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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist
@tbsocialist #9459
I blog and podcast about crypto and the left | @breadchain_ | Patreon bit.ly/3yVo2Cv | Mirror bit.ly/37g4KOx | Podcast bit.ly/3myLNuW | Tip me normie.tech/josh
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half a million for building post-capitalism on-chain
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join us, bake BREAD and help us continue, we can't do it without you all
https://app.breadchain.xyz/
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join us, bake BREAD and help us continue, we can't do it without you all
https://app.breadchain.xyz/
Trying a different newsletter platform since Mailchimp kicked me off w no explanation🥲
Good news is that there is a lot of good news on the crypto left front😉
https://tbsocialis.kit.com/posts/half-a-million-in-crypto-for-post-capitalism-and-devcon-episodes-are-all-out
Good news is that there is a lot of good news on the crypto left front😉
https://tbsocialis.kit.com/posts/half-a-million-in-crypto-for-post-capitalism-and-devcon-episodes-are-all-out
So when insane people in crypto talk fear monger about communism, which type of communism are they talking about?
Which type is infiltrating ethereum? I'd love to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE34-dovZ94
Which type is infiltrating ethereum? I'd love to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE34-dovZ94
🚨How to Build Community in Crypto with @ontologymachine
While at Devcon I spoke to Beth McCarthy, program director of @FundingCommons which I also spoke at in Bangkok about our progress on building on-chain post-capitalism with @breadchain_
FULL EPISODE⬇️
While at Devcon I spoke to Beth McCarthy, program director of @FundingCommons which I also spoke at in Bangkok about our progress on building on-chain post-capitalism with @breadchain_
FULL EPISODE⬇️
We are officially an e-deology with a flag😉
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mia 水明
@miawintam·17:05 25/02/2025
Featured in artist Joshua Citarella’s (love him) ongoing work “e-deologies VI”
https://open.substack.com/pub/joshuacitarella/p/e-deologies-vi-2025?r=cg2qk&utm_medium=ios
https://open.substack.com/pub/joshuacitarella/p/e-deologies-vi-2025?r=cg2qk&utm_medium=ios
🚨All my friends hate Google Docs with @miroyato
I spoke to Andreas Tsamados, cofounder of @fileverse and anime gif connoisseur while at Devcon in Bangkok.
FULL EPISODE⬇️
I spoke to Andreas Tsamados, cofounder of @fileverse and anime gif connoisseur while at Devcon in Bangkok.
FULL EPISODE⬇️
just wanted to give some appreciation to those who have been supporting me financially through Patreon over the years of doing this
can't even begin to express how grateful i am for the amt of times its helped me out in a bind🥲
https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist
can't even begin to express how grateful i am for the amt of times its helped me out in a bind🥲
https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist
🚨Alternatives to VC, Digital Governance and Public AI with Josh Tan
I spoke to @Joshuaztan founder of @Metagov and lead of @DAOstar_one, a DAO standards body (that I have also been doing some work with as well on DAOIP-5 a web3 grants metadata standard).
FULL EPISODE ⬇️
I spoke to @Joshuaztan founder of @Metagov and lead of @DAOstar_one, a DAO standards body (that I have also been doing some work with as well on DAOIP-5 a web3 grants metadata standard).
FULL EPISODE ⬇️
So the latest is that one of the doge kids is part of a "tier 1" terrorist network and hacking crime syndicate and crypto people are either cheering it on or saying nothing?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/764_(organization)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/764_(organization)
a political party led by an AI that gives the most effective tactics for people to destroy and replace the democratic party in the US for one that has a fucking spine
Has anyone looked into the nbetween Latin culture and cooperatives? I feel like there must also be a strong catholic element involved?

Stavros Halkias is one of the most effective left wing communicators in the US today at this point
🚨How to Die a Good Death with Sarah Friend
While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to @isthisanart, artist and software developer. She was a research fellow at Summer of Protocols studying the death of protocols and published a paper on "Good Death".
FULL EPISODE BELOW
While at Devcon 2024 I spoke to @isthisanart, artist and software developer. She was a research fellow at Summer of Protocols studying the death of protocols and published a paper on "Good Death".
FULL EPISODE BELOW
The Role of Unions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
One of the first level headed conversations about AI and labor that I've seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHHeaMZhFWk
One of the first level headed conversations about AI and labor that I've seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHHeaMZhFWk
🚨How to do resilient Global Collaboration on decentralized protocols with Jake Hartnell
I spoke to @JakeHartnell, co-founder of @Layeroneth, a modular stack to build decentralized protocols using shared security.
Now you can finally understand @EigenLayer😉
FULL EP⬇️
I spoke to @JakeHartnell, co-founder of @Layeroneth, a modular stack to build decentralized protocols using shared security.
Now you can finally understand @EigenLayer😉
FULL EP⬇️
Edward Snowden should be pardoned if Ross was
MEV is a time traveling god and we must nationalize the designers with @anujdasgupta, co-founder of @stxn_io
It was a pleasure to speak to Anuj at Devcon in Bangkok and I'm still missing the studio I had there.
MEV was the end of blockchains as we knew it.
It was a pleasure to speak to Anuj at Devcon in Bangkok and I'm still missing the studio I had there.
MEV was the end of blockchains as we knew it.
don't worry this is only the dumbest day in history... so far
in reality all economies are planned, it's just that "free market" ones are planning for scarcity
they make jobs, food, housing,and much more scarce on purpose for a select few to control the majority
they make jobs, food, housing,and much more scarce on purpose for a select few to control the majority
In Thailand I spoke to Florian Glatz, probably the first crypto focused lawyer in Europe and possibly the world and co-founder of Common Ground, an on-chain social network. Florian also helped author some part of the MiCA legislation in the EU which lays out the legal framework for cryptocurrences.
We spoke about his experiences in the early days of the ICO boom, the unpreparedness of the legal system for crypto, and how Common Ground is leading the way for fairer ways to do ICOs.
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/how-to-play-the-legal-system-for-post-capitalism-with-florian-gatz/
We spoke about his experiences in the early days of the ICO boom, the unpreparedness of the legal system for crypto, and how Common Ground is leading the way for fairer ways to do ICOs.
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/how-to-play-the-legal-system-for-post-capitalism-with-florian-gatz/
mpc tls is an insane technology we need to start understanding more
imagine being able to verifiably get around any digital service without an API but prove users' data within it
very subversive
imagine being able to verifiably get around any digital service without an API but prove users' data within it
very subversive
pessimistic about the crypto space atm but very optimistic about breadchain and what we're building
Happy New Years everyone 🎉 Looking forward to an exciting 2025 with all of you. We have a lot of plans for this year!
For a start, I just made a proposal on Gardens for 1Hive to start holding BREAD! 🍞 1Hive has a significant treasury on Gnosis Chain and it'd be great to get them to get the org as an Angel Minter 😇
Please vote if you have HNY or swap for some HNY on any DEXs on Gnosis Chain so you can join the 1Hive Gardens and take part in the conviction voting proposal process 🙂
https://app.gardens.fund/gardens/100/0x71850b7e9ee3f13ab46d67167341e4bdc905eef9/0xe2396fe2169ca026962971d3b2e373ba925b6257/14/0xba5c9429472e9e0aa1d4f0276c7fb45374e2af6c-10
For a start, I just made a proposal on Gardens for 1Hive to start holding BREAD! 🍞 1Hive has a significant treasury on Gnosis Chain and it'd be great to get them to get the org as an Angel Minter 😇
Please vote if you have HNY or swap for some HNY on any DEXs on Gnosis Chain so you can join the 1Hive Gardens and take part in the conviction voting proposal process 🙂
https://app.gardens.fund/gardens/100/0x71850b7e9ee3f13ab46d67167341e4bdc905eef9/0xe2396fe2169ca026962971d3b2e373ba925b6257/14/0xba5c9429472e9e0aa1d4f0276c7fb45374e2af6c-10
Trying out a new integration with BREAD on Normie Tech!
If you go to this site then you can tip me in fiat via Stripe and I will receive BREAD on my end🍞
You can also find the link in my bio
normie.tech/josh
If you go to this site then you can tip me in fiat via Stripe and I will receive BREAD on my end🍞
You can also find the link in my bio
normie.tech/josh
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 released piece Crimson Echo (codename: Blood Journey) which is “A generative film, built by Ethereum Virtual Machine, compressed and stored fully on Ethereum, exploring how stories emerge through permanent acts of individual and collective conscience.”
Be sure to be a part of the on-chain history being made to show that you did not support the ongoing genocide in Gaza. By taking part in the mint, you are supported ETH Evacuations and the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/crimson-echo-on-chain-art-to-support-those-in-gaza/
Be sure to be a part of the on-chain history being made to show that you did not support the ongoing genocide in Gaza. By taking part in the mint, you are supported ETH Evacuations and the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/crimson-echo-on-chain-art-to-support-those-in-gaza/
Also want to stress that this is free money. You can still claim by just holding 100 BREAD :)
You can either bake it: app.breadchain.xyz
And/Or bridge to gnosis chain: app.debridge.finance
We need another 9 claims in the next 5 hours!
You can either bake it: app.breadchain.xyz
And/Or bridge to gnosis chain: app.debridge.finance
We need another 9 claims in the next 5 hours!
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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist
@tbsocialist·20:33 22/12/2024
AIRDROP ALERT FOR BREAD HOLDERS
Check out the Breadchain page on Common Ground to claim some $CG tokens!
BREAD holders qualify for an airdrop on Common Ground which is a project founded by my friend Florian Glatz (podcast interview coming soon)! But in order to get the airdrop to come out at all we need at least 50 people in the community to claim to be able to get any airdrop. It's possible to simply bake BREAD then claim though in case you don't have any and so you can share with your networks to get the airdrop! You just need the minimum amount of BREAD.
It pays to show solidarity 😎
https://app.cg/c/breadchain/
Check out the Breadchain page on Common Ground to claim some $CG tokens!
BREAD holders qualify for an airdrop on Common Ground which is a project founded by my friend Florian Glatz (podcast interview coming soon)! But in order to get the airdrop to come out at all we need at least 50 people in the community to claim to be able to get any airdrop. It's possible to simply bake BREAD then claim though in case you don't have any and so you can share with your networks to get the airdrop! You just need the minimum amount of BREAD.
It pays to show solidarity 😎
https://app.cg/c/breadchain/

Bread Crowdstaking
Bake and burn BREAD. Fund post-capitalist web3.
app.breadchain.xyz
Also want to stress that this is free money. You can still claim by just holding 100 BREAD :)
You can either bake it: https://app.breadchain.xyz/
And/Or bridge to gnosis chain: https://app.debridge.finance/
We need another 22 claims!
You can either bake it: https://app.breadchain.xyz/
And/Or bridge to gnosis chain: https://app.debridge.finance/
We need another 22 claims!
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Josh | The Blockchain Socialist
@tbsocialist·20:33 22/12/2024
AIRDROP ALERT FOR BREAD HOLDERS
Check out the Breadchain page on Common Ground to claim some $CG tokens!
BREAD holders qualify for an airdrop on Common Ground which is a project founded by my friend Florian Glatz (podcast interview coming soon)! But in order to get the airdrop to come out at all we need at least 50 people in the community to claim to be able to get any airdrop. It's possible to simply bake BREAD then claim though in case you don't have any and so you can share with your networks to get the airdrop! You just need the minimum amount of BREAD.
It pays to show solidarity 😎
https://app.cg/c/breadchain/
Check out the Breadchain page on Common Ground to claim some $CG tokens!
BREAD holders qualify for an airdrop on Common Ground which is a project founded by my friend Florian Glatz (podcast interview coming soon)! But in order to get the airdrop to come out at all we need at least 50 people in the community to claim to be able to get any airdrop. It's possible to simply bake BREAD then claim though in case you don't have any and so you can share with your networks to get the airdrop! You just need the minimum amount of BREAD.
It pays to show solidarity 😎
https://app.cg/c/breadchain/

Bread Crowdstaking
Bake and burn BREAD. Fund post-capitalist web3.
app.breadchain.xyz
AIRDROP ALERT FOR BREAD HOLDERS
Check out the Breadchain page on Common Ground to claim some $CG tokens!
BREAD holders qualify for an airdrop on Common Ground which is a project founded by my friend Florian Glatz (podcast interview coming soon)! But in order to get the airdrop to come out at all we need at least 50 people in the community to claim to be able to get any airdrop. It's possible to simply bake BREAD then claim though in case you don't have any and so you can share with your networks to get the airdrop! You just need the minimum amount of BREAD.
It pays to show solidarity 😎
https://app.cg/c/breadchain/
Check out the Breadchain page on Common Ground to claim some $CG tokens!
BREAD holders qualify for an airdrop on Common Ground which is a project founded by my friend Florian Glatz (podcast interview coming soon)! But in order to get the airdrop to come out at all we need at least 50 people in the community to claim to be able to get any airdrop. It's possible to simply bake BREAD then claim though in case you don't have any and so you can share with your networks to get the airdrop! You just need the minimum amount of BREAD.
It pays to show solidarity 😎
https://app.cg/c/breadchain/
Curious to hear people's ideas on how to move forward with the channel and integrate it more into the already existing cryptoleft infrastructure!
Will do my best to steward things but I definitely don't have the capacity to do it alone
Will do my best to steward things but I definitely don't have the capacity to do it alone
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Benjamin Basche
@basche42·13:43 22/12/2024
Today I’m transferring ownership of /cryptoleft to @tbsocialist and deputizing some of you as moderators
Josh is the natural caretaker of this space until we come up with a plan for deeper community governance
I will remain involved as a mod & active member
Will work to schedule another /cryptoleft call in Jan
Josh is the natural caretaker of this space until we come up with a plan for deeper community governance
I will remain involved as a mod & active member
Will work to schedule another /cryptoleft call in Jan
How to live as a Post-Capitalist✨
While in Thailand during the Funding the Commons design jam, I spoke to Tony Lai a co-steward of Mothertree Labs, founder of the Blockchain Group at CodeX Stanford and an Edmund Hillary Fellow.
We spoke about Tony's interest in embodying being a post-capitalist, Buddhist vs. Christian imagery, as well as his recent trip to Bhutan where he and others advised on a new ecological special economic zone initiative funded by the bitcoin they've been accumulating. And no it has nothing to do with network states thankfully.
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/how-to-live-as-a-post-capitalist/
While in Thailand during the Funding the Commons design jam, I spoke to Tony Lai a co-steward of Mothertree Labs, founder of the Blockchain Group at CodeX Stanford and an Edmund Hillary Fellow.
We spoke about Tony's interest in embodying being a post-capitalist, Buddhist vs. Christian imagery, as well as his recent trip to Bhutan where he and others advised on a new ecological special economic zone initiative funded by the bitcoin they've been accumulating. And no it has nothing to do with network states thankfully.
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/how-to-live-as-a-post-capitalist/
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/
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/
📹 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
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
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🎊
🍞 ⛓️
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🎊
🍞 ⛓️
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
https://youtu.be/um0kPqFw94E
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
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
The recording of my Devcon talk with Beth McCarthy has been published!
Memecraft: Narrative Dynamics in Crypto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnDgX9uy5E
Memecraft: Narrative Dynamics in Crypto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnDgX9uy5E
It was awesome to meet so many crypto leftists while at Devcon this week!
Grateful for you all :)
Grateful for you all :)
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/
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/
its only going to get dumber from here
Results of the latest Breadchain voting cycle!
Have you baked BREAD yet?
https://x.com/breadchain_/status/1853668460397822351
Have you baked BREAD yet?
https://x.com/breadchain_/status/1853668460397822351
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/
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/
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
https://youtu.be/d22U5iRtfIA