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krisj

@krisj

UofS+QueensU Alum. Volunteer with radicalxchange. Writing on blockchain/tech/new media/society. Working to build a better world.

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krisj
@krisj Apr 19, 2020, 7:54 AM UTC

Hive Transition from Steemit

Hello fellow Hive-r's? What's the phrase we're going to use over here? Really happy to see the community buck off Justin Sun and fork here, so decided to celebrate with a new post! I've been away for…

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@krisj Dec 29, 2018, 6:52 AM UTC

Gamification of Media: On Interactive Literature and Fostering Deep Engagement

Like many people today, I woke up to many recommendations to check out the new Black Mirror release, Bandersnatch. After going through the piece and reaching a number of different endings, I really e…

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@krisj Oct 11, 2018, 5:48 AM UTC

Toward a Political Sociology of Blockchain - Thesis Defended!

So once again, I'm back with a short update and some outlines for my plans for this blog space. Firstly, I successfully defended my master's thesis titled Toward a Political Sociology of Blockchain (…

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@krisj Aug 28, 2018, 11:39 PM UTC

Absence and Updates

So it's been quite a while since I last posted anything here. Just wanted to give a super short update on what I've been doing and my plans for the next little while. For one, I moved from Ontario wh…

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krisj
@krisj Jul 25, 2018, 5:52 PM UTC

MetaMask Delisted from Chrome Web Store?

Important Update: MetaMask is back listed in the web store. Don't bother trusting me though, as some people tried to trick people into downloading a bad clone to steal ETH while it was down (Twitter…

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@krisj Jul 21, 2018, 8:40 AM UTC

Fomo3D: If You're Reading This It's Too Late (but not really) - The Gamified Crypto Pyramid

# Fomo 3D You could be forgiven if you haven't heard of Fomo3D yet. I debated whether or not I should even write about it, but the whole thing triggers so many thoughts and feelings in me, I had to w…

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@krisj Jul 20, 2018, 12:18 AM UTC

Experimenting With Fancy Cat Breeding - My Newest Cryptokitties

Today I'm writing about one of my favourite whimsical dApps, cryptokitties. I find the project interesting for a number of different reasons, the biggest of which is my view that it abstracts a lot o…

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@krisj Jul 18, 2018, 11:10 PM UTC

Social Impacts of Interfaces and Locational Data

This is a piece I wrote for my sociology of new media class, SOCY 931. I don't actually have much to add to this one, but it broadly looks at topics of location, interface theory, ubiquitous tech, an…

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@krisj Jul 6, 2018, 4:47 PM UTC

Bitcoin Use as Privacy Protests and Surveillance Resistance

This is a paper that I wrote for my surveillance studies class, Sociology 903, at the end of 2016. This was my first attempt to try to use an interdisciplinary social lens to examine what had mostly…

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@krisj Jun 22, 2018, 10:40 PM UTC

Anfa Rose - Come Clean

This is a cross-post from my music blog freshdrops. I came across Anfa Rose back in December, with his track I'm Good, which is also a heater if you haven't heard it yet. Following up his last single…

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