OriginTrail, The Blockchain Socialist and CryptoHarlem update The Agenda on the state of crypto

Since launching over a year and a half ago, Cointelegraph’s The Agenda podcast has recorded and released 43 episodes. Each episode has focused on co-hosts Jonathan DeYoung and Ray Salmond’s desire to learn how crypto and blockchain are improving the lives of people around the world. 

This week’s episode is the latter half of a special two-part “one year later” recording with some of The Agenda’s previous guests. In this episode, DeYoung and Salmond catch up with CryptoHarlem co-founder Matt Mitchell, OriginTrail co-founder Tomaž Levak, and podcaster and author Joshua Dávila to get an update on their progress, challenges and plans for 2025.

Matt Mitchell says now’s not the time for sleep

When asked how things were going at CryptoHarlem, founder Mitchell quickly suggested that now is not the time for inactivity, saying that hactivists are “guardians of the people” and “guardians of the marginalized” during times of political change and instability.

“In times of mass change are times when they need us most. And so, if anything, I feel an even stronger sense of purpose. As an educator and as an activist, a stronger sense that I was right, I’m doing the right thing, they need me now more than ever. We need each other more now than ever.”

Mitchell said that CryptoHarlem’s focus on leading community workshops centered around strengthening personal operational security and using encryption and cryptocurrency has continued throughout the year.