# Free Market Friends with Naomi Oba

Source: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/crypto-culture-and-its-discontents-with-naomi-oba
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Submitted by misha on 2025-07-31 UTC, 8 upvotes, 4 comments

## Summary

Naomi Oba discusses problems with crypto culture, including its obsession with quantification and financialization, and argues for learning to feel emotions instead. In this podcast episode, the host says Oba's Dappcon presentation, "Crypto Culture and its Discontents," set the stage for his own talk on Solidarity Primitives, which Bread Cooperative has been building. The episode also covers the Sapphire Punk manifesto, which Oba helped write, as a post-cypherpunk politics that rejects the extreme individualism rooted in the original cypherpunk movement.

## Article

About a month ago I spoke at Dappcon about Solidarity Primitives we’ve been building at Bread Cooperative. Before my talk, Naomi Oba gave her own wonderful presentation titled Crypto Culture and its Discontents that unknowingly set the stage quite well for mine so I had to ask her on the podcast.

We discussed the issues with crypto culture including obsession with quantification and financialization, and how to feel emotions instead. Naomi also helped write the Sapphire Punk manifesto, an exploration of a post-cypherpunk politics that reject the extreme individualism rooted in the original cypherpunk movement.

“All that is solid turns into data points.” – Engels probably if he was still around

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## Comments

**naomiii.eth**: I don't know why i choose an ages-old picture but hey, that's what you get for existing online :D

**naomiii.eth**: *he ffs. i don't even have the original file anymore 

**@chiefdijon**: Can’t follow external link to YouTube on mobile

**misha**: You can also just listen to the podcast https://theblockchainsocialist.buzzsprout.com/903769/episodes/17573003-free-market-friends-with-naomi-oba