The Bankless shills sold you off to slave tech and VCs. They position themselves at the forefront of the web3 revolution, but they use banking, paywall their website behind SlaveFi payment methods, run their own compliant VC, advertise custodial exchanges with mandatory KYC, advertise tax paying services and VC-backed slave tech dressed in web3 clothing. They also legitimize state legal systems that operate without consent, applaud state-led crackdowns on fellow degens like Do Kwon and promote stablecoins, which are centralized wrappers for fiat and nation state debt. https://media.dark.vegas/spasmau01ef6c94bf6b9d8f329423678c9a69e9807da9419fb9cd9188b51b7330400cc744.mp3 We have enough tools to escape the slave tech and build Agorist parallel financial systems, but you will never hear about that on the Bankless podcast because that doesn't pay well. For a deeper dive into the freedom tech, listen to the full episode of [Dark Vegas Tales #1: Ethereum runs on slave tech](https://dark.vegas/news/spasmid01c926546a09a129895305e2852b6cf0e4395d0c7dfa313f9624f999dd9c99beec). And don't be a compliant slave, subscribe with your podcast app using this [RSS feed](https://dark.vegas/api/events?format=rss&activity=all&action=post&signer=0x404a313df99cb82425dccdbb1db07a88b2c165ec&signer=). Dark Vegas Tales on [Spasm](https://dark.vegas), [Nostr](https://njump.me/), and IPFS: darkvegas.eth

Gitcoin is a fully compliant US-based centralized platform that requires KYC, pushes slave passport, uses a socialist implementation of quadratic funding that heavily relies on slave tech, and blocks open source developers if they were born in "wrong" countries. https://media.dark.vegas/spasmau0150b93506d1a99e31256329bea3aba399349b803ec6aa4293acd35fbf932d4aa3.mp3 For a deeper dive into this topic, listen to the full episode at [Dark Vegas Tales #1: Ethereum runs on slave tech](https://dark.vegas/news/spasmid01c926546a09a129895305e2852b6cf0e4395d0c7dfa313f9624f999dd9c99beec). And don't be a compliant slave, subscribe with your podcast app using [RSS feed](https://dark.vegas/api/events?format=rss&activity=all&action=post&signer=0x404a313df99cb82425dccdbb1db07a88b2c165ec&signer=).

Following the 2020 DeFi Summer, the emerging web3 wallet authentication method known as "Sign-in with Ethereum" began gaining traction across the crypto ecosystem. Despite being widely promoted by industry leaders as a revolutionary web3 solution, this approach fundamentally relies on the same account-based centralized architecture that underpins traditional web2 platforms. As a result, many VC-backed platforms adopted this authentication method while maintaining their centralized infrastructures, rather than reimagining their architectures to support genuinely open ecosystems. https://media.dark.vegas/spasmau010be42f0c5735d47070d770876dbc15bd6d4a71373d5f2a5ffbb407da4814c644.mp3 A truly decentralized web3 solution would require direct signing of all online interactions without intermediary account systems. Learn more about direct signing at [spasm.network](https://spasm.network) For a deeper dive into this topic, listen to the full episode of [Dark Vegas Tales #1: Ethereum runs on slave tech](https://dark.vegas/news/spasmid01c926546a09a129895305e2852b6cf0e4395d0c7dfa313f9624f999dd9c99beec). And don't be a compliant slave, subscribe with your podcast app using [RSS feed](https://dark.vegas/api/events?format=rss&activity=all&action=post&signer=0x404a313df99cb82425dccdbb1db07a88b2c165ec&signer=).