You can read her article here

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/business/st-k...

We talk about the world of offshore finance, special economic zones, and network states.

https://youtu.be/rc2MOma-Nks

🚨 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…

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We dig into how threshold encryption works and why Luis sees encrypted mempools, PBS, and FOCIL as the holy trinity for censorship resistance + decentralization on Ethereum.

https://youtu.be/uCt8updE5zs

🚨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.

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Continue reading on Firefly.Social 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/

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…

firefly.social/post/ff-0c5b0d067fa04900...

We dig into NEDA Labs' work on Tanzanian Shilling stablecoin rails and the experience of talking to regulators. We also get into the savings circle pilot they ran with the JUKUMU Hub, a local community space, in partnership with @Solar_FND.

https://youtu.be/0hSTx3JhNpQ

🚨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.

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@dabit3 on the new reality for developers

FULL EPISODE: theblockchainsocialist.com/why-he-left-crypto-for-a...

Read books written by our speakers.

🌟"Open swords software" essay by @wassimulacrum.bsky.social x @aksiomaorg.bsky.social

✨"Decolonizing Money" by Julio Linares [@plutopress.bsky.social]

🔥"Blockchain Radicals" by @tbsocialist.bsky.social [@repeaterbooks.bsky.social]

I greatly enjoyed this conversation, and I think it might be interesting to a wide range of folks interested in AI, data, collective action, etc! Thanks for having me @tbsocialist.bsky.social (and structuring a really exciting conversation, and putting together such a nice final product!)

We spoke about

- crypto PMF (and the lack of)
- a crypto culture that has kept rewarding hype over substance
- how agentic coding has influenced software engineering
- 🇵🇸

https://youtu.be/VUiNaNXe8W8

🚨Why he left crypto for AI w/ Nader Dabit

I spoke to @nader , well-known longtime crypto dev and educator, about what it felt like to be at the frontier of crypto and why he eventually left.

This is the first time he's spoken publicly about this.

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Breadfam! BREAD Distribution Cycle #20 is all done! Our detailed rundown (which you can find in our bio) was sent to newsletter subscriber inboxes the moment distribution happened. Here's a thread with all the details 🧵

Highly recommend checking out his substack if you're interested in labor + AI issues!

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Nick has spent years researching how data functions as a bargaining tool, and we get into the nitty gritty of what that looks like in practice: data strikes, data poisoning, and redirecting your data to competitors as forms of collective action.

https://youtu.be/HhjfZxAF0cA

🚨Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent

I spoke to @nickmvincent, AI researcher and author of the Data Leverage substack, about how AI systems are built on the collective output of humanity's digital labor and what we can do about it.

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Our next big Neocypherpunk Summit is coming to Berlin - full day of global hacktivists, researchers, technologists, whistleblowers, philosophers, lawyers & policy-makers.

web: s26ber.web3privacy.info

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In case you didn’t see it, I spoke about the solution in a recent video of mine where I explained how I have been helping people send funds to those in Gaza using it.

https://youtu.be/Px9ohL06jrc

Politically, this project is incredibly important.

We discuss how exactly it works, the political implications of what they’ve built and what’s coming next.

theblockchainsocialist.com/delete-coinbase-use-this...

🚨Delete Coinbase! Use this instead… w/ UnhappyBen

I spoke to @unhappyben from @peerxyz which is a service that allows you to officially delete Coinbase and every other CEX account you may have thanks to zkTLS!

We don't need centralized exchanges anymore!

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Hello Breadfam! $BREAD Distribution Cycle #19 is in.
@gardens_fund
took home a bigger share than usual this cycle, right after their Members Spotlight. Good to see the community showing up for them. Time for the 🧵

What's the answer to catching up to the kids with rich parents to pay the deposit on their first home?

It's solidarity and collective finance! 🎉

Join us this Thursday to learn more about the tools we're building to facilitate digital savings and lending circles with your trusted community!

Happy to share that I was chosen as an Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) fellow this year! Looking forward to connecting the work we're doing at @BreadCoop to the broader platform cooperative movement.

https://platform.coop/people/joshua-davila/

i vibe-coded a website where you can use @zkpassport to prove that you're italian

italian-passport-verifier-piff34jr7-tbsocs-projects.vercel.app/

Our first BREAD Member Spotlight is live. Paul Glavin from Gardens talks about what the community can look forward to this month and why your vote matters.

Governance cycle #19 is ongoing. Will Gardens get your vote?
Link in bio

fascism in spain did not end because of elections, there was a famous car bombing that pressured a transition lol

i remember one of the definitions of DAOs was "a subreddit with a bank account", but has anyone actually tried just doing that literally?

like make people's account a wallet with some kind of governance over a shared fund?

besides the dumb moons thing that r/cc tried

what's the project?

Epstein called Peter Thiel J.D. ’92 a 'great friend' Documents from 2014-2019 suggest a close relationship between the two men, who frequently coordinated meetings with Silicon Valley figures and global leaders.

“Great friend”:

“Stanford alumnus and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel ’89 J.D. ’92 frequently met with financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who lent financial support and taxation advice to Thiel…”
stanforddaily.com/2026/02/05/e...