Jarrad Hope, co-founder of Logos, sits down with Stella Assange – lawyer, human rights defender, and wife of Julian Assange – for an in-depth conversation about Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and the role technology has played in shaping the global socio-political landscape. Stella talks about her experience working on Julian Assange's legal team, her introduction to new technologies, including Bitcoin, and the current surveillance state that has emerged since the rise of the open internet.

Logos Podcast is a bi-weekly interview show about building sovereign communities: the people, philosophies, challenges, and solutions. We invite the world's foremost experts and radical thinkers to discuss how to emancipate from repressive systems through new social, political, and economic institutions.

Logos Podcast is a bi-weekly interview show about building sovereign communities: the people, philosophies, challenges, and solutions. We invite the world's foremost experts and radical thinkers to discuss how to emancipate from repressive systems through new social, political, and economic institutions.

Jarrad Hope

Logos Podcast

Stella Assange: Human Rights and Alternative Modes of Organising | Logos Podcast with Jarrad Hope

Edward Snowden is a former intelligence contractor and whistleblower, responsible for alerting the world to the existence of a pervasive, secret, illegal surveillance program conducted by the NSA against the American people.

Edward Snowden: Censorship Resistance, Cyber States, Privacy | Logos Podcast with Jarrad Hope

The Hashing it Out team speaks with Ameen Soleimani, co-author of the Privacy Pools paper - Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium. Ameen, along with Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation), Jacob Illum (Chainalysis), Matthias Nadler (University of Basel), and Fabian Schär (Center for Innovative Finance, University of Basel; University of Basel - Economics Department) describe a novel smart contract-based privacy-enhancing protocol. Corey, D, and Jesse chat with Ameen about the motivations behind Privacy Pools, historical references including Tornado Cash and Z Cash, as well as the mechanics and tradeoffs associated with the approach. 

Ameen Soleimani of Privacy Pools | Unpacking Privacy Pools – Motivations, Mechanics, and Tradeoffs

This is a special episode of Hashing in Out in which Corey, D, and Jesse, meet with "Edgard" about the impending relaunch of Status – the super app for decentralised communities, and the recent launch of the new website (https://status.app/). Corey, former Chief Security Officer of Status and now involved in program management of Logos, is deeply familiar with Status and the challenges associated with building decentralised infrastructure. Edgard breaks down the last two years of developing Status, staying true to core principles, and some very exciting new features to come. 

Edgard of Status | Status Super App Reborn – Decentralised Infrastructure and Autonomous Communities

The Hashing it Out team sits down with Jordi Baylina to discuss everything from his involvement in the Catalan Independence Movement, DApp Node, and Giveth to technical details associated in bringing privacy and compression to zk proofs via recursion. 

Jordi Baylina of Polygon zkEVM | Zero Knowledge, Privacy, Scalability and Building Useful Technology

The team is joined by Shane Mac, Co-founder of XMTP - the secure messaging network for Web3 to discuss their goal of allowing any wallet address to message with one another. Shane walked us through his long history in the world of messaging and working with Web2 giants including Facebook bots, Ebay, and email clients, in his journey to make connecting with each other more human. Shane is an experienced start-up founder with a refreshing vision and outlook on how to bring Web3 to the next billion users. 

Shane Mac of XMTP | The Power of Web3 Messaging

Executive Producer, Christian, attempts to keep Corey, Dee, and Jessie on topic and within two minutes a piece on three timely topics. The three topics discussed in this episode are Crypto Security Firm Unciphered Claims Ability to Physically Hack Trezor T Wallet, Ava Labs Launches 'No-Code' Web3 Launchpad, and the Taproot wizards cause a stir at Bitcoin Miami.

FLASH HASH – Aug. 2023 | Hardware Wallet Security, Ava Labs 'No-Code' Launchpad, and Bitcoin Miami

We sit down with Lefteris Karapetsas of Rotki – the portfolio tracker that protects your privacy. We discuss the challenges of building a privacy-centric portfolio management tool and the tradeoffs required compared to highly centralized alternatives. We dive deep into local-first software and take a look at how Lefteris has made this a pillar of Rotki. 

Lefteris Karapetsas of Rotki | Insights On Private Portfolio Management and Local-First Software

Hashing It Out is a highly-technical bi-weekly show that brings you the pioneering developers driving the Cypherpunk movement. In each show we take a deep dive through privacy, sovereignty, and network state technology with some of web3's most influential innovators.