The Stack Podcast

This week we talk to ~sicdev-pilnup and ~rabsef-bicrym. ~sicdev and ~rabsef met through Urbit and, with other friends, formed Dalten Collective, an organization dedicated to the ideals of Fellowship, Sustainability, and Sovereignty. Listen as they explain how to use Urbit as a platform for bringing people together to enrich themselves through fraternal feeling and collective entrepreneurship.

Josh and Andy talk books read in 2020, Turkish riots, and goals and manly prognostications for 2021.

This week we speak with Jonathan Pritchard, professional mentalist, about how he uses his unique talent to approach every aspect of life, including: lifelong learning, business, art, technology, surviving in the Age of Covid, and of course, Urbit.

In this episode, we speak with Christian Langalis, "Bitcoin Sign Guy", about his introduction to Bitcoin. We discuss that fateful day in 2017 at the Humphrey-Hawkins testimony where he held up the "Buy Bitcoin" sign, and we talk about how he got from there to deciding to combine Urbit and Bitcoin to create a 'Sound Computer for Sound Money'.

In this episode, Urbit's ~timluc-miptev joins us from Ukraine via Skype to discuss Bitcoin integration. ~timluc-miptev discusses his journey to Urbit, the agony and ecstasy of learning and programming in Hoon, and the future functionality BTC will bring to the Urbit platform.

In episode three, we discuss the works of Angelo Codevilla, emeritus professor of international relations at Boston University. In particular, we discuss his book "The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It".

In it, Codevilla distinguishes the American Ruling Class from the Country Class and enumerates the origins and peculiarities of both before going on to describe the failures of the former. In the end, he describes a prescription for restoring America with a revitalized Country Class brought back to relevance with a renewed sense of their place in American political life and local authority.

Naturally, we also talk about Urbit and its implications for such a project. Have a listen: Codevilla seems more prescient than ever.

Andy and Josh discuss their experience living in China when the coronavirus outbreak happened & the effect it would have on American society and the 2020 election.

This week we talk with John Pathfinder Lester about how autonomy & community via small, personal computing devices running Urbit-with-cryptocurrency just might be the first step toward a 'Turing Complete' civilization.

This week we review our election predictions, discuss 'allegations', and talk about how one might improve election integrity using blockchain technology and distributed ID from Chainlink. As usual, we talk a little Urbit.

Josh and Andy kick the tires on The Stack.

This episode is a prequel, the purpose of which is to get the audio working for 2 people a world apart.

We talk about our journey with Urbit, "a clean slate OS and network for the 21st century".