WhatTheFork?!
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn theory, WhatTheFork?! is about blockchain technology. But *really* it's about life, society, and how we can (hopefully) solve the greatest challenges of our time. Your host, Damo, is doing his damnedest to bring some complicated ideas down to earth for us normies. No breathless irresponsible investment advice. We're talking real issues and exploring real solutions.
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Episodes
Episode 7: The Great Governance Transition, Part 1
April 24, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBDamo 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.
Episode 6: Decentralized Identity
April 11, 2019 04:00 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MBIn 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!).
Episode 5: Okay But How?
March 27, 2019 12:00 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MBToday 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!
Episode 4: How to Open Source Uber
March 13, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MBToday 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 ...
Episode 3: A Look at Mutual Aid & Leadership Development
January 17, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBToday 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 us...
Episode 2: Trust Issues
December 19, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 31.6 MBThe 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 bloc...