Life Itself Podcast

Cory Doctorow on Blockchain, Crypto & Web3

Apr 26, 2022

01:14:06

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Episode guests

Rufus Pollock

Cory Doctorow

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Necessary Top Down Intervention vs Libertarian Fantasy

01:41

Privacy and other Human Rights should not be financiallized

02:38

Blockchain and Smart Contracts are bad design for anything important

02:03

If there are oracles, why do we need the blockchain?

02:33

Introduction

6min

What Is the Purpose of Money?

5min

The Key Point of Modern Monetary Theory

5min

Central Banks Are Meant to Be Monkeying With Rights

2min

Is There Any Top Down Intervention?

2min

The State and Its Purpose

5min

Are You Going to Do X Wy and Zed? That's the Price of Admitting a Marriage With Me

3min

We're Going to Address a Commons Problem, Ad Andte

6min

The Data Dividend Is a Catastrophe

5min

10.

The Great Danger of Organizing Cryptocurrency

6min

11.

I'm a Fake Computer Scientist

2min

12.

Computer Science Applications - The Stopping State Problem

4min

13.

The Irrevocability of a Data Base

4min

14.

What Is an Oracle?

4min

15.

Trusting Third Parties Is the Hardest Part

4min

16.

Is the Block Chain Really a Problem in Smart Contracts?

3min

17.

The Aspiration to Scale Trust

2min

18.

The State Is Great or Not?

6min

19.

I Think It's the Path to Occupy.

2min

In this episode of our Making Sense of #Crypto and #Web3 series, Rufus Pollock is joined by activist, journalist and author Cory Doctorow. Cory outlines the problems he sees within the web3 space; economic, technological, and ethical.

You can learn more about Cory and his work here:

https://pluralistic.net/

https://doctorow.medium.com/

To learn more about our Making Sense of Web3 series visit https://web3.lifeitself.us/

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit news.lifeitself.org

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Life Itself Podcast

Cory Doctorow on Blockchain, Crypto & Web3

Episode guests

Necessary Top Down Intervention vs Libertarian Fantasy

Privacy and other Human Rights should not be financiallized

Blockchain and Smart Contracts are bad design for anything important

If there are oracles, why do we need the blockchain?

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