You Shall Speculate, We Shall Coordinate: Interview with The Blockchain Socialist

By Gianmarco Cristofari, April 10, 2024

Few people know the fun fact about Satoshi Nakamoto’s name, the mysterious collective behind the founding father of crypto. In his conversation with Craig Steven Wright, Andrew O’Hagan explains that Nakamoto was a eighteenth-century Japanese iconoclast who criticized all the beliefs of his time. As for Satoshi, ‘It means “ash”,’ he said. ‘The philosophy of [...]

Link list on NFTs, crypto art, blockchain and other MoneyLab issues (part 17)

By Geert Lovink, November 22, 2023

Why I am Cryptophic https://www.bvp.com/atlas/why-i-m-cryptophobic Pop-up Community zuzalu, Istanbul, November 2023 https://zuzalu.city/ https://zuzalu.notion.site/Homepage-cb20817c7ca54ca6a151915babd03c38 Are NFTs Dead? https://dappgambl.com/nfts/dead-nfts/ Jacob Silverman: Blowing Up the Crypto Cartel https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/blowing-up-the-crypto-cartel-silverman SafeMoon executives withdrew $200 million https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/11/01/sec-allegations-safemoon-200-million-mcclarens-luxury-homes-travel/ Joan Westerberg: Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/sam-bankman-fried-is-a-feature-not-a-bug The fake hitman, the crypto king and a wild revenge plan gone bad [...]

Report: The Network State conference @Taets, Zaandam (30 Oct 2023)

By Inte Gloerich, October 31, 2023

Yesterday, I attended The Network State conference. Here are some of my quick thoughts after the conference, featuring free market utopianism, blockchain colonialism, life-extension, and libertarian exits.