Published in Nebula Magazine·Oct 4, 2021On Patience, Perseverance, the Present Moment (& the Internet) in Gaza, Palestine.Anam Raheem has spent the past 5 years in Gaza, Palestine, working at a local startup accelerator and a coding academy Gaza Sky Geeks which is changing lives of one of the most vulnerable communities in the world. Anam told us about her experiences in Gaza, the daily lives of…Gaza24 min read
Published in Nebula Magazine·Aug 4, 2020Universal Basic Income and How To Make it Happen (in Germany) Interview with Joy Ponader.Spurred by the coronavirus crisis and the resulting prospects of an intense economic fallout, the case for Universal Basic Income is back on the agenda of activists and researchers around the world. In Germany, a state-wide UBI pilot plan is coming close to reality thanks to the work of Joy…Universal Basic Income11 min read
Published in Nebula Magazine·Apr 14, 2020On Return to the Commons & Digital Distributed Carework. Interview with Stacco Troncoso.In the midst of coronavirus pandemic hitting Europe, both uniting and socially isolating us all, we caught up (virtually) with Stacco Troncoso, a Commons advocate and a project lead for the Commons Transition. We talked about the DisCO Manifesto, a novel approach towards forming Distributed Open Cooperatives providing guidelines for…Care Work19 min read
Published in Nebula Magazine·Dec 11, 2019On Regenerative Cultures & Decentralized Imagination Healing: Interview with Magenta CeibaMagenta Ceiba is the Executive Creative Officer of Bloom Network, a global community of regenerative culture leaders that gather online and in-person to collaboratively envision a brighter future. Magenta is also a classical pianist and calls herself an imagination healer, trying to help people change their reality where imagination is…Regenerative Culture11 min read
Published in Nebula Magazine·Oct 17, 2019Digital tools for self-organized change. Interview with Gemma CopelandGemma Copeland is an interdependent digital designer building digital tools that facilitate and empower grassroots movements and organizations. She is part of a London-based nonprofit workers cooperative of software engineers, designers and organizers called Common Knowledge. …Cooperatives16 min read
Published in Nebula Magazine·Oct 4, 2019When Co-ops Meet DAOs: An Interview with Nathan SchneiderNathan Schneider is a journalist and professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He was among the first journalists to cover the Occupy Wall Street movement, and more recently he authored the book Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy, in which…Decentralization12 min read
Published in Epicenter·Jul 9, 2018MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative — A Research-Driven Approach to BlockchainWhen the Bitcoin Foundation fell apart and funding for Bitcoin core development was needed, the MIT founded the Digital Currency Initiative to step in. In the years since, the DCI has evolved into a vibrant center of cutting edge research on some of the most difficult challenges around blockchain technology…Bitcoin3 min read
Published in Epicenter·Jul 4, 2018How to Build an Industry-Leading Cryptocurrency Security CompanyBefore founding what is now one of the most successful companies in the cryptocurrency industry — Ledger, Eric Larchevêque and his co-founder opened La Maison du Bitcoin, a Bitcoin education center and co-working space in the second district of Paris. It was through chance encounters in this space that Ledger…Bitcoin3 min read
Published in Epicenter·Jun 27, 2018Managing Cryptoassets with Pamela MorganManaging and securely storing your cryptoassets — spread across ledgers, wallets, exchanges and various third party services — can be a daunting task. How to pass them on in case of one’s death is even more of an uncharted territory in the nascent cryptocurrency space, and it’s rarely on people’s…Bitcoin2 min read
Published in Epicenter·Jun 19, 2018The K Framework & Formal Verification Efforts in the Blockchain SpaceIn the past few years we witnessed the development of multiple smart contract languages — each of them requires resources for building formal verification toolsets, compilers, debuggers and other developer tools. Grigore Rosu is a Professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, whose dream for the blockchain…Blockchain3 min read
