The Ownership Economy: Crypto & the Next Frontier of Consumer Software – Variant
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The Ownership Economy: Crypto & the Next Frontier of Consumer Software – Variant
When we hear “lowering the cost of ownership of knowledge” most people immediately assume we’re talking about copyright. But as Stratechery writer Ben Thompson and ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin have both rightly pointed out, the scarce resource online isn’t copyrightable content itself - it’s people and their ability to bestow legitimacy on the ... See more
Joey DeBruin • Coase's Penguin is learning to fly: Building the Wikipedia of the future
Platform wealth and economic sharing: Today, creators & consumers contribute to a platform to gain social or economic status. But this status is rented (status on platform only, revenue shared directly with platform). In Web3 this status is owned. Not only is social reputation portable, but the relationship with IP created on platform can be owned ... See more
Brian Flynn • Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood
Protocol networks endow users with ownership, which benefits all network participants, including creators, entrepreneurs, developers, and others.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
This means, for the first time ever, we can have community ownership and network alignment completely consistent with capitalism. And this is uniquely unlocked by crypto tokens that enable us to distribute the value of ownership in the same way we distribute information — instantly, to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Erik Torenberg • Better Aligning Value Creation & Value Capture
