“The numbers don’t add up to work for nobody.”
A long sit-down with Mr. P at his hot dog cart on Haines Street. The wage labor trap, building back from crypto failure, and what economic self-determination looks like in Black Philly.
Eight people across Philadelphia, Lagos, Abuja, Nairobi, and Charlotte. Free to watch. Free to read. Paid first. On-chain since 2021.
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Field interviews, street reporting, the catalogue. Mr. P at his hot dog cart. Gloria in Ethiopia. Denver in Q1.
See the work →Let’s Talk About ETH: Around The World — cohosted with BetterCallZaal and Ohnahji B. Six episodes, three continents.
Hear the podcast →Who we are, why now, how the funding actually works. Public books. No funder editorial. Paid-first sequence.
Read about WTM →Every dollar pays a working journalist, editor, or fixer. Zero platform fees. $40K funds Season 01.
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I’m Maceo. Five years in, nine countries deep in the Ethereum ecosystem. I went out alone in Denver with a camera and shot 100+ street interviews on zero budget. Now I’m looking for storytellers and interviewers to figure this out with me this summer. Every community bounty we get, we match dollar for dollar.
A long sit-down with Mr. P at his hot dog cart on Haines Street. The wage labor trap, building back from crypto failure, and what economic self-determination looks like in Black Philly.
From Kenya, at ETH Ethiopia. On discovering the power of Bitcoin and what blockchain looks like beyond the scams.
Eight minutes. Several perspectives on the biggest issues in the world today, captured at the No Kings rally in Denver, Colorado.
With two guys in Denver. We get into crypto and AI, and I break down inflation and what Bitcoin actually is.
Cohosted with BetterCallZaal (founder of The ZAO) and Ohnahji B (founder of Ohnahji University). One question runs through every episode: who actually benefits from the way this is being built?
Submitting to Bitcoin Magazine since the early days. Now building poidh, the bounty platform we use to crowdfund stories.
Years in grassroots politics before crypto. Building a stack for decentralizing journalism — the protocol-level work that actually makes a fourth estate possible.
Ten years in crypto, ex-Consensys, DeFi summer veteran. Now buying houses in Nagano — Zu City Japan, a co-op for nomads who want a real place to land.
Building from Ghana. Episode notes coming.
Came on as a guest, stayed on as catalogue editor for the network. Also building Hustle Yangu, telling the stories of African entrepreneurs.
The most recent Let’s Talk About ETH: Around The World conversation, fresh off the livestream.
A long-form fireside conversation, recorded live with the community.
A community watch party for The Ethereum Movie, with live commentary and reactions.
Round two of the fireside series. The conversation continues.
We Them Media is built on conversations. Sometimes the cohosts go on other people’s shows. These are a few of those.
A live conversation about decentralized journalism, Ethereum on the ground, and where the work is going.
Crypto, culture, and the through-line back to journalism. A conversation in long form.
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The cohosted show with BetterCallZaal and Ohnahji B. In session.
From ETH Accra to ETH Safari to Web3 Lagos. What Africa’s onchain builders are actually doing.
Five years of street interviews, founder reflections, and field reporting. Every piece free to watch.
The portfolio. Denver, Philadelphia, Lagos, Nairobi, on the road.
I ran the pilot in Denver. Now I’m looking for partners to produce on Season 01. The number is $40,000 for the first three months.
Each token of patronage is one ETH at the auction. We use Nouns Builder to mint them, but to be clear, they’re not Nouns. They’re tokens of patronage. Patrons get EP credit on every release. The first patron unlocks the $10K bounty match pool, which is what actually funds reporters in the field.