In this episode we meet Sean Tilley (aka @deadsuperhero) of We Distribute (and formerly the Diaspora project) to discuss: early days at Diaspora, the first Facebook alternative to really reach critical mass; the steady rise…

This is the second part of a two-part interview with Tim Tayshun, bitcoin entrepreneur and activist, who dedicated himself to exposing the crypto ponzi scheme, OneCoin. We discuss: how the internet changed the business of…

In this episode we meet Josephine Wolff, author of a new book on financial and economic cybercrime, You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late. We discuss two important case studies from the book….

In this episode author Cory Doctorow discusses three stories from his new collection, Radicalized. We discuss: the perils of DRM, and becoming dependent on manufacturers — from printers, to toasters and beyond — and how…

In this episode, I consider the inter-state struggle over 5G, the rollout of which will create a new global surveillance surface. Who will control this massive new opportunity to surveil the world’s data? If China…

First part of a two-part interview in which Tim Tayshun (AKA Tim Curry) of BlockchainBTM discusses taking on OneCoin, the massive crypto Ponzi scheme responsible for bilking investors out of $4.6bn dollars. We discuss: how…

This is the second and final part of our interview with Enric Duran of the Faircoin / Faircoop project. We discuss: the advantage of using Faircoin rather than Bitcoin or even Euros; the history of…

This is part one of a two-part series with Enric Duran, leader of the Faircoin project and founder of Fair Coop. Faircoin is a fascinating experiment in cryptocurrency: a LETS-style community currency which also functions…