Your Code, Their Rules? Not Anymore - Meet Radicle. Eleftherios, Co Founder of Radicle - Privacy

Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM

Timecodes 00:00 – Intro: who is Eleftherios; Radicle & Drips 00:31 – Berlin / Dappcon context; talk on Radicle security 01:11 – Background: Greece, Berlin; SoundCloud; ML/analytics leadership 02:48 – Web2 disillusion; first looks at Bitcoin/Ethereum 04:26 – Deep dive into crypto; co-founding Radicle; Drips 05:37 – Goals: align incentives; why public goods funding matters 06:49 – Why Radicle: sovereignty, censorship resistance, rising geopolitics 08:29 – Early builds: 2019 IPFS alpha; 2020 custom-protocol beta; scaling pains 10:30 – Radicle 1.0; community growth 12:39 – Drips origin: new value flows for OSS via dependencies 15:13 – Mechanism: creators set redistribution %; interdependence as a feature 16:23 – Example: 60/40 split trend; onboarding stories 18:45 – Funders & rounds: Octant, ENS; RetroPGF via Drips 20:46 – Why privacy: human flourishing; protecting developers; 22:57 – 30-year view: a less exploitative, more fulfilling digital life 25:33 – Culture recommendation: Karina Barbieri - Patterns of Consciousness ... This conversation is part of Privacy Academy Interviews - a peer-to-peer knowledge project exploring the most important ideas in Web3, privacy, and digital freedom. Learn more: https://academy.web3privacy.info/p/interviews A W3PN Media House production. Directed by Federico Marchi https://x.com/BabyBitProd Interview by Peter Farbey https://x.com/0xfarbey Let privacy be with you!