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Summary: Discussions in the technology, politics and culture of decentralization. From peer-to-peer networks and cryptocurrencies to darknet markets and distributed autonomous organizations, this show looks at how decentralization is changing the world. Hosted by the creator of STEAL THIS FILM, timely, thought-provoking interviews with technologists, activists, troublemakers and thought leaders.

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 Bitcoin’s #1 Trailer Park Supervisor, With Brad Mills | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:29

In this holiday episode I met up with super early Bitcoin adopter Brad Mills to discuss the strange new world we’re entering as Bitcoin reaches new all-time highs, and the global financial system enters a period of...

 Navigating The Reality Tunnels, with Emerson Brooking | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:29

In this episode, I met Emerson Brooking, a fellow at the Digital Forensics Lab and author of LikeWar, to take a deep dive into the topic of online disinformation. I put to Emerson my feelings that what people...

 How Decentralization Could Save Online Privacy, with Orchid’s Alex Kehaya | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:52

In this episode, we meet Alex Kehaya of VPN Orchid to discuss the company’s radical new decentralized approach to improving privacy for internet users. As you’ll hear, Orchid’s model solves a lot of the problems...

 How The Cult Of The Dead Cow Invented Hacktivism, with Joseph Menn | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:07

In this episode, journalist and writer Joseph Menn discuss the seminal hacking crew Cult Of The Dead Cow. CoDC was one of the key forces behind the creations of ‘hacktivism’, which tries to contribute political...

 snglsDAO: How To Decentralize The Video Economy, with Troy Murray | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:13:22

In this episode, we talk to Troy Murray about snglsDAO: a BitTorrent and blockchain-based system for distributing and monetizing video content, the crazy amounts of money SingularDTV raised in their ICO, and why the ICO system seems to have provided...

 Rabble: Decentralisation & Disaster | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:20

In this episode Jamie talks with Evan Henshaw Plath, aka @rabble, about how he sees the world during and after Covid-19 – and the role for decentralised technologies, bitcoin, and survivable communication systems in whatever...

 How To Hack The Epistemic Crisis, with Audrey Tang | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:08

In this episode, we meet up with Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Digital Minister, to discuss how Taiwan eliminated Covid-19 with only 7 deaths. Find out how information technology was instrumental in Taiwan’s success, from helping source...

 ‘Shadow Brokers vs. NSA: All About the Bitcoins?’ with Ben Buchanan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:30

In this episode, I talked with Ben Buchanan author of The Hacker And The State. We look at Ben’s research into ‘Shadow Brokers’, the mysterious hacker group who first appeared in the summer of 2016,  attempting to auction off...

 ‘The Dark Economics Of DDOS’, with Abhishta | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:41

In this episode, returning guest Abhistha — now Assistant Professor in network security at the University of Utwente — digs into his latest research on the real economic impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks such...

 ‘Taking Crypto Offgrid’, with Rich Myers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:04

In this episode, we meet Rich Myers of mesh networking company GoTenna. Rich is developing the Lot49 protocol, which both allows Lightning transactions over a local mesh network and uses Bitcoin incentives to increase the...

 ‘The Great Data Prison Break’, with Sean Moss-Pultz | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:12:19

In this episode, I talk to Sean Moss Pultz, CEO of Bitmark Inc. — a company focused on enabling personal data sovereignty through blockchain technology. We discuss Bitmark’s journey and the company’s latest pivot to...

 ‘Last Exit To Reality’, with Sam Woolley | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:04:56

This episode features returning guest Sam Woolley, whose new book ‘The Reality Game,’ examines the new frontiers of ‘fake news’ and the idea that the next wave of technology will ‘break the truth’. We discuss...

 Stolen Headlines 5: ‘My Corona’ | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:54

In this Stolen Headlines, we invite show supporters Tim Reutemann and Mendel Skulski to discuss Coronavirus – how various world governments have responded so far, and the role information technology has played in detecting, containing...

 Bitcoin’s Black Swan, with Cedric Dahl | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:04:25

This conversation centers around Bitcoin – its past, present and future. Cedric Dahl’s 1000x group, which describes itself as a ‘private think tank’ focused on finding black swans in the world of open and distributed...

 Russia’s Sandworm: A New Front In The Cyberwar, with Andy Greenberg | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:43

In this episode, we meet Andy Greenberg, senior writer at Wired Magazine and author of Sandworm, A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hacker. We learned how Russia is...

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