GreenPill

Kevin Owocki

GreenPill is about crypto-economic systems that create positive externalities for their neighbors & for the world. We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design. We search for powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, & market regenerative web3-era applications and digital assets. We launch the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world. Ethereum is the ultimate substrate for human coordination. Learn about the web3 builders who are solving coordination failures and creating a more regenerative infrastructure for the world using Ethereum. Take the Green Pill!

  1. 1D AGO

    Network Nations Ep:3- Commons, Mutualism & Entanglement: Building the Foundation of Network Nations

    New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 Hosted by Primavera De Filippi & Felix Beer, this episode of the Network Nations mini-series explores how commons, mutualism, and entanglement form the backbone of resilient, self-organizing communities. Joined by Sara Horowitz (founder of the Mutualist Society & Freelancers Union) and Michel Bauwens (founder of the P2P Foundation), they discuss how collective ownership, cooperative economies, and peer-to-peer networks can transform civil society into interconnected network nations. Together, they unpack the difference between commoning and mutualism, the importance of trust and solidarity, and how local cooperation can scale into a global fabric of shared governance. 🎧 Learn more → networknations.network 🌐 greenpill.network Mutualistsociety.net  https://p2pfoundation.net/  https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/ 🐦 @owocki  @Sara_Horowitz @mbauwens  | @greenpillnet |  🌐 Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome to the Network Nations mini-series with Primavera De Filippi & Felix Beer 01:30 – Introducing guests: Sarah Horowitz (Mutualist Society) & Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation) 03:30 – What are the commons and how communities organize through shared resources 05:30 – Michel on the evolution from free software to Web3 and local commons 07:40 – How open collaboration shifted toward community self-reliance 09:30 – From cooperation to solidarity: why communities need mutual care 10:40 – When institutions fail, communities must organize for themselves 12:00 – Sarah's work with freelancers and the rise of mutualist organizing 13:40 – The three principles of mutualism: solidarity, economic mechanism, and longevity 15:00 – How commoning and mutualism interconnect historically 17:00 – The role of capital and appropriate funding for mutualist systems 18:40 – Scaling solidarity: from patchworks of local groups to federated networks 20:20 – Michel on cosmopolies and non-territorial governance throughout history 22:00 – The blockchain paradox: ideology as glue for coordination 23:30 – Why transcendent values or shared myths matter for collaboration 25:00 – Defining entanglement the bonds between communities and shared kinship 27:40 – Michel's "archipelago of regenerative villages" model 30:00 – How regenerative projects can attract capital and resilience 31:30 – Bioregional and cosmolocal models of solidarity 33:00 – Sarah on federations, unions, and historical models of coordination 35:00 – Rethinking "exit": from isolation to interdependence 37:20 – Why interdependence is strength, not weakness 38:30 – The lost baton of institutional knowledge in Web3 governance 39:50 – Delegation, iteration, and the relearning of organizational design 42:00 – Network Nations as additive systems, not exit systems 43:20 – Building power through the commons and mutualism 45:30 – From individual sovereignty to collective agency 47:10 – Building mutualist tech infrastructure for self-financing communities 49:20 – The disconnect between coders and communities — and how to bridge it 51:10 – Learning from what works: local experiments that can scale 53:00 – The role of "deep dives" in connecting commons, co-ops, and Web3 builders 55:00 – Why sensemaking and learning infrastructures are key for coordination 56:30 – Sarah on the "pods" model — ecosystems for mutual learning 57:40 – Network Nations as a convergence point for adjacent movements 59:10 – Building open, kind, and politically diverse collaboration cultures 01:01:20 – Avoiding the tragedy of the commons through entanglement and shared trust 01:05:00 – The SMART Co-op model for freelancers as a transnational example 01:07:00 – Low-hanging fruit: building local capital pools for community resilience 01:08:40 – Closing thoughts and invitations to join the movement

    1h 11m

  2. 3D AGO

    Season 10. Episode 4: Meaning in the 21st Century with Ellie Hain | Greenpill Podcast

    New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌍 Kevin chats with Ellie Hain writer, facilitator, and co-founder of the Meaning Alignment Institute (MAI) about how we can rediscover meaning, presence, and purpose in the 21st century. Ellie explores why so many people across modern society, tech, and culture feel disconnected, and how re-attunement to life, community, and ritual can help us restore the sacred in our everyday lives. Together, they discuss the meaning crisis, why it's emerging now, and how new institutions might integrate purpose, beauty, and values into the systems we're building for the future. 🎧 Links: 🌐 greenpill.network 🐦 @ellie_hain  | @owocki | @greenpillnet 🎥 Exit the Void: by Ellie Hain   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqB-1ABZJSM  🌿 Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome to a new Greenpill season: exploring technology, coordination & Protopia 01:00 – Introducing guest Ellie Hain, co-founder of the Meaning Alignment Institute 02:20 – How Ellie began her journey into meaning, mysticism, and systems 04:30 – The tension between inner experience and societal expectations 05:30 – Exploring meaning as attunement to life 07:00 – Sovereignty and interdependence: dancing between individuality and the web of life 09:40 – What attunement feels like presence as a lived experience 11:00 – Exercise: reconnecting to meaningful moments 13:00 – Embodiment, resonance, and listening to life's signals 15:00 – Why meaning is our birthright, not something to earn 17:10 – The "meaning crisis" why so many feel disconnected today 19:00 – From numbness to re-sensitization: healing modern disconnection 21:00 – How modern systems desensitize us to what's sacred 22:40 – The resilience and strength in seeking meaning 25:00 – Designing extitutions: new systems that embed meaning and purpose 27:30 – Moving beyond homo economicus: building for homo sapiens 30:00 – Institutions as reflections of human nature and sensitivity 32:40 – The concept of containers for meaning and how they become corrupted 34:10 – What new containers for meaning look like in the 21st century 36:00 – Community, ritual, and story as ancient technologies for belonging 38:30 – Raves, festivals, and modern rites of passage 40:10 – The search for a new unifying narrative in the digital age 41:30 – Why the quest for meaning is the defining work of this century 43:00 – Facing pain and shadow as part of transformation 44:20 – Allocating meaning and capital together through rituals & community 46:00 – Meaning alignment as the next frontier of institutional design 47:00 – Closing reflections: finding beauty, purpose, and connection in everyday life

    48 min

  3. 5D AGO

    Introducing VDAO: Ep-1 Building Antifragile Network States | Greenpill Podcast

    New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌍 Kicking off a brand new Green Pill mini-series on Mondays hosted by VDAO (Marc Ziade & Kris Miller) — exploring how we can design antifragile network states that thrive through stress, decentralize sovereignty, and build regenerative communities. For Episode 1, Kevin Owocki joins them to introduce the season's theme — bridging crypto coordination and permaculture resilience — and discuss how antifragility offers a blueprint for building local, autonomous systems that survive disruption and grow stronger under pressure. This season features guests like Joseph Lubin, Simon Brown, and Rob Avis, diving into real-world experiments in energy, food, governance, and community sovereignty. Subscribe so you don't miss any of the conversations! 🎧 Learn more → greenpill.network 🐦 @owocki  @greenpillnet https://x.com/0xkrisv https://x.com/ZiadeMarc https://x.com/joinvdao  🌐 Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome to a new Greenpill mini-series hosted by VDAO 00:40 – Introducing Marc Rydon & Kris Miller: bridging crypto and permaculture 01:20 – What is VDAO and how it connects digital and physical sovereignty 02:10 – Defining the Antifragile Network State concept 03:00 – From regenerative to antifragile: systems that get stronger under stress 04:10 – Why centralized systems create fragility — and how to move beyond them 05:00 – Building resilient communities through autonomy and self-sufficiency 06:10 – Examples: local food production as a form of antifragility 07:00 – Resilience as the foundation for thriving through disruption 07:50 – Why antifragility is the right response to our era of accelerating change 08:30 – The vision for this new Greenpill season 09:00 – Season roadmap: from theory to practical examples 09:40 – Episode preview: Joseph Lubin on history, supercycles, and resilience 10:30 – Future episodes: real-world applications with Rob Avis and Simon Brown 11:00 – Exploring how crypto enables local and global sovereignty 11:50 – Network states beyond crypto: lessons from alternative nation movements 12:30 – How to combine localism and global coordination through Web3 tools 13:00 – What to expect from the VDAO mini-series 13:40 – Hosts' final thoughts: making antifragility tangible for everyone 14:00 – Kevin passes the mic: new voices, same Greenpill spirit 14:30 – Closing: building communities that thrive in chaos

    13 min

  4. OCT 31

    Network Nations Ep:2- Memes & Narratives — with Douglas Rushkoff & Jordan Hall

    New @greenpillnet / Network Nations pod out today! 🌐 Hosted by Primavera De Filippi & Felix Beer, this episode dives deep into the power of narratives and memes in shaping our political and digital realities. Joined by Douglas Rushkoff (author of Team Human) and Jordan Hall, the conversation explores how memes, culture, and technology can either reinforce control or unlock bottom-up coordination for the next evolution of civil society — the Network Nation. 🎧 Learn more → networknations.network 🌐 greenpill.network 🐦 @owocki @jgreenhall  ​@DoRushkoff12280  @greenpillnet  🌐 Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome to the Network Nations mini-series 00:40 – What are Network Nations and how do they differ from Network States 02:10 – Guests introduction: Douglas Rushkoff & Jordan Hall 03:00 – The collapse of old narratives and rise of new civic imagination 05:00 – Why digital culture is in a "Cambrian explosion" of governance ideas 06:40 – The weirding of the internet: from utopia to techno-feudalism 08:30 – Distrust in institutions and the survivalist mindset of elites 10:10 – Early internet libertarianism vs modern corporate libertarianism 12:00 – How early digital culture valued autonomy, play, and exploration 13:40 – The internet's shift from freedom to corporate control 15:20 – Reclaiming autonomy from both state and corporate systems 17:00 – Narratives of scarcity, power, and the post-collapse mindset 19:00 – Reflections on the early hacker ethos and DIY digital communities 21:00 – How the internet once embodied kinship, trust, and shared purpose 23:00 – From open networks to centralized control — lessons learned 25:20 – Autonomy through interdependence: power of collective networks 27:40 – Natural metaphors for networks — mycelium, rhizomes, and fractals 29:00 – The self-organizing optimism of early digital movements 30:20 – Why Network Nations need stronger bonds than online affinities 32:00 – Kinship vs affinity: building trust beyond algorithms 33:50 – How corporate platforms hijacked online social energy 35:20 – The challenge: reviving thick relationships in digital culture 37:00 – Why the commons struggle to produce visible leaders 39:20 – Leadership, ontology, and rediscovering stewardship of the commons 41:00 – What real leadership looks like in post-capitalist communities 43:00 – The myth of the heroic individual vs networked leadership 45:00 – Designing a new coordination environment: culture as protocol 47:00 – Crafting memes that attract the right minds and builders 49:30 – The tension between exclusivity and scale in movement-building 51:30 – How to create viral narratives that promote civic health 53:30 – Building memes around shared human needs, not resentment 55:10 – The recipe for powerful memes: sticky form + transformative code 57:20 – From broadcast politics to interactive, personalized virality 59:20 – Designing "anti-rivalrous" memes that make participants stronger 01:02:00 – Closing thoughts: crafting narratives for the network age

    1h 4m

  5. OCT 29

    Season 10. Episode 3: Protocols for Post-Capitalist Expression: Rethinking Capital with Akseli, Dick & Jorge

    New @greenpillnet pod out today! Kevin talks with Akseli Virtanen, co-founder of the Economic Space Agency (ECSA), along with co-authors Dick Bryan and Jorge Lopez, about their groundbreaking book Protocols for Post-Capitalist Expression. They explore how capital is itself a protocol, how post-capitalism can emerge through new economic grammars, and why distributed finance and programmable accounting could redefine value beyond markets and the state. If you've ever wondered how economics, coordination, and code might come together to create new forms of collective value, this episode is for you. 🌐 Links https://greenpill.network/  https://economicspace.agency  📘 Protocols for Post-Capitalist Expression (Book)  https://postcapitalist.agency/#  🐦 @owocki @greenpillnet @econaut6 🌐 Timestamps 00:00 – Intro: Welcome to the new Greenpill season — exploring tech, coordination & Protopia 00:40 – Introducing guest Akseli Virtanen and co-authors Dick Bryan & Jorge Lopez 02:00 – What is Protocols for Post-Capitalist Expression about? 03:20 – Computational networks as new economic media 04:00 – The problem: today's systems run on outdated economic logic 05:10 – Why we need new economic languages to express ecological and social value 06:20 – Viewing the economy as a networking protocol 07:00 – Capital as a coordination protocol, not a natural law 08:40 – How protocol politics define power and participation 09:40 – Why political change must happen at the level of infrastructure 11:20 – Understanding capital as an accounting protocol 12:10 – The interdisciplinary process of co-authoring the book 13:30 – Why protocols are the new unit of economic intervention 14:50 – How distributed protocols can re-engineer value systems 16:00 – Multiple logics of measurement: beyond price and profit 17:40 – How new metrics of "use value" redefine what counts as surplus 19:20 – Defining post-capitalism: new grammars for value creation 20:00 – Living "in the spread" between capitalism and post-capitalism 21:30 – The shift from exchange value to use value 23:00 – Distributed economic agency: moving power to the network edge 25:30 – Defining the Economic Space Agency — what it means to co-author economies 27:30 – Surplus logic: from profit to utility 29:00 – Designing programmable economic spaces for collective value 30:50 – How post-capitalism can interoperate with existing markets 33:10 – Why public goods need new accounting categories 35:00 – Coordination beyond the state: self-sustaining networks of value 37:00 – The liquidity problem: bootstrapping new economic systems 38:30 – Designing a bridge between capital and post-capital 40:20 – Respecting both systems' internal logics for sustainable coexistence 42:30 – Innovation: the bridge as a design breakthrough 44:00 – Formalizing economics in programmable code 45:40 – How distributed systems expand what's economically possible 47:30 – How to get involved: joining ECSA's newsletter & Economic Media Lab 48:30 – Final reflections: multiple metrics of value and economic imagination 49:10 – Closing remarks: keep building, experimenting, and coordinating

    50 min

  6. OCT 24

    Network Nations Ep:1- Building Trust at Scale — A New Season with Primavera & Felix Beer

    New @greenpillnet season out now! 🌐 Hosted by Primavera De Filippi and Felix Beer, this episode kicks off a new Greenpill Mini-Series exploring Network Nations — translocal communities that use technology, shared culture, and bottom-up governance to organize beyond borders. They discuss how Network Nations differ from Network States, the roots of this idea in commons-based governance, and how digital sovereignty, culture, and Web3 tools can empower civil society to act collectively across the world. 🎧 Learn more → https://networknations.network 🌐 https://blockchaingov.eu  | https://greenpill.network 🐦 @owocki @greenpillnet 🌐 Timestamps 00:00 – Cold start  01:05 – Welcome to the new season hosted by Primavera De Filippi & Felix Beer 02:30 – What are Network Nations and why they matter 03:50 – Network Nations vs Network States: key differences 05:00 – Season formats: Deep Dives and Community Spotlights 06:00 – Origins of the Network Nations concept 07:40 – Early gatherings: Zuzalu, EdgeCity, and Emerge Lakefront 09:30 – Bridging theory and practice: researchers meet practitioners 11:30 – Defining Network Nations: translocal and interconnected communities 12:30 – The meaning of translocality: networks that empower local nodes 14:00 – From online groups to shared culture and identity 15:20 – Networks of networks: building community at scale 16:50 – Internal vs external purpose: culture and collective impact 18:00 – Collective action as a way to strengthen community 19:10 – Balancing scale and trust: connecting networks and communities 20:50 – Building trust-rich relationships across global networks 23:00 – Case study 1: Burning Man as a translocal culture 25:00 – Case study 2: Regen Network and regenerative coordination 27:00 – Comparing cultural and infrastructural approaches 28:30 – Cross-pollination between Web3 and social movements 29:15 – Why use the word "Nation" instead of "Community"? 30:40 – Reclaiming the term "Nation" beyond nationalism 32:00 – Detaching nations from states: a new political lens 33:20 – Functional sovereignty: autonomy without territory 34:00 – Balaji's Network State model and its limitations 36:00 – The Network Nation's non-territorial approach to governance 38:00 – Communities coexisting with states through functional sovereignty 40:00 – Sovereignty as a collective good, not a product 42:00 – The commons as a third path beyond market and state 44:00 – Overlapping sovereignties vs exit-based systems 46:00 – How Web3 enables distributed governance infrastructures 48:00 – Independence from big tech and value-biased algorithms 50:20 – Empowering civil society through translocal coordination 52:00 – Network Nations as a meta-political framework 54:00 – Diversifying global governance and emerging experiments 55:00 – Building the Network Nations Alliance and community platform 57:00 – Beyond Web3: connecting bioregional and intentional communities 59:00 – How to get involved: calls, Telegram, and collaboration 01:00:20 – Closing reflections: building the next generation of network-native institutions

    1h 1m

  7. OCT 22

    Season 10. Episode 2: Deep Funding: The Future of AI-Powered Public Goods Allocation with Devansh Mehta

    New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌱 Kevin chats with Devansh Mehta about Deep Funding — an AI-powered mechanism combining human judgment and prediction markets to fund open-source projects. They dive into how it scales evaluations, prevents Sybil attacks, and builds a fair "price feed" for public goods ahead of Gitcoin Grants 24 (GG24). Links: 🌐grants.gitcoin.co  🌐 deepfunding.org 🌐 deep.seer.pm 🌐 greenpill.network 🐦 @owocki @greenpillnet  ⏱️ Timestamps 00:00 – Intro: Welcome to the Greenpill Podcast – exploring tech, coordination & Protopia 00:45 – Introducing guest Devansh Mehta, AI & Public Goods Lead at the Ethereum Foundation 01:20 – What is Deep Funding and why it matters 02:00 – How Deep Funding scales human evaluations with AI models 02:45 – Overview of the pilot run and what was tested 03:20 – How the mechanism works: human jurors + model builders 04:30 – The White Hat Sybil attack and what it revealed 05:40 – How Deep Funding integrates data science competitions and prediction markets 06:50 – Results of the pilot: weighted funding for 45 open-source repos 07:30 – Creating a credibly neutral funding system with unequal weights 08:40 – Comparing Deep Funding with Protocol Guild and other mechanisms 09:20 – Building a strong community of AI developers and human jurors 10:30 – The role of jurors and models in fair evaluation 11:10 – What's next: expanding to 90 repos in Gitcoin Grants 24 (GG24) 11:50 – Funding pool: $350K from Ethereum Foundation & Gitcoin 12:30 – Challenges of distributing capital efficiently and fairly 13:20 – Moving to GitHub repo-level governance: who controls the funds? 14:40 – Two models of spending: splits contracts vs counterfactual wallets 15:40 – Lessons from past Gitcoin funding rounds 16:20 – Why Deep Funding focuses on units of work, not organizations 17:20 – Avoiding distortions and improving fairness in funding 18:10 – The vision: creating a live price feed for public goods 19:10 – How prediction markets price open-source value 20:30 – Self-correcting market behavior and real-time adjustments 21:20 – Subsidies and liquidity: bootstrapping active participation 22:10 – Balancing liquidity levels to prevent manipulation 23:00 – What's next for Deep Funding: refining future iterations 23:40 – Shoutout to the model builders and competition winners 24:20 – Where to learn more: deepfunding.org  & deep.seer.pm 25:00 – Closing: the future of AI, governance, and funding what matters

    26 min

  8. OCT 15

    GG24: Inside the First Funding Round of Gitcoin 3.0 — Funding What Matters

    New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌱 Kevin chats with the team behind Gitcoin Grants 24 (GG24) — the first round of Gitcoin 3.0 — exploring how community-led "domains," multi-mechanism rounds, and coalition funding are reshaping public goods on Ethereum. Featuring Mathilda, Luuk, Sav, John Guilding, David Dao, Afo, Paul, Monty, Rohit, and Devansh, covering topics from privacy and interoperability to public goods R&D, adoption, and dev tooling. 🎧 Learn how GG24 is funding what matters + Apply to get funding → grants.gitcoin.co 🌐 greenpill.network  @owocki @gitcoin @greenpillnet Timestamps: 00:00 – Introduction: Welcome to a new Greenpill season and overview of GG24 01:25 – What is GG24? New approach and community-driven structure 03:10 – Domains overview: Privacy, DevTooling, Public Goods R&D, Interop, Adoption 05:00 – Transition from Gitcoin 2.0 to 3.0 and the end of Gitcoin's software stack 06:30 – Embracing community-led multi-mechanism funding 07:40 – The rise of coalitional funding and collaboration across ecosystems 09:10 – Reflections from the GG24 team on coordination and sense-making 11:00 – How builders can participate in the new Gitcoin 3.0 structure 12:30 – Privacy Domain with John Guilding (Ethereum Foundation, PSE) 13:15 – Why privacy matters to Ethereum and how GG24 supports it 14:20 – Using MACI (Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure) for private voting 16:00 – Combining retroactive funding and quadratic voting 18:30 – Preventing collusion and promoting privacy-first governance 19:20 – Four focus areas: Privacy R&D, DApps, Infrastructure, and Education 20:40 – Public Goods R&D Domain with David Dao, Afo, and Paul 21:50 – Research meets tooling: advancing public goods funding mechanisms 23:00 – Why public goods research matters now 25:00 – From quadratic funding to new allocation algorithms 27:00 – How conviction voting and retrofunding mechanisms work 29:00 – Fast grants and peer-review models inspired by academia 30:00 – Final thoughts: public goods as Ethereum's biggest export 31:00 – Targeted Development & Adoption Domain with Luuk and Monty 31:40 – Supporting high-impact real-world use cases 33:00 – The new role of domain operators and coalition builders 34:40 – From centralized grants to networked, local funding models 36:30 – Ethereum Localism and the TrustGraph initiative 38:20 – Ethereum for the World: sustainable adoption and real-world projects 40:00 – Interop & Open Data Domain with Rohit 40:35 – Making Ethereum interoperable: connecting ecosystems and L2s 42:10 – Quadratic funding via Giveth and open infrastructure projects 43:20 – Measuring progress through open data and analytics 44:30 – How interop enhances credible neutrality and capital allocation 46:00 – DevTooling & Infrastructure Domain with Mathilda and Devansh Mehta 47:10 – Why DevTooling topped the sense-making report 48:20 – Introducing Deep Funding: prediction markets for open-source repos 50:20 – How QF and Deep Funding work together in GG24 52:00 – New eligibility criteria and builder participation 54:20 – Four ways to participate: trader, evaluator, project, or funder 57:00 – Closing remarks and call to action: join GG24 at grants.gitcoin.co

    57 min
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GreenPill is about crypto-economic systems that create positive externalities for their neighbors & for the world. We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design. We search for powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, & market regenerative web3-era applications and digital assets. We launch the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world. Ethereum is the ultimate substrate for human coordination. Learn about the web3 builders who are solving coordination failures and creating a more regenerative infrastructure for the world using Ethereum. Take the Green Pill!

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  • Creator
    Kevin Owocki
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    265
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2022
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