ryangtanaka's Podcast

ryangtanaka's Podcast

Web3. Politics. Economics. Art. How it all ties together, in one big, messy scene. Sponsored by teia.cafe, part of TEIA's (teia.art) artist-owned, digital arts collective on the Tezos blockchain.

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December 22, 2025 42 mins

Ever get the feeling that everything around us is just getting worse, more expensive, slower, and less interesting over time? Well, that might not be a coincidence - that was the plan, all along.

A chat with Marc Fendel (@fendelmarc) of Sustainable Music NorthWest and how the concept "enshittification" (a book by Cory Doctorow) and how it relates to crypto and NFTs.

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Especially during times like these, it's important for the crypto industry to remind itself of its first principles that started the whole thing to begin with. Every cycle, when the hype gets too much, people tend to forget - but what keeps the movement alive are the fundamentals of what got people excited to begin with.

"No Debt" - The fact that you cannot go into debt in crypto is something that's und...

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The political space in the United States is changing very rapidly - and the new faces in town - the Socialists - are likely to change the way the world looks at technologies like crypto and the blockchain. A bi-partisan perspective on how things might play out over the next few years.

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Was Satoshi Nakamoto really Japanese? An in-depth look at why that might be the case.

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Sustainable Music Northwest (Seattle) | Public Music Concerts and Fair Wages for Musicians [https://www.sustainablemusicnw.org/]

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A deeper look at why the crypto markets are collapsing right now, how it's similar/dissimilar to previous cycles, and what projects are likely to survive after the dust settles.

Also a look at: Japan's crypto adoption right now is one of the lowest in the world, despite having been the first places to go through regulatory frameworks and mainstream adoption. Is there a long-term strategy in play with the technology?

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A conversation I had with some friends yesterday kind of reminded me of a project I was involved with a few years ago - back when I was still active with the Ethereum community, I had an interesting experience being in the middle of two worlds colliding - the crypto community of its time, and the YangGang - the UBI movement that was popularized by @AndrewYang during his presidential run in 2020. We had all kinds of interesting...

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