?

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There seems to be an ever increasingly thin line between crypto, scams, and financial domination. I spoke Steve Pikelny, CEO, CTO, CFO, COO of http://...

Who Controls the Killswitch?

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Tech Workers Coalition: Adapting the Labor Movement for the Digital Age

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I spoke to Simone Robutti. Simone works as an organization designer, adversarial researcher, and teacher. Formerly a software develop...

Islamic Economics: Solving Wealth Inequality by Mixing Libertarianism with... SOCIALISM??

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I spoke to Ahmed Gatnash, the Executive director of Kawaakibi Foundation. He is also a Strategy Advisor at the Albert Einstein Instit...

The Future of Social Media with Suji Yan (Mask Network)

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I spoke to Suji Yan, CEO and founder of Mask Network. Mask's main product is an open-sourced browser extension that wraps around...

EthicHub: La lucha por un café Ético / The struggle for Ethical Coffee (CER)

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Note that this interview was done in Spanish, you can find the youtube video with english subtitles if you need here.This episode is part of a subseri...

It doesn't matter if the AI is fake, it's all magic anyways

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I spoke to Nick Susi, Executive Director of Strategy at dotdotdash who recently wrote a really interesting article on his Substack ti...

Sovereign Nature Initiative : How to ReFi without carbon credits with Andrea Leiter (CER)

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is part of a subseries where I've partnered with my comrade Giulio Quarta from the Crypto Commons Association and their initiative c...

Why Socialism Needs Spirituality (Red Enlightenment)

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I spoke to Graham Jones, the author of Red Enlightenment, published through Repeater Books like Blockchain Radicals. Red Enlightenmen...

Compeerism: How the Commons can succeed where the Silicon Valley led digital revolution failed

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I spoke to Dr. Hannes Gerhardt, a Professor of Geography at the University of West Georgia. His research spans a range of topics with...

Anoma: Undefining Money and Scaling Anarchism with Christopher Goes (CER)

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is the start of a subseries where I've partnered with my comrade Giulio Quarta from the Crypto Commons Association and their initiat...

Governable Spaces: Designing Democracy for the Internet

04 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I´m once again speaking with Nathan Schneider about his newly released book, Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life.  In Governable Sp...

OTNS: Mutualism, labor unions and cooperatives (not charity)

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We spoke to Sara Horowitz (@Sara_Horowitz), founder of the Freelancers Union and author of the book Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the grou...

Platformization: The platform organizational form is eating the world and we can do better

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

My friend and researcher of the politics of tech platforms, Gianmarco Cristofari recently had an extended in my apartment and so we thought it'd ...

Cute anime girl pfps or funding mechanism for esoteric neo-fascism? (Miladys and Remilia Corp)

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I spoke to James Brennan (@jt_bren) who has been finishing up his Masters at the University of Colorado focused on crypto. As part of...

Obol Network - How DVT helps decentralize Ethereum and incentivize collectivism

31 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Oisín Kyne, co-founder and CTO of Obol Network,  an ecosystem for trust minimized Ethereum staking that enables people to create, test, r...

Fund evacuations from Gaza with ETH - ethevacuations.xyz

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Kat (katalunia.eth) who is behind a project called ETH Evacuations which is taking donations to pay for families to get out of Gaza through...

From hacking the CIA as a teenager to community computers

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder and CEO of Celestia, a modular blockchain network that makes for others to securely launch their own blockcha...

accelerationism is back and tech elites are making it cringier than it already was (e/acc)

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you've been surfing the tech sphere lately, you may have come across the term e/acc or effective accelerationism as if it was something new. B...

Blockchain Radicals Audiobook Sample

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The audiobook for my book Blockchain Radicals is officially out! This is a sample you can listen to if you want to know if it seems like something you...

Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform (gang gang mmm ice cream so good)

04 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tokens have increasingly more popular beyond just in the crypto world *gang gang mmm ice cream so good*. Tokens are not new, but how they have been  ...

A Regenerative Village as a DAO in Portugal (Traditional Dream Factory)

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can find the video version of the interview here where I've cut the interview with some film I took while at TDF. In this episode I spoke to ...

OTNS: Is Praxis a bunch of fascists dressed as libertarians?

07 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of OTNS, we spoke to Ali Breland, a journalist at Mother Jones who has written on crypto and politics, about his recent publication ab...

China is a Process: Understanding the Chinese Crypto Diaspora Community

17 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke to Afra Wang, a Chinese diaspora journalist who has been in crypto now for a year and a half with Mask Network and organizer o...

Safeguarding Ethereum's Soul: Protocol Guild and governing the digital commons

10 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke with Trent Van Epps, who is part of the Ethereum Foundation and a key member of Protocol Guild (PG). PG is a collective of 152...

Web3 Workers Rights, Exit to Community, and Solidarity Primitives

03 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke to my friend and scholar Tara Merk who is part of BlockchainGov and has been focusing her PhD thesis on Exit to Community (E2C...

Building autonomous infrastructure for tactical media

26 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke to Geert Lovink, a Dutch media theorist and founder of the Institute of Network Cultures who has been engaged with internet cu...

Seeing crypto for what it is and how to live with contradiction with Brett Scott

12 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke with Brett Scott, an independent scholar, writer, and defender of physical cash from a left point of view. Brett was involved ...

OTNS: Prophets are dangerous and Capital doesn't care about your feelings

05 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we spoke to Wassim Alsindi, founder of MIT's blockchain journal and the 0xSalon  research collective based in Trust in Berlin. D...

Postcapitalist Computing & Currency with Zachary Marlow from the Moneyless Society Podcast

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

During this last Crypto Commons Gathering I had the pleasure to meet Zachary Marlow from the Moneyless Society Podcast. We had the idea of recording a...

OTNS: Transitioning ReFi DAO to a Coordi-Nation

21 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we spoke to Monty Merlin Bryant, a co-founder of ReFi DAO and environmentalist to discuss the movement behind ReFi or Regenerative Fin...

OTNS: Scaling Collective Action for Millions of People

01 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we spoke to co-founder of DAO Stack now working on Common, Matan Field who joined us at Zuzalu. During the discussion we talk about th...

Open-Source Funding vs Venture Capital with Scott Moore

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke with Scott Moore, the co-founder of Gitcoin and Public Works. Scott was one of the pioneers in public goods funding through qu...

What is Left Accelerationism and Post-Work? Interview with Nick Srnicek

10 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Nick Srnicek, author of 'Platform Capitalism', 'Inventing the Future' and the 'MANIFESTO FOR AN ACCELERATIONIST PO...

OTNS: Is Code still Law? Interview with Lawrence Lessig

27 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we had the pleasure of speaking to Lawrence Lessig, the legal scholar known for coining the term "code is law" which if you&...

Venture capitalists steal from the future with David Z Morris

13 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke to David Z Morris, Chief Insights columnist at Coindesk who wrote a really nice book review of Block Radicals and creator of t...

Blockchain Radicals Book Launch Event in NYC

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is coming out on August 8th, 2023, aka publishing day for my book, "Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix...

Crypto in Africa and the Communism of Ubuntu

30 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke to Eric Annan, founder of Aya, a startup in Africa trying to bring more Africans into the crypto space I met while at Zuzalu. ...

ReSource Finance: Building Bridges to New Monetary Systems

09 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke with Ashley Buck, the founder of ReSource Finance and was also the first employee of Consensys. ReSource Finance is a decentra...

OTNS: Cosmo-Localism, Beyonders, and the Medieval Parallels to Digital Nomadism

02 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we continue Phase 2 of OTNS with Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation. We discuss his concept of cosmo-localism which advocat...

OTNS: Building Exclosures and the Institutional Scaffolding for Overlapping Sovereignties

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

While at Zuzalu, Primavera and I spoke with Jessy Kate Schingler who also attended and contributed to the coordi-nations private workshops. During the...

Collaborative Finance: Credit clearing for collectively doing more with less capital

18 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode I spoke to Ethen Buchman (@buchmanster) and Tomaž Fleischman (@T_Fleischman) in person while at the  Commons Hub in Austria from Ma...

OTNS: The Rise of Coordi-Nations (Phase 2 has begun)

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Last month Primavera and I spent about two weeks at Zuzalu in Montenegro with a team of people from Blockchaingov and elsewhere to concretely define o...

OTNS: DAOs and Decentralized Mafias

21 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Primavera and I have been at Zuzalu and took the opportunity to speak with Ameen Soleimani (@ameensol) about his role in Ethereum history and the crea...

OTNS: Network States is what you get when you have VC-brain

14 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Primavera (@yaoeo), Tara Merk (@mpg_dd), and I speak to Jahed Monand (@againstutopia), co-founder and partner of Cerulean Ventures, co...

Collective Intelligence, Mini Socialism, and Microsolidarity

30 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke with Richard Bartlett (@RichDecibels), a co-founder of tech co-op Loomio, non-hierarchical management consultancy The Hum, and...

OTNS: Critiques and Alternatives from a Former Professional Libertarian

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of OTNS, Primavera and I spoke to Chris Berg, a cryptoeconomist, co-director at the RMIT Blockchain Hub, and a "former professio...

OTNS: Institutional Design and Recognizing the Value of Politics

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of OTNS, Primavera and I spoke to Jason Potts (@profjasonpotts), a professor of economics and co-director of blockchain innovation hu...

BONUS: Join Monetary Activists at Collaborative Finance!

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

BONUS EPISODEI spoke to Matthew Slater (@matslats) about an upcoming event happening at the  Commons Hub in Austria from May 22nd to 28th called Coll...

Inside the Cybernetic Forest: Terra0's Vision for Nature to Own Itself

09 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I spoke with Paul Seidler (@brachlandberlin), a member of the Terra0 artist collective. Terra0 has been around since 2016 when it rele...

OTNS: Maximum Freedom in Complex Social Organizations

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of OTNS, Primavera and I spoke to Eric Alston (@IncompleteRules), a researcher at Block Science  and Scholar-in-Residence at the Lee...

OTNS: How to Optimize for Reality

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Zargham (@mZargham), the CEO of Block Science comes back on the show to help us continue to overthrow the ontological framework of network sta...

Lens Protocol: Creating a Web3 Social Ecosystem with Stani Kulechov

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We all know that the current landscape of social media is not ideal for various reasons, but one of those reasons is because the revenue model is base...

Overthrowing The Network State: Dictatorship by Tech CEO with Nathan Schneider

12 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nathan Schneider comes back on the show to speak to Primavera and I to continue Overthrowing The Network State. During the conversation we talk about ...

Overthrowing The Network State: Colonize the Memes, the Narratives, and the Land

04 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Primavera and Morshed Mannan from Blockchaingov join me to speak to Raymond Craib, a  historian of modern Latin America who recently published the bo...

Overthrowing The Network State: Untangling Balaji's Helical Theory of History

26 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode, I'm joined by Kelsie Nabben from Blockchaingov to speak to Quinn DuPont (@quinndupont), a historian of technology who recently ...

The Commons Engine: Collective intelligence, non-monetary currencies, and Holochain

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this interview I spoke to Ferananda Ibarra (@fer_ananda), the Director of the Commons Engine, a Holochain Ecosystem service agency aiming to creat...

Overthrowing The Network State: Survival of the Richest with Douglas Rushkoff

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode, Primavera and I speak with Douglas Rushkoff (@rushkoff). Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT,...

Overthrowing The Network State: Forming New Publics and Pluralism with Glen Weyl

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the second episode of OTNS,  Primavera (@yaoeo) and I are speaking to Glen Weyl (@glenweyl), the founder of RadicalxChange and a co-author of Vita...

Overthrowing The Network State: An Initial Critique and Alternatives

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

NEW SERIES: Overthrowing the Network State in collaboration with BlockchaingovIn the first episode of our series 'Overthrowing The Network State&...

Socialist Tokens: There would be no taxes under socialism

21 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this interview I spoke to Dr. Phillipp Dapprich, a post doc at the University of Potsdam in political theory who did his doctors thesis on sociali...

Teaser - An Anticapture framework for left organizing

14 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For this bonus episode, I dive into the Anticapture framework by Spencer Graham which professes a taxonomy and structure for creating "capture-re...

The Question of Funding in Palestine

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke to Yazan Khalili and Sami Khaldi, Palestinian activists who started a project called The Question of Funding which is an art collective that p...

Algorithms All the Way Down: People Die, Capital Does Not

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For this interview I spoke to Ian Wright (@ianpaulwright), the author of the Dark Marxism blog which explores Marxism and the occult. Ian is also a pr...

SBF proves we live in post post post-modernism (clown world)

04 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I'm sure most reading this probably have heard the news about the collapse of FTX and the ensuing crypto financial contagion it's caused. A ...

Techno-Utopianism vs Class Struggle Technologism

27 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For this interview I spoke to Izzy Meckler (@izmeckler), the Chief Science Officer of 0(1) Labs which is currently building the Mina Protocol. Mina is...