For this week’s interview I spoke with Matt Cropp (@MattCropp), a Co-Director of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center, where he works on public education, outreach, and the conversion of businesses to employee ownership for ownership succession. Matt has a really interesting profile in that he was involved in bitcoin during the early years and actually used it during the Occupy Wall Street protests for mutual aid. During the interview we spoke about his involvement with earning and using bitcoin during Occupy Wall Street, his explanation of the political makeup of the bitcoin community during those days, and how he imagines coops could benefit from the use of blockchain / crypto in the future. Podcast Platforms: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3geORcile9E1EyPyFiAHhM?si=x7fjsFhURsSBlErXnihh9A iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blockchain-socialist/id1501607045 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-blockchain-socialist Podcast Addict: https://podplayer.net/?podId=2598359 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/show/961422 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCULG-Z-UU0

Bailbloc is a cryptocurrency scheme against bail through The New Inquiry, in which you can download the app and a small portion of your computer’s unused processing power is redirected toward mining Monero. At the end of every month, Bailbloc exchanges the Monero for US dollars and donates the earnings to one of the bail funds in the National Bail Fund Network on a rotational basis. Due to changes in the US legal system around bail, the project is in the process of being phased out, however all of the code is open source and can potentially be used for other purposes. For this interview I spoke to Grayson Earle (@graysonearle). He is an artist in residence at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Center for Art and Urbanistics) in Berlin and one of the creators of Bail Bloc. During the interview we talk about how an why he created Bailbloc, the lessons learned from it, and his suggestions for people who would want to do something similar. We also talk a little bit about Breadchain and the similarities it has with how Bailbloc approached cryptocurrency to collectivize gains for good. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Website: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3geORcile9E1EyPyFiAHhM?si=x7fjsFhURsSBlErXnihh9A iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blockchain-socialist/id1501607045 Podcast Addict: https://podplayer.net/?podId=2598359 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBSocialist Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyd83ExiR8M