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The Tea with Myriam FrancoisWhat happens when tech companies hold more power than governments?In this eye-opening episode of The Tea with Myriam François, we sit down with AI expert Dr. Jaya Klara Brekke, a pioneering voice at the crossroads of technology and justice, to expose the hidden world of AI, surveillance, and data monopolies.From Palantir’s disturbing reach in global scandals to the growing militarisation of AI and the ethical dilemma of Neuralink, we dive deep into the dangerous intersection of technology, power, and control. We expose the blurring lines between private tech companies and governments, as well as the immense power wielded by unelected billionaires....2025-08-081h 17
Citizen Web3AI, Power Consumption and Hustling with Luke Saunders
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Luke Saunders from Delphi Labs
Luke Saunders, advocates for investing in diverse crypto projects and the advantage of being a first mover, particularly with decentralized AI and faster crypto solutions. He emphasizes that success comes from being well-connected, actively engaging with the environment, and having a personal purpose to drive happiness.
Delphi Labs is a research and development lab dedicated to incubating and accelerating innovative Web 3 technologies. Their mission is to advance the decentralized future more efficiently and effectively.
We spoke to Luke Saunders about Delphi...2024-08-0157 min
THE TRIPLE AI PODCAST BY TAI/T SAPrivacy in the Age of Interconnectivity with Dr. Jaya Klara Brekke | Episode 8Welcome to Triple AI Podcast, Episode 8!
Privacy was never built at the core of the digital revolution. As a result, it has transformed today’s societies into surveillance hubs. Welcome to episode 8. In this special episode, CEO and Founder Shima Beigi sit down with Dr Jaya Klara Brekke, Chief Strategic Officer at NYM Technologies SA and explore privacy in the age of interconnectivity. This conversation revolves around this question:
“What does living in a society with privacy as a default design principle take?”
Dr Jaya Klara Brekke is CSO at Nym Technologies, a decentralised global privacy system. As a theori...2023-06-061h 08
Citizen Web3Privacy, Drone Strikes and Systemic Corruption with Jaya Klara Brekke
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast Jaya Klara Brekke, CSO at Nym Technologies - a decentralized privacy system, working on infrastructure at the network and application layers.
On their website Nym states that they are developing the infrastructure to prevent data leakage by protecting every packet’s metadata at the network and application layers. Nym is also combining a mixnet with a blockchain node reputation and reward system.
We spoke to Jaya about NYM and:
Decentralization and its origins
Trust
Nym providing privacy at the network layer
Should we try to save people who do...2023-02-2252 min
Secret Network – TerraSpacesInto the Interchain with Shade Protocol & NymToday on the Ether we venture back Into the Interchain with Shade Protocol and Jaya Klara Brekke from Nym. You'll hear from Fisco, Red_eyed_Bear, Serenity Shield, and more! Recorded on December 14th 2022.
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Thank you to everyone in the community who supports TerraSpaces.2022-12-141h 00
Seed Phrase02 Jaya Klara Brekke’s Third Way of Crypto CriticismBetween false hopes and facile critique, there is an emancipatory view of emerging technologies like blockchain. Jaya Klara Brekke reclaims this space for building the world that she wants to see. Her critical engagement with blockchain coincided with its rise to mainstream prominence, and she has remained a vital voice of critique ever since. From her perspective as a researcher, strategist and artist, she talks about the token economy, the impact of crypto on the wider monetary system, and the frequent futility of "good intentions” in the face of powerful social forces. Jaya’s research has focused on th...2022-09-271h 10
The Ownership EconomyEpisode 017 - Identity, Security, Reputation, and Control: Crafting Free Societies with Decentralized Identity Protocols with Jaya Klara BrekkeIn this episode, Jahed and Martin spoke with Dr. Jaya Klara Brekke, a researcher on the political economy of blockchains at Durham University and Chief Strategy Officer at Nymtech. Nymtech is reimagining a world where resilient digital platforms and ecosystems and individual privacy are not mutually exclusive. We connected with Dr. Brekke on a variety of topics including identity, security, control and power. Dr. Brekke’s work is guided by both political economy and anthropology and she brings a discerning eye to both the potential and limits of blockchain applications.
Show Notes:
1.) Dist...2022-05-271h 06
The Blockchain SocialistCrypto hackers don't care about your libertarian ideologyFor this episode I spoke to Jaya Klara Brekke (@jayapapaya), an academic researcher on crypto and Head of Strategy at NYM who recently gave the keynote speech for the Haus Der Kunst DAO Summit.During the interview we spoke about her skepticism and cautious optimism she mentioned in the keynote speech, the contradictory feelings on the market as someone who was raised in traditional leftist spaces mentioned in her article in the Agorism in the 21st Century Journal, and how many critics tend to fall short. We also discussed her paper on a new protagonist in the e...2022-05-011h 03The Blockchain SocialistLunarpunk, Black Markets, and Agorism in the 21st CenturyFor this interview I spoke to Dr. Paul Dylan-Ennis (@polarpunklabs), professor at University College Dublin, and Rose O'Leary (@lunarmining), previous writer at CoinDesk and now a programmer for DarkFi. They are both also the editors for a new philosophy journal called Agorism in the 21st Century which recently published its first issue. Agorism is a heterodox libertarian political tendency that prioritizes taking part in "counter-economic" activity like grey and black markets for political change described by Samuel Konkin III that has influenced many figures who played crucial roles in the development in cryptocurrency.The first issue of t...2022-04-031h 27
Money Memos11. Market = Gun to your Head, Tool in Your Hand, or Escape Route from Hell – Brekke"The Market as a Gun to your Head, Tool in Your Hand, or Escape Route from Hell" by Jaya Klara Brekke
Markets as coercive constructs
Gun to your Head
Tool in Your Hand
Escape Route from Hell
Agorism in the 21st Century: a Philosophical Journal – February 20222022-02-2618 min
Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed TechnologiesHarry Halpin & Jaya Klara Brekke: Nym – The Next Generation of Global PrivacyThe current lack of privacy on the internet exposes billions of people to mass surveillance and data breaches, undermining trust in digital services and stifling innovation. Nym is a mixnet and develops the infrastructure to prevent this data leakage by protecting every packet’s metadata at the network and application layers.We were joined by Nym's CEO & Founder Harry Halpin, and CSO Jaya Klara Brekke, to chat about the threat mass surveillance has on society, what Nym sets out to do and take a deep dive into the architecture of the protocol.Topics covered in th...2022-01-141h 10
Radio DecidimRadical democratic governanceThe presentations during Decidim Fest 21.
The Challenge of Data Co-ops at Scale: Designing the Liverpool Civic Data Cooperative, Gary Leeming, Reema Patel
Tokens as a surveillance-proof businessmodel? Introducing Nym global privacy infrastructure, Jaya Klara Brekke
Using Quadratic Voting for Better Group Decisions, Alex Randaccio, Paula Berman
Moderated by Ferran Reyes.2021-10-2700 min
Mint & BurnMint & Burn Episode 17: 'Crypto-politics - an update' with Dr Jaya Klara Brekke & Dr Darcy AllenIn this episode, we speak with political economist and geographer Dr. Jaya Klara Brekke for "an update" on crypto-politics. We discuss decentralization, governance, consensus and dissensus, and potential futures of zero-knowledge proofs and AI. Don't miss this.2021-07-131h 02
TrustTalk - It's all about TrustTrust and the Promise of BlockchainIn this interview, Jaya Klara Brekke talks about the politics of blockchain technology and whether it solves the problem of power, how a technology that was meant to be “neutral” tends to ignore the fact that engineers and developers making real decisions on how the system should be designed, thereby quickly becoming politically contentious.
She frames the term “Hippocratic Oath” making people more conscious of the actual decisions taking place in the design of blockchain. She talks about the bitcoin blockchain technology and the competitive process in bitcoin mining which creates a game that assumes a race for prof...2021-05-1827 min
TrustTalk - It's all about TrustTrust and the Promise of BlockchainIn this interview, Jaya Klara Brekke talks about the politics of blockchain technology and whether it solves the problem of power, how a technology that was meant to be “neutral” tends to ignore the fact that engineers and developers making real decisions on how the system should be designed, thereby quickly becoming politically contentious. She frames the term “Hippocratic Oath” making people more conscious of the actual decisions taking place in the design of blockchain. She talks about the bitcoin blockchain technology and the competitive process in bitcoin mining which creates a game that assumes a race for profit. #blockchain #bitcoin...2021-05-1827 min
Future HistoriesS01E27 - Dime & Punishment PanelThis is a the recording of a panel I organized and moderated in Febuary 2020 as part of my research fellowship at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. The panel critically discusses the expansion of cryptoeconomics into an 'art of government'. The panelists are:
- Jaya Klara Brekke (Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Geography, Durham University)
- Benjamin Seibel (Director of the Ideation & Prototyping Lab at the Technologiestiftung Berlin and author of “Cybernetic Government”)
- and Martin Köppelmann (Co-founder and CEO of Gnosis)
Description:
Cryptoeconomics is a design-paradigm that is use...2020-05-0356 min
Future HistoriesS01E06 - Jaya Klara Brekke on the Political in BlockchainWhich conceptions of the political are inscribed in blockchain technologies? What is cryptoeconomics? And what does it look like if we disassemble the blockchain truth machine?
Shownotes:
Jaya’s research homepage:
http://distributingchains.info/
Download Jaya’s Dissertation here:
Brekke, Jaya Klara. 2019. Disassembling the Trust Machine. Geography Department, Durham University:
http://distributingchains.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DisassemblingTrustMachine_Brekke2019.pdf
Jaya’s general homepage:
http://www.jayapapaya.net/
Jaya on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jayapapaya
...2019-07-1456 min
Future Histories InternationalJaya Klara Brekke on the Political in Blockchain Which conceptions of the political are inscribed in blockchain technologies? What is cryptoeconomics? And what does it look like if we disassemble the blockchain truth machine?Shownotes:Jaya’s research homepage:http://distributingchains.info/Download Jaya’s Dissertation here:Brekke, Jaya Klara. 2019. Disassembling the Trust Machine. Geography Department, Durham University:http://distributingchains.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DisassemblingTrustMachine_Brekke2019.pdfJaya’s general homepage:http://www.jayapapaya.net/Jaya on Twitter:https://twitter.com/jayapapayaWiki of Bitcoin:http...2019-07-1400 min
New ModelsLIVE: Panel on Art & Blockchain, Dec 2018(BREKKE, CATLOW, KREUTLER; mod. BUSTA)The discussion was recorded December 15, 2018 at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin for the closing event of "PROOF of WORK," an exhibition curated by artist Simon Denny. https://bit.ly/2M42o4T
The panel features three individuals working at the intersection of art & blockchain tech: scholar and creative producer Jaya-Klara BREKKE; artist and director of @furtherfield, Ruth CATLOW; and researcher and Gnosis strategist Kei KREUTLER.
This recording has been made possible by the Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, facilitated by Annina Herzer, Annika Kuhlmann, and Nina Pohl. It has been edited by New Models for the at-home pod-listener's ease. The panel was...2019-02-1357 min
404.earthWer hat die Macht, das Protokoll zu ändern?Satoshi Oath
Satoshi Oath https://blog.b9lab.com/proposing-the-satoshi-oath-for-developers-69003cffb022 http://distributingchains.info/author/jaya/
Satoshi Nakamoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
Stylometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry
PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
MUSCULAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program)
Jaya Klara Brekke https://twitter.com/jayapapaya
Distributing Chaings http://distributingchains.info
Diskussion des Satoshi Oath auf Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/53sau2/proposing_the_satoshi_oath_for_developers/
http://www.jayapapaya.net
Kathrin Passig: “Das Neue braucht Freunde: Blockchain oder Blödsinn?” https://docs.google.com/docum...2019-02-1000 min
Permanently Moved301 - 1812 - New Dark AgeEpisode 12:
My first attempt at a book review of sorts. A review of James Bridle's new book New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future and the event I attended at Londons Goethe Institut last night - James was in conversation with Mr Ben Vickers.
I also quote from Jaya Klara Brekke's newest publication: I Saw the Blockchain at the End of the World, Turned Around, and Walked Back.
An embrace of indeterminacy seems to be in the air.
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Permanently m...2018-06-2905 min
Permanently Moved301 - 1812 - New Dark AgeEpisode 12: We have terms like the Churn or the Jackpot. In his new book, the artist James Bridle suggests another term: New Dark Age. My first attempt at a book review of sorts. A review of James Bridle's new book New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future and the event I attended at Londons Goethe Institut last night - James was in conversation with Mr Ben Vickers. I also quote from Jaya Klara Brekke's newest publication: I Saw the Blockchain at the End of the World, Turned Around, and Walked B...2018-06-2905 min404.earthTransmediale 2018Transmediale https://transmediale.de/home https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmediale
Haus der Kulturen der Welt https://www.hkw.de/en/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haus_der_Kulturen_der_Welt
Face Value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_value https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nennwert
CTM Festival https://www.ctm-festival.de/news/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTM_Festival
Simon Stålenhag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_St%C3%A5lenhag http://www.simonstalenhag.se/
404_005 Prozedurale Spielwelten https://404.earth/prozedurale-spielwelten/
Simon Stålenhag - The Electric State https://simonstalenhag.bandcamp.com/
Simon Stålenhag - The Smokestacks Of Kin...2018-05-2400 min
Doing BitsBlock Chain Governance Special Pt 2More from the Conference held at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Everyone was good, but we were particularly impressed by: Tom Wilkinson, Jaya Klara Brekke, Rob Knight and Vinay Gupta. Enjoy!2018-03-2634 min
KPFA - Making ContactBreaking Protocol: Blockchain and Capital Controls in GreeceWhich came first– coin or the ledger? In either case, physical currency and a tally of debts and payments have been the two primary forms of money used throughout history. Today, physical cash is increasingly being replaced with cashless systems including cryptocurrencies. This week, we hear from blockchain researcher Jaya Klara Brekke on the political economy of blockchain and consensus protocols. And we go to Athens where contributors Niki Seth-Smith and Alyssa Moxley look at how some Greeks have been using cryptocurrencies since banking restrictions were imposed in 2015.
Featuring:
Jaya Klara Brekke, author and...2018-01-2617 min