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A Political History of DAOs
- In 2008, a group of developers released a whitepaper on the Cryptographers Mailing List.
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- The idea of linking technological principles of decentralization to a sociological theory of political decentralization continues to inform public blockchain communities today.
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- Engineer Paul Baran made a number of breakthroughs that are relevant to the public, decentralized technologies to this day, including “message blocks” (a component in blockchain technology) and advocacy for private digital networks via cryptography.
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- “Instead of a hierarchical structure managed by a set of humans interacting in person and controlling property via the legal system, a decentralized organization involves a set of humans interacting with each other according to a protocol specified in code, and enforced on the blockchain,” Buterin wrote in 2014.
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- This presented the idea of Bitcoin, a “peer-to-peer electronic cash” representing the first public, permissionless, cryptographically secure peer-to-peer protocol.
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- FROM CRYPTOGRAPHERS TO CYPHERPUNKS (1990S - 2008):
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- In 2009, Cypherpunk Hal Finney became the first person to transact Bitcoin as well as the first maintainer of the Bitcoin software code base.
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- FROM CYPHERPUNKS TO WEB3:
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- Digital encryption is a fundamentally political security technology, and a site of struggle for privacy, freedom, and democracy that scholar Linda Monsees has termed “Crypto Politics.”
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