Afrogoth_AI
Afrogoth_AI

Afrogoth_AI

Blog about Afrogoth, an A.I. native fashion movement combining goth fashion, African fabrics, storytelling and artificial intelligence.


Crypto adoption, verb brands and values

14 Dec 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mildandred

In "Sei Wallets to Come Pre-Installed on Millions of Xiaomi Phones" Francisco Rodrigues informs us that the app will "enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores."...

Coinbase Co-founder/CEO Comment, Couture/Concerts Co-owned by Customers, Consequences of Conference that Carved up a Continent

8 Dec 2025 2 minute read 2 comments mildandred

Coinbase co-founder and CEO, Brian Armstrong, recently posted that "Tokenization is going to reinvent finance. Everything that can be tokenized, will be. It's much better for the end user." Everything? Including the products and services that Afrogot...

Exploring Code Gavel's Web3 Founder's Checklist

30 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mildandred

Code Gavel's 18th November blog post outlines a checklist for Web3 founders, including founders building "a DeFi protocol, an NFT marketplace, or a DAO-driven social platform". I have been exploring the pros and cons of Afrogoth being a Decentralized...

Phi-LESO-phy, Sabotage and "The Case Against Extreme Wealth"

17 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mildandred

"Invisible. Secure. Untraceable." is the tagline of the website goingblack.org and one of the posted articles titled "The Morality of Sabotage: When Is It Justified?" by Benjamin Tucker begins by acknowledging that acts of sabotage "deemed by many as...

Ubuntu, Decentralized Finance and Decentralized Fashion

12 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mildandred

In the age of blockchain, Ubuntu is alive and well! Dr. Tyrone Moodley, in his article "Building Pan-African Collaboration Through Technology" writes that: "“I am because we are,” has always been Africa’s original consensus algorithm. Blockchain just...

Lesos, Pesos, Ethos: Swahili sayings that make shillings and sense.

11 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mildandred

An important feature of the leso fabric is the saying or proverb printed on it, the "ujumbe". Eduardo Porter, in a New York Times article, notes that: "though we clearly understand money’s power to debase character, we have less certain a grasp on wh...

Of Star Trek and Post-Capitalism Couture

10 Nov 2025 1 minute read 1 comment mildandred

What will happen when technology drives production costs to almost zero? This is the question asked at the very beginning of the November 6th, 2025 Metatrends article by Peter Diamandis. He notes that this topic is discussed in The Zero Marginal Cost...

Coin Couture: Aksum, Alexander the Great and Augmented Reality

8 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mildandred

In a fascinating article titled "The Evolution of Coin Design: Tracing History from Ancient to Modern Times", coins are elevated from being mere currency to being conversations that weave together "our past, present and dreams for tomorrow". Taking t...

Currency, Cowrie shells, Couture...and Curses!

19 Oct 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mildandred

"Whoever is patient with a cowrie shell will one day have thousands of them." This is a proverb by the Hausa people of northern Nigeria. Cowrie shells are no longer used as currency in Africa but their legacy lives on. In "Cash Cowries: A look at cow...

DAfrOgoth: Would a DAO structure work best for Afrogoth and Afrogothers?

18 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred

Afrogoth’s target audience – Afrogothers – are curious, playful global citizens who believe that clothes are more than what we wear, that clothes are the stories we tell and the histories we carry. The borderless nature of a DAO sounds like a good fi...