Rachel-Rose O'Leary was an artist before getting into crypto through Nick Land and Julian Assange. She's now a programmer working with Amir Taaki to build a crypto-anarchist DeFi ecosystem called DarkFi. ✦ DarkFi: http://dark.fi ✦ Rachel-Rose on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lunar_mining Other Life ✦ Subscribe to the coolest newsletter in the world https://OtherLife.co ✦ Get a free Urbit planet at https://imperceptible.computer ✦ We're building a new country at https://imperceptible.country IndieThinkers.org ✦ If you're working on independent intellectual work, join the next cohort of https://IndieThinkers.org 0:00 Intro 0:54 DarkFi & crypto-anarchism 4:09 Unpacking zero-knowledge 9:52 Surveying current privacy technology 12:53 Monero or Zcash? 16:26 Worsening surveillance & DarkNet operations 24:07 Making money on the DarkNet 29:15 Rose's art world to crypto pipeline story 36:26 Working with Amir Taaki 44:15 Is the DarkNet enabling evil? 49:22 Crypto eschatology 59:52 Christian anarchist-crypto parallels 1:04:14 Abdullah Öcalan 1:13:21 Encryption as guerrilla warfare 1:15:55 Closing words ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya3CsbfnT_Y

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