Byzantine Dreams Michael Haley

In this special ✨LIVE ✨episode, we bring you 3 on-stage convos we had earlier this year with 3 humans who’ve helped define what it means to practice activism through crypto.

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a renowned theorist, systems thinker, and polymath. In this episode, he speaks with us about the existential threats facing humanity, our society's ability to make sense of the world, exponential technology, and steps we can take towards a more beautiful civilization.

Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals" by MIT Technology Review, Douglas Ruskhoff is a media theorist, author, and documentarian studying human autonomy in the digital age. He’s the author of over 20 books, including Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Media Virus, and most recently Team Human.

Sarah Friend is a badass infrastructure developer, digital artist, activist, and community crypto pioneer who works on Circles UBI and lives in Berlin.

In this episode Christian Langalis aka Bitcoin Sign Guy takes us on a fascinating journey through Urbit and the Bison Sphere: touching on cognitive malware, casino jails, dopamine vending machines, mimetic language, and his vision of the future primitive, colored by his classical tastes and background in studio art.

🦄 Amber Baldet is Cofounder + CEO of Clovyr and Board Member of the Zcash Foundation. We take a tour of the crisis in Belarus, surveillance capitalism, hijacking the cloud, and Amber’s sweet gaming rig.