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The Decentralists
As big tech continues to exploit our personal data—more than ever, people are demanding control of their digital lives and asserting their self-sovereign identity. The solution is a decentralized Internet—and we are here to talk about all things decentralized. The Decentralists is a podcast about social media, privacy, and self-sovereign identity. The Decentralists is hosted by Michael Cholod, Henry Karpus, and Geoff Glave.
Episodes
86 episodes
Hot Topix: MEGA - Make Elon Great Again
It’s time for yet another Hot Topix involving everyone’s favourite Billionaire nemesis, Elon Musk.For those of you who have been living under a rock, Elon Musk is a South Africa-born, American tech entrepreneur who made his initia...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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35:50
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Hot Topix: The Balance of Power
The war in Ukraine is at a stalemate and a ‘new’ conflict has exploded in Gaza occupying the world’s attention. Partisan politics has tied up American funding in Washington, and Ukrainians are freezing in the dead of winter. To make matters wor...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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37:16
Hot Topix: Microblogging - Holding on by a Thread
It has now been a little over six months since Meta rolled out "Threads" - Their supposed X (Formerly known as Twitter) killer. Like Twitter, Threads is available as both an app and a desktop client, and it offers users the ability to pos...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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37:26
Hot Topix: Was Russia involved?
On October 7th, full scale war broke out in Gaza between Hamas, a terrorist group and Israel. Thousands of rockets from Gaza pounded Israeli settlements killing 1200 people, Israeli retaliatory strikes have killed tens of thousands. The Israel ...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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25:34
Hot Topix: X Marks the Mess
In October 2022, Elon Musk spent $44 billion buying Twitter which he subsequently renamed "X". Musk's purchase of Twitter took almost a year as the drama played out in front of our eyes. Elon first went public in early 2022, ironically on Twitt...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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35:50
Episode 13: Seizing Russian state assets to rebuild Ukraine: Will it end the war, or prolong it?
International momentum is growing to seize Russian state assets, including central bank reserves to pay for the rebuilding of Ukraine. Otherwise, western taxpayers will end up footing the bill.Canada leads the world with Senator Ratna Om...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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46:06
The Peace Coalition goes to Ottawa - Part 2
After being summoned by the Government of Canada, Mike’s about to walk into several meetings with some of the highest-ranking officials and Ministers in Ottawa. Learn all the details including ‘what it’s really like’ within the hallowe...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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25:24
The Peace Coalition goes to Ottawa - Part 1
After more than nine months, Mike is back in Canada. Why? Well, he was summoned by the Government of Canada. An influential Member of Parliament and a well-respected Senator have heard about the unique plan to rebuild Ukraine that The Peace Coa...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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32:04
Decentralists in Ukraine - War in Cyberspace
The war in Ukraine is not just a physical war of tanks, trenches, artillery and attrition. It’s also being fought across the Internet on the social media front line and deep within the darkweb where armies of hackers from both sides fight a bru...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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34:44
Decentralists in Ukraine - Techraine
Ukrainian people are very technically sophisticated, especially in the big cities like Kyiv and Lviv. Evenryone has the latest iPhone compete with air buds. You can order, pay and tip at every restaurant by scanning a QR code at your table. Ban...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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27:42
Decentralists in Ukraine - The Corruption Conundrum
Ukrainians routinely complain about paying extra fees for expedited processing of documents, or to have a plumber repair their toilet. Kyiv is littered with unfinished apartment buildings because developers skim so much from the construction fu...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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34:18
Decentralists in Ukraine - Telegram from the Kremlin
WIRED recently published an explosive article The Kremlin has Entered your Telegram Chat, regarding the experience of Russian rights activist Marina Matsapulin...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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22:46
Decentralists in Ukraine - An Application to Rebuild a Nation
We came to Ukraine because we felt our mobile app could be incredibly helpful to refugees. Many agreed, so we redesigned it to enable displaced people to securely & privately report details of damage or destruction of their home, land and p...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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31:18
Decentralists in Ukraine - Life in War Time
It’s not easy traveling to Ukraine during wartime with multiple flights and a 24-hour train ride from Warsaw, but it’s certainly an adventure. You’ll find that Kyiv has every modern conveniece like ride-sharing, food delivery and digital govern...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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30:38
Return of The Decentralists: A Decentralist in Ukraine
It’s been three months since we last released an episode of The Decentralists and for that we apologise. However, we have a pretty good excuse. Mike went to Kyiv for two weeks in early August on a mission for our non-profit, The Peer Social Fou...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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24:10
Hot Topix: Private Spies
Palantir, Clearview A.I., NSO Group, maker of the infamous Pegasus spyware, Anomaly 6 and Zignal are a few examples of private companies that offer to spy on anyone for a price. Anomaly 6, a mobile phone spyware solution set up by 2 forme...
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26:06
Hot Topix: As American as Apple Pay
As reported by the BBC, Affinity Credit Union in Iowa has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple regarding its ‘closed’ payment system, Apple Pay.The complaint alleges that A...
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16:22
Hot Topix: The Great Breach of China
The largest data breach in history just occurred in China. According to Reuters the "Databases contain information on one billion Chinese national residents and several billion case records, including: name, address, birthplace, nation...
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25:06
Hot Topix: Elon being Elon
As we mused back in April on The Musk Stops Here, Elon Musk has not followed through on his promise to buy Twitter. Three months later, Musk has rescin...
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16:30
Episode 12: Housing, Land and Property rights - A discussion with Yuliya Panfil from New America
research institute, technology lab, solutions network, media hub and public forum. Our special guest is Yuliya Panfil, a senior fellow and director of New America’s Future of Land and Housing program.Two billion people—over a quarter of ...
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47:26
Hot Topix: Ten Years of Stupidity
To paraphrase Jonathan Haight from his recent article in the Atlantic, WH...
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32:54
Do you see what I see?
Human-rights rights group Global Witness recently revealed that Facebook pushes climate sceptics t...
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32:22
Hot Topix: The Internot
Virtual Private Network (VPN) apps are increasingly popular in countries like Russia and China. Clearly there are millions interested in circumventing their government’s efforts to censor and control free speech on the Internet. This is certain...
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