Five Takeaways From My Q&A With Yanis Varoufakis

On June 18th, 2026 at Web3 Summit in Berlin I got to do two things I had been looking forward to for a while. The first was presentation on what I call The K-Hole Economy and the Permanent Underclass. The second was sitting down with none other than Yanis Varoufakis for a 20 minute Q&A, where I finally got to ask him the questions about crypto and web3 I had been sitting on for years. I even made it on to Euronews with Yanis! The recordings are coming and I will share them when they are out. For now, here are five things I took away from the conversation. 1. Varoufakis approves of the blockchain Varoufakis is not a crypto skeptic when it comes to the technology itself. He told me that blockchain is his go-to for decentralization and that it is very useful. He even mentioned how during his time as finance minister of Greece during the Greek Crisis, they had a blockchain based monetary system ready for the country to move to if they were to leave the EU. His main critique of crypto…