WhatTheFork?!

Damo sits down with Berkeley District 3 City Councilman Ben Bartlett to talk about how he got into politics,  how we can decentralize governance and build a better economy, and a lot more.

In this show, Damo chats with a member of the Factum ecosystem, Colin Campbell, about his project "Off Blocks"- which is a decentralized identity solution used to prove identity, validate data, and sign interactions and forms with little or no effort or interaction on the part of the user. They talk about how solutions like this will give people back valuable time they used to spend on the administration of their digital life: user names, passwords, and logins (oh my!).

Today we’re gonna walk through a use case for crypto. Damo brings his old friend Morgan Lesko of Open Police Complaints together with Maarten Boender of Sphereon to talk brass tacks. How can blockchain be applied and why is it useful? This is where the rubber meets the road. Should be fun!

Today we explore the idea of decentralizing popular services like Uber with Christopher David, CEO of Arcade City. Their driver owned and operated rideshare network has facilitated over 250,000 rides in Austin, TX and they’re looking to expand.Find me on Twitter @techdrugsrocknroll Big thanks to Sphereon for their support this episode.I also want to thank Griff Green of Giveth for setting me up with Bruce and Josh from The Decentralize All The Things Network. They’ll be doing my audio engineering and hosting, and I’ll be helping their network tell a more human story about blockhain and other technology.

Today we've got a conversation about mutual aid societies and political leadership development with my friends James Anderson from Social Evolution and Joel Dusoe of Capital Leaders. How can we better organize for collective wellbeing? How can politicians become true community champions again? Why are markets dominated by corrupt corporations and economies based on violence instead of community cooperatives and economies based on solidarity?Then we get a bonus chat (10mins) about a real use case for blockchain in government aid delivery being implemented in the Netherlands by my sponsor, Sphereon. Feel free to skip ahead if you get antsy. We’re barely scratching the surface here and only from one slice of the techno-political spectrum. Who else I should talk to about this stuff? Help!As always, let me know what you like and what I can do better on twitter @techdrugsrocknroll.For more about Social Evolution check out social-evolution.com or read The Social Singularity by Max Borders.For more real use cases for blockchain technology check out Sphereon at sphereon.com.If you appreciate the show, consider sponsoring my work over at Patreon: patreon.com/whatthefork

The world has some *serious* trust issues. We don't trust governments. We don't trust corporations. We don't trust people who think or look differently than us. If we're being honest, most of us don't even trust ourselves!This seems to go to the heart of many of our struggles as a growing, ever more complex civilization. If we wanna keep going and growing we have got to learn how to trust each other. The almighty question is HOW? Today we're talking with Paul Snow, the inventor of a blockchain platform designed specifically for data integrity. Can blockchain help us learn to trust each other? Let's see what insights Paul has to share on the matter.*Acknowledgements* I want to thank Paul Snow for joining us, Adam Koltun for editing the audio on this episode, and a huge thanks to Sphereon for sponsoring WhatTheFork?!